Chronic pain makes life tough for seniors From Canada.com OTTAWA - Chronic pain is making life difficult for Canadian seniors and it's a health issue that needs attention as the country prepares for an unprecedented growth in that population, a new study suggests. A Statistics Canada report published Thursday revealed that more than one-quarter of seniors living at home and close to 40 per cent of those in long-term care facilities are affected by chronic pain. Dean Tripp, an expert in chronic pain at Queen's University, said it is "guaranteed"_the...

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Basement ballroom lets couple stay in to step out From Daily Mail Charleston HURRICANE - Until Mickey and Betsy Neal moved 33 miles from Charleston, going to ballroom dance venues was a regular activity for the couple. When building their new house, the Neals opted to turn their basement space into a ballroom dance studio. Neal consulted with the couple's former dance instructor, Tom Cyrus, before choosing the dance floor surface. "When we first started dancing lessons, there were five or six good dance instructors in the city," Betsy said. "We've been dancing and...

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Obese Children at Risk During Surgery From Ivanhoe A new study done by the University of Michigan Health System found 19 percent of obese children who underwent surgery had problems with airway obstruction and other breathing-related problems, whereas only 11 percent of children who were normal weight experienced breathing problems during surgery. In addition to the problems obese children faced during surgery, they also had a higher rate of illness and conditions like asthma, hypertension, sleep apnea and type II diabetes.

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Obese kids face bigger surgery risks From United Press International Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests that obese children are more likely to have breathing problems during surgery. University of Michigan researchers said obese children were found to have a higher rate of difficult mask ventilation, airway obstruction, major oxygen desaturation and other airway problems, the U-M Health System said Friday in a release.

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Obese children at increased risk of adverse respiratory events ... From Ortho SuperSite Investigators found that obese children had higher rates of difficult mask ventilation, airway obstruction and major oxygen desaturation. Overall, investigators classified 294 children (14.5%) as obese, 351 children (17.3%) as overweight and 1,380 children (68.1%) as normal weight, according to the study. For the analysis, the researchers combined normal-weight children and overweight children into a single group non-obese children because these children were demographically similar and...

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