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  • Poor posture
    #REDIRECT [[Poor posture - a common cause of low back pain. How to correct it]]
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  • Poor posture - a common cause of low back pain. How to correct it
    The following is a summary of an excellent book "Treat Your Own Back " by Robin McKenzie. He has also written "Treat Your Own Neck". ...eat-Your-Back-Robin-McKenzie/dp/0987650408 Amazon Link for "Treat Your Own Back"]'''
    3 KB (553 words) - 06:57, 15 June 2022
  • The acute abdomen - a surgical emergency
    An acute abdomen is indicated by severe constant abdominal pain, sometimes with colicky exacerbations during which the patient is obviously ...used to ask my children with tummy pain if they can hop on one leg without pain: if they can, it makes appendicitis unlikely)
    5 KB (719 words) - 08:55, 31 October 2022
  • Prolotherapy
    ...d sclerotherapy which produced scar tissue to stabilise joints and relieve pain.'' ...(attachment to the bone) - the weakest point. If laxity is not corrected, pain receptors in the ligaments are constantly stimulated by movement, and muscl
    4 KB (595 words) - 14:12, 24 November 2022
  • Exercises – the big four which take 12 minutes to do
    ...exercise – if there is, then the exercise needs modifying or missing out. Pain means damage and use will make that worse. ...between 45-90 seconds. Learn to recognise the lactic burn - any different pain and stop!
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  • Exercise - the big four which take 12 minutes to do
    ...exercise – if there is, then the exercise needs modifying or missing out. Pain means damage and use will make that worse. ...between 45-90 seconds. Learn to recognise the lactic burn - any different pain and stop!
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  • Exercises – the big four which take 12 minutes to do!
    ...exercise – if there is, then the exercise needs modifying or missing out. Pain means damage and use will make that worse. ...between 45-90 seconds. Learn to recognise the lactic burn - any different pain and stop!
    6 KB (1,124 words) - 08:31, 29 June 2022
  • Back pain - you must first exclude a serious diagnosis
    ...tment. The questions which always go through my head in every case of back pain are: ==='''Referred pain from chest or gout or skin'''===
    8 KB (1,444 words) - 08:56, 4 December 2023
  • Ankylosing spondylitis
    ...n 10 may not have any inflammation visible on MRI despite symptoms of back pain. Some may never go on to develop visible inflammation on MRI. The reasons * It starts with stiffness in the lower back, worse in the morning and improving as the day progresses.
    7 KB (1,161 words) - 13:07, 3 March 2022
  • Allergic muscles
    ...uted to damage, when actually it is sensitisation. So a torn muscle in the back from, say, lifting a heavy load could sensitise to, say, dairy products and ...d up of toxic metabolites, which causes more pain and the muscles react to pain with further spasm.
    6 KB (992 words) - 08:24, 11 December 2023
  • Pancreatitis - often a forgotten diagnosis
    ...pancreatitis is felt centrally in the abdomen and radiates through to the back. Inflammation causes release of enzymes which can be measured and are a rel
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  • Pulmonary embolus - blood clot to the lung - causes
    ...t one part of the lung loses its blood supply and one gets sudden onset of pain, shortness of breath and sometimes haemoptysis (coughing blood). Depending ...th pitting oedema (leaves a thumbprint). Stretching the calf muscle causes pain. The blockage of the vein is not serious - the problem arises if the clot b
    3 KB (441 words) - 12:44, 31 October 2022
  • Gall bladder disease and gall stones
    ...l hours. The pain may be so severe as to require admission to hospital for pain control with morphine. Admission may also be necessary if the vomiting is s Tests taken at the time of the pain may show raised white cell count (sign of inflammation - ask for haematolog
    5 KB (801 words) - 07:58, 4 December 2023
  • Magnesium Per Rectum
    ...tiny amount of the liquid and slowly increasing the dose, thus giving the back passage time to get used to the experience! Magnesium is well absorbed thro ...the same response as from a magnesium injection, but of course without the pain. It does work for a useful proportion of CFS patients and so is well worth
    3 KB (590 words) - 07:53, 16 November 2022
  • Migraine - diagnosis and treatment
    ...etoclopramide), or they need to be given injected, or per rectum. See '''[[Pain]]''' ...ine is the classical example of ''"the last straw which breaks the camel's back"''. There may be several causes of migraine and if they all come together a
    8 KB (1,244 words) - 08:44, 4 December 2023
  • Blurred vision - the common causes
    *Macular degeneration - loss of the light detecting neurones at the back of the eye. This sort of blurring cannot be corrected by glasses as the act ...ss. (I am thinking of a detached retina, optic neuritis, bleeding into the back of the eye or stroke, glaucoma, temporal arteritis etc)
    5 KB (742 words) - 08:21, 11 December 2023
  • Heartburn - at last I have sussed out why this is such a common problem
    In this condition, the patient experiences pain behind the breast bone, particularly after eating as a result of the acid c ...ours in acid to allow digestion of proteins to take place and the pH falls back down to its normal value of 2. The key to understanding GORD is the pyloric
    6 KB (1,007 words) - 12:15, 8 September 2022
  • Polymyalgia rheumatica - a common cause of shoulder and hip problems
    ...ch affects older people, usually over the age of 60, causing stiffness and pain of the muscles and joints round the shoulders and/or hips. It is worse in t ...With PMR the patient is often much better within 24 hours. Not only is the pain and stiffness gone, but often they feel much better in themselves.
    4 KB (781 words) - 09:06, 1 September 2023
  • Veins, lymphatics, swollen ankles, phlebitis and venous thrombosis
    ...n the veins are squeezed, the blood is moved in the right direction - i.e. back towards the heart. ...in from the whole body via lymph nodes to the thoracic duct and eventually back into the main vein of the body - the superior vena cava. Lymphatic evolved
    5 KB (831 words) - 08:14, 10 October 2022
  • Arthritis - Nutritional treatments
    "Arthritis" simply means pain in the joints. It names a symptom and is not a diagnosis; it therefore begs =='''Be careful with pain-killers'''==
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