Skeletal problems
represent the commonest cause,
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or one of the commonest
causes of absenteeism from work
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in this country.
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As we learn how to
handle skeletal problems,
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we learn techniques that
can help us with a wide variety
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of other problems, that
the human body suffers from.
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In this program we will be
talking about various skeletal
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problems, and we hope that
you will join us, so that you
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can help people that
you know or yourself,
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with very common
skeletal problems.
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Welcome to Help Yourself To
Health, with Dr. Agatha Thrash
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of Uchee Pines Institute and now
here is your host Dr. Thrash.
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Even people who generally
do not have broken bones,
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may get broken ribs, and a
broken rib can be so painful.
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A person thinks, how can
I ever, maybe I won't ever,
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get rid of this pain,
I'm going to have this pain
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in my chest, wherever it is.
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I'm going to have
this the rest of my life.
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But actually broken
ribs do eventually heal,
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and the pain does go away.
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Dr. Don Miller is
going to talk with you some
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about broken ribs, and help
you to understand this problem
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a little better.
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- Well I've been
there to with a broken rib,
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this is an extremely painful
process, and the reason why is:
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Every time you breathe
your rib cage goes out,
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you exhale they come in,
and that's painful enough
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now try to
sneeze or try coughing.
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Sneezing is one of the most
strongest impulses you can have,
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and it can be stopped by the
very thought of how much pain
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it's going to cause you.
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I've been in mid sneeze before,
and just dreading it happening,
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and as I get ready, it says
I don't want to do this, and
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my body tells it don't sneeze.
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So it is
extremely exquisite pain.
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Often it is not a broken
rib, it could be a tear in the
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intercostal region, it could
be some, whatever, something
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is torn in the chest area.
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No matter what it is,
it's going to be very painful
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just to breathe, to cough,
to sneeze, any of these things,
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and to put any pressure on
it, don't even think about it.
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You can't put a
cast on your chest,
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your chest is going to move.
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To think about how to
treat it, I go back in my mind,
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to a farmer back in eastern
Europe 150 years ago named
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Priessnitz
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Priessnitz was coming
back from the fields one day,
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riding on a wagon full of
hay, for some reason, somehow,
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he fell off the
wagon, and the wagon wheels
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rolled over his chest,
he had a mess on his hands.
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The doctors of the time says,
"sorry," you are not going to
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survive this injury.
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That was an acute
injury, serious, fatal injury,
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in his time.
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Well he did not like the
diagnosis or the prognosis,
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so what did this
simple farmer do?
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He went to a window,
there was a window glass,
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it was cold out, and he
pressed his chest up against
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the window, transferring
some of the cold to his chest.
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He also then took rags
and cloths and dipped them
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in cold water, and
would apply them to his chest,
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sometimes wrapping them
all the way around his torso,
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to cover the
area of his injuries.
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It wasn't a very long
time before he started to heal,
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of course he got extremely
well, and perfectly well,
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to the point that he
thought, I have something here.
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and he started a school in
a sanitarium, more or less,
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that he would bring patients in,
and his major treatment modality
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was "cold", cold cloths, cold
pours, cold water of any type.
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He was unbelievably successful,
Kings and Queens, heads of state
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would come to his simple little
place, to learn what to do.
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What does that
tell us that we can do?
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If you injure yourself, I
would recommend applying cold
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to the injured area of the
rib, cold is extremely good,
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it's analgesic, it
brings more blood to the area,
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and it can speed healing.
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After you've done cold,
you can't keep cold on 24/7,
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I like to, whenever I injure
my ribs, I will put something
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confining around,
perhaps a very wide ACE bandage,
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just to try to
keep myself in place.
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There is something else
you can do for the ribs,
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if you have some surgical tape,
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about 11/2 or 2
inches wide surgical tape
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find approximately
where the injury is,
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and take about an
8 inch piece of tape,
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and place the center of it
right over the injured area,
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push it on one side of your
chest, and then pull it tight
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to the other side.
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Take a second strip,
and put it at right angles,
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making a big X
on your chest there,
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and then take a 3rd piece,
put it between two of those legs
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and a 4th piece
between those, until you have
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about 8 pieces of tape,
you are stretching these things
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across your chest area, and
until you got these 8 radiations
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coming out of your injured area.
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This will help you
hold the ribs in place,
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now you want to keep
this in that situation
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for a number of
weeks, two or three weeks.
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You might get a little bit
of irritation from the tape,
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if so, try to get
some hypo- allergenic tape,
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or some tape that does
not give you the problem.
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But we find that this
is a pretty nice treatment
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for mobilizing and
stabilizing the rib area,
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other than that, it just
takes time, it takes vitamin R.
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Vitamin rest, vitamin
T, vitamin time, to finally
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heal this wound.
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It's a serious wound, but
it's not a death dealing one.
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Now if you got a real
full break that might go down
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and puncture the
lung, this is a serious one,
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and you've got
to get to a hospital
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and get it taken care of.
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But most of them are
just small fine cracks,
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in the ribs, they will
repair in their own time.
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So Dr. Thrash, it is hard
to breathe when you have them
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and everything else,
but that's nature's way
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of saying don't mess with
me, I want to get myself well.
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- Yes and strapping of the chest
it will indeed relieve the pain.
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I would like to talk to
you a bit about scoliosis.
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Scoliosis is something
that begins often in childhood,
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and I've asked
Justina to assist me
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with this little demonstration.
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It's a thing that happens
on the back, and a lot of times
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it begins in childhood.
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The child does not
have any awareness at all
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that it is going on, the parent
notices that the spine may be
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getting crooked.
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With Scoliosis it is an S
shaped curve, or a C shaped
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curve that you get
with the Scoliosis.
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With kyphosis, that means
that the chest is out like this,
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a great big hump out like
this, may even be a barrel chest
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which is out in front and out
in back, with the ribs holding
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the chest in a
kyphotic condition.
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A big chest that is humped
out this way, that's kyphosis.
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Some kind of curvature down here
in this area, where there is an
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exaggeration of
the lower dotic curve,
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that's a very common place for
people to get a back curvature.
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If a child is getting scoliosis,
the parent may not be aware
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of it by seeing
an S shaped spine,
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but if the child
will just bend over,
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and let the arms hang down,
one shoulder blade or the other
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depending on where the
major part of the scoliosis is,
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will stick up.
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If one shoulder blade is a
little higher than the other,
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then you know that the
child is developing scoliosis,
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and that can be very helpful
in making an early diagnosis,
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so that things can be
rectified if possible,
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or if not, the
orthopedic surgeon can assist
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with some kind of treatment.
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The kind of treatment
that you can do in the home,
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is to avoid tight bands
around the waist, and if
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you can do that,
that will be helpful.
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If the child is not
wearing tight bands,
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then you are not going
to have much help from that.
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Another thing, is
somebody over weight?
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With any kind of skeletal
problem, the child or the adult
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will be much better off,
if they have a normal weight.
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I have a graphic for
you that illustrates what
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good weight is,
what proper weight is.
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I will first show you what the
weight is in an average adult.
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By a rule of thumb, 100
Ibs. for the first 5 feet,
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and for women 5 Ibs.
per inches thereafter,
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for men 6-7 inches thereafter
depending on how muscular
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the man is.
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That's the average, the average
for a person who is in health.
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But often we are very interested
in the health when a person
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is not well.
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Perhaps a they have cancer,
or perhaps they have emphysema,
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or some other serious health
problem, and it's advantageous
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for them to weigh less than the
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average healthy
adult would weigh.
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So the therapeutic weight
for women is different from the
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average weight for women.
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Here you see therapeutic weight
in disease and the elderly.
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For women, multiply the
height by 3.5 and subtract 108,
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and that equals
the total weight.
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An example is a 5'6" woman
66 in. multiply that by 3.5
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and that gives us 231 Lbs, then
if you subtract 108 from 231
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that gives us 123 o
approximately 7 Lbs less
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than the same person would,
we would expect that she could
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weigh healthfully, in
good health and not fighting
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any kind of
disease, and also in youth.
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For men the formula is about
the same except that the factors
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are a little different.
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In a man, it's the
height times 4 minus 128,
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and that should
be the total weight.
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As an example a 70 in. man
multiply that by 4, equals 280,
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280 minus 128 is 152
Lbs., and that should be
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the therapeutic weight for
a man who's fighting some kind
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of serious illness.
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Being thin is a blessing in a
lot of ways, and there are some
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diseases that people can
have that can make us very
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happy when they weigh
the therapeutic weight.
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TMJ or
tempromandibular joint problem.
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This is a serious matter
for some people, they can't eat
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they can't chew, they
don't have an easy head,
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and this makes a serious
problem in some peoples lives.
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Dr. Don Miller is going
to talk with you now about
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tempromandibular joint disease.
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- This is one I don't have,
and I'm glad I don't have it
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although I am
surprised I do not.
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TMJ can be caused
by a number of things,
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one that I've read about,
and I can see how it can happen,
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have you ever gone
to the dentist office,
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and he's sitting
there looking in your mouth,
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or she is looking in your mouth,
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and they give you
a shot of Novocain,
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because they really wanted
to get in there without much
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impediment, and then say open
wide, and you do, and they say
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open wider, and you open wider,
and pretty soon your head is
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completely wide open, and this
can cause some serious problems
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later on, because you over
extend your jaws which really
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don't go back together right
again, so what you want to do
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is when they say open wide, you
want to open it not quite as far
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and that might be good.
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The TMJ can be caused by
separate different problems,
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like you could have
some arthritis in your joint,
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basically a wearing
away the articulating joint,
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so when your lower jaw moves
up and down where it connects
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back here at the
tempromandibular joint,
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it causes some rubbing, which
causes the pain, and therefore
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you've got your TMJ,
your tempromandibular joint
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dysfunction.
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Normally it is characterized
by pain right about where
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the joint is, that can radiate
up to the temples, or down
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to the neck.
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There are a few things
that you can do with that,
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you can try doing some pressure
on the area, we call it,
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trigger point therapy, and
sometimes you can get relief
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by pressing on an area and
holding it there for awhile
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and then
releasing your pressure.
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One thing I've learned, when
I'm doing some trigger points
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on people, they can be extremely
sensitive, and when you press
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on these things, and you've
got it smashed down pretty good,
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they are going through some
pain, what you want to do is
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divert their attention by doing
something with your other hand.
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What I like to do, I like to
go back and give a little scalp
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friction with my finger
tips as I'm pushing here,
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or I might massage their
shoulder while I'm pushing here.
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Now that I've got two major
inputs of sensations coming
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in, and the brain really
can't deal with them all,
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and so they will
both be lessened,
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and you want to lessen
the pain as much as you can.
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There are some other
things that you can do,
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applying heat three
or four times a day,
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a lot of heat, you
can use a heating pad,
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you can put it in
front of a heating lamp,
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but you want to
heat up the area.
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You can tell if a person
has TMJ, if when they open
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and close their mouth,
you hear a clicking sound.
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That clicking sound means that
they don't have good functioning
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in the joint and that
can cause a lot of pain.
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TMJ can be very, very
painful for the person.
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We recommend a person with
TMJ to fast, at least one day
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a month, but perhaps
even a few times a week
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not the whole
day, but a meal a week,
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you need to let your jaws rest.
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A person with TMJ
should eat a meal and rest
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at least five hours in between
that meal and the next meal
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to let their jaws
completely recover.
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A person with TMJ should
not keep their jaws clenched
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all the time, when
they are sitting there,
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keep their teeth apart
when they are not talking,
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or doing anything else, and a
good way to do this, it to put
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your tongue on the roof of
your mouth, when you do that
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you pretty much force your
bottom jaw down a little bit
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and your teeth aren't together.
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People with TMJ have a tendency
to grind their teeth at night,
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and if you practice keeping
your jaws apart during the day,
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it might carry on
over in to the night.
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But there also some nice
things that you can purchase
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that you can put into
your mouth which will keep you
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from injuring your teeth
in this grinding process.
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There are other bite
plates that you can purchase
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that will keep you from
grinding your teeth at night.
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Good Things To Do. You
need to learn how to relax,
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people are just to
tense all the time,
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learn to relax the
jaws and that will help out.
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Keep away from chewy
foods, things that take a lot of
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chewing, I'm not talking about
a carrot, yes it takes a lot
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of chewing, so you might
not want to eat a whole lot
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of carrots, you might
want to chop them up first.
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But especially that are
gummy, that gives you a clue
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right there, don't chew gum,
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not a very good thing to
be doing if you have TMJ.
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You will want to drink through
a straw, which will be helpful
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for a person, and chew
on both side of the mouth,
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even though one side might
be tender, chew on both sides,
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so you do not strengthen
one muscle, and weaken the other
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muscle, you want
to chew on both sides.
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There are some
exercises that you can also do,
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you can take your
hands, wash them nicely,
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you never put your
fingers in your mouth,
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unless they have been washed,
because you don't know where
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they have been the last time.
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You will want to
take your finger,
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and lets say your pain
is behind your right eye,
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you take your right index
finger put it in the right side
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of your mouth, put it
up behind the upper molar,
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and push behind that
molar, pointing in the middle
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of your head, and
give it a good push for two
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or three seconds and then
relax it, and push it again
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and relax it, do this a few
times, you could also do some
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jaw exercises, put your
thumbs below your jaw, and then
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open your jaw, giving a little
bit of pressure, exercising,
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then put a hand on the side of
your jaw, and push over, a hand
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on the other side and
push over, another nice one is
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take your fingers, put
them inside your cheeks,
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you know how children do this
sometimes, and you pull it out
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until you just start to feel
the pain, hold it for a slight
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period of time, and
then release it again.
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Some people, when they
are talking on the telephone,
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they cradle the
telephone in their neck,
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so they can go about
other business, don't do that.
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If you have a tendency
to do this, get a headset,
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and so you do not have to
do this type of an action.
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When you are sleeping at
night, don't sleep on your
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stomach, don't sleep on
your side, don't sleep with your
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hands behind your head,
try to lay as much as possible,
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straight on your
bed, and it will help you.
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Ice can be extremely good
for this, wherever you might
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feel your tension and your pain.
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Let's say you feel the
tension from your TMJ radiating
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up and down your neck, apply
ice to this for a short period
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of time, and then start doing
some stretches to that area,
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stretch and do ice on
the other side, stretch it,
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do stretching of your head,
even if you do not have TMJ,
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it's good to do some stretching
exercises, right, left,
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forward, backwards, with
resistance, pushing against
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resistance, pushing
against resistance, these things
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can find very good
benefit if you have the TMJ.
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Some simple things you can
try to do, again I can't talk
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as an authority, because I've
never had it, but if you had it,
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try these simple things, and
I believe that no matter what,
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you are going to get some
relief, if not complete relief,
00:19:42.94\00:19:45.92
from your problem, I think
those things are pretty good,
00:19:45.95\00:19:48.51
and I think you know
someone that has TMJ,
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do you know
anything else than they do?
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- Yes, No, those
things are very good,
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I do know someone who has
TMJ, someone in my family,
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and an allergy turned out
to be big cause of her bruxism,
00:19:58.70\00:20:05.00
which is the grinding
of the teeth at night.
00:20:05.03\00:20:08.76
The bite plate can be very
helpful that's worn at night,
00:20:08.79\00:20:12.37
and sometimes has to
be worn for some years.
00:20:12.40\00:20:15.97
We do hope that these simple
things that Dr. Miller mentioned
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for you, can be
helpful for the TMJ.
00:20:20.96\00:20:24.64
If a person has dislocations,
these can be nicely treated
00:20:24.67\00:20:29.92
with just some very simple
things that you can usually do
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at home.
00:20:33.70\00:20:34.67
Now if these occur in a place
where you can get professional
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help, you may want to do
that, because there may be some
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problem with the joint,
that makes it slip out of joint.
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I've asked Justina
Thomas to help me with this,
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and we will start
with a pretended elbow
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that is out of joint.
00:20:53.89\00:20:55.30
Now if she actually
had an elbow out of joint,
00:20:55.33\00:20:58.33
she would not be so
free in moving this arm,
00:20:58.36\00:21:02.40
but would probably hand it
to me in a very gentle way.
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When someone has an
elbow that is out of joint,
00:21:06.34\00:21:11.26
you can usually tell it
by simply looking at it.
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It looks out of joint, and
so you simply put your thumb
00:21:13.85\00:21:18.75
between the two bones, and
put a little traction on it,
00:21:18.78\00:21:23.90
like this, and then rotate,
so it's pressure there, pull,
00:21:23.93\00:21:30.64
and twist a little bit, and
usually it will roll right back
00:21:30.67\00:21:36.40
into joint, and by looking
at it you will be able to tell
00:21:36.43\00:21:39.83
which direction you
should turn it most of the time.
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That's very helpful with an
elbow joint, that's out of joint
00:21:43.82\00:21:48.15
and you don't have
a doctor available.
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Another thing is a
shoulder out of joint.
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Same kind of thing,
these often occur in children,
00:21:53.82\00:21:59.05
when they are
walking along with a parent,
00:21:59.08\00:22:00.61
they have the hand over
the head, the parent is holding
00:22:00.64\00:22:03.91
the child's hand, and
then the child starts to fall,
00:22:03.94\00:22:07.90
and the parent jerks the child's
arm, and jerks it out of joint.
00:22:07.93\00:22:12.10
That's a typical scenario,
and if you are the only person
00:22:12.13\00:22:16.58
around, who can put it
into joint, you may want to just
00:22:16.61\00:22:19.94
put one hand up here,
the patient won't like it,
00:22:19.97\00:22:23.95
so don't spend a
lot of time doing it,
00:22:23.98\00:22:25.85
pull, you are putting a little
pressure here, and pushing away
00:22:25.88\00:22:30.66
and a little traction,
and again it's a little twist,
00:22:30.69\00:22:34.14
and it will often just
go right back into joint,
00:22:34.17\00:22:36.70
and the person has very
little difficulty with that.
00:22:36.73\00:22:40.57
A hip out of joint, is
much more difficult, but again,
00:22:40.60\00:22:47.20
if you are the only person
around, you should try to do it.
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The person lies down, you
put your foot in the groin
00:22:51.00\00:22:55.95
on the side where
the out of joint hip is,
00:22:55.98\00:23:00.56
then pull on the foot, and
again it's rotated a little bit,
00:23:00.59\00:23:06.59
and often it will go
right back into the joint,
00:23:06.62\00:23:10.00
with a great big
scream from the patient.
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Thank you very much Justina.
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Osteoporosis has
some very good causes,
00:23:15.70\00:23:21.54
and we're going to show
you some things that cause
00:23:21.57\00:23:25.72
osteoporosis, and Dr. Don
Miller is going to talk with you
00:23:25.75\00:23:28.86
those causes of osteoporosis.
00:23:28.89\00:23:32.22
- Well you can't really have a
discussion on bones and things,
00:23:32.25\00:23:37.17
unless you discuss what causes
the problems with the bones.
00:23:37.20\00:23:40.61
Bones are made up of a lot of
calcium and it's lack of calcium
00:23:40.64\00:23:46.89
that causes us
to get osteoporosis,
00:23:46.92\00:23:48.89
and we're going show you on
the screen a few things that
00:23:48.92\00:23:52.44
cause us to
loose our bone calcium.
00:23:52.47\00:23:55.32
You see the first
thing on the list is protein,
00:23:55.35\00:23:58.28
protein goes up, calcium
goes down, you see alcohol,
00:23:58.31\00:24:01.87
It's a bone waster, tobacco,
1% of your bone calcium lost
00:24:01.90\00:24:05.76
every year, if you
are post menopausal.
00:24:05.79\00:24:07.65
Coffee and tea,
cola and chocolate,
00:24:07.68\00:24:09.88
1.4% of your bone calcium every
year if you are post menopausal,
00:24:09.91\00:24:14.06
it's gone right down the drain.
00:24:14.09\00:24:15.42
Then you have the soft
drinks, phosphoric acid,
00:24:15.45\00:24:18.33
they call them soft drinks
because they make your bones
00:24:18.36\00:24:20.21
soft, that's what I say anyway.
00:24:20.24\00:24:23.85
The next things Aluminum
compounds - like antacids,
00:24:23.88\00:24:27.48
baking powder, pickles
with alum, all cause us
00:24:27.51\00:24:30.18
to loose our bone calcium,
high phosphorous compounds
00:24:30.22\00:24:33.59
like soft drinks, baking
powder, diets high in sodium,
00:24:33.62\00:24:37.38
sounds like the American diet
to me, that causes us to loose
00:24:37.41\00:24:40.51
our bone calcium,
A diet high in sugar,
00:24:40.54\00:24:43.41
here we are
America, thyroid supplements,
00:24:43.44\00:24:46.13
drugs, steroids, tetracycline,
all of these items cause us
00:24:46.16\00:24:50.01
to loose our bone
calcium, and the bone calcium
00:24:50.04\00:24:53.10
is what we need to
keep our bones strong.
00:24:53.13\00:24:55.12
So as we stay away from
these things, we don't have the
00:24:55.15\00:24:58.92
major problem of
loosing our bone calcium.
00:24:58.95\00:25:01.25
The countries that lead
the world in osteoporosis,
00:25:01.28\00:25:06.52
lead the world in violating
these particular things we
00:25:06.55\00:25:10.11
just saw, they use
these things in abundance.
00:25:10.14\00:25:11.97
Go to a country that
does not have osteoporosis,
00:25:12.00\00:25:15.61
and see how they live, and then
live like them in one sense,
00:25:15.64\00:25:19.54
as far as their dietary habits.
00:25:19.57\00:25:21.31
So I think we should
stay away from these things.
00:25:21.34\00:25:24.43
Another thing we need for
osteoporosis, our bones need
00:25:24.46\00:25:27.56
a daily shake up, we
need to get out and exercise.
00:25:27.59\00:25:30.44
It's a woman who
gets good exercise,
00:25:30.47\00:25:32.17
bone stressing
exercise, making those muscles
00:25:32.20\00:25:35.59
pull on those bones, you
are going to find that you have
00:25:35.62\00:25:38.39
stronger bones, because
every time you stress the bones,
00:25:38.42\00:25:41.67
the bones say we need
some more calcium over here.
00:25:41.70\00:25:44.42
Those are some simple things
Dr. Thrash that will help us
00:25:44.45\00:25:47.34
to have good strong
bones until we die of old age.
00:25:47.37\00:25:49.71
- Oh yes! And osteoporosis
is one of those things that
00:25:49.74\00:25:53.69
hastens death in some people.
00:25:53.72\00:25:55.16
Interestingly one of the
places that a lot of people get
00:25:55.19\00:25:59.44
osteoporosis is in the
maxilla, or in the mandible,
00:25:59.47\00:26:04.92
the two jaw bones, around the
teeth, and one of the reasons
00:26:04.95\00:26:09.57
for that is
because of infection.
00:26:09.60\00:26:11.56
A little pyorrhea can
start with a little infection,
00:26:11.59\00:26:15.98
the change in the PH of the
surrounding bone, can encourage
00:26:16.01\00:26:22.19
the loss of bone and fairly
soon the tooth becomes wobbly
00:26:22.22\00:26:28.62
in the socket, and all
because of a little infection,
00:26:28.65\00:26:32.73
and this then makes the
tooth ready to fall out.
00:26:32.76\00:26:36.48
So the patient goes to
the dentist, the dentist says
00:26:36.51\00:26:40.80
"Sorry" I'm not going to
be able to save your tooth.
00:26:40.83\00:26:44.07
That's one of the commonest
causes of tooth loss in those
00:26:44.10\00:26:49.20
in those who are
over the age of 35.
00:26:49.23\00:26:51.11
How do you keep
from getting pyorrhea?
00:26:51.14\00:26:53.99
One of the ways is
not to eat a lot of sugar,
00:26:54.02\00:26:57.34
Sugar encourages
infection around the gums,
00:26:57.37\00:27:01.84
around the teeth and the gums
and up into the tooth socket
00:27:01.87\00:27:07.14
which then
encourages osteoporosis.
00:27:07.17\00:27:10.88
With thyroid supplements,
for some reason they cause the
00:27:10.91\00:27:16.72
bones to become soft,
so thyroid supplements,
00:27:16.75\00:27:21.03
especially if they are
not needed, but are just given
00:27:21.06\00:27:24.42
because of some
symptom that is unpleasant,
00:27:24.45\00:27:26.92
like being cold in the morning,
or not having good energy.
00:27:26.95\00:27:31.70
Those things may not mean that
you need thyroid supplements
00:27:31.73\00:27:35.60
at all, and then
having celiac disease.
00:27:35.63\00:27:38.83
That also can encourage
the getting of osteoporosis.
00:27:38.86\00:27:43.76
So armed with this knowledge
you may be able to help
00:27:43.79\00:27:47.90
yourself not to get osteoporosis
with it's humped back,
00:27:47.93\00:27:50.61
and it's painful bones here
and there, and loss of tooth.
00:27:50.64\00:27:51.61