In this Monday, March 29, 2021 video, Dr. David Koivuranta of the Toronto Neck and Back Pain Clinic delivers a concise daily health update covering six distinct health‑and‑wellness topics. He begins by framing the purpose of the series – to keep viewers informed about recent research so they can make better health choices. He then reviews: (1) a February 2021 study linking childhood infectious mononucleosis to a roughly 40% higher risk of depression in young adulthood; (2) a Nutrients journal finding that consuming one salad per day may improve outcomes for oral‑cancer patients; (3) Cleveland Clinic guidance on calcium‑score testing as a preventive tool for adults with family history or risk factors for coronary artery disease; (4) a January 2021 Child Development Journal analysis showing that divorce can harm children aged 9‑18, especially by fostering fear of abandonment; (5) Medical News Today advice on the benefits of taking rest days from exercise, including muscle repair, injury prevention, and mental recovery; and (6) a December 2020 HealthSA report revealing that 83% of nursing students experience musculoskeletal pain, with recommendations for preventive strategies and paramedical treatments such as chiropractic, massage, osteopathy, and acupuncture. Dr. Koivuranta closes with an Abraham Lincoln quote about happiness, encourages viewers to make healthy choices, and invites them to request a written copy of the update. The overall message is that staying informed about current research can create an “upward spiral” of better health decisions.
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Hello everyone, it's Dr. Dave. Hopefully you're all doing well, you enjoyed a wonderful weekend, you're looking forward to a good week. Coming at you on behalf of the Toronto Neck and Back Pain Clinic with your daily health update for Monday, March 29th, 2021. Gonna look at 6 areas of health and wellness to kick off your week this week. Somewhere around this video you can read through all 6 of those areas and we'll touch on several of them in the video today. If you'd like a copy, DM us on social, send us an email here at the clinic, or even give us a call. We'll make sure we get that to you. Not gonna treat, diagnose, prevent, or cure any illness or disease with our time together today. However, by staying tapped in, tuned in, and turned on to some of the latest and greatest in the research and literature when it comes to health and wellness, it will start to influence your thoughts, decisions, and actions each day when it comes to your health and wellness, as well as potentially the health and wellness of those around you. And over time, that upward spiral of staying plugged in can support all the healthy stuff you're doing and get those great experiences in your life each day that you're looking for. Because you do live your life through your body, and the healthier it is, the more fun you can have. And we can guarantee that there will always be challenges, but the more ready you are, the more fun you can have. All right, um, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity for February 2021 looked at the connection between having had infectious mononucleosis as a child and how that increased the risk of depression in young adulthood. So you can read through that connection if you'd like. It's about a 40% increased or elevated risk having a connection between those two things. One salad a day, according to the journal Nutrients, can benefit oral cancer patients. So a very specific niche kind of study there. And if you'd like to, you can read through some of the particulars with that as well. Calcium score test, you may have heard of. The Cleveland Clinic says that if you are— have a family or personal history of coronary artery disease in your family. If you're over 45 and you're a male, or you're 55 and older as a female, you may want to get that test done preventatively. And if you have a history of smoking, high cholesterol, diabetes, or high blood pressure, as well as excess weight and/or inactivity, it can look for atherosclerotic plaquing happening in the coronary arteries, the arteries on your heart. So as a preventive measure, it could be a good test for you or or someone you know. Um, the Child Development Journal, January 2021, looked at the connection between the challenges with divorce and how it can harm kids. Um, they looked at over 550 children aged 9 to 18 to see the impacts of that. And as you can imagine, um, it can be challenging. So there's lots of different fears, including a fear of abandonment that can happen with that situation. That can affect the long-term health of an individual, especially in those formative years, depending on how the child is, so you can read through that one as well. A couple areas we'll focus on today is with your exercises. According to Medical News Today, January 2021, they asked the question of whether or not you should take a rest day. This is challenging for people who really like to work out or into their fitness, but sometimes, especially if you suffer persistent muscle pain or soreness, if you've noticed that it's harder to get through your fitness routine than usual, or you have some sluggishness lately following those routines, you may need a day off from those workouts or from the gym. Rest days can offer the following benefits. They can reduce that muscle soreness and achiness. It can help repair and build those muscles, replenish your body's energy stores, prevent injury, and also allow your mind to rest. So taking a break is a good idea. Your body gets a chance to heal, to catch up, and then with those off periods, going back to the workouts, your fitness, and your activities, you can start to develop more gains and/or continue with easier progress maintaining your health if you're not necessarily looking to improve that fitness level. But either way, rest day is a good idea. And finally, from the HealthSA report, December 2020, they looked at nursing students who are suffering from musculoskeletal work-related disorders. Questionnaires completed by 125 nursing students found that about 83% of them had musculoskeletal pain or discomfort in at least one body region, most often in the lower back, neck, and shoulders. And reveals that already as undergraduate students, these nurses are at greater risk of musculoskeletal disorders, and a greater need may exist for helping prevent them in their environment, and some treatment options for when they happen. So, eh, if you're in that, eh, hospital setting, nursing home setting, or other setting as a nurse, or even as a other healthcare provider, doing a wonderful job helping take care of others, and, eh, keeping the healthcare system strong, it's good to keep yourself strong and healthy and pain-free as well, so that that you can better enjoy what you're doing and serving others. So don't hesitate to seek out care. Of course, musculoskeletal disorders respond very well to paramedical services such as chiropractic, massage, osteopathy, acupuncture, and others. So get out there and get some help. All right, so that's your daily health update for Monday. A little quote to finish today's daily health update— it's always at the bottom of the written format, we don't often share them in the video— but Abraham Lincoln apparently said that most folks folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. We can extrapolate that to being as healthy sometimes as we'd like or want to be, and it all comes down to those choices. So hopefully you're making a great choice this week to be happy, share some smiles, but also a great choice to, uh, keep that health nice and strong in your life as a focus or on the forefront of your mind and improve it in areas where it needs to be and support it in areas where you want it to be supported. And it turns out to be a great day and week for you. So, uh, we'll look forward to talking to you again tomorrow, Tuesday, with the next video daily health update. Until then, stay well, enjoy, be good, and we'll catch you soon.
