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Spring
2006
Stay Balanced...Grow Stronger
As we age, scientific research has shown that that strength training
can help reduce the signs and symptoms of many chronic diseases, including arthritis.
Exercise regimens known as strengthening exercises—those exercises showing
an increase in the strength of your muscles, help to maintain the integrity of your bones and improve your balance,
coordination, and mobility. Taken altogether, falls and broken bones can be reduced or eliminated.
This edition of FootNotes presents three websites to help you achieve
a confidence to help you stay steady on your feet.
Mayo Clinic.com presents Balance Exercises
Improve Stability, Help Prevent Falls
and See How: Stretching
and Strength-Training. Slide shows and video clips
demonstrate stretching and strengthening exercises with valuable information to get you strated and keep you balanced.
Growing Stronger: Strength Training for Older Adults is a collaboration of Tufts University and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). Based on the premise and supported by research that finds strengthening exercises are both safe
and effective for women and men of all ages, including those who are not in perfect health.
Check the Exercise
and Fitness section on the Consumer Health
& Education Resources page.
Asleep At The Wheel?...Hopefully Not!
There are estimates that there are between 50 to 70 million Americans
suffering from some form of sleep disorder; that is nearly one in six Americans! The adverse health effects are
staggering including increased risks for diabetes, obesity, hypertension, heart attack, stroke, or even depression.
Those who struggle with chronic sleep disorders such as insomnia, narcolepsy,
restless leg syndrome and sleep apnea feel quite hopeless with a sense of despair hindering their daily functioning
which ultimately affects their lives. Don't take my word for it, this is just a small part of the findings reported
in a new publication from the Institute of Medicine
publication Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem (2006).
What can you do and where do you turn to for help? The Virtual Medical
Library has a number of resources to assist you in understanding your problem then where you may find some help.Our
Consumer Health & Education page has a vast array
of links under the Sleep Disorders heading.
What's New On The Virtual Medical Library?
If you have wondered What's New On The
Virtual Medical Library? or in the Medical Library
or on the Virtual Medical LIbrary? Now it is just one click away!
Click on the new Medical Library "Post-It" that appears each
time you enter the Virtual Medical Library. This "Post-It" has a link that you can click to see what
new sites or resources have been added. We hope to update "What's New On The
Virtual Medical Library?" twice monthly. Check
it out!
If you would like to see what we have added in the past you, can do so
by viewing our Index to it.
Websites U-Can Use
MedPage
Today
A medical news service for physicians that links consumer medical news
and the professional medical analysis needed by clinicians through daily coverage of breaking medical stories and
topics widely reported in the consumer media. Some features require FREE registration. Check it out and other health care news sources by going to the Medical Professional
Resources page then click on the Health Care News Online category link.
National PACE Association
Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) provide and coordinate all needed preventive, primary, acute and long term care services
so that older individuals can continue living in the community. Click here for Q &
A. The unique facet of PACE is the combination of the
different components of the PACE model. This includes the work of the Interdisciplinary Team, that results in care
and services that are tailored to the individual needs of each PACE participant.
One key to the PACE model is the combining of dollars from different funding streams in order to
deliver a comprehensive set of services focused on the health and well-being of the individual.
You can locate its link along with many other assorted healthcare management
resources on the Associations and Organizations Resources
page.
FedWorld.gov
Think of this as a gateway to government information. This web site makes
it easy to locate government information. No matter if it is a technology or science-based web site or a published
technical report, the links found on this government site should get you there.
This resource can be found on the Virtual Medical Library's Government Resources (national, state, and
international) page under the Comprehensive Resources
(national/state/international) heading.
New Books in the Library
Take a moment to check the NEW EDITION! and NEWLY ADDED!
additions on our Online Textbooks page, as well!
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