Kids' Physical Fitness and Self-defense

When it comes to self defense, kids should be physically fit and be healthy, which is likely to enable them defend themselves physically. It is not only important to stay healthy and strong  but kids should be to be physically defend themselves as well. So, self-defense is related to physical fitness. To help your kids to be physically fit we came up with this article which gives them some tips for staying fit.

Exercise
Exercise is essential for physical fitness. Exercising daily helps your kids build their body. Your kids should exercise at least for 30 minutes daily, which helps you stay physically fit and healthy.

Parents should help their kids in their daily exercise. Kids develop laziness and they don't prefer for doing this so, it is your duty to make your child spend at-least sometime on exercise. To make them exercise, you too should exercise along with them.

Eat healthy foods
Exercise itself is not sufficient to get enough strength to your body, you should also eat healthy food which are rich in proteins and vitamins. This gives them sufficient energy and also makes the bones strong. Avoid eating the fast foods that doesn't add any value to the your health and body.

Join martial arts classes
It is better for the kids to get trained in any of the physical fitness arts like martial arts or karate. If they do it from childhood itself, there is chance for building up their body strong and physically fit. These classes also teach them, self-defense tactics and tips. So, parents help your kids in utilizing their childhood properly and be physically fit.

Learn tips from elders
Tips are always important for kids because they may not know what is wrong and what is right so, they should take advice from elders and it is also the elders' responsibility to teach the kids the right way and right methods on health, physical fitness and self-defense.

Look physically strong
If your kids look physically strong, the other kids won't dare to trouble your kids. If you see elders troubling your child, give your kid some suggestions and tell your kid that if you, look physically strong the other kids won't tease you, so that your kid will listen to you and obey your words so that they can buildup their confidence levels and will be ready to face the risks in their life.

Kids need to follow these tips with their parents support. This keeps them physically fit so that they can protect themselves against attackers and elders who trouble them.

Causes, Symptoms and Diagnosis of Temporomandibular Joint Disorder

Temporomandibular joint is the joint where mandible meets the skull. This joint involves in the movement of jaw. Temporomandibular joint disorder is the condition in which pain or dysfunctioning of temporomandibular joint occur.

Causes of Temporomandibular joint disorder

• Injury to the temporomadibular joint
• Bruxism - Grinding and clenching teeth puts pressure on jaw
• Finger nail biting
• Arthritis in the temporomandibular joint causes damage to the joint
• Misalignment of teeth
• Previous history of jaw damage or facial bones causes TMJ disorders
• Holding the telephone between head and shoulder leads to TMJ disorder

Symptoms of Temporomandibular joint disorder
Cardinal Symptoms

• Difficulty in jaw movements - While opening and closing of mouth
• Pain and tenderness in jaw
• Changes in the upper and lower teeth fit together
• Clicking sound occur during opening and closing of mouth
• Swelling on the side of face

Common Symptoms

• Headache mainly in the back side of head, forehead
• Loss of hearing sense
• Fullness of ears
• Ear pain
• Dizziness

Diagnosis of Temporomandibular joint disorder
Dentist examine the symptoms of the disorder and use some tests to examine whether any misalignment of temporomandibular joint or not. Diagnosis tests include:

• Physical examination - Dentist physically examines the temporomandibular joint to diagnose the disorder by examining the joint for pain or tenderness, listen the clicking sound while opening and closing of mouth, by examining the biting ability and examining the facial jaw movements.

• X-rays - Panoramic x-rays are taken by dentist to diagnose the TMJ disorder. Panoramic x-ray gives the complete picture of temporomandibular joint, upper and lower jaw and teeth. This helps your dentist to diagnose whether any abnormalities in the temporomandibular joint.

• CT scan - Computer tomography scanning helps in diagnosis of TMJ disorder. Computer Tomography uses X-ray machine attached to the computer. A large ring like device is moved on to the oral cavity. This takes the three dimensional pictures of oral cavity. This gives a detailed picture of bony joint to diagnose TMJ disorder and helps dentist to choose right treatment for this.

• MRI scanning - Magnetic resonance imaging scanning is similar to CT scanning. MRI scanning uses radio waves and magnetic fields to take the picture of oral cavity. This helps you to  view the soft tissue to diagnose the misalignment of jaw.