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Obesity in Hungary affects 65 percent of the adult population. Sixty-two percent of women and 67 percent of men—altogether roughly 5 million people—are considered overweight or obese. These data emerged from the national survey on nutrition and nutritional status.
You get out of bed in the morning, and as soon as your foot hits the floor, a sharp, stabbing pain shoots into your heel. It feels like stepping on a pin cushion. Sound familiar? You are likely dealing with a heel spur — one of the most common and stubborn musculoskeletal complaints, affecting about one in ten people during their lifetime.
In this article I will show what causes a heel spur, how to recognize it, and most importantly: which effective home treatment methods can free you from the pain without surgery.
Dietary supplement. Many people, likely including you, take them with the aim of preserving their health. However, many regard these little pills as “medicines” and expect such effects. Well, that is a mistake.
White muscle fibers are capable of rapid, powerful contractions, but they have poor endurance and negligible aerobic metabolism. They operate fundamentally in an anaerobic manner because they contain very few mitochondria, and their contractions produce a lot of lactate. Red muscle fibers, rich in mitochondria and therefore operating more aerobically, use lactate as an energy source if they have sufficient oxygen. If lactate concentration in neurons rises above a certain level, they cannot function properly and neurological disturbances occur, for example impaired movement coordination.
Recently I was invited as a speaker to the national meeting of the BSI running ambassadors. The topic we discussed was SUPERCOMPENSATION — which is what the title above refers to. In other words, it is not enough just to train… Positive changes caused by (running) training require something more. But is it enough to just rest and refuel?
Elbow pain is usually a harmless symptom, but because you use your elbow for many different movements and activities, it can be very uncomfortable. The elbow is a complex joint; it allows bending and straightening of the forearm and rotation of the hand and forearm. Most movements are a combination of these, which is why it is sometimes difficult to determine exactly which movement triggers the pain.
Endometriosis affects an estimated 10% of women of reproductive age, and its most common symptom is chronic, often disabling pelvic (lower abdominal) pain. Causal treatment of the disease (hormonal therapy, surgery) is specifically the task of a specialist – however, several drug-free options are available to help relieve pain at home. Among these, TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) has gained particularly strong clinical evidence in recent years for treating pelvic pain.
The importance of breathing has already been covered in several articles on this site. This article on using the training mask is primarily aimed at athletes, since they are the ones who most often use this device to improve breathing and strengthen the respiratory muscles. Jarmila Kratochvílová, the great Czechoslovak 400 and 800 m runner of the last century—who still holds the world record in the 800 m—sometimes trained in a military gas mask to boost her performance [...]
The proper role of breathing is important in most sports — a requirement and guarantee of outstanding performance. In our country many coaches and athletes are still at the beginning of breathing training. Yet by focusing on breathing during training, and by consciously applying the technical devices and tricks developed for this purpose, endurance can be increased and recovery accelerated. The training mask The favorable effects can be achieved through the regular use of appropriate aids (the best known is the training mask) and/or by regularly performing breathing exercises developed for this purpose for a sufficient period of time.
Many commenters on my Facebook posts about musculoskeletal conditions describe how much steroids have helped relieve their symptoms and enthusiastically recommend various products to each other. Because some people are so eager to push them, I decided to devote a separate article to the topic. It would be good to understand that steroids are not necessarily your friends! While they can quickly relieve pain in certain conditions, prolonged use can insidiously turn against you. They can cause more and more serious problems than what you originally intended to treat. It’s therefore wise to approach steroids with caution and do everything possible to minimize how often and how much enters your body.
Respiratory muscle training is a technique aimed both at exercising the muscles involved in breathing and at improving the performance of the respiratory system, ultimately boosting endurance and recovery capacity. Typically, breathing exercises are recommended for people with respiratory diseases such as asthma, COPD, bronchitis and emphysema. Athletes have also discovered its benefits and use it in everyday training — studies have confirmed the advantages of respiratory muscle training in athletes.
