Exercise Your Brain: Go Dancing

You know your heart benefits from exercise. Your brain does, too. Studies show that regular, moderate exercise -- 30 minutes of walking or a light one-mile run -- helps fight the effects of aging on the brain. No grueling workouts required!

All types of exercise count, including walking, bicycling, hiking, swimming, aerobics, and weight training. Ballroom dancing is another good one, especially fun on chilly evenings.

How does exercise work to prevent mental decline? Researchers believe exercise may stimulate the body to fight stress that's normally occurring in the brain -- stress that causes oxidative damage. All that good stuff from a little exercise!

Fibromyalgia :

Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain disorder with often debilitating symptoms such as muscle, tendon, and joint pain, in addition to fatigue. Because symptoms often overlap with other diseases and the condition is not well understood, it can take years for fibromyalgia to be diagnosed.

Laparoscopic Clinic

Laparoscopic surgery, also called minimally invasive surgery (MIS), bandaid surgery, keyhole surgery is a modern surgical technique in which operations in the abdomen are performed through small incisions ( usually 0.5 – 1.5 cm) as compared to larger incisions needed in traditional surgical procedures.

There are a number of advantages to the patient with laparoscopic surgery versus an open procedure. These include reduced pain due to smaller incisions and hemorrhaging, and shorter recovery time.

The key element in laparoscopic surgery is the use of laparoscope. There are an number of advantages to the patient with laparoscopic surgery versus an open procedure. These include.

• Reduced hemorrhaging, which reduces the chance of needing a blood transfusion
• Smaller incision, which reduces pain and shortens recovery time, as well as resulting in less post-operative scarring
• Less pain, leading to less pain medication needed
• Although procedure times are usually slightly longer, hospital stay is less, and often with a same day discharge which leads to a faster return to everyday living
• Reduced exposure of internal organs to possible external contaminants threrby reduced risk of acquiring infections.

General Surgery Clinic

General surgery, despite its name, is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal organs, e.g intestines including esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. They also deal with diseases involving the skin, breast, and hernias.

Facilities

• Scope
• 1.1 Trauma surgery
• 1.2 Laparoscopic surgery
• 1.3 Colorectal surgery
• 1.4 Breast surgery
• 1.5 Vascular surgery
• 1.6 Endocrine surgery
• 1.7 Dermatological Surgery

Head Injury Clinic

Head injury refers to trauma to head. This may not include injury to the brain. Common causes of head injury are motor vehicle traffic collisions, home and occupational accidents, falls, and assaults. Bicycle accidents are also a common cause of head injury-related death and disability, especially among children

Specific problems after head injury can include

• Skull fracture
• Lacerations to the scalp and resulting hemorrhageof the skin
• Traumatic subdural hematoma, a bleeding below the dura mater which may develop slowly
• Traumatic extradural, or epidural hematoma, bleeding between the dura mater and the skull
• Traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Cerebral contusion, a bruise of the brain Concussion, a temporary loss of function due to trauma Dementia pugilistica, or “punch-drunk syndrome”, caused by repetitive head injuries , for example in boxing or other contact sports
• A severe injury may lead to a coma or death
• Shaken Baby Syndrome – a form of child abuse Some patients with head trauma stabilize and other patients deteriorate. A patient may present with or without neurologic deficit.

Obesity Clinic

Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health,. leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems.

Body mass index (BMI), a measurement which compares weight and height, defines people as overweight(pre-obese)

Obesity increases the likelihood of various diseases, particularly hear disease, type 2 diabetes, breathing difficulties during sleep, certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis.

Obesity is most commonly caused by

• Dietary calories
• Lack of physical activity
• Genetic susceptibility
• Genes
• Endocrine disorders
• Medications or psychiatric illness

The primary treatment for obesity is

• Dieting and physical exercise

Cardio Clinic

Cardiology is a medical specialty dealing with disorder of the heart. The field includes diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and electrophysiology.

Disorder of the coronary circulation 

• Atherosclerosis
• Restenosis
• Coronary heart disease (Ischaemic heart disease, Coronary artery disease)
• Acute coronary syndrome

a) Angina

b) Myocardial infarction (Heart attack)   

           Diagnostic tests and procedures

• Blood tests
• Echocardiogram
• Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
• Cardiac stress test
• Auscultation (Listening with the Stethoscope)
• Electrocardiogram(ECG or EKG)