Using Music To Bring Alzheimer’s Patients Back

I've got some exciting news to share with you about a new way to work with Alzheimer's patients. While I usually summarize the articles and research reports that I read to save you time and get you the pertinent information, I’m making an exception this time. This is an article published in the AARP Bulletin (July-August 2105) that is so powerful that I’m giving you the link so you can read this 2 page article yourself. It will really give you hope to help Alzheimer’s patients gain some of their functioning back. Here’s the link:

  https://teplitz-inc.com/Videos-Other/Healing_Power_Of_Music.pdf  

No Bugs Is No Good

I recently had a letter to the editor that I wrote published in The Virginian Pilot. Here’s what I wrote: “Last week, I drove to and from Washington, D.C. During past drives, my car’s windshield would be so bug-splattered that I’d have to stop half-way up to clean the windshield. This time, I didn’t have to clan my windshield at all during the entire trip.

To me, this indicates how few bugs are around. Now, one could say that’s great, because there are no bugs to clean off the windshield. Or one could say that we might be experiencing a disaster in the making.

Other insects, animals and fish rely on bugs to survive. Are deaths of so many bugs because by climate change, GMOs or the tremendous overuse of pesticides? If we don’t wake up and stop these affronts to nature, we could bring the disaster to us.”

New Procedures To Follow Before And After You’ve Had Surgery

There are new guidelines called enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) that speed healing after surgery with fewer complications, resulting in less pain and reduced time in the hospital.

An article in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons found that ERAS procedures cut hospital stays by more than two days, decreased complication rates by 17% and increased patient satisfaction with better pain control by 55%. Using ERAS also reduced hospital costs by around $7,129 per patient.

So what are some of the new approaches that ERAS uses?

1. Allowing the patient to eat solids up to six hours before surgery and giving the patient a special carbohydrate-loaded drink up to two hours before surgery controlled their pain better.

2. Non-narcotic pain relievers taken before the operation begins.

3. Having the patient walk and eat solid food soon after surgery.

4. Giving the patient analgesic pain meds before surgery and delivering a non-narcotic pain relief drug by catheter directly into the surgical site.

5. Getting the patient out of bed within 24 hours after major surgery. Having the patient stand and walk after surgery helps the patient use their lungs more, which can prevent pneumonia. Walking also helps patients regain bowel function more quickly and can reduce the need for pain medications.

If you are talking to your doctor about scheduling a surgery, make sure you find out if he or she follows the ERSA guidelines and be sure to get the instructions to follow. If they are not using ERAS, ask them why not. If you don’t like the answer, then you might want to find a new surgeon.

To learn about the other ERAS guidelines go to www.erassociety.org.
(Reported AARP Bulletin, July-August 2015)

 
A Breakthrough For Reversing Paralysis 

Researchers at the University of Louisville have developed a spinal implant to restore movement in victims of paralysis which has been tested on four wheelchair-bound men. The results were remarkable. The device consists of an array of 16 electrodes that are implanted in an area of the spinal cord which is still intact. The researchers believe that they are stimulating nerves that have lost function due to the lack of use and this reactivation restores the flow of information by stimulating nerves that link the brain and the limbs.

The exciting thing is all four subjects can now move their legs and toes. They have all recovered bladder, bowel and sexual function to varying degrees. Shortly, the researchers will include an additional eight patients and they are working to increase the number of electrodes to 27. So…there may be real hope out there for overcoming paralysis.

For more information, contact Claudia Angeli, University of Louisville, Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center, 502 852-8060, kscirc@louisville.edu.

(Reported Dan Burrus. www.Burus.com, 7/24/2015)

Center For Disease Control May Be Lying About Vaccine Causing Autism    

On July 29, 2015, US Congressman Bill Posey, who is pro-vaccination, reported that the CDC had destroyed documents in 2004 from their own study that showed the MMR vaccine caused a hugh risk of autism in African American boys when the vaccine was given before 3 years of age.

This information came from a whistle blower, Dr. William Thompson, who led the study and was involved in the destruction of the documents. At that time, Dr. Thompson was concerned about the legality of what they were doing and kept hard copies and computer copies of all the documents. He’s now come forward to report on what the CDC did in 2004. Congressman Posey is requesting that Congress hold a hearing to investigate the situation. So… parents concerned about vaccines possibly causing autism may not be completely wrong.

Meditation and Mindfulness Approaches Are Spreading To Corporations  

When I first started meditating in 1971, I always saw it as something that could help the employees and leadership in a corporation function and work better. It’s taken a long time and now more and more companies are promoting meditation and mindful practices. Some of the recent research is finding that meditation alters our thoughts from anger and anxiety towards a sense of calm and well-being. UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center found meditation can improve executive functions, such as, sustaining attention and diminishing distractibility.

Here are some examples of the companies using mindfulness:

1. Google trains 2,000 engineers in meditation every year and believes it is one of the keys reasons behind Google’s innovative and harmonious culture.
2. Financial services firms like Blackrock and Goldman Sachs offer meditation courses for their employees.
3. General Mills has founded the Institute for Mindful Leadership.
4. Aetna, after doing its own validation research with Duke University, is        now offering meditation programs to both its employees and its customers.

If you want to learn how to meditate, you can purchase or download my book, Managing Your Stress in Difficult Times: Succeeding in Times of Change. Here’s the link https://teplitz.com/Managing-Stress-Teplitz.html 
(Reported Bill George, Huffington Post,7/27/2015)

 Anxiety Medication Can Slow Recovery From Surgery

A study published in JAMA reported that people who took the anti-anxiety medication lorazepam (Ativan) before a surgical procedure requiring general anesthesia needed ventilation tubes longer, had poorer-quality post surgical sleep, had more post surgery amnesia and took longer to recover cognitive abilities than people who took a placebo or nothing. So..  if you are getting nervous before surgery, think about using meditation as I discussed in the previous blurb as the better way to calm down, plus it has no side effects.

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