Cardiovascular illnesses produced by job stress
and The
Radiance Technique®
Occupational
cardiology is a new
medical specialty:
More
detailed information about it can be found on the the Job Stress Network Site
maintained by the US center for social epidemiology:
http://workhealth.org/index.html
The occupational cardiology is a new
medical discipline that connects cardiology and the preventive occupational medicine.
It has the following primary objectives:
- to find a better understanding of the
job stress relation to the aggravation of arterial hypertension and of other
cardiovascular anomalies;
- to develop a clinic exam that will evaluate and interpret the work
history, and will discover the the role of stress in the apparition and the
aggravation of cardiovascular diseases.
- to establish, test and validate algorithms and recommendations for
the diagnostic and the management of the arterial hypertension cause by job stress
along with other cardiovascular diseases that are affected by stress;
- to promote a cooperation between the
cardiologists and specialists in the work medicine, occupational psychology,
epidemiologists, manager, labor unions and employees from different activity sectors,
public or private.
- to assure the legislative political
support in the environment of the 21 century medicine characterized by the increasing
number of medical doctors and psychologists hat participates
and design the implementation of changes in workplace conditions on the base of
clinical findings and monitoring effects of the current management of employees.
The main
causes of the initiation and aggravation of the cardiovascular diseases
(Job-Strain):
Tension in the workplace
http://workhealth.org/strain/briefintro.html
Till several years ago, many of the
causes of the arterial hypertension were not known (the only acknowledged risk
factors were obesity and excessive consume of salt) and as a result the treatment was
based on symptoms and had a long duration.
Recent researches have identified the job related stress as the main
cause of the apparition and aggravation of arterial hypertension. In order to
understand the work related stress and the risks produced by it in the area of
physical and mental health, Robert Karasek proposed the Job Strain Model that has at
its base two major coordinates: the requirements of the workplace and the competence,
along with the liberty allowed in taking decisions or in executing tasks.
Psychological tension at the workplace
reaches its maximum in the situation where there are very high requirements and
expectations, but there is a minimal level of liberty allowed in taking decisions or
executing normal tasks.
Intense and long term psychological
tension at the workplace is leading to the long term activation of the sympathetic
nervous system. The consequences are apparition, and on a long term presence,
aggravation of the metabolic syndrome (a series of symptoms that are often signalized
in parallel with: obesity, hyperglycemia, hyper insulin
, and a high
profile of lipids).
The mechanism through
which previous causes of illnesses become present effects of an individual's
capability of cooperating with daily stress agents is confirmed. The World Health
Organization have included this on its white paper strategy written in 1978, called
Healthy living for everybody till the year 2000, in the objective no. 16 a healthy
living:
The overweight, smoking, alcoholism,
drug dependence and a lack of physical exercises are the indications of an
individual's incapacity of coping with daily stress agents.
Iso - Strain:
tension caused by loneliness
http://workhealth.org/risk/rfjs.html
The above mentioned model can be
applied also in the family or community life.
In this situation the psychological
tension, which also generated arterial hypertension, appears in the situation in
which a member of a family or a community has lots of task to accomplish, but the
capacity of doing them is too little because of a lack of financial, material and
time resources and is accentuated by a lack of a support network that was supposed to
be composed by other members of the family or of the community.
The cardiovascular illnesses along with
the accompanying symptoms of the metabolic syndrome have a fast evolution at the
persons that are dealing with the psychological tension at the workplace and
experience the same tension in the middle of the family or of the community.
The
regulations of the Health and Family ministry
http://www.ms.ro/ms/infosan12/sumar_nr12.htm
The order no. 761/30.10.2001 regarding the approval of the methodology involved
in the medical exam done prior to employment, the adaptation medical exam, the
periodical exam check and in the back-to-work medical examination.
Art. 2. The medical exams specified in Art. 1
represent the active supervision of the employees health in relation to the
professional factors involved in their job / workplace.
Art. 3. In the present regulations the
professional factors are physical, chemical and biological factors that are present
in the work environment that act independently or correlated, along with any
relevant element from the activities involved for which there are scientific proof
of a significant positive association between the exposure and the reversible or
irreversible modification of the structure or the functionality of an body organ or
system, or of the organism as a whole.
Art. 4.
The employers from the public, private or
cooperative sector, including those that are funded by foreign capital, are obliged
to assure the monitoring of their employees in relation to the characteristics of
their job position, by providing workplace medicine services.
Art. 6.
(a) The medical exam done at the employment time,
the adaptation medical exam, the periodical medical exam and the return to work
medical exam will be performed in conformity with the legal specification
available.
(b) In special cases, strongly sustained by scientific
proofs, the methodology will be annually modified to include new medical monitoring
rules specific to the new professional risks.
From our point of
view, the cardiovascular illnesses that have appeared or are aggravated by the
occupational stress represents new professional risks specific to the top-level
management of al the companies of institutions, along with employees from the
following fields: special services - defense - public force, financial, health,
transport, telecommunications - IT, education and public administration.
ORDER no. 803/12.11.2001 for the approval of the new indicators of exposure and
/ or the relevant biological effects in order to establish the specific response of
the organism to risk factors that can lead to professional illnesses.
But this also offers partial details about the unspecific response caused by stress
and work overload to the employees.
The (unspecific) response of
the organism: any change, be it reversible or irreversible, of the structure or
the function of an organ, or system, or to the human body as a whole, that can be
identified by the apparition of a symptom, syndrome or pathological entities for
which there are scientific proofs of positive association with the exposure to an
agent present in the workplace.
From our point of view the
ocupational stress and the work overload generates unspecific responses that
gradually, and unobserved lead to the apparition of chronic not transmissible
diseases. From our point of view the chronic, un transmissible diseases that appear
after the employment must be included on the list of the professional diseases
because they were triggered or aggravated by the stress and work overload that took
place at the workplace.
The annex attached to this
order specifies that The response
indicators:
*are
not specific
*can be used for as a start
in the development of the health and security at the workplace strategy
*don't represent a criteria in the selections for the jobs that require special
work conditions.
From our point of view all these response indicators
constitute the unspecific response to stress and work overload. At high levels of
tiredness, overload or stress the acute response of the organism can lead to work
accidents and the presence of stress and overload at a lower level, but during long
periods of time , can lead to the appearance of chronic un transmissible diseases.
For this reasons we propose to research the including of stress and work overload
at the workplace in the risk indicators calculations that is used by the assurances
for work accidents and professional work diseases to calculate the amount paid by
the employer for the employees assurance.
In the next paragraphs you can find an extract from
this addendum that specifies the effects of stress and work overload have on the
cardiovascular system:
-1- The following are
possible body responses to stress caused by the mental overload and / or a
cumulated sum of stressful conditions (stress, work overload beyond limits, noise,
unfavorable physical work conditions):
-
The increase of the instantaneous or average heart beat rate with more than 20
beats compared to the reference values
;
- The increase of the arterial systolic (and / or
diastolic) pressure with more than 10mmHg during activity, compared to average
values monitored during the reference period.
-
The increase or the decrease of the heart beat rate variability compared to
the reference values for more than 35% of the tested subjects.
-
The presence of cardiac rhythm problems during the
professional activity.
Spikes of
more than 1 mm under or over the ST-T segment median value.
- 2 -
The following stress reactions are caused by the cognitive effort
(mental or emotional) in work processes that involve strict temporal constrictions
(very short and hard to beat time limits), uncontrollable factors, or activity that
involves the public:
-
The increase of the instantaneous or average heart beat rate with more than 40
beats compared to the reference values
- The increase of the arterial systolic and / or diastolic
pressure with more than 40 mmHg during the activity, when compared to the reference
values.
- 3 - The neuropsychological
tiredness in activities that are monotonic - repetitive (like driving, command
panel surveillance.. ) lead to :
- The
increase or the decrease of the heart beat rate variability compared to the
reference values for more than 35% of the tested subjects.
The results
achieved by the HeartMath Institute of Research from USA:
http://heartmath.com/business/client_success/casestudies/blood_pressure_study.html
The arterial
hypertension is one of the biggest health problems that affects 1 out of 4 adults. It
is a major risk of premature death and for the apparition of important handicaps, and
till it reaches its final stages it has the following negative effects: the
diminishing of the intellectual performances, the diminishing of the memory or neural
deterioration.
Other recent
studies have demonstrated the way in which the un-managed stress cause the apparition
and then the aggravation of the arterial hypertension that causes the diminishing of
intellectual and physical performances, a decrease in the work productivity, extended
medical leaves and, in its final stages, it can cause handicaps or even death among
the employees (60% of the unexpected deaths by heart attack or cerebral accidents
appear to persons that have not suffer of any cardiovascular disease)
In the last
ten years the HearthMath institute demonstrated the link between the physical
symptoms of stress and the diminishing efficiency of the employees at the workplace
and offers techniques and instruments through which the employees can increase the
efficiency of their activity simultaneously with the increase in the balance between
work and family life.
Through the
use of these techniques by the majority of the employees, the employers could observe
an increase in the productivity and efficiency of their employees, the reduction of
medical care costs, the decrease in absenteeism caused by medical conditions and an
increase in the will of the employees to remain at that company, and not to go to
other companies:
- A number of pilot
studies at Motorola, Shell and British Petroleum have demonstrated the way through
which the managers have suffered of arterial hypertension of grade 1 or 2 and that
could restore it to normal values without medication, just by using techniques and
instruments acquired through courses offered by this institute.
- Through the daily
use of these instruments modifications can be observed in the systolic and diastolic
tension that are equivalent to a weight loss of ca. 18kg, or double the effect that
physical activities and no-salt diet have when applied to this disease.
An Active
Stress
Management using The Radiance Technique® offers simple, efficient and safe solutions
for the prevention and recovery of cardiovascular diseases that are produced by
workplace stress:
We set up a rule, which we call
the 4R rule because is made up by 4 parts, that should be applied in order to
diminish the effects of the already accumulated stress and to prevent new negative
effects of the daily stressing agents:
- The Inner
Radiance ( to take time every day in
order to bring a vitality supplement that will replenish the vitality consumed by
previous stress agents). This is done through the daily use of
The Radiance
Technique® in the following way:
- doing the Daily
harmonization of the house, or workplace (or at least
after a stressing moment has passed)
- Daily expanded
radiant sessions;
- Daily energy
directing for your family and for the workgroup that you are part of;
- To apply three times
the combination of SU4M+SU1M symbols and one time SU22+SU1M while we are tired or
under psychic tension;
- If needed energy
directing for
worries, events or projects should be done;
- In case of ongoing
medical treatments several radiant sessions and energy directings should be done
daily, along with the harmonization of the administered drugs until full recovery
from the treated condition;
- Person
Responsibility is the base of
continuing education through which each person can gradually change its lifestyle
and will adopt a smart inner attitude
towards external events in order to reduce to a
minimum the negative impact of the stressing agents. Our course of stress
management using The Radiance Technique®
offers the necessary information along with a simple and efficient method (TRT®)
that used daily will ease a gradually lifestyle change along with the change of the
inner attitude towards events.
A proper
balance between Work and Rest;
Alternating the imposed activities with the pleasurable ones;
Being full
of love, appreciation, gratitude and happiness;
Daily
accumulating universal knowledge;
Being
dedicated to the Universal Well Being (for us and for
others)
With as
few worries or concerns as possible;
Without greed, selfishness, hate or jealousy.
- Support Network
through which we will get
support when we are in need from our family, friends colleagues or members of a
community that we belong to. Using The Radiance Technique®
locally (through the application
of the 1st TRT degree®
initiated hands) and also at distance (by energy directing using the symbol set
learned during the 2nd TRT course) we can realize and maintain support networks in
a simple and efficient way. This can be done by:
- Starting use the
pyramid of responsibilities pyramid (ourselves, our family, our work partners, our
relatives, our friends and others) that should be put in practice and maintained in
time in both directions (to help and to be helped by);
- By constructing a
radiant support group (for group sessions) with members from the relatives and
friends who use the radiance technique, in order to help those members that are in
need at the moment (be it locally, or distant).
- By calling for help to
your instructor or other persons who you know they have been taking the TRT®
course whenever an
important problem is asking for more support that could be provided by your support
network;
- Through an active
participation at the expanded classes or on the health discussion group on the
Yahoo Groups site, by bringing your sharing or asking your questions. You can
subscribe to the discussion group by providing your email in a form included on
each page of our site: www.vitalitate.com
- Natural Resources
allow us the reintegration in the natural environment. Less polluted air and
water along with the use of the natural light and of walks take in areas with lots
of vegetation bring us a surplus of vitality. By using the the Radiance Technique
on the food, water and natural environment the benefic effects of the natural
resources will be amplified, and the level of toxicity caused by pollution will
diminish
Note:
- The
information presented on this web page do not exclude or replace the diagnostic,
treatment or medical procedures.
- The procedures
and recommendations included in the "Get In Shape" Active Stress Management program
that uses The Radiance Technique®, globally reduce the amount of drugs consumed and
the amount of medical actions required by preventing healthy persons to get ill. At
the same time already sick persons will experience a diminishing of secondary effect
produced by the administered medication and a increase in the positive results of the
treatment if they will follow a synergic combination of prescribed treatments and /
or medical procedures recommended by a specialized medical doctor and the application
of The Radiance Technique® as instructed.
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Last update on
02.18.2008
by Lazia Dumitru Certified Instructor of Active Stress Management Course using
the 1st and 2nd Degree of The
Radiance Technique® ( Real REIKI® )
Lazia Dumitru can be
contacted by calling ++40 722 393 250 or emailing him at
dumitru@vitalitate.com
