In recent research the National Sleep Foundation has linked electronic device usage prior to going to bed with a decreased ability to fall asleep or even stay asleep.

How many times have we finished up that last email, school project or finished a quick texting session with a friend before going to bed. This last minute electronic frenzy could spell out our doom when it comes to a peaceful night of sleep. Read the full story

It seems like everything nowadays is online. We shop online, bank online and we cant forget facebook! But all of those online identities need a password and most people unsurprisingly use the same one for everything. It only takes one of those sites you belong to, to get hacked and then boom! Now the hackers not only have your login info for that site, but now any other site you belong to. Scary!

Length and complexity are the keys to a passwords strength. An ideal password is long and has letters, punctuation, symbols, and numbers. The greater the variety of characters in your password, the better.

The website skattertech.com brings up a good point about the downside to creating such complex passwords: remembering them. They offer a few good solutions.

For website passwords, most modern web browsers offer great password management tools. Mozilla Firefox even offers the option to set a master password so others using your machine can not make their way into your accounts.

If you are even more paranoid, KeePass is a great open source cross-platform password manager. It even offers two-factor authentication by requiring users to use a flash drive, which works as a key to unlock the database, in addition to a regular password. Steve Gibson’s secure online password generator is also great for creating a random key from any browser.

I personally use LastPass for my passwords, it’s very similar to KeePass. For me it is just a personal preference.

source|skattertech.com

Today our DPT class finished our Scorebuilders NPTE Exam prep course and I left with a feeling of wow I need to study. One of the many things I have forgotten or purged from my brain since the start of school is basically anything related to research… Oh my research professor is so disappointed in me right now!

Anyways, I decided to be proactive and start looking through some stuff as I slowly (very slowly) start to piece together a study plan. That is where I found the amazing website experiment-resources.com. It has just about anything and everything you could ever need when it comes to research.

The idea for the website came to life while trying to make sense of an enormous raw data collection, during the autumn of 2007.

The idea developed and Experiment-Resources.com was launched in February 2008. We have been adding new sections and articles ever since.

Check em out if you need to know anything related to research. experiment-resources.com

Hashimoto’s disease is a disorder that affects your thyroid, a small gland located at the base of your neck, below your Adam’s apple. The thyroid gland is part of your endocrine system, which produces hormones that coordinate many of your body’s activities.

In Hashimoto’s disease, also known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, your immune system attacks your thyroid gland. The resulting inflammation often leads to an underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism). Hashimoto’s disease is the most common cause of hypothyroidism in the United States.

Symptoms

Hashimoto’s disease does not have unique signs and symptoms. The disease typically progresses slowly over a number of years and causes chronic thyroid damage, leading to a drop in thyroid hormone levels in your blood. The signs and symptoms are mainly those of an underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism).

The signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism vary widely, depending on the severity of hormone deficiency. At first, you may barely notice any symptoms, such as fatigue and sluggishness, or you may simply attribute them to getting older. But as the disease progresses, you may develop more obvious signs and symptoms. Signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism include:

• Fatigue and sluggishness
• Increased sensitivity to cold
• Constipation
• Pale, dry skin
• A puffy face
• Hoarse voice
• An elevated blood cholesterol level
• Unexplained weight gain – occurring infrequently and rarely more than 10 to 20 pounds, most of which is fluid
• Muscle aches, tenderness and stiffness, especially in your shoulders and hips
• Pain and stiffness in your joints and swelling in your knees or the small joints in your hands and feet
• Muscle weakness, especially in your lower extremities
• Excessive or prolonged menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia)
• Depression

Without treatment, signs and symptoms gradually become more severe and your thyroid gland may become enlarged (goiter). In addition, you may become more forgetful, your thought processes may slow, or you may feel depressed.

as per MayoClinic.com

If your schools program is anything like ours then chances are you will have to write some form of research/capstone paper before you graduate. In our case we had to compile research article after research article and somehow try and keep them organized for 2+ years while we slowly wrote our paper.

At first we tried using folders on our desktops but after a while we had so many folders that became too much of a hassle. But luckily good ol Donald (me) came to the rescue! I showed my research group this life saving free program called Menedely.

Mendeley is a free reference manager andacademic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

It’s pretty amazing! I think the most important feature is the ability to quickly create a reference page with all of the articles you select. You basically highlight the articles, choose your citation format and then you are ready to paste the information into a word doc. Easy peasy!

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Click here to check out everything Mendeley has to offer and download it today! You wont be sorry!

Following up to the prior mnemonic of the week we have, drum roll please…….. ok I am sure you already know based on the title of the post. Cranial Nerves!!!

Before I begin allow me to give those not familiar with the nerves a little background and maybe something educational all at the same time.

The cranial nerves are 12 pairs of nerves that can be seen on the ventral (bottom) surface of the brain. Some of these nerves bring information from the sense organs to the brain; other cranial nerves control muscles; other cranial nerves are connected to glands or internal organs such as the heart and lungs.

G: On Old Olympus Towering Top A Famous Vocal German Viewed Some Hops

R: Oh Oh Oh To Touch And Feel Virgn Girls Vagina So Happy

olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, vestibulocochlear, glossopharyngeal, vagus, spinal accessory, hypoglossal.

Now there are a million different ones to choose from so don’t think that these are it. Google it and I am sure you will find another that will work better for you.

Below is a chart of the cranial nerves and their corresponding function.

Sources:

1. the nifty chart
2. oh good ol wikipedia
3. allnurses forum
4. washington.edu

UPDATE: Now all you have to do is go to our main site rehabstudents.com and you will automatically be redirected to our mobile version.

After working for endless hours, drinking endless diet cokes glasses of water, and eating endless supplies of baby carrots I can now share with everyone a working version of our mobile site.

While I was meditating as I normally do once maybe twice a day depending on how I am feeling a thought hit me, “I should create a resource for PT’s and students who are on the go!” So I plopped down one night and busted out the framework for said site.

As of now  roughly 90% of our videos are viewable via  your mobile device (I have only tested myself on the ipod touch, iphone, and the DROID).

point your mobile phones to:

m.rehabstudents.com

Keep in mind this is still a very rough version and changes are being made daily!

We recently had a quiz and said quiz contained a bunch of questions on lab values we had learned a looooooong time ago. Well needless to say, the majority of my class, myself included, had no idea what the correct answers were. So the next day, I held my squirt gun full of water to Jenny’s head and made her find all the values and type them up.

Thanks to Jenny and her hard work and my incredible skills of intimidation we present you with a pretty nice looking quick reference sheet for your printing pleasure.

Link: Lab Values and Vital Signs
Version: 1.0
Downloaded: 1193 times
Description: ABG\'s, HR, RR, etc etc. Basically all the values one could ever need to know.