Archive for June, 2008
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Medical terms are often adopted and misused by the general population. One example of such a word is sciatica. This term is used by many people to describe any form of lower back or leg pain. True sciatica refers to pain caused by inflammation or irritation of the sciatic nerve.
The ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
In it's literal sense, Osteoporosis means porous bones. This means that the normal structure of the bone – the hard thick outer shell protecting the honeycomb tiny mesh inside – is weakened and more likely to be damaged. One in Two women and One in Five men over the age ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
We use the word Nausea to mean when we feel sick. But in actual fact, we are using it wrong.
Nausea comes from the Greek word ‘naurela’ meaning seasickness. Its dictionary definition is “a feeling of discomfort in the stomach with an urge to vomit”. Medically it is used ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
When most of us think of MS (Multiple Sclerosis), we think of people in wheelchairs severely disabled. However, in reality only very few of the 2.5 million MS sufferers worldwide (85,000 in the UK) can be recognised in that way; many others will be people you see every day without ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Most of us use the word Migraine to describe a bad headache, but in actual fact Migraines are far more complex than that. A migraine is a ‘primary headache’ – meaning it is not a symptom of another problem, such as a cold. For sufferers, migraines are severely debilitating.
Migraine is ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
If you are asking yourself how fast can you lose weight, the answer is really fast!
I've seen people losing vast amounts of weight in a month, and that only means one thing. It means that you can do it too. Stop postponing it, start now, it doesn't take much to ...
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