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Tai Chi for High Blood Pressure

2009/09/06 8:19 pm1 Comment

Can Tai Chi exercise lower blood pressure? – Tai Chi Medical is a Canadian blog about Tai Chi research.

The Answer:
Yes. Most studies showed a reduction in systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

The Study:
The effect of tai chi exercise on blood pressure: a systematic review.

This review included 9 randomized controlled trials, 13 nonrandomized studies and 4 observational studies. Studies that only looked at the short term effects of exercise were excluded. Blood pressure reduction with Tai Chi was seen in 22 studies. Systolic blood pressure was reduced from 3-32 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure was reduced from 2-18 mm Hg.

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Short Sighted Advice on Medical Blogging

2008/08/04 10:42 amLeave a Comment
Flickr colors on eyes

Image: Flickr colored vision

Kevin, M.D. discusses the Canadian Medical Journal Association article quoted in my previous post in Canadians against medical blogging:

Rather than saying “no”, academia needs to find constructive ways to embrace to medium.

Canadian Marshall McLuhan said The message is the medium:

…the form of a medium imbeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived, creating subtle change over time.

Blogging is part of the social web transformation. Revolution?

Medical blogs connect via hyperlinks and the commenting system and can use the content from social media sites such as Flickr and YouTube.

And don’t forget PubMed!


image courtesy of chaparral under a creative commons license
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To Blog, or not to Blog, that is the Question

2008/08/02 6:18 amLeave a Comment

Online medical blogging: don’t do it!

Why would you, as a physician, put yourself in a precarious position by posting personal feelings, opinions, and attitudes on a public website?

Time to quote William Shakespeare:

To Blog, or not to Blog, that is the Question:
Whether ’tis Nobler in the minde to suffer
The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune,
Or to Rant Online against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to Monetize your Blog!

Related Links:
LA Times on medical blogs
Doctors talk shop on medical blogs

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Grand Rounds Vol. 4 No. 44

2008/07/22 11:48 am

This week’s Medblog Grand Rounds has reached the 200th Edition and is at GruntDoc.

There are more than 40 submissions and the following posts were made in Canada:

Roman Acupuncture
It’s a wrap for dangerous donairs after health warning
The failed mandate of our family practice course
Finding Time
Tonsilloliths a.k.a. throat poo

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Grand Rounds Vol. 4 No. 42

2008/07/10 11:23 am

This week Grand Rounds is hosted at The Blog That Ate Manhattan with the best of the medical blogosphere.

Most things in life can be related, one way or another, to an episode of Seinfeld.

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Medblogs June 2008

2008/07/05 6:08 pm

Here are some interesting posts from the month of June:

Just another resident tip

Finally starting independent practice: not exactly priceless. Actually, it’s more than $6000. That’s more than 10% of my annual income, all due in the past month or so.

Just wait until you get the annual EMR software upgrade bill.


Are today’s medical students wusses?

“HE would never make it through OUR medical school class. There is SO much more known about medicine today… heck, DNA wasn’t even INVENTED when he was a medical student!”

The good old days of medicine… Video: I Am A Doctor -1955.


Little Disconnects

I sometimes feel as though I have one foot in each of two different worlds, as though Alice were in both Wonderland and Kansas at the same time.

This post if proof that medical executives should be physicians so that we could avoid this scenario – We Don’t Speak the Same Lingo.

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Shrink Rap Grand Rounds

2008/06/28 1:49 am

The iPhone 3G Edition

The icons on the iPhone actually work! Check out the Potter Hat for my submission.

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Big Pharma, Big People and Big Waits

2008/06/14 11:46 am
Big pharma?
I have nothing against “pharma” being big, but we shouldn’t pay for “pig pharma” feeding at the trough.
Fat Food Guide?
People do not follow the Food Guide, they follow the fast food menu. For example, a grandpa burger has 702 calories with 44 grams of fat.

Waiting for the doctor?
Now I understand why I only have 5 minutes for lunch.

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The Pharmaceutical Task Force illustrates how commercial interests influence health policy, and why Canadians should hesitate to allow commercialization of other aspects of the health care system.
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Now I’ve been criticizing the Food Guide seemingly forever but Leslie is now the second prominent dietitian to come right out and say that following the Food Guide makes you fat
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If you’re a doctor with a problem start by measuring how long people spend in your office for a standard length of appointment. If people spend and average of 45 minutes there for a 15 minute appointment it’s within reason. If it’s an hour and 45 minutes you have a problem.
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