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4 Common Cricket Injuries & Their Prevention

Unlike the olden days of test cricket or one day, with the growing fan fad for the sport, the sport itself has assumed varying formats, with the onset of Twenty-Twenty Cricket to satiate the growing frenzy. One can say, Cricket as a sport has assumed a star status especially in India.

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Alzheimers

Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

Checking the medical history, overall health, tests to check about memory and cognitive skills, doing brain scans and looking at personal and behavioural changes can often help diagnose the condition.

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Dementia

How To Talk To A Dementia Patient

Keeping a positive tone, being clear in your voice and words, keeping the sentences short and easy to understand, listening to the patient and giving clear instructions can be helpful.

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Paralysis Treatment
Paralysis

Paralysis Care at Home

While there is no actual cure for paralysis, using mobility aids, massage and exercise therapy as well as medication can help improve mobility and cope better with the condition.

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Elder Care

Elderly Home Care: How To Take Care Of Incontinence

Have you noticed your elderly family member wetting the bed or themselves a little too often of late? Or do you constantly get the odour of urine when you are near them? If yes, chances are your elderly loved one is suffering incontinence of the bladder.

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Physiotherapy

ACL Injury: Causes, Symptoms And Treatment

With an increasing focus on sports right from the school going age, there has been a rise in the injuries to knee ligaments. Knee ligaments are mainly injured from indirect twisting or bending forces on the knees. Ligaments are simply a band of connective tissue that connect a bone to another bone; of all the four ligaments of the knee, the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) is most commonly injured. This happens in association with tears of medial or lateral collateral ligaments. ACL injury is a common sports injury affecting athletes, and women are more susceptible to this injury than men.

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Physiotherapy

ACL Injuries: Recovery, Post Surgical Care And Home Care Tips

ACL or anterior cruciate ligament of the knee is a common sports injury that requires reconstruction surgery involving soft tissue grafts. This surgery is usually done as the tear does not heal on its own and neither can it be stitched back together. This reconstruction surgery uses tissue grafts taken from other tendons of the legs.

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