News tagged with balance control


Stroke survivors improve balance with tai chi

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stroke can impair balance, heightening the risk of a debilitating fall. But a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher has found that stroke survivors can improve their balance by practicing the Chinese martial art of ...





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Mind out of balance, body out of balance

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Many of the 40 million American adults who suffer from anxiety disorders also have problems with balance. As increasing numbers of children are diagnosed with anxiety, Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered that ...


Postural sway among abstinent alcoholics can be improved up to a point

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Excessive sway during quiet standing is a common and significant consequence of chronic alcoholism, even after prolonged sobriety, and can lead to fall-related injury and even death. A new study of residual postural instability ...


Candy bar or healthy snack? Free choice not as free as we think

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

If you think choosing between a candy bar and healthy snack is totally a matter of free will, think again. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research shows that the choices we make to indulge ourselves or exercise self-c ...


'Natural killer' cells keep immune system in balance

'Natural killer' cells keep immune system in balance

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Natural killer, or NK cells, are part of our innate immune system. A healthy body produces them to respond early during infection. They are activated and they kill cells infected with a given virus.


Inner ear balance disorders common, associated with falls among older Americans

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An estimated 35 percent of U.S. adults age 40 and older have vestibular dysfunction (inner ear balance disorders), and those who do may have a higher risk of falling, according to a report in the May 25 issue of Archives of ...


Scientists uncovered molecular machinery related to stem cell fate

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Stowers Institute's Xie Lab has revealed how the BAM protein affects germline stem cell differentiation and how it is involved in regulating the quality of stem cells through intercellular competition. The work was published ...


Research model may one day 'inoculate' elderly against slip-related falls

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Training people to avoid falls by repeatedly exposing them to unstable situations in the laboratory helped them to later maintain their balance on a slippery floor, according to new research from the Journal of Neurophysiology.


Probiotics may be able to help you keep slim

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers from LIFE - Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen are working on a promising research project that seems to indicate that probiotics have a slimming effect.


Just in the time for holiday shoppers: Hira offers advice on breaking credit addiction

Just in the time for holiday shoppers: Personal finance professor offers advice on breaking credit addiction

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An October survey of 3,800 consumers by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling found that more than two thirds (68 percent) planned to pay in cash for their holiday purchases this year, ...


Antagonistic genes control rice growth

Antagonistic genes control rice growth

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at the Carnegie Institution, with colleagues, have found that a plant steroid prompts two genes to battle each other—one suppresses the other to ensure that leaves grow normally in rice and the ...



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