Salus tv n. 32 del 7 agosto 2024
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Giornata mondiale dell’ascolto, ‘voci dei familiari’ il suono che mancherebbe di più agli italiani se perdessero l’udito. Da Med-El i dati di una ricerca globale
Piantanida della Soi, ’miopia per 18 mln di italiani, più a rischio bimbi e adolescenti’
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A seguire lo Speciale Salus Tv dal titolo: Gli esperti, sport medicina naturale per giovani con problemi di salute mentale
Giornata mondiale dell’ascolto, ‘voci dei familiari’ il suono che mancherebbe di più agli italiani se perdessero l’udito. Da Med-El i dati di una ricerca globale
Piantanida della Soi, ’miopia per 18 mln di italiani, più a rischio bimbi e adolescenti’
E ancora
La pubertà precoce è scritta nel Dna e una formula può prevederla
A seguire lo Speciale Salus Tv dal titolo: Gli esperti, sport medicina naturale per giovani con problemi di salute mentale
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00:00In this issue, World Day of Listening, voices of the family, the sound that Italians would miss the most if they lost their hearing,
00:19from Medel, the data of a global research.
00:22Piantanida della Soi, myopia for 18 million Italians, more at risk of children and adolescents.
00:28And again, early puberty is written in the DNA and a formula can predict it.
00:34To follow the special Salus TV from the title, the experts, sport, natural medicine for young people with mental health problems.
00:43These are the voices of the family, the sounds that people would miss the most if they lost their hearing.
00:55Written as far as the inhabitants of our country, from the voice of the partners and from the music.
01:00With emotional consequences that can also exceed physical ones.
01:03To document it, an online research conducted between December 2023 and January 2024 by Research Without Barriers,
01:10in 9 countries, involving, as far as Italy is concerned, a sample of 1,100 people between 18 and 55 years and more.
01:16The interviewees were asked the following question.
01:19What are the three sounds that you would miss the most if you lost your hearing?
01:23The results of the investigation were shared by Medel, the leading company in hearing solutions, on the occasion of World Day of Listening.
01:29In the first place, with 56% of the answers, we put the voice of the loved ones and the partner.
01:36In the second place we find the music and in the third place we find the television, for an Italian out of five.
01:43Other important sounds are the sound of laughter, the waves of the sea and the voices of children.
01:49A ranking that changes with age.
01:51For people who are a few years older, for example, the voices of children and television are of greater importance.
01:58But not only.
01:59The differences in regional data are also noticeable, where the voices of the relatives or the partner are highly appreciated in Valle d'Aosta, with 100%,
02:07followed by Liguria and Trentino-Alto Adige.
02:10The difference of lower percentages is in Basilicata, Molise and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
02:14The voices of children are particularly loved always in Valle d'Aosta, 50% and Umbria, 29%,
02:19less in Basilicata, Trentino-Alto Adige and Molise.
02:22The interest for radio or music is its peak in Valle d'Aosta, followed by Sardinia and Abruzzo,
02:27while it is lower in Campania and Veneto.
02:29The appreciation for the singing of the birds is notable instead in Umbria, 29% and Liguria,
02:34but definitely lower in Valle d'Aosta, where it has not attracted any interest,
02:38and in Campania and Abruzzo, with 5% in both regions.
02:42What does this tell us?
02:44It tells us that hearing does not connect us only with sounds,
02:49but allows us to connect with our world of relationships,
02:53with our emotional, valuable world,
02:56and in general contributes to our mental, physical well-being and to our quality of life.
03:03A problem is the lowering of hearing, however, in strong increase all over the world.
03:07The World Health Organization tells us that today 430 million people,
03:12or about 5% of the population, are affected by invalidating hearing problems
03:19and that this percentage is destined to double,
03:23then reach 10% and interest 700 million people by 2050.
03:29This makes us understand how important it is to be able to recognize
03:34every warning of hearing loss,
03:37to keep our hearing under strict monitoring
03:41and, if problems arise, to intervene as soon as possible.
03:46In practice, therefore, it is estimated that in about 25 years
03:49a person out of 10 will suffer from invalidating hearing loss.
03:52And considering the crucial role of hearing,
03:54not only for all aspects related to the emotional and relational sphere,
03:58but also for general well-being and quality of life,
04:01it is evident how fundamental it is to undergo irregular hearing tests.
04:05A simple first way to keep your hearing under control
04:09is through online tests that MED-EL provides for free on its website.
04:14Thanks to these tests, if problems arise,
04:19the person can go to a medical specialist,
04:22who will then formulate a real diagnosis and direct it to the most correct treatment.
04:27But if there are levels that indicate a hearing loss, how can we intervene?
04:32Thanks to research and continuous development,
04:35there are suitable treatments to correct any type of hearing loss,
04:40from the most direct to the most profound.
04:42MED-EL, for more than 30 years,
04:44is leading in the development and distribution of hearing solutions,
04:49which include various types of technologies,
04:52in particular the cochlear implant.
04:55And to what extent can this technique intervene on hearing loss?
04:58Today, the cochlear implant can also give hearing to people with deep deafness
05:04and thanks to an individualized treatment on the deafness of each person,
05:10it is possible to give an extremely natural sound quality,
05:14which allows not only to return to appreciate speech, but also music,
05:20and in general to enjoy all those moments and those moments
05:24that really make our life of quality.
05:35MYOPIA
05:37Myopia, which affects 18 million people in Italy,
05:40is an increasing pathology around the world.
05:42Early childhood, teenagers and video-terminal workers,
05:46the most at-risk categories.
05:48Fundamental glasses and prevention,
05:50as stated by Andrea Piantanida,
05:52a surgeon specializing in ophthalmology
05:55and a member of the Italian Ophthalmological Society,
05:58on the occasion of the ECM-FAD course,
06:01and myopia, the myopic eye pathology from childhood to adulthood,
06:05made with the contribution of the scientific partner,
06:08the Italian Ophthalmological Society,
06:10in collaboration with FIELMAN.
06:12But the diagnosis of myopia is not simple,
06:14and for this reason, the expert advises parents
06:17to pay attention to some alarm bells.
06:21Often children have to approach the blackboard
06:24because they don't see things or television well.
06:27One of the characteristics of myopia, for example,
06:29is the encounter of frequent blepharopathy in the pediatric stage.
06:32The child squinting his eyes to see is another sign.
06:36The difficulty of copying on the blackboard
06:39and writing correctly can be a sign of visual impairment.
06:43There is also another sign of blurring of the child
06:47or of the young teenager,
06:49which is the difficulty of focusing
06:52after using the eyes very closely,
06:55such as the continuous use of smartphones,
06:59computers or tablets.
07:02The classification of myopia is fundamental from a therapeutic point of view.
07:07There are different types of classification.
07:09I would say that for the general public,
07:11the simplest classification is that of mild, intermediate and elevated myopia.
07:16Mild myopia ranges from emetropia to at least 3.
07:22From minus 3 to minus 6, it is considered a medium-sized myopia.
07:26Above 6 or 3, it is considered an elevated myopia.
07:29This is very important as a classification
07:32because it will allow us to act on certain groups of myopia,
07:38while it is impossible to act on higher myopias
07:41or we will have far fewer results.
07:43What are the risk factors of myopia?
07:46The close-up work,
07:48that is, the continuous activity of close-up vision,
07:51that is, of close-up focus,
07:53is one of the factors that creates the elongation of the eye,
07:56which is the characteristic of myopia.
07:58It is a defense mechanism that the body puts in place.
08:02Practically, myopia does not need to do close-up gymnastics,
08:06so much so that many myopias read without glasses.
08:09Other risk factors are closed life,
08:14that is, the possibility of being very open
08:19precisely for this visual commitment for continuous close-up,
08:23means that there is a reduction at the level of the brain
08:27of some hormones that are produced with the stimulation of ultraviolet rays,
08:32whose hormones act directly on the control of the elongation of the eye.
08:37So, certainly, an open life, a life in sunlight,
08:42helps in reducing the risk of myopia.
08:48Certainly, the lack of some food factors that prevent oxidation
08:55and, above all, vitamin D,
08:57which is directly, among other things, connected to life in the open air,
09:02act on the control of myopic progression.
09:05Myopia can also lead to a progressive increase in strabismus.
09:10The myopia phenomenon also acts a lot on eye motility,
09:15so it has the possibility, let's say, to see even double in adulthood
09:20and therefore prevention is important.
09:34The age of female puberty, more and more often early, is written in the DNA.
09:39In girls, the day of the first cycle, when suddenly everything changes
09:43and as a child you find yourself a woman,
09:45depends on a thousand genetic variants, about 600 up to the unknown,
09:49of which almost half influence the arrival of the menarche indirectly,
09:52accelerating the increase in weight.
09:54It was discovered by the largest genetic study ever conducted
09:57on the biological passage from childhood to adulthood,
10:00which involved about 800,000 women from Europe, North America, China, Japan and Korea.
10:05They then mapped the genes of female puberty,
10:08revealing that 45% of the genetic variants identified
10:12influence the age of the first menstruation, accelerating the increase in weight.
10:16The study, signed by an international team,
10:19led by epidemiologists of the Medical Research Council
10:23of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom,
10:25was published on Nature Genetics.
10:28Researchers have also come up with a sort of formula
10:31able to predict the probability of early puberty or the opposite, delayed.
10:36In girls, remember the scientists,
10:39the age of the first cycle usually falls between 10 and 15 years.
10:43In recent decades, for reasons not fully understood,
10:46the tendency to premature puberty has been observed.
10:50A worrying trend, because early puberty
10:53leads to higher rates of overweight and obesity in adult life,
10:57thus increasing the future risk of diseases such as type 2 diabetes,
11:01cardiovascular diseases and some types of cancer.
11:04On the contrary, late puberty has been linked
11:07to better health and greater longevity.
11:10Among the genes identified, others seemed to act at the brain level,
11:15controlling the release of reproductive hormones.
11:19The 100 years of the birth of Franco Basaglia,
11:22which took place in Venice on March 11, 1924,
11:25was a political psychiatrist who, with his work,
11:28reformed and revolutionized the psychiatric discipline in Italy,
11:31radically changing the concept of mental health.
11:34It represents an opportunity to make the point of the situation
11:37on what has changed in the management and care of those who suffer from mental disorders.
11:42Basaglia, in fact, has inspired those who are still suffering from mental disorders.
11:46Basaglia, in fact, has inspired the Quatro Law,
11:49the 180 of May 13, 1978, better known as the Basaglia Law,
11:53thanks to which psychiatric hospitals were closed in our country.
11:56As explained by the psychiatrist Santo Rullo,
11:58the head of the Therapeutic and Rehabilitative Residential Community
12:01for Adolescents with Psychiatric Problems,
12:03the Casa di Roma,
12:04unfortunately there are still many things that should be done
12:06for the good of those who suffer from psychiatric problems.
12:09People are too often abandoned by themselves,
12:11especially if they are young or very young.
12:13However, as Rullo underlines,
12:15today the funds for mental health
12:17are less than 3% of the national health care capital,
12:20while in the rest of Europe it reaches 6%.
12:23But what does Franco Basaglia represent for psychiatric assistance in Italy?
12:26What is being done today to continue to carry on his ideas?
12:29There is no longer the border of the asylum,
12:32it is no longer a wall that separates people who have a mental health problem
12:38from the rest of civil society.
12:41On the contrary, it is civil society that must somehow embrace
12:46the issue of mental health
12:48and ensure that it is not just a health problem.
12:53We have seen it in recent years.
12:56With the pandemic, social isolation,
12:59which is one of the determining factors of health,
13:02has caused an increase in mental health problems.
13:06And only the intervention on the territory,
13:09not a medical intervention,
13:12can allow people with mental health problems to access the best cures.
13:17But in practice, what are the things that should be done?
13:20The integration between biological interventions.
13:23There are drugs that can improve people's mental health.
13:28The intervention of psychological support and psychotherapy is very important.
13:33But above all, the psychosocial intervention,
13:36which is what Basaglia taught us.
13:39The fact that mental illness is created on the territory
13:44and only the territory, only society, can cure it.
13:48And the way in which guests of the extensive structure La Casa,
13:51adolescents from different social contexts and areas,
13:54including the criminal one, from 12 to 18 years of age,
13:57but also up to 21 years when they have the extension of minority,
14:00are received and treated is certainly in line with this logic.
14:03As Valentina Graverini underlines,
14:05who has been dealing with psychiatry and neuropsychiatry for 18 years,
14:08collaborating with Dr. Rullo in the management of several sanitary structures,
14:11among which La Casa,
14:12here, among other things, the possibility of doing sport is given to everyone.
14:15An activity that, in addition to doing good to the body, also helps the mind.
14:18Thanks to sport, you can also lower a little more drugs,
14:23because by doing sport, serotonin and several other substances are developed,
14:28so, in short, it is a natural medicine, let's say.
14:31Not for this reason, of course, we do not give drugs.
14:34And what sports activities do you make your children practice in particular?
14:38Guidance. Some of them, who have been put in the structure,
14:42have been able to find work also in this context.
14:46We do pulgilato outdoors,
14:48where there are families who can afford it economically,
14:53they also do sports such as tennis.
14:56To guarantee the safety and quality of the sports activity carried out within the structure and not only,
15:00this is decided and carried out under the control of an emotional science graduate,
15:04a professional figure absolutely not mandatory in this type of community.
15:07This is a very important part of the work we do here,
15:11because it allows the boys to get in touch with their body
15:18and get in touch with other participants.
15:22We try various activities such as football, basketball,
15:26we also do work in the gym.
15:28Opportunities that, as Giannetta has been telling for about two years in the community,
15:31certainly help them and make them feel good.
15:33I turn on when I think about volleyball,
15:36because I played in Roma 17.
15:39My dream is actually to do a combat sport.
15:45I wanted to do MMA, but they told me I couldn't,
15:49so I opted for pulgilato.
15:52Sport activities that also take place outside the structure are particularly important.
15:56Gradually they will also be able to get in touch with other boys
16:01who carry out a normal life,
16:05so this exchange certainly helps the boys who are here
16:10to get their life back on track
16:13and start doing the activities that all teenagers do.
16:19And the most suitable and practiced sports activity is certainly football.
16:23After all, Santorullo was one of the three promoters of the participation of Crazy for Football,
16:27a team of people with psychiatric problems,
16:29at the first Dream World Cup,
16:31a football world cup for people with mental disabilities,
16:34held in Osaka, Japan, in 2016.
16:36An adventure that led to the making of the documentary Crazy for Football,
16:40from which the eponymous book was published and edited by the Hungarians.
16:43The second edition of the Dream World Cup was held in Rome on May 13, 2018,
16:47just 40 years after the closure of the asylum in Italy,
16:49as a tribute to the work of Franco Basaglia.
16:51After Osaka's third place, this time to triumph, it was the Italian team.
16:55An experience told in the 2021 movie Crazy for Football,
16:59co-produced by Refiction Media Entertainment,
17:01with Sergio Castellitto as the protagonist,
17:03inspired by the figure of Dr. Rullo.
17:05After the 2020 appointment in Peru due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic,
17:09the Dream World Cup will be played again in Italy from 23 to 28 September 2024.
17:14La Nostra Nazionale, of course, will take part, making home honours.
17:17Who knows if another beautiful story will come out,
17:20in a Crazy for Football 2.
17:23And further confirmation of the benefits that playing football
17:25produces on how many have mental health problems,
17:27the words of Elina, another girl guest of the house for over a year and a half.
17:31She asks if there was an activity she particularly liked to participate in,
17:35and why, she replied.
17:37It was always a football match in Abruzzo,
17:41and it went well, we also won, we won medals.
17:45A lot of people who are sick,
17:47manages to integrate well with the sport,
17:51also for mental health,
17:53and we were all on the same boat,
17:55so of course we got along well with other players.
17:58To conclude then,
17:59what type of interventions would be necessary to apply
18:01for the well-being of young people with mental health problems,
18:03hosted in structures like the house?
18:05Institutions could improve
18:08the results of our interventions,
18:11trying to create a better integration
18:14between the resources available.
18:17So, work integration,
18:19school, early intervention on suffering situations,
18:24opening up to cultural programs,
18:27to educational programs that can be carried out
18:30within a structure that, however, has a health function.
18:34If, on the other hand, the resources are intended
18:37exclusively for the health field,
18:40there is a risk of creating so many small structures,
18:43so many small mansions,
18:46and therefore to zero out these 100 years of the birth of the house.
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