Best exercises for new moms

Pregnancy brings with it many changes. But the major changes happen in your body. When you get pregnant, your body adapts itself for your baby. As the baby grows, the muscles in your abdomen stretches to make room for your baby. Sometimes, it also causes the separation of the two main muscles in your abdomen. Your pelvic floor also undergoes many changes. This may lead to problems like urinary and fecal incontinence. That is why it is so important to exercise after delivery. But any exercises will not do for you. You need to choose those exercises that are best for you. This will resolve problems quickly and also help you avoid any injuries and complications. The wrong exercises may sometimes cause complications especially after delivery. As we get ready to celebrate Mother’s Day, let us take a look at a few exercises that you can perform. 

Pelvic Tilt

This is a great exercise that helps you tighten and strengthen your abdominal muscles and pelvis.

Lie on your back, with your knees bent and soles on the floor.

Your lower must be flat on the ground.

Inhale deeply through your nose and feel your tummy expanding.
Exhale slowly and while doing so roll your pelvis back.

Inhale and roll the pelvis forward.

Repeat 10 times.

Head Lifts

This will make your back muscles strong.

Directions

Lie on your back with your arms along your sides.

Keep your lower back on the floor and bend your knees.

Your soles must be flat on the floor.

Relax your abdominal muscles as you inhale.

Now exhale and slowly lift your head and neck off the floor.

Inhale and lower your head back down.

Repeat 10 times.

Shoulder lifts

They tone the tummy and abs and burn calories.

Directions

Lie on your back with your arms along your sides.

Keep your lower back on the floor and bend your knees.

Your soles must be flat on the floor.

Relax your belly.

As you exhale, raise your head and your shoulders off the floor.

Reach your arms and hands toward your knees.

Inhale as you lower your head and shoulders back down.

Curl-ups

These moves will also tone the tummy and abs and burn calories.

Directions

They tone the tummy and abs and burn calories.

Relax your tummy.

Lift your torso until it’s about halfway between your knees and the floor behind you.

Reach toward your knees and hold this position for 2 to 5 seconds.

Slowly lower yourself down.

Repeat 10 times.

Kegels

This helps tone bladder muscles and reduces risks of incontinence associated with childbirth.

Directions

Here, you have to contract and hold the muscles that control the flow of urine.

Start by doing the exercise when you use the bathroom.

As you urinate, stop the flow in the middle. Hold for some time.

Release and let the urine flow again.

You can also do this anytime, anywhere, once you get the hang of it.

Repeat 10 times at a time.

Ideally try to do this as many times as you can throughout the day. It will help.

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New Drug Offers Hope for Bone Marrow Cancer Patients

A therapeutic drug has been found to improve outcomes and survival rates for patients with a serious type of bone marrow cancer.

In a clinical trial by researchers, patients with newly diagnosed myeloma were treated with a drug called lenalidomide.

The results showed an improvement for those who received lenalidomide drug, compared to those not receiving it.

This is a major breakthrough as it shows that the long-term use of lenalidomide significantly improves the time myeloma patients stay in remission after initial therapy. 

Myeloma is a cancer of the plasma cells and it can affect several areas of the body, such as the spine, skull, pelvis and ribs. Current treatment usually involves chemotherapy and a stem-cell transplant.

It is a huge step and, importantly, identifies that for younger patients lenalidomide improves their overall survival for this difficult-to-treat bone marrow cancer. Our research highlights that lenalidomide should be considered for newly diagnosed patients following stem-cell transplantation. 

As part of the study, a total of 1,137 newly diagnosed patients were randomly assigned to lenalidomide maintenance therapy and 834 patients to observation - this was after they completed their initial treatment.

The results show that lenalidomide can prolong the average remission time by more than two years in younger patients and by well over a year in older, less fit patients.

It reduced the risk of progression or death by more than 50 per cent in both groups.

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Have your own Knee; a benchmark treatment for Knee Arthritis

The symptoms of arthritis, which has affected an estimated 180 million Indians, are stiffness or swelling of knees, knee lock or clicking, loss of gait in walking, buckling of knees in some cases, and pain in knees or even loss of mobility.

The key-hole procedure that the doctors are offering, aka stem cell alternative to knee replacement, is done by harvesting stem cells from the patient’s pelvis and injecting it into their knee joint.

"The worn-out cartilage in the knee which is the cause of all the discomfort and pain is first removed. Then the stem cells are mixed with clotting gel and injected into the knee joint. These stem cells help in the growth of new cartilage,” shares the Dr.

The surgery takes about an hour and a half and the patient remains in the hospital less than 48 hours totally. “We give spinal anesthesia to make both legs numb below the abdomen and the patient remains awake throughout the procedure,” says the Dr. adding that in rare cases general anesthesia is given.

The doctors had worked in the UK under  an Indian origin doctor - who along with a Prof. from South Korea pioneered the knee cartilage regeneration procedure - before returning to India and setting up the hospital in 2011 along with two other doctors.

This procedure received the prestigious Hunterian award for best surgical innovation in the UK in 2017. This is the first hospital to introduce this procedure in India and has performed around 350 such surgeries so far.

As awareness about the surgery is reaching the people, the number of patients undergoing the knee cartilage regeneration procedure at this hospital is increasing day by day.

The numbers speak for themselves. While between 2012 and 2016 the hospital performed 100 surgeries, there were 250 cases in the last two years.

“Happy patients are our referrals. We do not advertise much,” says the Dr., who feels in the next 10 years stem cell knee treatment will replace knee replacement by at least 50 per cent globally.
According to the doctors, the major advantage of stem cell knee treatment is that it is a natural way to preserve one’s knee and avoids any artificial implant in the body. But knee replacement surgeries require a revision surgery after 15-20 years and there is also high risk of infections attacking the region of the implant, since a foreign material is implanted into the body.

The stem cell knee cartilage regeneration treatment can be performed at any age. Around 60 per cent of patients who underwent the procedure at the hospital were above 60 years (40 patients were in the age group of 65-80), 30 per cent were in the age group of 50-60 and around 10 per cent were below 50 years.

“We are getting patients from all over India, from as far as Punjab and Assam, and from foreign countries such as Kenya and Zimbabwe,” says the Dr. Outstation patients need not worry about frequent trips to the hospital for post-operative care. “They can just send x-ray through email or WhatsApp and follow up with phone consultation.”

Though the knee cartilage regeneration treatment is available in UK, it is far expensive there compared to the rates offered by this hospital. “We charge Rs 1.6 lakh, but whereas in the UK it would cost around 18 lakh in Indian rupees. We expect more patients from abroad,” says the Dr.

The cost of stem cell knee treatment or knee cartilage regeneration surgery is much lower than knee replacement surgery in India. Patients vouch for it.

A 62-year-old housewife came to the hospital last year from Bengaluru, with her feet swollen from arthritis. The swelling used to get worse in the morning and she would find it hard to get up on her feet after being in a sitting position or after lying down.

The swelling has now gone and she has got much relief from the pain. “We are here to do the surgery on her other knee. We are happy with her progress,” says her son, who chose this hospital after consulting other major hospitals for a knee replacement surgery. “Their rate came to around Rs 3.5 lakh for knee replacement surgery, but we decided to do the stem cell surgery .”

Eight months later they have come back for the surgery on the second knee. The total cost for the two surgeries would still be less than the amount they would have spent on a single joint replacement surgery in the other hospitals that they had checked with earlier.

"We performed this keyhole cartilage regeneration surgery on an 87-year-old from Bengaluru, the oldest patient we have treated, someone who would be considered too old for knee replacement treatment elsewhere. At 87 he is active and has become our brand ambassador now," says the Dr. laughing.

For a 68 year old resident of Kovilpatti in South Tamil Nadu, the stem cell knee surgery was performed by a team guided by Prof., who was on a visit to Chennai, along with this Dr.  in 2017. "I am feeling completely normal today. I am back doing my regular activities," she says.

When a 52-year-old housewife, was diagnosed with arthritis and recommended knee replacement, she was apprehensive about going for surgery but had to take a decision as the pain in her knees was persistent, also affecting her mobility severely.

She had reached stage four arthritis and her legs had also begun to buckle. A radiologist then suggested that she check on the keyhole procedure for cartilage regrowth that was showing promise as an alternative to knee replacement.

After doing their research on the internet, including watching surgery videos,the lady visited this hospital, which is close to her residence. The doctors encouraged her to speak to others who had undergone the keyhole surgery and their testimonials boosted her confidence.

She underwent the surgery in September 2017 and the results delighted her. In July 2018 she got a surgery done on her other knee as well. "The pain was down by 90 percent in the first knee. I am now looking forward to drive the car," says the lady, who has since been promoting the surgery among her friends as well as those who call and ask.
"It is cost effective but the relief from pain is the biggest gainer. It is also natural which is why I went in for this surgery," she says.

For the doctor entrepreneurs,  the last financial year turned out good when they achieved a turnover of Rs 6 crore. But for them the real reward is in seeing more and more people benefitting from their technique and relieved of their pain.

Sharing their future plans, the Dr . says, “We are operating on a light asset model and working out of a leased building. We are currently having a 30-bed facility, and we are doing an average of two to three surgeries per day, which includes all types of orthopaedic surgeries. Our vision is to develop a world class orthopaedic chain.”

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Floating Kidney???

A woman went to the doctors complaining about abdominal pain on her right side and feeling like "a ball was rolling inside of her" when getting up from lying down. 

Doctors were baffled by what the "ball" actually was – her right kidney.

The 28-year-old woman, who felt the pain for nearly six years, was suffering from a condition known as a floating or "wandering" kidney, medically known as "nephroptosis", in which one of the kidneys falls into the pelvis when a person stands up.

Case report author, a urologist, who treated the woman, said that her right kidney fell more than 2 inches (almost 6 centimeters) down when she changed positions.

The patient underwent a procedure called "nephropexy," to fix her floating kidney. Nephropexy is the process by which the kidney is tied back to the wall of the body. After a month, she said that she was pain-free.

Women are generally at a higher risk of the rare disease and it involves body fat. Kidneys have a lot of fat around them for support. In thin women, kidneys sometime fall into the pelvis when the person stands up as they don't have enough fat to support the organs.

When this happens, it causes a hooking or kinking of the blood vessels attached to the organ, it was reported.  It also causes a bend in the ureter(the duct that passes urine from the kidney to the bladder), due to which urine cannot be drained properly and it flows back and gets collected in the kidney. The condition can cause the kidney to swell up like a balloon.

However, men are not totally exempted from the disease.
"A floating kidney is a hard condition to diagnose, and it's not that common," the Dr. said by pointing out that CT scans, which are taken in a lying down position, cannot give away the disease, according to the website.

He also added that there has been some controversy surrounding the diagnosis of the rare disease.
A woman went to the doctors complaining about abdominal pain on her right side and feeling like "a ball was rolling inside of her" when getting up from lying down. 

Doctors were baffled by what the "ball" actually was – her right kidney.

The 28-year-old woman, who felt the pain for nearly six years, was suffering from a condition known as a floating or "wandering" kidney, medically known as "nephroptosis", in which one of the kidneys falls into the pelvis when a person stands up.

Case report author, a urologist, who treated the woman, said that her right kidney fell more than 2 inches (almost 6 centimeters) down when she changed positions.

The patient underwent a procedure called "nephropexy," to fix her floating kidney. Nephropexy is the process by which the kidney is tied back to the wall of the body. After a month, she said that she was pain-free.

Women are generally at a higher risk of the rare disease and it involves body fat. Kidneys have a lot of fat around them for support. In thin women, kidneys sometime fall into the pelvis when the person stands up as they don't have enough fat to support the organs.

When this happens, it causes a hooking or kinking of the blood vessels attached to the organ, it was reported.  It also causes a bend in the ureter(the duct that passes urine from the kidney to the bladder), due to which urine cannot be drained properly and it flows back and gets collected in the kidney. The condition can cause the kidney to swell up like a balloon.

However, men are not totally exempted from the disease.
"A floating kidney is a hard condition to diagnose, and it's not that common," the Dr. said by pointing out that CT scans, which are taken in a lying down position, cannot give away the disease, according to the website.

He also added that there has been some controversy surrounding the diagnosis of the rare disease.

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Sacroiliitis

Sacroilitis is an inflammation of one or both of the sacroiliac joints, the spot where the lower spine connects to the pelvis. Sacroilitis can cause pain in the buttocks, lower back, and may even extend down one or both legs. The pain can worsen with prolonged standing or climbing stairs. Sacroilitis can be caused by arthritis, injury, pregnancy, or infection.

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Read more at: http://www.indialivetoday.com/decoded-what-causes-stuttering/91240.htmlSacroiliitis is an inflammation of one or both of the sacroiliac joints, the spot where the lower spine connects to the pelvis. Sacroiliitis can cause pain in the buttocks, lower back, and may even extend down one or both legs. The pain can worsen with prolonged standing or climbing stairs. Sacroiliitis can be caused by arthritis, injury, pregnancy, or infection.