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Find the best position for your health

Friday, January 4th, 2013

The correct position of the spine is one of the key elements for a healthy sleep.

Prevent. Postural health is key to preventing injuries and should be inculcated from childhood.
This fact can also be applied to daily life, as often takes back that can cause poor posture lesiones.En this line, the Professional Association of Physiotherapists in the Community of Madrid has launched a study to determine the postural habits in children to highlight the importance of education in this regard. According to the study, for which parents has had between 39 and 42 years, 47% said that their school-age children have or have had in the last year back problems. From this and other analysis suggests that good healthy posture becomes a pending for everyone. The result of this observation, the center offers a number of healthy tips:

In everyday tasks
Among school children 6-8 years, the gesture of getting out of bed is mostly forward instead of to the side body. Another problem detected in children is how to feel at home at the time of breakfast and dinner. At a ratio of almost 6 in 10 parents collapse in the chair when they sit to eat and, about 48% acknowledge that their children gather ground objects, bending the trunk with the knees. For adults, avoid positions held for a longer time, so it is advisable to change the board or switch arm weight when you are standing upright. If necessary bend to make the bed or brushing your teeth, it is recommended to keep your back straight and bend your knees. Finally, to reach high areas, better climb a ladder to stand on tiptoe.

Weight loading and transport
The students, aged 6 to 8 years, carrying an average of 4.7 kilos in my backpack and, about 3 out of 10 schools, transport of 5-9 kilos. Since it is an age whose weight does not exceed 30 kilos, would be substantially exceeded the recommendation to take from 10 to 15% of body weight. In addition, 11% of school children carrying school backpack carrying recognize hung on one shoulder or drag, when it is advisable to prevent injuries push. Moreover, adults, the shopping, come to bear about 5 or 6 kilos per bag. Occasionally, they may carry three or four pockets in each hand and, in the worst case, the lead in one arm, which is undesirable.

Against the Computer
The top edge of the monitor should be at eye level or slightly below, the mouse next to the keyboard and the legs and thighs at 90 degrees. It is advisable that your feet are flat on the floor or footrest sobreun, head and neck upright, shoulders relaxed, forearms, wrists and hands in a straight line and, finally, elbows close to the body.

During the break
The elements used to sleep are also important. Thus, the pillow, the mattress and the sleeping surface should be as individualized as possible to the morphology gives each to ensure quality sleep.

What happens while you sleep?

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

Sleeping. During sleep many changes occur fisológicos used to recover.
Sleep and dreams have always been a fundamental part of human existence. Wrote E. Goode “any second grader knows why humans need food and water, but even the most reputable scientists in the world could explain why we sleep.”

Indeed, sleep is a complex whose function is not limited only to the need to break from the agencies. Its scientific study is performed at multiple levels. The thousands of sleep laboratories all over the world are meant to respond basically three questions: what is the dream, what are its mechanisms and what are their functions. The rapid progress of research has been possible thanks to the development of polysomnography, a technique that allows recording multiple physiological changes that occur during sleep, which has allowed a deeper understanding.

Thanks to this and other recent techniques signal analysis, it has been established that sleep has five cyclical stages, which are: drowsiness, light sleep, deep sleep, slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement (REM sleep or REM) .

Almost 50% of time spent asleep corresponds to a light sleeper, approximately 20% with REM (REM) and the remaining 30% is distributed in the other stages. Usually, to sleep, you go through all stages. These progress cyclically from the first to the REM and then begins again with the first.

Caring base of rest

Saturday, November 3rd, 2012

Pillows. They play a key role in the break, so it is necessary to choose the one that best suits our needs.
The bed is the place where we spend a third of our life, so he deserves all the attention. Both base of rest, as the mattress, the pillow are elements that accompany and promote sleep, so it is important to choose the most suitable to our needs.
Going for the right pillow is just as important as the mattress or base, it can relieve back pain, poor posture, prevent, troubleshoot relieve snoring and sleep deprivation.

Therefore, it is necessary to note that the pillow should ensure that the vertebrae form the same angle as when standing. The spine should be straight and natural position. Sleeping without it can cause hypertension and the occurrence of cervical contractures.

Sleep experts consider to choose the most suitable pillow must determine what kind of sleeper are. Fundamentally, what we often take sleeping posture.

If sleeping on her side, the pillow must allow the neck rest in a horizontal position and is aligned with the spine. This is required to be sufficiently thick and firm. In contrast, if it rests his back, need a pillow firmness and thickness intermediate to give support to the neck. For those who sleep upside down, it’s best to opt for a soft pillow and thin. And for those who move a lot during the night, the right choice is a medium firm.

At the time of choosing the pillow, it is important to check the composition and properties of its stuffing fiber, visco, latex, hypoallergenic, mite, etc.. Moreover, in deciding between various products, it is desirable to test the pillows on a bed as close as possible to that we use, keeping the usual sleeping position.

The choice will depend on which of them we are more comfortable. Pikolin has developed a new catalog that tries to adapt to the needs of its customers.

Thus, these pillows can find different types of materials such as viscosity, latex or fiber; innovations in the field break between the Technogel found, Calmafoam, or High Adapt Aquadapt 3 Zones; quality fabrics and fantastic properties Strech, Tencel and Silk; treatments to regulate body temperature and ensure a break completely hygienic and Thermic, Sanitized, Ultrafres, and, of course, a full range of heights and firmness. In short, everything you might need for a quality rest.

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