Do you know your current blood sugar and cholesterol levels? Can you remember the last time your pulse and blood pressure were checked? On Thursday, July 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., you have the opportunity to be checked from head to toe in the air-conditioned rooms of the Promenaden Galerien in Linz. In addition, health talks are held every half hour on various topics – from sleep disorders to pain, the great fear of dementia to varicose veins.
Blood sugar, cholesterol, pulse and blood pressure are measured. Uniqa experts use “MediMouse” to analyze the condition of the spine. From 1 p.m. there is also the opportunity to have your birthmarks checked by the dermatologist Michael Wipplinger (Ordensklinikum), who was hired by the Cancer Aid for the health day, in good time before summer.
Sound advice: Doctors from the Kepler University Hospital, the health holding company, the University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria and Uniqa VitalCoaches are available as experts. In addition, pharmacists are advised on the subject of sleep disorders, which can often be treated well with herbal remedies.
medical professionals from across the country come from 10 a.m. to the OÖNachrichten health talks with the topics “What to do with sleep disorders?” – these have increased extremely during the pandemic -, “Varicose veins: That really helps!”, “The great fear: Just forgetful or already demented?”, “Shoulder pain, let it go!” and “Professor Lamprecht, how will this summer and the autumn that follows?”
After the talks There is always the opportunity to ask individual questions about the various health topics. You can also talk to the experts personally at the OÖ Gesundheitsholding stand after the presentations.
Understand medicine: The Upper Austrian news health tour started exactly seven years ago, which had since become a fixed point for many Upper Austrians until the beginning of the corona pandemic. The events at the health talks in the hospitals in Freistadt, Rohrbach, Schärding, Vöcklabruck, Gmunden, Bad Ischl, Steyr and Kirchdorf were just as well attended as in the hospitals in Linz, where the health tour stopped at the Kepler University Hospital Linz and the Ordensklinikum.
The topics of the events are varied and range from the “perennial” back pain to allergies and foot problems such as hallux valgus – the secret of the success of the healthy event series of the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten and the OÖ Gesundheitsholding.
Medical topics are explained in an understandable way in the health talk. Visitors also have the opportunity to ask questions themselves and to get in touch with competent doctors personally. After two and a half years of a break due to corona, there will be a new edition in 2022 and hopefully a restart of the health tour.
OÖN Health Day, Thursday, July 7th, admission to the Promenaden Galerien at 9.30 a.m. Admission is free.
The program in detail:
- 10 O `clock: Official opening of the Health Day and the
Health streets in the Promenade Galleries Linz. - 10.30 a.m. to 11.15 a.m.: What to do if you have trouble sleeping
Senior physician Andreas Kaindlstorfer, head of the sleep laboratory at the Kepler University Hospital Linz, Monika Aichberger, Vice President of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists, and VitalCoach Martin Denk will explain in the talk what the reasons for insomnia can be and how to successfully combat it. - 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.: Forgetful or demented?
Forgetful or already demented? Primary Peter Dovjak, head of acute geriatrics at the Salzkammergut Klinikum Gmunden, knows the risks and also the things that help to stay mentally fit for as long as possible. - 12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.: Varicose veins: what really helps?
Every third woman and every fourth man has vein problems. If you treat and eliminate varicose veins in good time, you can be symptom-free for years. Senior Physician Johann Aigelsdorfer, Department of Surgery at the Rohrbach Clinic and Uniqa VitalCoach Margit Wachter provide information on the subject. - 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.: Shoulder pain, ease up!
In addition to the widespread backache, problems with the shoulder are considered the most common cause of chronic pain. Primar Christof Pirkl, head of the department for orthopedics and traumatology at the Freistadt Clinic, physiotherapist Anita Lehner, University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria and Uniqa vitality coach Barbara Schagerl-Müllner show what can be done about it. - 2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.: How will this Corona summer, like autumn? The virus apparently knows no summer break. How should we protect ourselves? Does it make sense to get vaccinated a fourth time? All questions that Prof. Bernd Lamprecht, Head of the Clinic for Pulmonary Medicine at the Kepler University Hospital, will answer.
Source: Nachrichten
