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The Stendhal, Diogenes or Stockholm are probably three of the best known by the general population syndromes. However, like these, there are other disorders of the most curious and strange that affect many more people than we can think.

1. Syndrome cinema seat

When you wake up after a movie, a flight or a long meeting, do you anterior knee pain? It is likely to suffer the syndrome cinema seat, a malaise that often occurs when walking after prolonged sitting in the same position period.

How to prevent: "keep good muscle tone (a strong quadriceps helps stabilize the kneecap), control your weight, check your posture and examine your shoes" - Fernando Ramos, Chiron Hospital physiotherapist A Coruña.

2. Nomofobia

What you do first before sleeping and awakening is nothing consult your mobile? Have sense of anguish, anxiety or irrepressible need to go home if you have forgotten your smartphone or your battery is running low? If so, you are suffering nomofobia, dependence on mobile phone in the extreme.

How to prevent: "New technologies are useful tools, but can not become a health problem. Turn off the phone and sleeping during the day, try the prime reality on the virtual world "- Antonio de Dios, Chiron Hospital psychologist Marbella.

3. Dry eye syndrome

It is an inability to maintain lacrimal system lubricated and protected ocular surface. Dry eye syndrome is manifested by foreign body sensation, redness, tearing, and ocular dryness.

How to prevent: "Apply artificial tears and remember, whenever you use a screen, maintain a minimum clearance of 50 cm." - Marta Calatayud, Chiron Oftalmològic ophthalmologist Institut Barcelona.

4. Restless Legs Syndrome

¿Need strong, almost irresistible, to move your legs when you are relaxed or while you sleep? You could belong to 10% of European adults who suffer from restless leg syndrome (RLS) or Ekbom syndrome, a disorder whose unpleasant and uncomfortable sensations in the legs can reach the pain.

How to prevent: "keep in check your iron levels because, although the cause is usually unknown, it is known that iron deficiency is a common factor in the development of RLS" - Joaquín Serrano, Chiron Hospital internist A Coruna.

5. Bruxism

Headaches on waking, damage to the jaw, earaches, alignment problems and poor condition of the teeth ... The bruxism (jaw clenching and teeth grinding involuntarily) these symptoms reflect a state of significant anxiety.

How to prevent: "make everyday use of relaxation techniques, physical exercise, adrenaline and used to discharge splints at night" - Antoni Arcas, oral and maxillofacial surgeon Chiron Hospital Universitari Dexeus.

6. Empty Nest Syndrome

Feeling of abandonment, loss and loneliness when one or more children leave home? Surely you suffer an empty nester, something like a stage of grief experienced by parents when their offspring become independent.

How to prevent: "As a parent, you should fill the gap that will cause the progress of your son when he gets older with other activities, hobbies, roles do you reinvent yourself" - Antonio de Dios, Chiron Hospital psychologist Marbella.

7. Finger Blackberry

Whatsapps, emails, social networks ... without realizing it, spend hours typing on your smartphone. Notice the overload in your thumbs? Care, could lead to the so-called "finger of Blackberry", formerly known as osteoarthritis of the seamstresses.

How to prevent: "use your mobile resting it on the surface of a table, using all the fingers to write on it and be strong because the position of your wrist neutral" - Fernando Ramos, Chiron Hospital physiotherapist A Coruña.

8. syndrome showcase

If while walking legs ask you to stand at a certain distance, always the same, and improvements to rest for a few minutes before continuing your journey, you may suffer disease called window or intermittent claudication, a symptom of obstructive disease arteries of the lower extremities.

How to prevent: 'do not smoke, avoid being overweight at bay and keep your stress levels, sugar and cholesterol "- Alejandro Moro, vascular surgeon Chiron Hospital La Coruna.

9. Syndrome orange peel

Perhaps you know by its more common name: cellulite. This is the rough, irregular, dimpled and nodules at the level of the skin surface in certain areas of the body such as buttocks, thighs or hips look.

How to prevent: "change your bad habits (fast food, sedentary lifestyle and toxic as snuff or alcohol), properly hydrate your skin in the affected areas and, depending on the severity, go to techniques such as mesotherapy, liposuction ultrasound, pressotherapy or lymphatic drainage. Your dermatologist will advise "- Nayra Merino, Chiron Hospital dermatologist Tenerife.

10. Computer Syndrome

The technological advances of modern life do you spend much time in front of screens of electronic devices. This high visual demand, coupled with environmental factors, results in a set of symptoms - dry eyes, headache, eyestrain, blurred and double vision - that make up the computer visual syndrome.

How to prevent: "is constantly blinking while you work, use artificial tears do not abuse the heating / air conditioning and makes small breaks every hour in front of the screen" - Emanuel Barbera Eye Center ophthalmologist Chiron A Coruna.

11. Chinese restaurant syndrome

¿Headache, flushing, generalized sweating after eating oriental food?
It is very likely due to the Chinese restaurant syndrome. It is caused by monosodium glutamate, a flavor enhancer in the food it produces a very special taste known as "umami" ("savory taste" in Japanese) which, once absorbed, alters the excitability of the cerebral cortex and regulation blood supply to the brain, triggering, therefore, migraine.

How to prevent: "avoid the food high in MSG and fermented or cured as the ripe tomatoes, parmesan cheese and blue cheese food" - Diego Ruiz, a neurologist at Hospital Chiron Palmaplanas.

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This information was drawn from the reflections of the doctors: Alejandro Moro (vascular surgeon • Hospital Chiron A Coruna), Antoni Arcas (oral and maxillofacial surgeon • Chiron Hospital Universitari Dexeus), Antonio de Dios (psychologist • Hospital Chiron Marbella) , Diego Ruiz (neurologist • Hospital Chiron Palmaplanas) Emanuel Barbera (Chiron Eye Center ophthalmologist • A Coruna), Fernando Ramos (physiotherapist • Hospital Chiron A Coruna), Joaquin Serrano (Chiron Hospital internist • A Coruna), Marta Calatayud (ophthalmologist • Chiron Oftalmològic Institut Barcelona) and Nayra Merino (dermatologist • Hospital Chiron Tenerife).
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