{"id":29575,"date":"2024-02-20T11:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T09:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/3-about-three-keloid-kegel-exercises-knock-knees\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T11:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T09:03:53","slug":"3-about-three-keloid-kegel-exercises-knock-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/3-about-three-keloid-kegel-exercises-knock-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"3 about three: Keloid; Kegel exercises; Knock knees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three must-know things about three important things.<\/p>\n

Keloid<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keloid refers to the formation of excessive scar tissue.<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. Keloid formation can complicate surgical scars, injury scars, injection sites, burns, acne, piercing sites, and more.<\/li>\n
  2. Keloid can be flesh-coloured or red-pink and is usually darker than surrounding skin. Keloid can be an irritation (itch, bleed, interfere with clothing or straps, etc.) but the main issue is usually appearance.<\/li>\n
  3. Treatment options are many, but imperfect, and carry some risk of making keloid worse. Most patients are advised to do nothing but a range of options (including surgical excision) can be used in severe cases or with full patient understanding of risks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Kegel exercises<\/strong><\/p>\n

    These are extremely valuable simple DIY exercises that really can help to improve continence for women and men.<\/em><\/p>\n

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    1. For a range of reasons including menopausal hormonal changes, previous pregnancy and childbirth, many women experience incontinence as they age. Men can also be affected as a result of prostate disease and any overweight person (male or female)is at increased risk too.<\/em><\/li>\n
    2. This is something of an \u201cunspoken secret\u201d with much associated stigma etc. It nonetheless affects many.<\/em><\/li>\n
    3. Learning how to do simple Kegel exercises, about three times a day, can really make a difference for many. It\u2019s something that almost anyone can easily learn to do. Look it up and learn\u2026.talk to your granny or mother or uncle about it\u2026try it yourself\u2026\u2026<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Knock knees<\/strong><\/p>\n

      This refers to a condition where the knees touch but ankles do not. The legs are in-turned.<\/p>\n

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      1. In most cases knock knees are normal: babies are born bow-legged but this changes as they learn to walk – pre-school and early-school children are often knock-kneed. Nearly all outgrow this during puberty, or remain only slightly knock-kneed or bow-legged, with no issues.<\/li>\n
      2. Knock knees can occur as a complication of things like bone infection, rickets, or injury (e.g. a broken leg that sets poorly).<\/li>\n
      3. Knock knees can be corrected with braces or even surgery in severe cases.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Written by Dr Colin Burns<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-life","category-feature-articles"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-31 19:20:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29577,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29575\/revisions\/29577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}