Safe Driving Infographics

For many families, September is the real “back to the routine”. Children back to school for many parents entails organizational complications as regards their classes, school materials, lunch… and concern for small accidents at school, most of which are minor and unimportant, but that represent 15 percent of all children’s accidents.

Headache, in general, and as focused on by Doctors for Road Safety in our Clinical Matters, may be due to specific causes, such as sinusitis, meningitis, cerebral tumors, temporary arthritis, contusions, HBP, etc. However, in most cases the cause is unknown and classified as emotional tension or stress.

Alzheimer’s disease arises from a degenerative process that entails a significant loss of neurons in several cerebral areas and a pronounced atrophy of the brain. In Spain, approximately 800,000 patients have this disease. Dementia is an irreversible and progressive loss of intellectual capacity that, when diagnosed, impedes driving.

Healthy lifestyle habits guarantee a better quality of life and help to prevent the onset of cardiovascular diseases and other conditions. Annually, 17.5 million premature deaths are caused by cardiovascular disease.

Arthritis is the inflammation of one or more joints, which are the areas where two bones come together. The joints allow us to bend our limbs to make movements, such as bending the arms and legs, grasping large objects and holding small objects.

Due to the aging population, there is a noticeable increase in the number of impairments that cause a progressive decline in people’s eyesight. Diseases of the retina and optic nerve can appear at earlier ages and generally affect people in the 20-60 age bracket. However, senile macular degeneration, glaucoma and cataracts appear in older people.

Is it possible to go for weeks on end down in the dumps, sad, with feelings of loss, anger, or frustration, even though spring is in the air? If this is what you are experiencing, you could have a mood disorder such as depression. Our normal reaction is to be happy and full of energy as we benefit from the impact of more sunlight on our body, which in turn impacts the production of serotonin (the ‘happiness hormone’); but for those who suffer from seasonal depression, serotonin and melatonin cancel each other out.

The Sun is life. It bathes us in the sensation of well-being, helps us regulate our sleeping and waking cycles, maintains our mood and, furthermore, is essential for synthesizing vitamin D, a hormone that is necessary for the correct functioning of the muscular-skeletal system.