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Get a "Grrrip!" Diabetes and Your Hands
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Get a "Grrrip!" Diabetes and Your Hands
By: David Anderson
You try to open the jar, but your grip has lost it's strength.
No matter how lightly you try to grip, your hands hurt and do not
allow you to use them anymore. How will this affct your life or
the life of a loved one who suffers with diabetes?
Diabetes can affect the muscles and joints of your hands.
When you hear about the complications of diabetes, you usually
hear about your heart, eyes, kidneys, nerves, and feet. But
diabetes can affect the muscles and joints of your hands, too.
Diabetes related hand conditions are usually not life-threatening,
but they can have a great impact on the quality of your life.
Poor blood sugar control is thought to play a major role in
diabetes-related musculoskeletal disorders of the hands. The
theory is that high blood sugars change the amount and character
of the protein and collagen in your tissues, leading to damage of
small blood vessels.
Three musculoskeletal conditions associated with diabetes can
ffect your hands: stiff-hand syndrome, Dupuytren's contracture,
and carpal tunnel syndrome.
When it comes to your hands, good blood sugar control and
exercise can go a long way. Keeping your hands limber will not
only lessen your risk of future hand problems; it will also
greatly contribute to your independence and enjoyment of life.
Ask your doctor about diabetes and have your blood sugar checked
several times a year.
For more information about diabetes, including a Diabetes Quiz and
a Free booklet, visit our website at:
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About the Author
David Anderson, Freelance health/wellness writer for Hope4Diabetes.com.
Contact information:
david@source4solutions.com
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How to Benefit from the Mind-Body Connection
(excerpt)
You are about to gain insight into the
mind-body connection. The number of
people who truly understand these principles on our
planet are relatively few.
There is an undeniable connection between our minds and
bodies, you can learn
to use this fact to your benefit.
Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of "Love, Medicine and
Miracles" was once a
distraught cancer surgeon until he
began to understand the greater principles
of the mind-
body connection. He felt dragged down by the artificial
barriers
that existed between patient and doctor, and the
helplessness he often felt as
a result of his inability
to effectively serve those patients. Eventually, those
barriers
were disintegrated by Dr. Siegel's recognition
and growing understanding of the
mind-body connection and
how it could serve his patients and himself.
Dr. Siegel, or Bernie as he began to have his patients
refer to him, had some
startling realizations as a cancer surgeon. He found that
there were actually
quite a few people in the world that successfully beat
the statistics on cancer
survival. He began to recognize that a patient's ability
to defeat something as
serious as cancer had to do with the patient's mind and
attitude about their
disease.
If you would like to see the rest of
this article, please go here:
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