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Welcome
 Welcome to the seventh edition of our newsletter. We aim to give you health updates, bits of science and recent findings in the health field, news from our clinics, and offers - so please read on. |
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Mobile phones more dangerous to health than smoking
We could be looking at a huge rise in brain tumours, and a detrimental health effect greater than smoking or asbestos – that is the conclusion of a leading neuroscientist who has reviewed the published evidence of research studies in over 100 scientific papers.
Dr Vini Khurana, reported in the Independent newspaper, recommends that we should all take immediate steps to reduce our own exposure to mobile phone radiation. This comes on top of a recommendation earlier this year by both the French government and the European Environment Agency which called for exposures to be drastically reduced. See the full article here: Mobile phones more dangerous than smoking or asbestos The full scientific report (69 pages in PDF format) is here: Full report into Mobile Phones |
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Childhood increase in brain tumour incidence with mobile phone use
 A further study has concluded that children who use mobile phones under the age of 20 are 5 times more likely to develop brain cancer. Professor Lennart Hardell of the University Hospital in Orebro, in Sweden told a meeting of the Radiation Research Trust that children and adolescents have a five-fold increase in glioma, and those who consistently used cordless phones had a four-fold increase.
The European Parliament recently voted by a majority of 522 to 16 for governments across Europe to have stricter limits for exposure to radiation from mobile phones, cordless phones, and Wi-fi. See the full article here Increased risk of brain cancer in children |
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Progress with Alzheimers disease
 There was potentially some good news for Britain's 400,000 Alzheimer's sufferers recently. Fifty patients were treated with the drug etanercept at the Institute for Neurological Research in California. It was claimed that the drug caused the patients to dramatically improve, with video footage of one 82-year old patient appearing to show him now recognising his wife for the first time in years. The team, led by Professor Edward Tobinick, claimed the drug which is injected into the neck showed promise for long-term use. At the same time the Alzheimer's Society in the UK called for a full clinical trial. Etanercept appears to work by acting on a brain chemical called tumour necrosis factor-alpha which has a central role in Alzheimer's disease.
In another study based at Aberdeen university sceintists used the drug rember to treat 321 patients in Britain and Singapore. Cognitive tests and brain scans showed the treatment group was significantly better than the control group. Rember attacks tangles of tau proteins in the brain, Exercise is one of the biggest actions Alzheimer’s sufferers can take for themselves. A study, published in the journal Neurology, examined 121 people aged over 60, half of whom had early stages of the disease. Those with Alzheimer's who were also less fit had four times more brain shrinkage than those who were fit. Brain shrinkage is one of the most significant features of this disease, with reduced cognitive function being linked to the amount of shrinkage. By increasing the blood flow to the brain, keeping exercising into old age could be the most important factor a person can do for themselves. |
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Runners live longer
A paper in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that running slows the death rate from cardiovascular disease as could be expected, but also death from cancer, neurological disease, and infections. There was no evidence that runners suffered more osteoarthritis – a popular misconception. A team from Stanford University Medical Center followed 500 older runners for more than 20 years, comparing them to a control group of non-runners. Subjects were in their 50s at the start of the study, and 19 years later 34% of the non-runners had died compared to only 15% of the runners. The onset of disability was on average of 16 years later for the runners compared to the controls.
See the full paper here Runners Live Longer |
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Wrong size sports bra can damage breast tissue
Women could be damaging their breasts by wearing the wrong sports bra, researchers at the University of Portsmouth say. The experts in breast biomechanics tested about 50 types of bra on women over a three year period. They found that the breast moves up and down by an average of 20 cm during exercise, and also side to side. Many women are careful to get a well fitting bra for daily life, but simply use a crop top bra for sport which may not be correctly fitted. The researchers encouraged women to take time to get a correctly fitted sports bra, and to realise that their bra size will change throughout life.
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New research paper by Chris Norris on Back Stability education
 Clinic director Chris Norris has published a new paper entitled Evaluation of a Back Stability CPD course, in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies. The study assessed students views of his back stability education programme over a 10 year period. You can download the paper from our library.
Chris still runs his popular 2 day course on back stability, but is also running a new single day course ‘Back stability update’ which looks at how the spine stabilises itself, problems with teaching stabilisation exercises, research, problem solving and features an integrated approach to stability which is far easier for clinicians to apply. See his courses here: All Courses |
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