Posts Tagged Health Minute
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Health Minute With CASI – Exercise Helps Arthritis Pain and Stiffness
By Michelle Migliore, RN/Administrator Jane’s Place at CASI Exercise is crucial for people with arthritis. It increases strength and flexibility, reduces joint pain, and helps combat fatigue. Of course, when stiff and painful joints are already bogging you down, the thought of walking around...
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Health Minute With CASI – Do you know the warning signs of a stroke?
By Michelle Migliore, RN/Administrator Jane’s Place at CASI A stroke, or the medical term CVA (Cerebrovascular accident), affects hundreds of thousands of people every year. The majority of these people are of the senior population, but a stroke can occur at any age. It is important to reco...
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Health Minute With CASI – Dehydration – A Senior Health Risk
By Michelle Migliore, RN It’s important for seniors to be more aware of ways to prevent dehydration, recognize its signs, and treat it promptly. Sudden shifts in the body’s water balance can frequently result in dehydration, and the physical changes associated with aging expose our seniors...
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Health Minute With CASI – Medication Management for Seniors
By: Michelle Migliore, RN Living independently is important to all of us, but especially to our seniors. As we age, we experience unique challenges, such as losing a spouse and friends, changes in physical and mental abilities, and other general lifestyle changes that often occur during these y...
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Want To Get Fit? Do It While You Sit! – Health Minute With CASI
By: Sarah Arp Have you ever been interested in doing yoga but can’t get on the floor for reasons such as: age, pains, disabilities, etc.? Chair Yoga allows you to do yoga, but in a comfortable yet effective way! The chair brings the floor to you, allowing you to practice your range of moti...
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Health Minute with CASI
Fall into a Healthy Habit We all have habits, good and bad that come out sometimes or on a daily basis. Some are easier to break then others and some can just be all around unhealthy for us mentally and physically. We can all have control over what we do; it’s a little thing I like to cal...
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Health Minute With CASI: The Amazing Brain – Part 4
Spinal and Cranial nerves are the most exciting part of this whole series! There are 12 cranial nerves. They supply primarily the head and neck, except the vagus nerve (which travels to the heart, respiratory muscles, stomach, and gallbladder.) The 31 pairs of spinal nerves arise from the spina...
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Health Minute with CASI – The Amazing Brain – Part 3
This month we continue a discussion of the Central Nervous System which we began in our May issue. The Central Nervous System includes the brain and spinal cord. Corticospinal or Pyramidal The area has been named “pyramidal” since it crosses through the medulla. Nerve fibers originate in ...
