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Exercises Your healthcare provider or physical therapist will help you determine which exercises are safest and most suitable for your big toe pain caused by arthritis. They will also offer guidance as to how many sets and reps you should aim for initially and over time. Peter Dazeley / Getty Images The American College of Rheumatology recommends the following for exercising with arthritis: Active range of motion exercises should be performed for at least two sets of 10 repetitions....

Physical therapy may play an important role in your recovery to get you back to performing everyday activities safely and without pain in your knee. This article will go over what to expect from knee arthroscopy recovery. You’ll learn how to cope with pain and swelling, how to care for your surgical wounds, and how to watch for signs of complications. Follow-Up Care After Knee Arthroscopy Your knee arthroscopy recovery starts as soon as you get out of surgery....

Bridget McCarty, 37, creates miniature film sets so detailed you wouldn’t even know they were fake. In the past, she has covered everything from Friends to Harry Potter — and she has now depicted the house from the hit show Stranger Things to add to the collection. McCarty, from Los Angeles, worked on the masterpiece for more than 80 hours. The doll’s house-sized set features tiny radios, books, and even the show’s characteristic alphabet wall lights....

Canceling the tournaments could be a last-ditch effort, as the NCAA could potentially suspend, or postpone, the tournament until a later date. That would mean the only madness happening this March would off the court. This comes one day after NCAA president Mark Emmert announced that the men’s and women’s tournaments would still be played, but with “only essential staff and limited family attendance.” The NCAA changed its tune on Thursday after every remaining Division I conference basketball tournament was canceled, and after heavyweight basketball programs Duke and Kansas announced all of its sports programs were canceling all upcoming athletic travel, which would include the NCAA tournament....

“We started 20 points behind Eric Greitens, and in a Republican poll a couple months ago, we were just 1.9 points behind him,” Kunce bellowed at a midday rally last month in scorching 100-degree heat during a swing through the state’s rural southeast Bootheel region. “And that was before the child abuse and spousal abuse allegations came out.” Kunce, dressed in a simple tee-shirt that suited both his populist image and a physique honed by 13 years in the Marines, then added: “Our message is making a difference....

President Donald Trump’s administration has requested $377 million in the next coronavirus aid package for a renovation of the White House’s West Wing, which has not had a full modernization since 1933, according to the General Services Administration (GSA). The Trump administration also hopes to use the money to build a new security screening facility for the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, according to the draft aid legislation introduced by Senate Republicans on Monday....

In the East, however, security and economy-focused blocs led by Beijing and Moscow are looking to take on new members of their own, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, two influential Middle Eastern rivals whose interest in shoring up cooperation on this new front could have a significant impact on global geopolitical balance. The two bodies in question are the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS. The former was established in 2001 as a six-member political, economic and military coalition including China, Russia and the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan before recruiting South Asian nemeses India and Pakistan in 2017, while the latter is a grouping of emerging economic powers originally consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) upon its inception 2006, and including South Africa in 2010....

The new Texas law makes providing such medication a felony after seven weeks of pregnancy. The law also makes sending the medication through the mail illegal. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court began hearing the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case centers on a 2018 Mississippi state law that banned abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which conflicts with the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that gave women the right to an abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy, which equals approximately 24 weeks....

The pair have been continuing negotiations in a bid to breach the impasse and are due to meet again Thursday for further discussions. Commenting on their ongoing dialogue, Mnuchin said the two sides were still “far apart” in terms of an agreement—suggesting something being signed off pre-election could be difficult. “I’d say at this point, getting something done before the election and executing on that would be difficult just given where we are and the level of detail,” Mnuchin said at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Washington, according to Reuters....

The 2015 champions have experienced their worst start to any season in the last two decades, sitting 15th in the 16-club league after picking only three wins and suffering nine defeats in the first round. However, Akunnor believes he has done enough following the arrival of new players as the league returns from the break. They will begin their survival mission with a trip to Wa to lock horns with Wa All Stars on Sunday....

The 19-year-old scored 11 goals for Planners in Zone 3 of Ghana’s Division One League last season, as his side finished third behind winners Great Olympics and Heart of Lions. He was swiftly sent on loan to Estonian giants FC Levadia Tallinn until end of the season, with an option for an additional season. Asiedu insists he is ready to prove himself in the Meistriliiga which kicks off in March....

A recent study found that posts relating to non-suicidal self-injury might be increasing among social media users, especially on Instagram. Posts containing hashtags like #Cutting, #SelfHarm, and #HateMyself in the captions increased in 2018 from around 60,000 posts in January and February to 112,000 in December of that year. Although now three years old, the data suggests that self-harm-related content has been increasing. It also showed that the posts containing self-harm-related hashtags frequently contained other tags related to suicide, depression, general mental distress, anxiety/panic, and eating disorders....

Dr. Velarde: There’s a whole list of healthy lifestyle actions we can recommend. I always start by telling my patients to be proactive. Being engaged with your health and being an informed consumer is a lifestyle choice. Making changes to improve your heart health is hard when you haven’t done it before, but it becomes much easier when you make it part of your lifestyle. When patients come to me for a preventive consultation, I ask them what they hope to get out of the visit....

COVID-19 is the largest global crisis the world has witnessed in generations. But despite the immense deaths and debilitating health impacts brought on by the pandemic, there are still disagreements regarding the virus’s threat. This back-to-school season sees this playing out in real-time, as mask wars rage on. Unfortunately, kids are caught in the middle. Society’s youngest are also at the center of a tricky conversation when it comes to climate change....

France was experiencing its Belle Époque (beautiful age), a period categorized by prosperity, peace and innovation. The capital was awash with glorious fashions and stunning vistas—much like it is today—and Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean Lumière were there to capture it on film. The Lumière Brothers patented the projected motion picture and using their invention, shot footage of the Paris between 1896 and 1900. Although it is fascinating to look at, it was, until now, in black and white....

Using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, experts discovered the “monster” body that was formed just 750 million years after the Big Bang, NASA said in a statement on April 13: “Astronomers have identified a rapidly growing black hole in the early universe that is considered a crucial “missing link” between young star-forming galaxies and the first supermassive black holes. They used data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make this discovery....

That’s high praise and a lofty claim, but the 27-year old was a two-time All-Star and 2015 AL Rookie of the Year for a club that prior to his arrival hadn’t posted a winning season since 2008. On Tuesday night, they wrapped up their third World Series berth in five years after getting shut out 7-0 in Game 6 by the Braves. And though Astros fans, his teammates and others may not want to admit it, to talk about Correa’s time in Houston seemingly needs to be done in the past tense....