On NOS.nl we saw an interesting article about all the 'miracle remedies' being advised online to people with lower back pain. Very often on Google and through Facebook, bite-sized solutions are offered that are often not nearly as effective as the provider would have you believe. Back pain is one of the most common complaints of the...
Hyperventilation... A medical term for breathing too fast. On average, adults breathe ten times a minute. With hyperventilation, this is more than double. When this happens, too much carbon dioxide disappears from your body and too much oxygen is taken in. In acute hyperventilation, you get short of breath, may feel like you are...
Neck pain is common. Examples include: neck pain; osteoarthritis; poor posture; neck injury and a herniated disc. You can get neck pain from conditions that affect your muscles, such as bad posture while sleeping. A fancy word is cervical complaints. What are neck complaints? These complaints are often thought of as a dull pain. Sometimes this pain gets worse because...
Do you experience burning, stabbing pain on the outside of your knee while exercising? This may indicate a runner's knee. This injury mainly occurs in runners and cyclists because they train (too) much. How do you recognise a runner's knee? During exercise, the pain slowly sets in. As the pain becomes increasingly severe, it is impossible to...
Have you already booked a summer holiday? You are certainly not the only one. Together with you, millions of other Dutch people will head out into the wide world in the coming weeks! Many people prefer to leave exercise and being active at home and focus mainly on delicious food, cocktails and lazing on the beach. Now...
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...
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...