How To Manage Chronic Pain Associated with TOC

Everything seem weird and unbelievable for ordinary people,for those who have been living with chronic pain,..the illness has taken it's toll on every aspect of they life. As stated before, health and wellness are priceless,most people never know until they lose it.

Living with chronic pain came make these mental conditions worse and vice-versa depression can make pain worse.Many people will also suffer Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder after or before chronic pain.

Family that is supposed to love, care and support you have faced the some pain. Always be positive and self motivaterd in overcome the pain.Below provide some tips and strategies in fighting Chronic Pain Associated with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome- TOC

Strategies for Managing Chronic Pain Associated with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome:

1. Isolate the activities that cause pain and find ways to work around them. At first, every activity seemed to hurt. Over time, I started keeping a journal that had a pictographic representation of myself. Each day I would mark what areas of my arms, hands, and shoulder hurt, and then I would detail my activities for the day. This allowed me to develop a record that was not only useful for taking to doctors appointments but also helped me to isolate patterns of activities that cause the most pain. Personally, the following activities proved to be the most harmful:

A. Typing: Absolutely not possible. Instant pain. Not happening.
Resolution: Voice Recognition Software. Realistically, it is almost impossible to find a job in today's world that does not require some amount of typing. Even the mechanics at the garage use a computer. And yet in less than one minute of typing, I would be experiencing so much pain that it would be difficult to sleep hours later. Eventually I came across a voice recognition software program. At first I did not use this very much, because it is an activity that can make one very self-conscious. As I grew more comfortable with it, though, it became more useful and I increased the library of recognized words through continuous use.

B. Using a mouse: Extreme Pain! This caused sharp pain to radiate up under my jawbone down to my fingertips.
Resolution: Pen Tablet And Arm Braces. On every computer that I use, I have replaced the mouse with a pen tablet. This allows me to push the included pen tablet mouse around to position a cursor, then use the voice recognition software to direct the computer to click or double-click as needed. Used together, I can control a computer without pressing a button (at least mostly). I wear the arm braces to maintain the same position of my hand and wrist relative to my arm. Generally, everything from the elbow down stays in the same place as I push the mouse around on the tablet.

C. Driving: Just as critical to modern day life, but equally debilitating to me.
Resolution: Arm Braces And Automatic Transmission. For years I drove a stick shift, and I loved it. But with the onset of TOS, not only did turning the steering wheel hurt, but shifting gears put a lot of strain on my arms. Since my surgery I have only driven automatics, and I always always always drive with arm braces. Initially finding a set of arm braces that comfortably kept my wrist in position proved difficult. When I finally did locate a pair (made by Med Spec), I continued to use them up to this day. I keep separate pairs at my desk at work, in my car, at my desk at home, and boxes of extras in the closet. I am faced with having to wear these for the rest of my life while using a computer or driving, so I try to stockpile them when I can.

D. Carrying my daughter: This one was the most depressing. After my daughter was born I realized that carrying her around for any length of time really caused problems for me.
Resolution: Typically I would just sit in the floor with her if it was feasible. But there are 1 million times where I just carried her and hurt. And who can blame me, each of you would do the same. One day when I am old and crotchety I will remind her of this and make her take me out for ice cream. I would take holding my daughter and hurting any day over not being able to carry her at all.

E. Sleeping: Prior to acquiring TOS, I slept on my side. Nowadays, if I wake up sleeping on my side, my arms will be numb and will hurt for hours.
Resolution: This one proved difficult to change. After years of conscious effort, I now go to sleep on my back and if I wake up during the night will automatically roll over to lay on my back if I am lying on my side. But I still sometimes wake up lying on my side, and I'm not sure there is much that can be done about it.

2. Keep a positive attitude. OK, that seems campy and glib, but it is hugely important. The bottom line is that if you have TOS there is a chance (when I had surgery, a 60% chance) that surgery will be ineffective or, without surgery, you will not greatly improve for many many years, and possibly not ever. Nerve damage takes a very long time to heal, in the cases when it can heal at all. It was so easy to get locked into a mindset that life had treated me very unfairly and that everyone else continued to live these full, interesting lives while mine had been totally circumscribed. It was hard to see (although now I am able to thankfully) that by being alive at all I was already incredibly lucky. At its worst, there was no way for me to see during my ordeal that I would eventually find ways to work around it and meet a beautiful girl and have a beautiful baby. The more positive attitude you can maintain, the better your chances of being successful in finding ways to live around the pain.

3. Stay Busy. In my experience, especially during the worst times, if I did not stay busy I constantly dwelt on how much I was hurting, or how badly I felt I had been treated by life, etc. This is not conducive to healing. As time passed, I tried to focus less on the things I could no longer do and instead started pouring my energy into things that I could still do and enjoy. This made a big difference in my quality of life, and indirectly in the quality of life of those around me, since it is easier to spend time with a friend who is generally pleasant than a friend who is constantly depressed.

So that's it. If you know someone who has been diagnosed with TOS, try to be patient. If you yourself have TOS or a similar problem which causes chronic pain, hang in there. It is tough at first and takes a little while to adapt, but things really do get better if you put your mind to it.

If you have life a wellness life,congratulation,give your helping hand to those who suffer from TOS or others Dizziness..Thanks for visiting this wellness blog.

How Wellness business Earn Money

  If you are internet marketer,you know how big is the market is,ans you probably have studied that there are few big niche that have potential to make huge money online to make huge money online,hearth and wellness is one of them.In fact the wellness business is a multi million industrial that earning million dollar each year.

The Health and Wellness Industry has offered many passive income enthusiasts a great way to earn and be financially independent. The marriage of the good old “direct selling” and “network marketing” strategies with internet and e-commerce have given tremendous revenue potential to those who seek and embrace its opportunities.

The idea of succeeding in the Wellness business (Health, Nutritionals) is based on the fact that it has become a booming industry, with over USD200 billion in sales potential, and is expected to reach USD1 Trillion in the next 2 years.
Is there a Market for Health and Wellness Products?

The so called “Baby Boomers“, or those who were born between 1946 and 1964 are the number one market for the Health and Nutritional products. These people have the money to spend, and the necessity to stay healthy, fit and live longer.
Even the younger generation are now more health conscious these days, and their demand will even increase as they reach 45 or 50 years old.

How one can cash in on the billion dollar Wellness business?
It is all about bringing the Health and Wellness products to the consumers. How? You may consider one or a combination of these proven ways to earn from the Wellness business:

Wholesale business – if you have the capital and space to hold inventory, move products and employ people then starting your own Wellness wholesale or distribution company will give you huge potential to earn more. However, this one needs good business experience, requires more time to manage the business and needs lots of resources to maintain.

Direct Selling – this allows anyone to sell Health and Nutritional products without the need to hold huge inventory. Most of the stocks are provided on a per sale basis, thus this require only small capitalization. Revenue is earned through commissions – and the Wellness Industry is one of the very few industries that actually give out attractive commissions.

Network Marketing – the concept of network marketing is simple with Health and Nutritional products. Instead of selling the products yourself to as many people to earn, you can instead “re-direct” your Health and Nutrition consumption by buying it from your own affiliated Health and Nutrition company. Say, if your family’s regular monthly budget for Health and Nutrition products (vitamins, supplements, weight management products, anti-aging, etc.) is Php7,000.00 (about USD150), its already enough for you to be an active network marketer in most network marketing programs.

To earn, you just need to invite other people to do the same. You can even pool 2 or 3 families together so that the minimum monthly purchase requirement can be met, and just share on any commissions, matching bonuses and other incentives that you earn.

Internet/E-commerce – putting up a website to sell Health and Wellness products is also proven to be a great way to earn from the Wellness industry. One can sign-up for affiliate programs (like Pepperjam, SFI Marketing) that give commissions for every sale or lead generated from your website or blog.

To start your own e-commerce site, you can either host your own website or blog by purchasing your own domain and hosting, or you can use a Free blog site service where you can create your blog for free and populate it with products to sell.

The Health and Wellness industry also provided better opportunities for home-based jobs. Either through the direct selling, network marketing or e-commerce method, people who have embraced the idea of getting into the Health and Wellness business are discovering even more reasons why working from home, and be your own boss is better than having a lifetime of being employed by somebody else.

The global financial crisis have left many with no jobs, and even more people with less or no job security at all. In the Philippines, more than 60,000 will lose their jobs in the coming months, not counting the 250,000 government employees that may lose their jobs as well.

The home-based job opportunities presented by the Health and Wellness industry is surely worth the time and effort to study and consider – to help achieve what other people call “financial independence”.

Reference:

REF[3]Health and Wellness Billion Dollar Business

Important Workplace wellness program

The Important of Workplace wellness program
Previously we talked about Corporate Wellness Program For Employee and Employees who had none of the eight assessed health risks had a productivity loss of 3% while those with eight health risks had a 24% productivity loss.Consequently, some measures should be taken to solve the problem, what more shocking is that one in five (19%) American families said they experienced serious financial problems due to family medical bills. Families also experienced medical care-related consequences from health costs



According to a recent research,statistic shown that of the 34 million Americans between the ages of 55-64, more than 4 million do not have hearth care insurance. These Americans, often called “early retirees” face a myriad of unique health and financial challenges that can complicate their ability to receive adequate health care coverage,obviously these people need some sort of hearth and wellness programs.

There are many wellness coaching program out there,especially for company director ,these industry adviser like to talk about how the concepts of giving wellness benefit to employee and how it effect the business from the profit point of view.This is usually the result of misunderstanding on the part of wellness specialist and employer (because it’s good for for them to make more money).

The term "wellness" is often misunderstood,you heard it in the news, on billboards, in conversation and even at work,your director,co-worker,friends,blog,or anywhere you can think of,so what is the definition of wellness?According to WIKIPEDIA ,the term refers to :

1.Alternative medicine an alternative medicine perspective.
2.Medicine - The scientific meaning of wellness, ie. being healthy and disease free.
3.Wellness dog and cat food, a brand used by the company WellPet (for this point,it obviously not the meaning,it is a brand)
4. Well-being (population)
5. Workplace wellness

When we talk about Corporate Wellness Program, it refer to piont#5 ,regardless of the need of protection and support,motivation,etc.. that mean workplace wellness.It brings strengths and uses the company wealth efficiently to produce the most effective workforce by providing them the best working environment ,it can be considered an ultimate recharge center for the employee. Human beings are physical beings and are subject to laws of physics: mass, energy and motivation. Our bodies are constructed a certain way, our minds produce energy, and we are under the influence of positive factors all the time.

The vast majority of people enjoy working at this type of work place,experts believing this type of wellness plan will bring results in the long run.However, there are still large number of company doesn't provide a proper care for their employee well being, many mistaken ideas about the program came about because of the misunderstanding that they will wasted their money on these type of programs.

Looking back in history, it can be seen that the large majority of famous cooperate who achieve great success came from those who had develop a top worksite wellness programs for their employee.

The typical pattern was the company has allocated these funds as part of the company expense. they might have a difficult time developing "wellness solutions" but they do believe the corporate culture is conducive to an enjoyable work environment for all employees.

When a worker is put to work on a commercial basis, he initially produces a value equal to what it costs to hire him,study confirms that Health Improvements for Corporate Wellness Program not only increase the goodwill of the organization but also making more profit in the long run.

Corporate Wellness Program For Employee

How important is the corporate wellness program for Employee? Did you know?Beside corporate losses due to competitor,wrong marketing strategies,US cooperate estimated loses of $260 billion in production overhead because of absences and low productivity caused by health issues each year, the amount are estimated,it could be more then that.



According to National Coalition on Health Care Average NCHC health cost for an employer sponsored health plan is over $9000.Employee Wellness Programs are so important in a cooperate,it doesn't matter how big or small the scale,it one of the essential element for the success and failure of a company,and it is playing key role in the long-term viability of all businesses.

Let me pause for awhile in posting the important of wellness program for employee . Let's have a short talk about the risk and damage awaits for all those company who just" not so sensitive"about the wellness program.Bear this in mind ,Cooperate Employee Wellness Programs have been proven to reduce health care costs,and the workers or employee are always an asset of a company,a good and healthy worker indirectly resulting in improved productivity.

Research has also shown that even it might increase the overall production cost,it actually bring a positive Return-on-Investment ROI making them a benefit that costs more to avoid than to provide.

Check out the statistic and quotes below:

“Considering that 59% of next year’s medical costs come from this year’s low cost population, it’s vital to provide the right mix of wellness programs targeted to the low-to-moderate risk populations”[1]

” In an environment in which health care costs are skyrocketing, the sensible approach is to reduce the need for care, and the most powerful way to accomplish this is by focusing on evidence-based prevention. However, this will only succeed if spending on prevention is considered a priority rather than discretionary and only if incentives are realigned.”[2]

“Wellness programs are now a standard workplace benefit as employers recognize the need to invest in initiatives that help employees to better manage their heath given that health care costs continue to soar. Employers should measure the
programs as a suite of offerings, as opposed to individual initiatives which is essential to understanding the true impact of an employer’s investment.”[3]

“We need to move from illness to wellness. Business will have to invest in wellness. There is no choice. It’s not philanthropy. It’s heightened self-interest.”[4]

A study shows a positive correlation between reducing employee health risks and enhancing productivity. More than 770,000 employees in 106 companies participated in the study.

Employees who had none of the eight assessed health risks had a productivity loss of 3% while those with eight health risks had a 24% productivity loss. Data was taken from employee’s health risk assessment.

Translated into dollars, on average, in this study, employees with low health risks cost their employer $1,472 per year in lost productivity compared to employees with three health risks who cost the company $5,952 in lost productivity. Researchers estimated, that if 100 employees with three health risks each eradicated one risk factor, the employer would gain $149,400 in productivity.[5]

>Employers need to create safe work environments for employee,improve employee health and implement strategies that reduce medical costs as well as increase employee morale and on-the-job efficiency. In fact not only the management side have to be taken full responsibility for the wellness and hearth for their worker,the worker or employee himself also need to be aware the important and have some basis concepts about personal wellness .

Sad to say, there are only limited of company especially medium small enterprise are lack of such programs to the employee,one of the reason is the downturn in the economy, it seems like most corporations are shifting their cost and mainly focus on the finance crisis ,and when it comes to employee benefits and compensation,it like secondary since it don't bring any benefit on the paper .

Not only lack of wellness care, the salary or the compensation is very low. Besides, majority of them will required workers to work overtime time in the poor working environment.Unemployment rate is high and finding new job is not easy,for this reason ,people tend to stay even there are in the extremely poor working environment without any wellness care.

In connection to this, those who have scale, qualification and experts will try their luck to get their job somewhere. In China, Japan, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Abu dhabi, Kuwait, Dubai, Dammam, Doha, Qatar and sometimes in Canada but quiet limited in US. This means that the US Government have more awareness on the employee wellness programs issue compare to others countries.

According to the Wellness Councils of America (welcoa.org), more than 81% of businesses with 50 or more employees have some form of health promotion program -- the number is above average but there are space to improve.The most popular wellness program to employee being exercise, stop-smoking classes, back care programs, and stress management. Most employers are offering wellness programs to offset the rising costs of health care.

Many business leaders continue to ask themselves how to control massive increases in annual insurance premiums and health care costs?the answer is having a Corporate Wellness Programs,spend some money invest on your workers.There are bunch of advisers to give out their professional opinion and quotes on setting up a employer wellness programs and employee wellness programs.
In times like these, it’s critical for everyone of us to work together and work hard for better tomorrow.

The Entire Corporate Wellness Program Quote Request consists of three parts,depends on the sizes of the cooperate,decision maker or manager will always have the flexibility on which wellness programs will work best for the company.

These are some elements when conducting a Corporate Wellness Program:
1.How many employees does the company you represent have?

2.What are your interests?For instant; Health Screening,Employee Training/Education Programs,Online Health Management,Fitness Center Management,Health Fairs,HRA (health risk assessment) Questionnaires.etc.For more wellness programs check out at the bottom of this post.dd

3.How much money you can spend in a Wellness Program?

You can always Looking for Corporate Wellness Companies to manage your corporate wellness programs. Yes not to confuse you but there are numbers of resources and company running these type of service. You can ask for the Free Corporate Wellness Proposals.

On coming post we will try to provide you with a listing of some of the leading corporate wellness companies and wellness vendors,clients these programs including corporate wellness companies, employers, insurance companies, insurance agents, Third-Party Administrators, Employee Assistance Program providers, affinity groups, public sector groups and more.



Corporate Wellness Programs and Services:

• Health Risk Assessments,
• Employee Health Screening and Biometric Testing,
• Wellness Coach / Health Coach Programs,
• Employee Wellness Newsletters, Custom Wellness Programs,
• Corporate Wellness Incentive Plans,
• Points-based Tracking Systems,
• Gym Discounts,
• Childcare center.
• ETC...

Sources and Quotes:

1. Todd Spaulding, MBA and Michael Rosen, MD in “Managing Wellness Programs in a Down Economy” OptumHealth Culture of Health Institute January 2010
2. ACOEM Committee on Health, Productivity and Disability Management, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, May 2009
3. Sunit Patel, Senior Vice President of Fidelity as reported in Employee Benefit News, February 2010 in an article on a survey conducted by Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health.
4. Excerpt from the Executive Summary of the World Economic Forum 2009
5. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, April 2009

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The Fastest Way to Lose 20 to 100 Pounds
Would you like to loss weight live a wellness life?No More Lame Excuses, or some sort of hard footing Around. when will the Days of being Overweight and Tired Over.
I can't promise that you could change the way you look and feel and even change the way other people look at you,i jusrt giving out some tips and advice on how to keep your body fit and healthy,Would you be interested?

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Having better health gives you the freedom to enjoy life. And people all over the country are beginning to realize it.. Some had to get very sick first with obesity, diabetes, heart disease and even cancer to realize this...Use NATURAL method for beating obesity and all the medical complications that go with it.Think about it. Everything else would improve as you reached your fat loss goals!

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What is Tai Chi

Have you ever heard Tai Chi can improve our body hearth?What is Tai Chi?How to Learn Tai Chi is it is so good for Health?what others Benefits of it?whats the difference between Tai Chi and Cardiac Rehabilitation ?article below talk about some basis guied and tips on how to start a Tai Chi practice,you can start it at home or a children playground near you.It 's good for Stress-Reducing Workouts for golden citizen as well as the working people.

The Physical and Psychological Benefits of Tai Chi Chuan
Body alignment refers to how everything is positioned internally. Tai Chi teaches you how to recognize your body's alignment and to achieve the best possible body alignment for whatever activity you are doing at the time both in combat situations and otherwise. With proper body alignment, you can alleviate many health problems including back pain as well as reach new levels of skill in your Tai Chi practice.


When you go to push a heavy (but movable) object there is an alignment through the body and if the alignment is correct and true and all the way through your body you won't have any problem moving the object. If the alignment is off then the body mechanics are incorrect and it's not going to work.
How to play Tai Chi
With practice, you can have an awareness of your body's alignment that is based not just on rules for how to sit and stand but instead on deep understanding of the skeletal system and how to use it properly.

This includes how to properly align the spine, how the midsection should be positioned, how the knees should be aligned to the feet and how the feet should be placed for good knee health that utilizes the musculature of the leg and protects the tendons and ligaments.
This understanding of alignment and posture is excellent for your health. It can prevent a large number of problems including neck pain, back pain, knee pain, poor circulation, migraine headaches, and many other ailments as well. By practicing Tai Chi you will learn to move in many different ways while maintain excellent posture and alignment the whole time.

Back pain is one of the most significant unreported health problems that people have. Although back pain is sometimes due to an injury or a traumatic event, more often than not, it comes from years of poor posture. Tai Chi teaches correct back alignment by taking students through a set of forms while maintaining a very straight back alignment throughout. In this way, the Tai Chi student can learn how to move in ways support good alignment.

If practiced correctly, proper body alignment can actually increase bone density. The elderly stand to gain quite a bit from this since greater bone density is known to help prevent falls. Tai Chi teaches students to position themselves so that all their body weight is aligned over their legs and their entire body is as relaxed as possible.

With this position in place, the body is set up to let the bones do most of the work to hold the body up. Consequently, the body will slowly increase thigh bone density and mass and will also help to strengthen the entire leg.

Back alignment is also foundational for the other health benefits of Tai Chi. Many students come to a dead end in their practice because they do not have proper back alignment.
Consequently, they are not receiving many of the well-known health benefits of Tai Chi.

This kind of student must first understand what they are trying to accomplish in terms of the body's alignment and then work proper alignment into their practice. This requires that students pay close attention to their alignment as they perform their Tai Chi set. Only after a student has accomplished this can they then progress in Tai Chi and achieve higher levels of skill.

Tai Chi is good for our body fitness as well as our mind,there are so many benefit we get in term of physically and Psychologically from Tai Chi Chuan
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Difference Between Health and Fitness

 You often heard Health and Fitness,are there the same things? Most people assume there are the same,the truth is there are similar and related but they are difference things..

The biggest difference between health and fitness

Let'ds use the example of the distinction between aerobic and anaerobic exercise, between endurance and power. Aerobic means, literally, “with oxygen,” and refers to moderate exercise sustained over a period of time. Your aerobic system is your system for endurance, and encompasses the heart, lungs, blood vessels, and aerobic muscles. If you activate your aerobic system with proper diet and exercise, you burn fat as your primary fuel.

Meanwhile, anaerobic means, literally, “without oxygen,” and refers to exercise that produce short bursts of power. Anaerobic exercise burns glycogen as its primary fuel, while causing the body to store fat. Genetics plays a part in your body’s ability to burn fat and in fact, some people are born with a highly aerobic system already in place. These are the people we envy who seemingly can eat anything and not gain an ounce.