Have you booked your summer holiday yet? You’re certainly not the only one. Over the coming weeks, millions of other Dutch people will be heading out into the wide world just like you! Many people prefer to leave exercise and physical activity at home and focus mainly on delicious food, cocktails and lazing about on the beach. Now…
A frozen shoulder is a common shoulder injury. You’ll recognise it by pain in the shoulder that gets progressively worse. This is caused by inflammation in the joint capsule. The longer you put up with it, the more difficult it becomes to move your shoulder. The shoulder becomes, as it were, ‘frozen’, which is why…
More and more attention has been paid to sleep behaviour in recent years. This is mainly because health has been put higher and higher on society's agenda and it is now common knowledge that sleep is at least as important as eating well and getting enough exercise. Several scientific studies show that enough sleep, acts as a natural...
That exercise has a positive effect on health should be obvious by now. However, how much exercise is needed and in what way, opinions still differ. In the United States, new guidelines for exercise were also published in the journal JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association).... at the end of 2018.
Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in the Netherlands, but did you know that it is also one of the leading causes of death in our country? Over 1 million Dutch people have diabetes and this number is still rising sharply. What is diabetes anyway? Diabetes is also called diabetes and causes the body to...
The sun is already showing itself regularly, the terraces are filling up nicely, the bikes are being taken out of the shed and the days are getting longer, which can only mean one thing; spring has started! Summer time will also start on the last Sunday of this month, making the days seem even longer! To celebrate the...
We all know that exercise is good for you, but how much exercise do you actually need? The RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) sets exercise guidelines and then measures how many people in the Netherlands meet these guidelines. The most recent data on physical activity and sedentary behaviour can be found at www.volksgezondheidenzorg.info. The physical activity guidelines relate to the amount of physical activity required…
This is mainly due to lifestyle awareness and an increase in chronic conditions! Good news for us physiotherapists, because for more and more conditions, the added value of physiotherapy is scientifically demonstrated. This is partly because more and more people have chronic conditions and partly because the majority of the population is working on a healthy lifestyle....
Research shows that at least two million people in the Netherlands suffer from back or neck pain. Last year, over 1.1 million women and 858,600 men were known to the GP with back or neck pain, recent figures from the RIVM show. Never before has the two-million mark been broken. Last year, ...
