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When your physician told you that you had high blood pressure did you understand what he was saying. No doubt you heard the numbers defining the levels of your pressure and that they placed you in a category above normal but did you understand what it was all about or did your doctor take the time to explain everything to you. Often being told you have hypertension is quite a traumatic event, not on a par with being told you have cancer or some other life threatening disease, but traumatic nevertheless. Although it can indeed be life threatening. It just never appears as being an imminent threat. We always think we have time which is really crazy because you never know when a heart attack or stroke might hit you especially if you have had it for a while.

It is often only when you get home that it begins to sink in and you begin thinking of all the questions you should have asked at the time. What does this mean? How does that affect me? You know, all those sorts of questions. To help you out here are some of the more common terms used when talking about high blood pressure.

* Hypotension – this means you have low blood pressure.
* Hypertension – this is the same as saying you have high blood pressure and refers to measurements above 140/90.
* Systolic Pressure – systolic pressure is the force, experienced by the walls of your arteries, when the heart beats pushing the blood around your body. This is measured in terms of millimeters of mercury. Continue reading ‘High Blood Pressure – Make Sure You Understand What Your Doctor is Telling You’ »

Auto wheelchair lifts are one of the best mediums to allow total freedom to disabled people. It was not so long ago that going to different places was so hard for people with disabilities because of mobility restrictions. Today, auto chair lifts just gave a whole new meaning to total mobility freedom.

Depending on your intended purpose and operation mechanism, auto lifts can come in different product types.

Automobile chair lifts are specifically equipped to be installed inside (this is for large vans) or outside your vehicle. These are relatively easy to operate that one person can do the entire process without exerting much effort. And you can expect the price to range from $500 to $4000.

There are two mechanisms that lifts operate, which include the electrical chair lift and the hydraulic lift. In terms of the retail cost, electrical wheelchair lifts are reasonably less expensive than hydraulic wheelchair lifts. Although electricity shortage poses much inconvenience, electrical wheelchair lifts come with emergency back-up batteries to restore its function. Unlike its counterpart, hydraulic wheelchair lifts function through the hydraulic system that creates an even and fluid motion.

The BraunAbility Millennium Series includes highly engineered twofold hydraulic lifting arms to create precise and stable fold-unfold and up-down sequences. The three models in this series are operated using on-rise controller, remote controller, or hand-grip controller. To accommodate your lifting space needs, these are available in 43-inch, 47-inch, and 51-inch platform lengths. Continue reading ‘The Best Auto Wheelchair Lifts – Important Things to Consider When Buying’ »