RESUMO
A 36-year-old Chinese man with no significant medical history presented to his clinician's office for follow-up of results from recent blood work. Upon entering the room, the patient was wearing a mask. After reviewing his lipid panel, he mentioned that he had been "fighting a cold." He reported 3 days of cough with chest tightness and mild shortness of breath. He denied fever. The patient was using an overthe- counter cough medicine but reported no chronic medication use. On initial inspection, the patient had a vivid purple eruption on his arms. The patient denied pain or itching. After the patient lifted his shirt, the full extent of the discoloration was seen configured in a symmetric fashion over the anterior torso and abdomen (Figure 1). The eruption was purple-red in color and distributed in a linear pattern over the anterior chest contouring the outline of the underlying ribs. Additional vertically arrayed areas of erythematous skin consisting of microecchymoses were appreciated on the anterior abdomen. These appeared to follow an intentional pattern. No other petechiae, palpable purpura, or isolated ecchymoses were seen. When questioned further, our patient readily admitted that he had participated in a common traditional Chinese treatment consisting of "scraping bruises" to relieve his bronchitis.
Assuntos
Equimose/etiologia , Eritema/etiologia , Medicina Tradicional do Leste Asiático/métodos , Adulto , Equimose/patologia , Eritema/patologia , Humanos , MasculinoRESUMO
El mundo busca medios para enlentecer el proceso de envejecimiento, para poder hablar de la "Eterna Juventud", que se puede vincular con los ejercicios físicos, directamente con el estilo de buda. El Sistema de Salud Pública de Cuba, en coordinación con otros organismos y organizaciones del Estado, tiene como propósito contribuir a elevar el nivel de salud y la calidad de vida de las personas de la tercera edad. Por este motivo se realizó un estudio descriptivo retrospectivo en el período diciembre 2006 a marzo 2007, en el Círculo de Abuelos "Abel Santamaría" del consultorio # 18, del Policlínico "28 de Enero" del municipio Playa, en Ciudad de La Habana. El propósito de este trabajo fue valorar el grado de satisfacción de los adultos mayores con el programa de ejercicios físicos que realizaban. La población en este estudio la constituyeron los 34 abuelos pertenecientes al Círculo antes mencionado. La información se recogió a través de una encuesta que se les aplicó, una vez recogido su consentimiento. Los resultados permitieron concluir que a pesar de ser Adultos Mayores y las patologías que padecen, mejoraron su calidad de vida con la realización de los ejercicios físicos y fue palpable también el interés de los ancianos por la inclusión de otros ejercicios de la medicina tradicional oriental(AU)
The world seeks means to slow down the aging process and to talk about the "Eternal Youth" that may be linked with physical exercises, directly with the Buddhist style. The aim of the Cuban Public Health System, in coordination with other State agencies and organizations, is to increase the health level and the quality of life of the elderly. To this end, a retrospective descriptive study was conducted from December 2006 to March 2007 in "Abel Santamaría" Grandparents Circle of the family physician's office # 18, "28 de Enero" Polyclinic, in Playa municipality, Havana City. The aim of this paper was to determine the satisfaction degree of the older adults with the physical exercises they were doing. The population of this study was composed of 34 grandparents from the above mentioned Circle. Information was obtained through a survey applied with their previous informed consent. The results allowed to conclude that in spite of being older adults and of their pathologies, physical exercises improved their quality of life. It was also evident their interest in the inclusion of other excersices of the Oriental traditional medicine(AU)