What Is A Natural Sports Rub?
Posted by admin in Home Health Care on May 22, 2011
By William Cianelli
What is a sports rub? A sports rub is a lotion, cream, balm or ointment that helps relieve sore muscles and joint pains associated with all types of sports activities. A natural sports rub is one that has absolutely no artificial compounds such as petroleum byproducts, preservatives and countless other chemicals that supposedly help.
Do not use an artificial product because the synthetic compounds can absorb into your bloodstream through your skin. It doesn’t make sense to use potentially harmful ingredients to relieve minor pain!
Some natural sports balms contain capsicum for the heat producing qualities and arnica for the relief of soreness and bruises. There are many other natural ingredients that have been known to help relieve pain including camphor, eucalyptus, nutmeg, cedarwood atlas, peppermint and countless other botanical based compounds.
The important thing to remember is to stay natural. The next thing to look for is a product that has more of the best pain relief ingredients in a pure beeswax base with carrier oils and plant butters. The purpose of the sports rub is to be able to absorb deeply into the muscles & joints which is facilitated by the various active ingredients represented by the essential oils. Read the rest of this entry »
Where Pulse Oximeter Began
Posted by admin in Home Health Care on May 22, 2011
By Jackson Roger
A pulse oximeter is one of the most common and convenient medical health devices nowadays that anyone could use anywhere, anytime. Thus, it is an effective method of measuring the blood-oxygen saturation and pulse rate.
It is said that the original pulse oximeter was developed since 1935; it is just a two-wavelength ear saturation meter with red and green filters. This device only measures O2 saturation until it later switched to red and infrared filters. In 1949, some scientist added a pressure capsule to squeeze the blood out of the ear thus, this method is not used clinically because it is hard to implement. Therefore, in 1964, it appears an eight wavelength of light which is absolutely used to read ear oximeter. It is used usually in laboratories due to its size and cost.
The pulse oximeter was developed in 1974 using the ratio of red to infrared light absorption of pulsating components, then it is introduce commercialized in 1981. During that time, it focused mainly on the respiratory care and later on used in operating rooms to monitor oxygen levels. The introduction of oximeter allows continuous measure of patient’s oxygenation, through this non-invasive measure, practice of anesthesia improve patient safety.
Operating rooms in 1987 use oximeter for their standard care monitoring, this usage of device rapidly spread throughout hospitals from recovery rooms to various intensive care units. Pulse oximeter device also particular in neonatal units since newly child born do not thrive for inadequate oxygenation; thus, they are blinded with too much oxygen. Read the rest of this entry »