Physical Therapy Rehabilitation

Introduction

Did you know that salicylic acid could help you stop your acne? Many people use this instead of benzoyl peroxide because it is not a rough on the face.

Salicylic acid is the acne preventer of choice for those people with sensitive and dry skin. People with oily skin will more than likely choose benzoyl peroxide for more effective control of their acne.

Here is why salicylic acid is best for those with sensitive and dry skin.

Where It Comes From

Salicylic acid is obtained from the bark of the willow tree and is closely linked to aspirin. The first use of this acid can be traced back to the 5th century C.E. when the Greeks used it to ease the aches and pains of their muscles. Even the native Indians got in on the act and used it to relieve the pain or reduce the effects of fever.

Since then, when it was approved in 1997 by the American Academy of Dermatology, it is mostly used as topical treatment to stop and prevent acne on the face.

How It Works

Salicylic acid is a beta-hydroxy acid with an acidic base that helps to shed the dead skin on your face. Because of this ability to exfoliate the skin, it can help remove both whiteheads and blackheads that you may develop.

The salicylic acid actually goes into the pores to cleanse the pores, reduce the actual size of the pores and it remove dead skin. The removal of dead skin is important because acne develops when dead skin clogs the pores allowing bacteria to grow in the oxygen-deprived environment resulting in acne.

With its anti-inflammatory properties, this makes it ideal for people with sensitive skin.

How To Use

Salicylic acid, as a topical treatment and it should be used over the entire face because it is not very effective for use as a spot treatment.

It has also been used as a face mask by actually using an aspirin, which contains salicylic acid, from your medicine cabinet, take three or four aspirin, grind, them and put enough water on it to make it a paste and then apply to your face.

After it dries, about 15 minutes, wash off with warm water.

Precautions

The most common side effect of this acid is it tends to dry out the skin, plus some people have reported irritation and a sense of burning. But it comes in various concentrations from 1 to 30%, so you can start off at the lower concentrations and work your way up.

Jimmy C has been studying skin care for many years because of his skin problems in his youth and he is the Editor in Chief of a number of skin care web sites. Being a victim of acne in his younger days, he has researched this subject to help people prevent and stop acne. He has also studied many aspects of caring for the bodies skin and keeping it youthful and free of irritants.

Feeling overwhelmed with everyone talking about resolutions? I’m not surprised. Before the end of a year everyone starts talking about what their new year resolutions are going to be, then after new year everyone tells you about the resolutions that they’ve set and asks you about yours. Every single health magazine has at least one article about resolutions and twitter is full of resolution tweets. By week 5 or 6 they’ve faded, been forgotten or failed. That is until next year.

I think it’s time to change our thinking. I think we should toss New Year’s resolutions out of the window as well as diets that start on Monday’s. Rather let’s have an ongoing goal to change one thing at a time. When we’ve mastered that move onto the next. It should be ongoing, one week rolling into the next, month after month and year after year regardless of the day, date or year.

A healthy lifestyle is about simplicity not complexity. Here is my take on the Zen of Health.

Have faith -

• in yourself and in the process
• that if you keep doing the right things often enough you will get results

Be mindful of -

• how you treat your body
• what you put into your mind and body
• what you want to achieve
• the choices you make and their impact on your life

Apply wisdom -

• Be your own guru – no-one knows you better than yourself. You know your strengths, weaknesses as well as what motivates you and what triggers your bad habits.
• Know that it’s OK to go off track – apply the 80 /20 principle i.e. make healthy choices at least 80% of the time
• Leading a healthy lifestyle is not about complexity – it is about simplicity.
• Apply wisdom, logic and common sense to offers of quick fix remedies and promises of easy and fast weight loss solutions.

Be authentic -

• do what you say you are going to do
• talk less and do more

Focus on -

• what you are trying to achieve
• one thing at a time
• making healthier choices more often
• the present – not on yesterday or tomorrow
• where you put your attention and energy
• leading a healthy energizing lifestyle – not on weight loss
• simplifying your life and removing the clutter
• finding balance by feeding your mind, body and soul
• being consistent
• the big picture

If you want to lose weight decide on what one thing you’re going to change and do it. If you want to lead a healthier lifestyle, decide on the one thing you want to change and start. When you’ve mastered that one change select the next one. Small changes, big impact. Forget New Year’s resolutions, forget Mondays. Start now, don’t wait.

Regular exercise is essential for maintaining physical fitness among women. However, the appropriate type of exercise would largely depend on each woman’s personal fitness condition, weight, age, lifestyle, and fitness goals.

Cardio-vascular exercises are important in strengthening the heart and in reducing women’s risk factors to diseases. This is the type of exercise that benefits all organs of the body, as it increases the pumping of blood through all of the organs. If your goal is to improve health and maintain your weight, you can opt for moderate-intensity cardio exercises such as hiking, dancing, cycling and engaging in sports. Around half an hour daily of these types of exercise for six days a week would give you adequate amounts of physical activity to meet your goal.

On the other hand, if you are aiming to burn fat and lose a significant amount of weight, you might want to try doing high-intensity interval training, or HIIT. This type of exercise burns the most calories in the least amount of time. The principle behind this type of exercise is to discourage the body from achieving a steady state. When you are performing exercises at a steady pace, the body tries to adjust to the energy demands of the body by conserving calories. Of course, this is counter-productive for you if your goal is to burn as much calories as you possibly can. To help you elude getting into a steady state, HIIT programs instruct you to frequently vary the pace of your workouts. For example, you can alternately perform medium-intensity cardio, and high-intensity cardio every two or three minutes until you complete your half-hour exercise session. If you’re a runner, you can warm up with a five-minute jog, followed by 1 minute of full-speed running, around 2 minutes of brisk walking, another minute of high intensity running, and so on. HIIT is ideally performed around 3 to 4 times a week. One added benefit of HIIT is that your body would continue to have elevated metabolism for the next 4 to 8 hours, so that you continue to burn calories even after you are done exercising.

The other component of a good exercise plan for women is strength training. Strength training used to be associated exclusively with body builders and athletes. In more recent physical fitness researches, however, strength training has been significantly correlated to improved blood pressure management and reduced risks for diabetes. It has also been linked to back pain relief.

Strength training is an effective means for improving women’s physical appearance. Increased muscle mass allows you to burn more calories by increasing your basal metabolic rate. It tones and sculpts your body, and helps you get rid of unwanted flab.

A good strength-training program should incorporate the principles of overload and progression, that is, you subject your muscles to greater resistance once you can comfortably perform more than eight repetitions on your current weight. Don’t worry about getting too muscular. Women genetically do not have the hormones for developing the bulky muscles seen in male body builders.