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– –<\/span> A Physiotherapist with the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital has cautioned against assuming certain positions during sexual intercourse, especially standing.<\/p>\n According to Hussein Botchway, such positions can lead to health complications such as hypertension and stroke.<\/p>\n He acknowledged that \u201csex is good,\u201d however, \u201cwe need to be mindful of the positioning.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking on Joy FM\u2018s\u00a0Super Morning Show\u00a0on Thursday, he said: \u201cThe positions that we assume during sexual intercourse can lead to conditions like hypertension and stroke. The standing position is not recommended.\u201d<\/p>\n He explained that \u201cif you stand during intercourse the blood has to move against gravity and it has a rippling effect on the pressure on the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n Sex is known to be beneficial because it lowers blood pressure, improves the immune system, improves the health of the heart, and possibly lowers the risk for heart diseases.<\/p>\n It also improves self-esteem, decreases depression and anxiety, increases libido, serves as an immediate or natural pain relief, and allows for better sleep.<\/p>\n These benefits notwithstanding, CEO of Medicas Hospital, Dr. Yaw Osafo, who was also a guest on the show could not agree less with Mr. Botchway.<\/p>\n Dr. Osafo explained that \u201cduring orgasm, your blood pressure can rise by 20 points, so if your starting point is not right. We\u2019ve all heard stories where individuals have collapsed in a room. We don\u2019t know what happened in the room but we can guess.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is simply because your blood pressure can go up by as much as 20 points during orgasm, so make sure that you\u2019re starting right. So sex is not entirely safe. You have to do it under advise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" – – A Physiotherapist with the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital has cautioned against assuming certain positions during sexual intercourse, especially standing. According to Hussein Botchway, such positions can lead to health complications such as hypertension and stroke. He acknowledged that \u201csex is good,\u201d however, \u201cwe need to be mindful of the positioning.\u201d Speaking on Joy FM\u2018s\u00a0Super […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1093064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1639,403,1017,14269,6543,9839],"class_list":["post-1093062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-experts","tag-health","tag-sex","tag-standing","tag-stroke","tag-warn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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