Backaches

Backaches

Most backaches come from strained muscles in the lower back. Other causes include back injuries such as a slipped or herniated disc, arthritis, osteoporosis and urinary tract infection. The goals of treatment are to treat the cause of the backache, relieve the pain, promote healing and avoid re-injury.

How to Avoid Back Pain:
Lifting causes a lot of backaches. Here are some lifting Do's and Don'ts to help you avoid straining your back.

Do's:

* Wear good shoes with low heels, not sandals or high heels.
* Stand close to the thing you want to lift.
* Plant your feet squarely, shoulder width apart.
* Bend at the knees, not at the waist. Keep your knees bent as you lift.
* Pull in your stomach and buttocks.
* Keep your back as straight as you can.
* Hold the object close to your body.
* Lift slowly.
* Let your legs carry the weight.
* Get help or use a dolly to move something very heavy.

Don'ts:

* Don't lift if your back hurts.
* Don't lift if you have a history of back trouble.
* Don't lift something that's too heavy.
* Don't lift heavy things over your head.
* Don't lift anything heavy if you're not steady on your feet.
* Don't bend at the waist to pick something up.
* Don't arch your back when you lift or carry.
* Don't lift too fast or with a jerk.
* Don't twist your back when you are holding something. Turn your whole body, from head to toe.
* Don't lift something heavy with one hand and something light with the other. Balance the load.
* Don't try to lift one thing while you hold something else. For example, don't try to pick up a child while you are holding a grocery bag. Put the bag down, or lift the bag and the child at the same time.



Resting the back can help treat the pain and avoid re-injury. Resting doesn't have to be in bed, but lying down takes pressure off your back so it can heal faster. Up to three days of bed rest is usually recommended. Your back muscles can get weak if you stay in bed longer than that.

* When you need to get up from bed, move slowly, roll on your side and swing your legs to the floor. Push off the bed with your arms.
* Get comfortable when you are lying, standing and sitting. For example, when you lie on your back, keep your upper back flat but your hips and knees bent. Keep your feet flat on the bed. Tip your hips down and up until you find the best spot.
* Take pressure off your lower back. Put a pillow under your knees or lie on your side with your knees bent.

Cold treatment:
Cold helps with bruises and swelling. You can make a cold pack by wrapping ice in a towel. Use the cold pack for 20 minutes, then take it off for 20 minutes. Do this over and over for two to three hours a day. Lie on your back with your knees bent and put the ice pack under your lower back. Start as soon as you hurt your back. Keep doing it for three to four days.

Heat treatment:
Heat makes blood flow, which helps healing. But don't use heat on a back strain until three to four days after you get hurt. If you use heat sooner, it can make the pain and swelling worse. Use a moist heating pad, a hot-water bottle, hot compresses, a heat lamp, a hot tub, hot baths or hot showers. Use heat for 20 minutes, then take the heat off for 20 minutes. Do this up to three hours a day. Be careful not to burn yourself.

Massage:
Massage won't cure a backache, but it can loosen tight muscles.

Braces or Corsets:
Braces and corsets support your back and keep you from moving it too much. They do what strong back muscles do, but they won't make your back stronger.

Pain Relief:
Take aspirin, ibuprofen or naproxen sodium for pain. Note: Do not give aspirin or any medication containing salicylates to anyone 19 years of age or younger, unless directed by a physician, due to its association with Reye's syndrome, a potentially fatal condition. Acetaminophen will help the pain but not the swelling. Don't overdo it after taking a painkiller. You can hurt your back more and then it will take longer to heal.

More Tips:

* After two to three days of resting your back, try some mild stretching exercises to make stomach and back muscles stronger. Exercise in the morning and afternoon. (Always ask your doctor before starting an exercise program.)
* Don't sit in one place longer than you need to. It strains your lower back.
* Sleep on a firm mattress.
* Never sleep on your stomach. Sleep on your back or side, with your knees bent.
* If your back pain is chronic or doesn't get better on its own, see your doctor. He or she can evaluate your needs. A referral may be given to a physical therapist, a physiatrist (a doctor schooled in physical therapy) or a chiropractor.

Red Dragon : The Beautiful Wealth Of China

Red Dragon : The Beautiful Wealth Of China


The Arowana is an amazing fish that grows up to a meter in length, and can live up to 25 years. But it’s not these traits that make it so popular among China’s rich and famous, but its resemblance to a dragon. As you may know, Chinese people consider themselves descendants of dragons, and many of them would pay big money, to own their very own dragon. The older the fish, the more expensive it is, kind of like a good wine.

Red Dragon fish are believed to bring good luck and prosperity to their owners, and some people pay as much as $8,000 to own one. Most Arowana owners prefer to keep them in secret locations, away from prying eyes, where no one else can enjoy the good fortune they bring.

The red-gold coloring and the name “Dragon” have made the Arowana fish a sought after social symbol, and have brought the species to the brink of extinction.

World Trade Center Pakistan - Platinum Square

Platinum Square - World Trade Center Pakistan


The World Trade Center Islamabad located in DHA Phase II, is an endure that's being developed by Al Ghurair Giga Pakistan Private Limited. Come and experience the magic of a WTC Islamabad lifestyle.

A spectacular project steadily rising into the Islamabad skies. Welcome to World Trade Center Islamabad indulge in 6.2 acres of architecture. A spectacular project featuring five mesmerizing business towers, a magnificent shopping mall . The ultimate destination where international business, luxurious brands, fabulous amenities and
world-class hospitality come together.

The Spherical Boulders at Moeraki

A little fishing village on the coast south of Oamaru has become famous for a geological wonder on its windswept sands.


The Moeraki Boulders are huge spherical stones that are scattered over the sandy beaches, but they are not like ordinary round boulders that have been shaped by rivers and pounding seas. These boulders are classed as septarian concretions, and were formed in ancient sea floor sediments. They were created by a process similar to the formation of oyster pearls, where layers of material cover a central nucleus or core. For the oyster, this core is an irritating grain of sand. For the boulders, it was a fossil shell, bone fragment, or piece of wood. Lime minerals in the sea accumulated on the core over time, and the concretion grew into perfectly spherical shapes up to three meters in diameter.


The original mudstone seabed has since been uplifted to form coastal cliffs. Erosion of the cliffs has released the three tonne captive boulders, which now lie in a haphazard jumble across the beach. Further erosion in the atmosphere has exposed a network of veins, which gives the boulders the appearance of turtle shells. Similar boulders occur at Shag Point, and the nearby swimming beach of Katiki. In Hawke’s Bay in the North Island, scientists have found that the central core of similar boulders contained perfectly preserved skeletons of turtles, sea snails and extinct reptiles, such as plesiosaurs.

Local legends explained the boulders as the remains of eel baskets, calabashes, and kumara washed ashore from the wreck of an Arai-te-uru, a large sailing canoe. This legend tells of the rocky shoals that extend seaward from Shag Point as being the petrified hull of this wreck and a nearby rocky promontory as being the body of the canoe's captain.

Moeraki makes a fascinating stopover point, both for the dramatic coastal scenery and the curious geological phenomenon on the beaches.

Jasper Creek - The Beauty of Wet Stones

Jasper Creek - The Beauty of Wet Stones


Jasper Creek located in Canaima National Park, Venezuela. The bedrock of this creek is pure jasper, a semiprecious stone used around the world for jasper jewelery and ornaments. Usually jasper occurs only in relatively small deposits, but in the Guiana Highlands, the intrusions of magma into the sedimentary bedrock have led to the formation of immense slabs of the stone that sometimes are hundreds of meters long.

In the most spectacular of all the jasper creeks, a small stream flows over a succession of low cascades which display different colored layers of crimson, scarlet and orange jasper.

The true brilliance of the jasper is apparent only when sunlight shines directly on wet stone. When sunlight shines on the Firestone Creek, the magnificence of the cascades is revealed and the bedrock glows crimson and orange.

Many small streams throughout the Guiana Highlands cascade over layers of jasper or red hematite, but the Firestone Creek exposure of jasper is the largest and most spectacular of all.

Electric Giant Wheel Car

Electric Giant Wheel Car


The brainchild of Iranian designer Mohammad Ghezel, the eRinGo is an electric vehicle concept car shaped like a giant wheel.

It's made up of three rings that are driven by a motor, with a passenger compartment inside it. A gyroscope and the two wheels on the outside keep it from falling over when it goes round bends. It also has two steering wheels, so either person inside it can drive it.

Apacer Handy Steno Aesthetic Pen Drive Design

Apacer’s new flash drive, designed to meet one male and one aesthetic tastes than women: the Apacer Handy Steno AH128 and AH129 link it to design, choosing attractive colors and lines as a strength. The Apacer Handy Steno AH129 features a sleek design, available in three pastel colors, Tiffany Blue, Pink and Brilliant Silver. The pendant is provided with silver buckle zinc alloy.

The Apacer Handy Steno AH128 is instead characterized by a metallic matte surface, available in three colors (Titanium Silver, Burgundy Red and Blue Ocean), fitted with a black frame and the supplied strap is made of black leather lozenge and is related to pen drive through the buckle zinc alloy.

Both the elegant pen drives can be purchased in various capacities from 4 to 16 GB, and are equipped with software compression technology of ACE and Chip On Board (COB). Prices range from 13.90 euros for the 4 GB, to 45.40 euros for 16 GB.

LG KH3900 Joypop with FMC Support

LG has announced a new phone LG-KH JoyPop 3900, who became the first phone from this manufacturer that supports the technology of FMC (Fixed-Mobile Convergence), which enables the phone to work as a mobile and fixed networks.

Thanks to the support of WiFi, users can make Internet calls on the technology VoIP, thus reducing communication costs. Among other features new items, we note 2.8-inch screen with a resolution of 240 × 400 pixels (WQVGA), 2-megapixel camera, a camera for video (1.3 MP), 190 MB of internal memory, support for GPS, Bluetooth, 3G and eWallet.


LG KH Joypop 3900 Key Features:

    * Dimensions: 108.5 × 52 × 14.4 mm
    * Weight: 108 gr.
    * Main display: 2.8-inch, 240×400 pixels resolution
    * External display: LED Matrix
    * Camera: 2 MP + 1,3 MP
    * Support for Wi-Fi networks
    * Memory: 190 MB, microSD memory card

The LG Joypop will be going for about $447 (~ Rs. 20400).