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Monitoring bone health #health #treatment

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 06:37:00 +0000

Bones, Unlike all other organs in our body doesn't give out warnings about ill health until catastrophic failure like fractures.

Since its usually the elderly who face bone health disorders, There's not much investment in this space to develop preventive care (or) treatments.

The treatments are obscure and its hard for the patients to know if there's any real progress with their bone disease treatments.

Majority of world population is turning old, There's large need-gap in coming up with better bone health treatments and monitoring bone health.

4 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Make me breathe properly #health #respiration

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:02:00 +0000

80% of the population has some form of disfunction in breathing, 50% of modern population chronically breathe through their mouth, says James Nestor.

It seems that the correct way to breathe is 5 - 6 breaths/minute and breathing correctly has huge therapeutic benefits such helping with reducing symptoms of allergies, asthma, autoimmune disease, anxiety, depression and in some cases even curing them.

What can help me develop this correct way of breathing as a habit, without investing too much time or money?

5 points posted by Michelle

Alert the presense of powerful magnets nearby #health #notification

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:00:00 +0000

British Heart Rhythm Society has recently warned that the magnet in iPhone 12 series can suspend the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator(ICD) a life saving implant used by patients with high risk cardiac conditions.

With growing number of electronic appliances using powerful magnets in our daily life a real-time alert system for magnetic field in the environment above certain threshold which could affect the implants is needed.

3 points posted by Carolyn

Eye strain due to lockdown #health #wellness

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:51:00 +0000

Like many others who are sitting at their home staring at screens, I have become myopic. It looks like lot of us would be working from home permanently here after, requiring solutions to prevent eye strain and myopia was already an endemic before the pandemic.

What are the solutions built for protecting our vision under these new circumstances?
3 points posted by Rudolph

Accurate pulse oximeter for dark skin color #health #medicalquipment

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 05:47:00 +0000

Recent study shows consumer pulse oximeters are inaccurate for individuals with darkly pigmented skin. Researchers say that the pulse oximeters tend to overestimate the oxyhemoglobin saturation (Sao2) at low Sao2 levels.

Patients relying on just the Sao2 readings from the pulse oximeter alone i.e. SpO2 can risk missing out treatment at crucial time due to this inaccuracy and so doctors advice giving importance to the shortness of breath and trends of pulse oximeter readings over absolute readings.

There is a need gap for pulse oximeters which can offset the bias due to skin color after further research on this subject.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Daily activities to live a healthy lifestyle #fitness #health

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 16:16:00 +0000

auto-pilot my fitness/health/recovery/lifestyle - programs like Precision Nutrition, Whoop, Wodup (hundreds of others) all have specific purposes but I have to add and join each one, setup and follow specifics. I would to subscribe to a stream instead of adding daily events/habits to a calendar - can I just join a coach who automates my health portion of my life. I just read it and do what it says and I should see results, hold me accountable. 3 points posted by Chad

Self reporting symptoms of long COVID #health #COVID

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 04:20:00 +0000

While second/third wave of COVID-19 has started to take its toll globally, horrors of long term symptoms from original COVID-19 survivors are coming to light.

Symptoms ranging from breathlessness, fatigue to damage in brain tissue from MRI scans have been reported by several COVID survivors including those who were asymptomatic initially and those who survived COVID without any hassle.

Since long term effects of COVID are just starting to being explored by researchers, medical practitioners are under-equipped with data to help their patients reporting symptoms of their long COVID. Self help online forums are reportedly playing a huge role for these COVID survivors to discuss about their persisting symptoms.

A dedicated platform to self report long-term COVID symptoms with provisions to intuitively collect scientific data would be invaluable to researchers and scientists around the world.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Stop my family members from touching their face #health #hygiene

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:59:00 +0000

In order to prevent COVID-19 coronavirus infection, its being constantly advised to not touch our face. When we are outside, we wear face mask which to some extent reminds us not to touch our face; but when we are in our house we frequently touch our face.

It seems like there's currently no solution which prevents us from touching our face at home without having to wear face mask and shields. If someone in the house is infected with COVID-19, everyone is at risk and preventing touching face could limit the chances of infection.

3 points posted by Katy Jones

Weight recommendations based on bone density #health #fitnessapp

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 02:24:00 +0000

I'm under treatment for improving the bone density, weight loss has been traditionally linked to loss in bone density, but recent studies have shown that higher weight can have negative impact on bones with lower density, so it has become very difficult to get problem weight recommendations based on bone density.

Bathroom scales can measure body fat using Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), which provides body fat information with fair enough accuracy along with body weight. But, since measuring bone density requires large instruments capable of performing DEXA Scan (Dual X-ray Absoptiometry), common scales cannot factor in bone density.

But, the body weighing scales doesn't necessarily need to measure bone density, fitness apps can take in bone density values from the users as they do for height, age and other factors to recommend optimum weight based on bone density. It can come a long way to help osteoporosis, osteopenia patients.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Reduce time to diagnose Autoimmune Disease #medical #health

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:02:00 +0000

I recently had a conversation with someone who is suffering from Sjögren's syndrome a type of Autoimmune Disease, time to get diagnosed for this disease seems to be a big problem.

20-40 doctor visits for diagnosis seems to be very high for any medical condition, let alone for such debilitating condition.

I'm posting this problem, So others can share their experience and perhaps if there is a need gap we could come up with a solution.

2 points posted by Abishek Muthian