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HEALTH & WELL-BEING By Dr. Maria Motyl LOWER BACK PAIN AFFLICTS MANY Lower back pain is a crippling ailment which up to 80% of all Americans will suffer at some point in their lives. In many cases no specific cause for the pain can be detected, although sports such as racquet ball, tennis, squash or football may contribute. How ever, considering w hat a delicate engineering marvel the spine is, it is a wonder that even more problems are not encountered. The human spine is a column of 24 vertebrae extending from the base of the brain to the top of the pelvis and then eventually continuing to the remnat of the tailbone, the coccyx. Individual vertebrae are held together by ligaments and between each pair of vertebrae is a cushioning disk. The spinal cord travels down the hollow vertebral canal sending out nerve roots through openings at the sides of each vertebra. Supporting the entire structure are powerful muscles that stabilize the spine; the abdominal muscles provide further support. Several factors contribute to the development of lower back pain — among them biomechanical abuse, obesity, the aging process and sedentary living. Obesity not only increases the weight that the spine must support, but flabby abdominal muscles deprive the spine of crucial support. Prolonged sitting increases pressure on spinal disks. Back-twisting sports or improper lifting or bending add further injury. When the back is injured the muscles go into a spasm to prevent further injury. A vicious cycle is started as spasms constrict circulation to back muscles, thus intensifying the pain. How do you minimize the risk of lower back pain? Avoid overweight, exercise to strengthen abdominal and back muscles, avoid prolonged sitting, sleep on a firm mattress and avoid sleeping on your stomach. Never bend over to pick something up from the waist. NUCLEAR WAR AND HU MAN SURVIVAL by Dr. Maria Motyl Recently much attention has been focused on the danger of a nuclear holo caust. Here let us look at the effects of a nuclear war on human health, and sur vival of the human species. The effects of even a small, several- megaton nuclear bomb falling on a city are so potentially horrible that it is hard to comprehend them: First of all, it would gouge out a crater in the center where all buildings and humans would be instantly destroyed. Even at a radius several miles away from the epicenter, buildings would be damaged and few people would survive the severe pressure, trauma and burns. Fires that started when gasoline tanks and gas facilities ignited, together with the hurricane-force winds ge nerated by the atomic blast, would create a huge firestorm that would con sume everything and everyone in its path for hundreds of miles around. Traffic patterns being what they are around our cities today, it would be impossible to escape from this fireball. The second major danger from an a- tomic blast is radioactive fallout. It is only now that we are beginning to un derstand the lethal effects of radioactivi ty as we witness the deaths from cancer of the soldiers who saw the first atomic blast in the Utah desert in the 1950's. The high level of radioactivity of an atomic bomb would outright kill a great many people; others exposed to lower levels would die within days, of central nervous system poisoning, hem or rhaging and infection. Survivors at great distance from the blast would be exposed to continuing fallout and all water and food supplies would be conta minated. Since radiation effects do not show up for many decades, it is only after many years that congenital mal formations, infertility and higher inci dences of cancer would show up in these people. Millions of rotting corpses would cause radiation-resistant strains of bac teria, fungi and viruses to multiply. In sects, which are more resistant to radia tion than humans, would also multiply. Huge epidemics of diseases such as plague, hepatitis, polio, typhoid, and en cephalitis would occur. It is true that most of what is written about the aftereffects of nuclear fallout is theoretical. Let us hope that it remains theoretical, for the arsenals of weapons held by both the US and USSR, and increasingly, by many politically un stable countries, are many hundreds of times as powerful as the blast that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. Indiscriminate use of nuclear weapons can only lead to the total an nihilation of the human race. ПОСМЕРТНА ЗГАДКА Ділимося сумною вісткою, що наша членка Наталя О С А Д Ч А -Я Н А Т А відома вчена-ботанік, дійсний член УВАН та НТШ померла 9-го квітня 1982 р. Покійна була фахівцем у ділянці лікарських рослин, які вживали в народній медицині в Україні. В Нью- Йорку в 1973 р. вийшла її остання книжка "Українські назви рослин”. Була автором численних публікацій в Україні від 1912 р. Вона була одруже на з ученим-ботаніком Олександро л Янатою, який згинув в часі сталінської чистки на Колимі. Тут, в Америці два роки тому померла її одинока дочка Маріянна смерть якої вона тяжко пере боліла. По можливості, цікавилась громадським життям, була членкою 21-го Відділу СУА та співпрацювала з Українським Лікарським Товариством Америки. Була прикладною членкою Відділу і всі згадують її з пошаною і жалем. Похована 13-го квітня 1982 р. на цвинтарі св. Андрія у Бавнд Бруку Н. Дж. ХАЙ ПАМ ’ЯТЬ ПРО НЕЇ БУДЕ ВІЧНА. Марія Гуссаковська, пресова референтка В пам’ять Покійної складаємо 15.00 дол. на Пресовий Ф онд "Нашого Ж иття”. 21-ий Відділ СУА, Бруклин cont. IN MEMORY OF OLENKA in lieu of flowers, the family has requested that me morial blood donations be made, specifying “In memory of Olenka Savyckyj, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah.” Blood donations may be made at hospital blood bank centers across the country that participate in such me morial transfers. Or, contributions may be made to UNWLA’s Olena Lototsky Fund. НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, ЧЕРВЕНЬ 1982 23
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