Top Ten Squidoo Health Lenses

I am a little behind the times and just recently created my first Squidoo lens that falls under the Health & Medicine category. Squidoo is a free tool that resembles a blog and you have the option to customize it with many features provided by Squidoo. What makes Squidoo stand out is that the lenses created get indexed by Google quickly and Google places a lot of value on the information on Squidoo. This results in your lens topic possibly ranking higher in the search engines and gaining a lot of exposure.

I started my Squidoo lens on chronic illness to provide an extra resource to people who are living with chronic illness. I link back to my own personal website and have an RSS Feed on my Squidoo lens that takes readers back to my site. It is a great way to build traffic and a following to your main sites.

As passionate as I am about health-related issues, I had to find out what the top ten Squidoo lenses were on Squidoo. If you are interested in health issues or just want to learn how to build a better health lens on Squidoo, check out these popular lenses and their content.

Always refer to your physician for treatment advice. These lenses are for educational and information purposes only.

#10 - The Psoas Muscle & Back Pain

The author of this popular lens is a professional Massage Therapist and Bodyworker for the past 25 years. His lens talks about the importance of the Psoas muscle and how it relates to back pain. His lens is a resource for both patients and therapists on how to treat back pain and more information on the most important muscle in the body.

#9 - Loss, Grief & Bereavement

The author of Loss, Grief & Bereavement is a physician and an expert in life challenges, loss, grief and bereavement, professional health educator, professor, lecturer and author.

This popular and informative lens talks about one area that many physicians avoid - the emotional aspects of loss and death. Dr. Dyer explores the different types of loss on her lens and shares the normal responses to grief.

#8 - Ultimate Japanese Men Hairstyle Styling Guide

A passion for illustration and design is behind the author of this lens. The Ultimate Japanese Men Hairstyle Styling Guide is a step-by-step styling guide for Asian men and information gallery. This lens has some great pictures and great videos.

#7 - Tubal Reversal - Tubal Ligation Reversal

The author of this lens is a physician and a Reproductive Surgeon Director. The lens focuses on tubal ligation reversal. Many people believe that once the tubes are tied, the chances of ever having children again are gone. This lens provides information and resources on getting a tubal ligation and great resources and videos.

#6 - How To Lose 10 Pounds | A Review Of Diet Strategies To Lose 10 Pounds

The author of this lens wants to show people how they can lose 10 pounds in as little as 3 days to two weeks. Some of his methods seem rather drastic, but as the author says, if you want to lose weight quickly drastic measures are the only way it's going to come off. He has his topics broken up into different timeframes to lose weight up to losing 10 pounds in a month.

The lens provides several resources on weight loss and you can leave feedback at the bottom of the lens if you like what you see (or if you don't like what you see!).

#5 - Long Term Care for People You Love

The author of Long Term Care for People You Love is a son who dedicated his lens to his father. He is writing on long term care from an experienced person's point of view, which is often the most influencing.

On this lens, you can learn everything there is to know surrounding long term care including assessment, options, and implementation. There are a lot of great resources and links to books and other items needed for long term care.

#4 - The Complete Guide to Functional Fitness

The author of this popular lens is a Fitness Specialist. Here is what Todd Langer has to say about The Complete Guide to Functional Fitness. "The information on this lens is meant to be thought provoking; however, don't worry it's NOT overly intellectualized hogwash. The Complete Guide to Functional Fitness takes a biological, psychological, sociological, and, at times, irreverent look at Functional Fitness."

This lens is filled with a ton of functional fitness information and resources.

#3 - Sex Education NOW!

The author of this lens has over 15 years experience in alternative and sex-positive culture and completed a sex information education program.

This very popular lens talks about the need for sex education, particularly out of the home. The lens talks about responsibility for safe sex and that sex education doesn't lead to more sex. This is another lens packed full of resources and plenty of informational links viewers can click on.

#2 - Smoking Should Be Banned In All Public Places

The author of this lens is passionate about smoking being banned in all public places, as I agree it should be. If someone wants to put their own health at risk - fine, but don't put the health of me or my family at risk. There are a lot of great comments on this site from people who both approve and disapprove of smoking being banned.

#1 - Multiple Sclerosis - Resources for Living With MS & Staying Well

The author of this lens is a Multiple Sclerosis patient who has had to retire due to her illness. She became ill with MS at the young age of 18 and noticed her first symptoms while she was serving in the military.

This lens explains in great detail the different forms of MS, diagnosing MS, includes polls and other great resources. You Tube videos and other patient information gives new diagnosed patients, and veteran MS patients, a great place to fall back on for support.