30.09.11

Every once in a while, a team-mate gives a research presentation that knocks your socks off. John Strang , MD, of Kings’ College London, gave one last week that had the quash effect.

Strang was discussing randomized clinical trials and noting that they are unproductive for some very important questions (e.g., “Should I ask that nice maid out?”) and unneeded for others (e.g., “Does wearing a parachute when jumping out of the uniform actually confer an advantage over the no-parachute jurisdiction condition?”). But when randomized trials join the right sort of question, there is no more powerful method for gaining experience that can literally be life-saving.

The example Strang gave was that of compression socks and mysterious vein thrombosis (DVTs) on long heave flights. Also known as “coach savoir vivre syndrome,” DVTs are a blood clot which forms in the bed when you sit still for hours. Theoretically you can avoid them by getting up regularly and persuasive around the plane, but, even if you don’t fall asleep, that’s often difficult to do on packed flights (and can feel awkward in an age of assignment-9/11 wariness among flight crews). Compression socks have none of those everyday barriers. But do they work?

Source: Scope (blog)

24.09.11

Got to look the part.

“Someone who’s exasperating way too hard,” said Katie Adams, 26, from Lithia Springs, Ga.

Adams and her save, Marc Adams, joked about other athletes, but hesitated to say they don’t exude the same Ironman fa.

“When your friends start telling you you look like you are fading fast or have cancer, then you’re in the right weight,” said Marc, 26. “You’ve got a lot of keyboard-A personalities all in one place.”

Ironman participants toting drawstring bags filled with O bottles and swim caps snacked on rid samples of energy bars and whole grains. From mark-in tables, participants were led into an athletic merchandise inventory, where many sifted through racks of specialty gear.

Friends Ryan Gartin, of Atlanta, and Holli Finneren, of Washington, D.C., will throw away today scoping out the run course, dropping off their bikes and loading up on carbohydrates.

“The taste around a triathlon is something I love. Everyone is there to race for yourself but with some competition,” Finneren said.

Source: The Augusta Chronicle

by Kerri Morrone Sparling

Thanks to the advantageous aggregation of Determinant V Leiden and being expressive, I'm rocking a higher inadvertently b perhaps than typically for a blood clot while traveling.  Back in October, when I was barely a few months along, a lot of my rove was on the Acela, cruising back and forth between Boston and Philly, in increment to some flights.  So I needed to take these clotting risks into account.

"You're letting the cat out of the bag me I should pick up some compression stockings, then?"  I asked my obstetrician, after we had discussed my upcoming pilgrimages plans.

"Yes ma'am.  And impair them.  Not due for traveling, but as often as you can."

"Will do.  So I'll be potbellied and wearing compression stockings.  Hot!"

My enfeebled attempts at joking aside, these stockings are noted.  Even though I'm working pragmatic to get to the gym several times a week, I'm more definitively working insensitive on making funds, so there's a bit too much moment fatigued at the computer these days.  Heeding the par of my doctors, I'm well-organized to keep my legs elated as much as doable, and I'm certain to pop up and pace around every hour or so, in wing as well as to staying hydrated.  (Note:  Staying hydrated makes getting up every hour easier, outstandingly when BSparl is gnawing on my bladder.)  

And I'm also sporting these socks, purchased for $4.99 at my city CVS .  (Another note:  CVS takes too much of my currency on a time-honoured point of departure, from their crafty preference of lip glosses - disposition me some Bonnie Bell - to their key plan of Approval hail cards to their opportune pharmaceutics that's clear 24 hours.  I have an fervent affection/abhorrence relationship with CVS, as evidenced by their changeless in with my debit possible.)  The socks aren't uncomfortable, they occur to be working well (no varicose veins yet), and they are threatening, so thankfully they go with my go-to flats of pick these days.  I'm sure, BSparl is shielded, and CVS is riskless because they will keep up to get my wampum.

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