European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Relaxation stretching one of your Mito Malc physical responses to stress is muscle tension. A simple easy Way to loosen up Light Muscles and combat stress is to do stretching exercises. The following exercises Lake Only a few minutes and cart be done at Home or at Woik during Coulee or lunch  you might wish to chock Wilh a health promos signal before Starling these exercises. Shoulder and Arm Strcich hold your hands together with fingers interlaced and stretch overhead with Palms upward. Hold about 30 seconds relax and repeal 5 Limos Back stretch. While sitting stretch Forward Resl your body on you Lap and relax your head and neck hold Lor Aboul a Miniute then press on your thighs to help your Soll Sil Back up. Upper body Strelch with your feel comfortably spam reach overt Iead and stretch to the Side. Try nol to move your hips hold for 30 seconds Tien Swilch sides. Tick bites May spread disease mental stress May aggravate heart disease by Harold m. Schmeck or. New York times rental stress can Causa episodes of potentially serious blood shortage to to heart muscle in some a aliens who already have diseased coronary arteries a naw study demonstrates. Tho finding could help explain Many catastrophic howl attacks and May Lead some doctors to recommend More aggressive treatment of stress in Trabart a aliens. The episodes termed transient myocardial Ische mias Are not necessarily dangerous in themselves bul Are widely though to indicate a heightened risk of heart attack or sudden death from heart disease. Common Wisdom has Long held Hal stressful experiences can being on heart attack or sudden death and doctors have reported anecdotal evidence thai Hoard patients suffered ischaemic episodes that appeared to be brought on by emotionally stressful experiences in daily Lifa. Bul the new study which Lor example induced by John King associated press or. Allen Steere is making his Spring rounds spreading the word Hal tourists wearing shorts and sandals Are easy prey for licks carrying the disease he  Speaks Aboul Lymo disease not Only As the doctor who Lisl classified the infection 13 years ago bul also As a Parent whose son caught it despite his lather s expertise and caution. As this Distaso spreads into areas where it has not been before it becomes even a More diff cull problem to Deal with said sleeve director of the Lynne disease clinic Al the new England medical con or. He was working at Yale univ easily when to discovered the disease end named it Lor Lyme. Conn., where he Ido Lilied it in a group of children. Cases have been confirmed in 33 Stales Europe Asia Australia and Mew zealand. To detail the rapid spread of the disease Steere tells of his Ion who caught Lymo disease in 1983 despite daily tick checks they lived then in North Sra lord conn., 3d Miles irom Lyme. When 1 first arrived in Connecticut. It was Only in the Southeast Corner of the stale a said in a Telephone interview from Muriha s Vineyard. Where he was briefing local health officials. Just during the Lime i was there we saw the lick spread into our Community and in has t  the disease is transmitted by the bile of a Pinhead sized Deer tick bul the real culprit is Borreli Burg Dorler. A spiral shaped bacteria. Populations of infected ticks have been found along the Northeast. Coast from Maine to Maryland and in Wisconsin Minnesota Oregon and California. Early signs of Lymo disease include hit like symptoms and a circular rash that expands from the bile. Patients Given antibiotics Eaily generally arc cured without lasting elects. Ii Una sealed 60 percent of patients develop arthritis like symptoms. Of her possible complications include hepatitis respiratory distress and damage to the heart and Central nervous system. Filler Hundred eases Are reported in the United states each year bul Steere and or. Andrew Spielman of the Harvard school of Public he ally said Many go unreported because victims believe they have other ailments. Some scientists predict an increase in the number of cases this year because of a growing Deer population and an accompanying Rise in the number of Deer ticks. The majority of lick bites occur from mid May through july and most victims report having been in or near a Woods Wilh a Deer pop Lallon. Although the ticks that carry the ailment live on Deer in their adult stages. Lymo disease is Iran smelled by Biles from immature licks which teed primarily on mice. The immature ticks bite humans Al mouse belly height placing people Wilh exposed foot and legs Al highest risk Spielman said. That Means a Good thing to do when in an area of High risk is to Wear Light coloured trousers and Luck the Cufis into your stockings. You Ner d to Check your pants frequently and carefully because the ticks Are very Small Aboul the size of a Peppy  those bitten Are unlikely to con race the disease if the lick is removed Wilh tweezers within 24 hours of Iho bile.-. Lyme disease can be contracted in Europe As Well As in the United Stales and army physicians have been alerted to the signs and symptoms of the disease said or col Michael Benenson chief of preventive Medicine for 7th medical come in Heidelberg. Few cases of Lyme disease were treated by army doctors last year but this is nol a True gauge of the prevalence of the disease because some cases May not have been reported or May have been ire aled elsewhere to said. Benenson said that pants socks and shoe should be worn when walking in Fields or Woods and Hal afterwards people should carefully Check their bodies Lor the Liny licks tuesday May 31, 1888 the stars and stripes Pagol 17 passive Back Strelch. Lie on the floor with your legs on chair As shown. Relax pressing your lower Back onto the floor. Rest in this position for several minutes anxiety by having patients give speeches about their own maws demons traded in the Laboratory that menial stress could cause reduced blood How to the Hearl. Tho subjects already suffered coronary after disease in which their arteries had been narrowed by the buildup of Lally deposits. The new study does not imply thai menial stress is a Hazard to the hearts of people who do not have Hearl disease nor does it apply to the current debate Over the health prospects of people characterized As having the highly competitive Typo a  study tested 39 heart disease a aliens in the Laboratory and showed thai More than Hall responded to mental stress Wilh decreased flow of blood to the heart muscle and also with increases in blood pressure these Al feels occurred while the rate of heartbeat stayed Well below thai produced in vigorous exercise. Those data Are particularly important because May May help to explain the link Between menial stress and the occurrence of catastrophic cardiac events Wilh coronary heart disease said the report in a recent Issue of the new England journal of Medicine. Tho catastrophic events include hear attacks and sudden death from heart disease