sleepLESSNESS

Insomnia, also known as sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder in which people have trouble sleeping. They may have difficulty falling asleep, or staying asleep as long as desired. Insomnia is typically followed by daytime sleepiness, low energy, irritability, and a depressed mood.

The four burners of life are family, friends, health and work. It is recommended that any other burner will enhance your stress levels unnecessarily. The loss of loved ones,  argument with friends, unexpected health issues and unadaptable ecosystem of work often accompany financial stress leading to sleeplessness. This in turn, lowers working potential, re-affecting financial cycle and thereby becomes a viscous syndrome. Digital stress due to excessive use of mobiles in night also causes sleeplessness. If the condition is worsening, see doctors for prescribed medicine supported by household remedies and most importantly, change your bed to the one that promotes your active sleep cycle. 

Elastomeric Gel Cushioning in Mattresses Gel Overlay is an advance technology that ensures best cushioning and health care even during resting. As number of turns you take in night during sleep is equivalent to factor by which blood circulation is getting better which is not achievable even in memory foam mattresses, thus put gel overlay sheet on your existing bed, 

The use of egg followed by spherical gel ball is recommended to enhance concentration and also induces sleep as mind start getting relaxed. 

The traditional practice of washing your feet, drying and massaging with Cokum Foot cream, it will keep your feet fresh and aid in sleeping.  

Unintentional tremors in the hands attributed to multiple reasons, neurological factors, diseases and essentially anxiety, seizures, inability to feel relaxed and alcohol consumption. 

If the causative reason is not a genetic disorder or extreme alcohol consumption but the post traumatic issues, some depressing phase of life causing anxiety and one is not able to concentrate / relax himself/ herself, specific exercises can help. 

The underlying principle is diversion, increase in blood circulation, learning of muscles to another motion and more importantly enhancing grip strength. 10 min schedule (twice a day) with radish, egg and spherical in sequence provide exercise to multiple muscles of hand. This continuous squeezing and releasing of 5-10 sec cycle each increases blood circulation to brain. Use of soft variants by elders or females while hard by males is generally recommended. However, depending upon strength of body one can select the right variant. Medium size is for women / children while Large size is designed for men.  Use it daily to prevent any such problem in future. If you already have and it's progressing, use these balls in addition to various therapies recommended by your doctor. 

If you are an active player throughout your life, you don't age faster and remain healthier. However, since people are getting aged, if they have injuries during sports, their degenerative systems aches more. Some people do exercise only on weekends and sometimes even miss it for months and suddenly start again. They often report pains especially in foot and knee, referred as sports pain (mid age group). 

No, Absolutely not! In fact, these are only methods by which you can remain healthy.  But body profiling is essential prior to have a schedule (lighter or intense based on your needs). Here the key is to stick to the schedule supported by right diet and accept the limitations that come with ageing. Don't compete with others, compete with yourself, as mental relaxation is equally important. Yoga helps in each age and if supervised by right teacher can help you a lot. Do exercise daily and not sometimes, that is problematic and might cause unusual pains. 

Sports Insole / Sports Gel Socks are able to provide protection against frictional injuries while Cokum Foot cream relaxes your foot being exposed to maximum pressure throughout the day. Gel Balls (10 min schedule twice a day) enhances your concentration and relaxes your body. 

Busy schedule, not getting enough sleep, anemia, lyme disease, low thyroid, excessive stress, depression, side effects of specific medication, growth spurt (not taking enough food matching growth requirement) and one of the major factor is flat foot.

When the child comes from walking or playing, he/she feels pain in their feet especially mid foot and arch. In comparison to his / her friends, the child tries to make excuse from intense physical activities. Whenever comes back from school, often looks tired and usually complains of foot pains. It is one of the prime reason of child fatigue.

The child needs to be psychologically supported by parents, diagnosed properly for flat feet. Various stretching exercises to be added in his/ her schedule. Specific high performance insole (junior size) should be added to their shoes. Alternatively, Medial Arch Insole (or Heel with Arch) is useful product in managing the victim. 

The sprain in ligaments leads to over extension of big toe, in which the body weight is pressed through ball of foot, due to repeated stress; sudden increase in pressed weight (playing on hard surface); wrong shoe selection for strenuous activity; injury and; existing diseased state leads to turf toe. It might cause big toe pain and Hallux rigidus (stiffness of big toe). 

It includes pain, swelling and limited joint movement (Hallux limitus) in big toe due to repeated stress and in some cases, a forceful motion leads to an injured state within 24 hrs worsening state of movement.

It could be mild sprain (I); severe sprain (II) and; toe dislocation (III). The first two stages are treatable with protection and rest while third stage require surgical interventions

The major stress induced site for ballerina dancers or football players is repeated stress on big toe by pressing more and more body weight through ball of foot in least possible time breaks and in some cases, a sudden injury while practicing or playing was observed. Some of the big toe stress inducer sports activities include soccer, basketball, volleyball, rugby, wrestling and gymnastics etc. Some sports person prefers natural grass over artificial grounds, being it is softer. 

The condition could be worsened if left untreated, thus sports activities are curtailed immediately and elevation of foot, icing of area and custom othotics are primary remedies. Bracing the toe to limits its overextension is a complex bandaging pattern can be achieved by expert only. Use of metal insoles and anti-inflammatory medicines I s recommended. Treatment is long and sometimes recovery pattern is extremely slow, thus early stage intervention is essential to prevent aggravation. 

The primary cause of Hallux Rigidus is not known, however it has been observed that injury to a turf toe with progressive arthritic state might leads to Hallux Rigidus. It initiates with stiffness (minor loss of range of motion)-(I) aggravated to greater loss of motion- (II) severe cartilage loss –(III) severe loss of range of motion and cartilage (IV) requiring joint replacement as last option in stage IV.  

As the name applies, it is the rigidness of big toe while pushing it off during active walking which causes pain and swelling in joint region. A bump like bunion or callus might emerge on top of the foot and eventually inability to bend it up and down, consult you doctor immediately. It can easily be diagnosed by physical examination and X-rays. 

The primary cause is inflammation and pain, which needs to be reduced by anti-inflammatory and pain relievers. Contrasts baths using cold and hot water (alternatively, avoid extreme temperatures) can reduce both stiffness and pain. Avoid wearing high heel and wear a shoe with high toe box. A stiff soled shoe with rocker or roller bottom design with a steel shank in the sole to reduce the amount of bend required in big toe.  The conditions like bunion and calluses developed requires orthotic support for Toe Care while Toe Cap could be recommended in case infection is also accompanied. 

If such conservative care isn't able to support the surgical treatment intervention include spur incision; fusion of the great toe and joint replacement.

Foot comforter and warmers are recommended to provide cushioning platform with coverage. The toe lands on edges of metatarsal region, thus pain in metatarsal area will be managed by Metatarsal cushion. Use Cokum Foot Cream to massage the area.