Neck pain is common. Examples include: neck pain; osteoarthritis; poor posture; neck injury and a herniated disc. You can get neck pain from conditions that affect your muscles, such as bad posture while sleeping. A fancy word is cervical complaints. What are neck complaints? These complaints are often thought of as a dull pain. Sometimes this pain gets worse because...
Do you experience burning, stabbing pain on the outside of your knee while exercising? This may indicate a runner's knee. This injury mainly occurs in runners and cyclists because they train (too) much. How do you recognise a runner's knee? During exercise, the pain slowly sets in. As the pain becomes increasingly severe, it is impossible to...
Have you already booked a summer holiday? You are certainly not the only one. Together with you, millions of other Dutch people will head out into the wide world in the coming weeks! Many people prefer to leave exercise and being active at home and focus mainly on delicious food, cocktails and lazing on the beach. Now...
That exercise has a positive effect on health should be obvious by now. However, how much exercise is needed and in what way, opinions still differ. In the United States, new guidelines for exercise were also published in the journal JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association).... at the end of 2018.
Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in the Netherlands, but did you know that it is also one of the leading causes of death in our country? Over 1 million Dutch people have diabetes and this number is still rising sharply. What is diabetes anyway? Diabetes is also called diabetes and causes the body to...