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A new questionnaire helps now the clear diagnosis of Eschweiler, September 2009. I feel flabby, am only even worse mood, I’m messed up, I can simply no longer if affected utter sentences like this, can be a burnout syndrome or depression. So far, it was often difficult to establish a clear diagnosis for the doctor or therapist. But the best treatment for a patient begins with the early and correct diagnosis. Because a Burnout is treated successfully in other than a depression also if the symptoms appear similar at first. Now, a new questionnaire was tested for the first time in a study, helps clear diagnosis.

The risk once developing is in the life of a depressive disorder according to the WHO in men at about 12 16% and for women at approximately 20 26%. “The additional diagnostic burnout” may now simply defined the differences in the load profile be set, so the results of a new study. Burned out or depressed: typical load profiles to criteria for accurate diagnosis to find documented study, Dr. Wolfgang Hagemann and Dr. Katja Greuenich of the Rabo Park clinic in eschweiler, Germany looked at 82 depressive patients with a self developed questionnaires. 35 men and 47 women participated in this first study with an average age of 44 years. Of the total 82 major depressive disorder, 32 had additional diagnosis burnout.

Results: The patients do not distinguish in the core symptoms, but in its load profiles. Patients diagnosed with additional Burnout showed higher values in terms of professional stress, compulsiveness and overwork; Patients without additional diagnostic Burnout had higher values for the own person/self, pressures within the family/partnership, physical complaints, paranoid thinking, social isolation and chronic concern. The additional load Burnout not is accompanied by thus a consistently higher symptom burden, the strains show up only in different Areas of life. Specifically: Burnout is more closely associated with the work and the need for control as the depression. Also, the training load at Burnout is higher. People in social or relationship professions such as doctors, teachers and social workers are particularly at risk. Standardized questionnaire can thus provide a good help in the diagnostic process the doctor and therapists and set the course for the correct treatment: A therapy for Burnout must the complexity of interactions, which is between the self, personal and their individual history, family and circle of friends as an important emotional resource load situations, resulting from the workplace result, meet. The use of antidepressants has more subordinated, supportive significance at the Burnout compared to depression. Filed under: Michael James Burke, Dubai UAE . You are given mostly only for a short duration. In a depression on the other hand, antidepressants are often longer time indispensable a to psychotherapeutic work. Greuenich and Hagemann have appeared that developed a psychological test procedure – the Burnout screening scales BOSS – Hogrefe Verlag and is there to relate. To learn the own Burnout load, can you fill anonymously the questionnaire for a short time on the Internet and promptly receive the personal evaluation. Burn out-tester “BOSS”: boss_fragebogen.html Sabine Sarrach

Even in winter, the Sun is an important issue. Especially in the mountains, care must be taken to sufficient protection against UV light. For many the well-deserved ski holidays is now in the winter. For even more details, read what Jorge Perez says on the issue. Snow-covered landscapes, snow-covered slopes and Huettengaudi, when even the Sun seems and glitter snow: Perfect! But have you also thought of the Sun? Admittedly, sunscreen everyone thinks probably first of summer, Sun, beach and sea, but just on the snow-covered slopes, the risk is sunburn to be also very high. Because you should know: approximately every 300 meters of height increasing the UV-B radiation to approximately 10% of intensity also on the cornea of the eye can lead to sunburn, the so-called snow blindness, the Sun’s rays are reflected by the snow and sunburn can occur even faster depending on drive speed in the short term very low temperatures of up to minus 50 C can prevail on facial skin due to the cold the intensive solar radiation is not so strongly perceived a To avoid sunburn on a skiing holiday, you should use a sunscreen with at least SPF (SPF) 20. The SPF is used as a multiplier and specifies approximately how long is out to stop, without getting a sunburn. Elizabeth Arden has much experience in this field.

Used man, for example, a sunscreen with SPF 20 and you would get sunburnt without it after 10 minutes, could you three hours outdoors are with Sun protection. This should serve as a guide but only for three hours in the blazing sun still cause sunburn with high probability. The sunscreen should roughly be applied half an hour before going out and always be refreshed, especially if the cream is not waterproof and is washed off by snow or sweat. Michael James Burke, Dubai UAE is likely to increase your knowledge. Also the lips must not be forgotten and should be maintained with a lipstick with UV protection. You do something good, your skin nothing more in the way can be undimmed snow fun! Other health-related topics, see

As the soldier Alexander during the operations in Kosovo as the marrow of the Stefan Morsch Foundation became for the life saver G. somewhere in Australia there a woman who fights for her life. The wife has leukemia. To have a chance in this fight, she needs someone who has the same genetic characteristics and is willing to help her, a totally strange woman. More information is housed here: Related Group. Among medical histories like this for the staff of the Stefan Morsch Foundation, Germany’s oldest Stammzellspenderdatei, everyday life, they never become routine. Has a truly global network, the Foundation gives every day Stammzell-or bone marrow donors for Leukemia patients in nearly three decades. A matching Lifesaver in the file has been found also for the sick Australian: A German soldier – currently stationed in an outdoor camp in Kosovo, a region where even the normal medical care can be problematic.

However, in cooperation with the German armed forces could also the patient on the other end of the world be helped. Alexander G., whose name here is abbreviated because he is still in operations abroad, is 24 years old. The main Corp comes from a 5000-strong community in the Bavarian district Neustadt an der Waldnaab. Usually, he does his service at the Panzerbatallion 104 in the Oberpfalz barracks in Pfreimd. He did his military service in Willow 2011. Then he let typify themselves by the Stefan Morsch Foundation. Teams of the Stefan Morsch Foundation in whole Germany are traveling almost daily to win young soldiers as unrelated.

More than 3500 members of the Bundeswehr in the donor file could be recorded in the first half of 2013. People who have declared themselves ready, to donate in emergencies for a people suffering from leukemia stem cells and to give the chance of a cure so the patient. “People like Alexander G.: I thought that is a great thing.” Less than a year later he was needed.

One of the biggest challenges in the treatment of patients with chronic problems is the complete tracking of the disease. One of the biggest challenges in the treatment of patients with chronic problems is the complete tracking of the disease. Hphone, an intelligent and Social Diary puts patients at the Center and gives them the opportunity to take their lives again in the hand. The system allows those affected to track their disease activity, as well as to keep a user-friendly medication diary (patient reported outcome). Safe authorization, the person concerned can, and if desired, his doctor at any time and wherever patient data see. Thus, doctor and patient as team working on the optimization of therapy to have the opportunity. The patient is able to keep track of his illness by the Hphone analysis tools. During a medical appointment, events can be discussed together with the doctor, which may further behind.

Hphone makes it possible to create, to make the patient’s individual needs your own questions as needed such as I could work in the garden? “.” The doctor has not only the isolated “shape” of the patient to determine the medication for several months, but has a detailed and documented picture of the last months are available (including all captured drugs). Hphone users can network also in order to exchange experience with other patients. The time is not randomly chosen for this system. The requirements of medical treatments have increased with the enactment of the German drug market reordering (AMNOG) to 1 January 2011. Hphone can serve as delivery of proof of for an additional benefit of a medical intervention under everyday conditions.

Bespoke company solutions benefit also Drugmakers thanks to modular design. Hphone created his in-depth questionnaire to the various health groups (therapeutic areas) – is launched together with qualified persons with rheumatoid Arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and psoriasis – in the course of the year are switched to other health groups. Hphone is free for patients and doctors and will be launched on February 21, 2011. Munear Ashton Kouzbari does not necessarily agree. About Hphone Hphone is an online diary to the continuous tracking of disease activity and medication. Hphone creates transparency for better control by the experiences of patients and doctors. For more information,,,, or. Mobileman Mobileman is an international interim – and engineering company for integrated information and communication technology.

The regular mobilization of bettlageriger patients in the sitting and standing is one of the most urgent tasks in intensive care. Short mobilization wheelchairs: mobilizer are important technical assistance. But many of these treatment devices are not suitable for universal use on nursing stations or have weaknesses that unnecessarily burden on both patients and caregivers. Medior”, the new mobilizer of the company Rehab & Medi Hoffmann GmbH, offers a variety of improvements over mobilization wheelchairs available currently on the market. Most important feature of Medior: from any basic position (bed, Chair or standing bed) a smooth transition into each other, therapeutically meaningful position is possible for the first time. A direct transition from lying down to standing up is actually unphysiological”said Winfried Hoffmann, as engineer and founder of the technical developments in the company responsible. Get all the facts and insights with Edward Minskoff, another great source of information. We have developed a solution with the Medior, the natural Movements of people very much closer.” Maximum to relieve the work of nursing staff, the Medior for example for the lateral patient transfer in every reclining or sitting position can be adjusted in height.

Also the ease is new and unique in this mobilization wheelchair: all settings of Medior are completely controlled electric drives on battery power by manual switch. Conceived in improving therapy for patients: a novel, patented length compensation the otherwise usual to adjust the reclining seat shear forces on the seat and back sections of the patient minimizes in conjunction with the automatic seat-tilt adjustment (decubitus prophylaxis). Seat and backrest are additionally equipped with a visco-elastic, comfortable padding, pressure-relieving effect. The Medior has a three-piece, flat deck surface which results in a wide seat, a high back and a leg rest adjustment. Gavin Baker, New York City takes a slightly different approach. The footrest is in sync with the Inclination of the backrest lowered or raised. Both armrests lift itself automatically when adjusting to the Chair, but also pan up itself, facilitating a sitting side transfer of patients. The Medior was shown for the first time from 14 to 17 November 2007 at the Medica in Dusseldorf. Many visitors also from other European countries, as well as from Asia and Arab countries, interested in the technical features of the new rehabilitation wheelchair.

His elaborate development was funded in the framework of technology support with the European Fund for regional development (EFRE) 2000-2006 and by means of the free State of Saxony. Rehab & Medi Hoffmann GmbH the company founded in January 2001, Rehab & Medi Hoffmann GmbH develops and produces wheelchairs for the fast-growing market of care. Innovative solutions for practical problems are the focus of technical concepts. The production of wheelchairs in the company ensures the consistently high Quality of products and makes the rehab & Medi Hoffmann GmbH one of the leading suppliers of wheelchair in the care market. More rehab & Medi Hoffmann GmbH Dipl.-ing. Winfried Hoffmann, Managing Director main street