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Chapter 6 - Patient Prognosis with Restless Legs

Restless Legs Syndrome is not a life threatening disease. In spite of a lot of research in this field, the medical fraternity is still not able to find the exact problem that may be held responsible for this condition. All that we have been able to identify are the underlying conditions that attribute to the problem of restless legs. Even though the instances of this disease are found more prevalent in the adults and older generation, the symptoms are also found to set in as early as at the age of 20 years. Once it sets in, RLS lasts a lifetime and there is no permanent cure for this problem.

The symptoms associated with RLS are progressive in nature. They gradually worsen with age. The progression of symptoms is slower for the people with idiopathic form of RLS who also suffer from associated medical condition. The important thing here is that the patients become aware of the underlying conditions that are contributing to their problem and then effectively deal with them. Reliance on drugs or medications is not healthy in the long run. All medications have some or the other side effect and moreover they provide only temporary relief while the problem persists as such in the long run.

Many therapies and alternate approaches are already well established and have proven to provide relief in majority of the cases. These therapies can control the disorder, decreasing symptoms and increasing periods of restful sleep. The importance of these indirect or non invasive measures cannot be over emphasized. These methods are simple, effective and have no side effects. On the other hand, if the patient does not take appropriate measures and bring about required changes in lifestyle it is very likely that these symptoms will increase in their frequency as well as in their intensity.

It is also possible that a patient may experience remission-periods. These are the instances in which a patient may experience complete absence of symptoms for days, weeks or even months. Occurrence of these remission periods may wrongly assure the patients that they are cured and they become careless and revert to their old lifestyle. However the symptoms will eventually reappear and thus there is no scope for the patient to exercise any kind of carelessness. The only assuring aspect of RLS is that its diagnosis does not mean the beginning of another neurological disease.

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Chapter 7 - Jazz Music- Deep and Profound Music!

What can you foretell from the word Jazz?? A lot of people think that jazz music is for elite and rich people. But if we go through the history of jazz music then we will see that it is the opposite. Jazz music is considered to be the elementary form of music in our lives. It helps in depicting our appearance in the form of music. The tradition of jazz music, evolved from the black, demoralized community in America. These black people used to play drums along with their music and danced on it. So from this we can very well illustrate that jazz was very close to the human lives.

Talking about the origin of the word ‘jazz’, you will be shocked to know that this word derived from a very offensive term which means sexual acts. But with time jazz became a musical art form which depicted impulsive melodies. The jazz musicians used to play the music which could touch the heart of everyone. They used to express the feelings with their music that was not easily explained. Jazz music was mainly influenced by wide range of music like ragtime, cakewalks and blues.

One of the legends of jazz music is ‘Buddy Bolden’ who basically was an owner of hair salon in New Orleans around 1891. This was a breakthrough in the jazz music and later on it contributed a lot to the American jazz music. Today jazz is studied in many universities around the globe. Students who love music take serious classes on this music form.

It is also said that jazz was more well-known in the swing era in the 1930’s and with time it became established as a major music form. By the year 1950 everyone was well versed with the term ‘jazz’. One more important point to be mentioned here is that the famous music form in jazz is ‘Blues’ music. If we are talking about jazz music then we cannot forget blues. The capability of playing blues music has become must for all jazz musicians today. The musicians who play blues music often use guitar and harmonica.

Today jazz music is a well known music form which is known by everyone. There are so many famous musicians who are famous for their jazz music. The music lovers should deeply understand this music form as it is full of emotions and sentiments.