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Lumbago and lower back pain
Lumbago is a back pain which affects 80% of the world population at some time or and is therefore the the most common of back pain problems and it is thought to be responsible for the majority of case...
16/06/2010 Non specific low back pain
The lower back is made up from muscles that attach to and surround the spine, in what is referred to as the lumbosacral area. The spine is made up of many bones called vertebrae. The varies attachment...
15/06/2010 Osteoporosis and back pain
Back Pain occurs in sufferers of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a medical condition significant for the reduction in bone mass that results from it, the bones of sufferers of osteoporosis become weaker...
14/06/2010 Ankylosing spondylitis and back pain
Ankylosing spondylitis is considered by the medical profession to be a very serious spinal and back pain condition. Each person will experience it in a different way, but it is always associated with...
11/06/2010 Degenerative disc disease and back pain.
Degenerative disc disease is a problem which afflicts many people and often they are unaware they have it, unless they have back pain. This is because there is not always back pain present with it. It...
10/06/2010 Scoliosis and Back Pain
Back pain can occur due to Scoliosis of the spine, if the condition persists into adulthood and remains untreated and neglected. Scoliosis of the spine is relatively common, affecting approximately 2%...
08/06/2010 Stress of Trauma
Stress which transpires through trauma is defined by psychologists as a particular category of stress. The word trauma can itself be viewed as a subjective phenomenon, because any event can be seen as...
28/05/2010 Stress Burnout
When stress becomes so acute that its no longer possible to deal with the pressure one experiences what is referred to as burnout. This stress involves a feeling of being drained of emotional resource...
27/05/2010 Stress and the Immune system
There is an area of medical research which associates psychological stress to a compromised immune system. This is called psychoneuroimmunology or PNI. Various studys are revealing a correlation betwe...
26/05/2010 consequences of stress
Prolonged stress can effect health in one of two ways. Stress is able to seriously damage health and it also effects our ability to work properly. In todays modern society stress induced coronary hear...
25/05/2010 What stresses you
Sometimes it may feel like stress is over rated, over played and over emphasised. this will be true of many of you appear to manage stress regardless of how intense it may be for you. This is because ...
24/05/2010 Measuring Stress
Stress is difficult to define, but even more difficult to measure. It usually involves the individual feeling stress being able to report on their own feelings, thoughts, behaviour and actions connect...
21/05/2010 The stress of Bereavement
The death of a very close family member is recognised as being, one of the most stress filled events of life. Research into the first six months after the death of a spouse, partner, parent or child h...
21/05/2010 Sources of stress
Stress has major impact on the lives of many people, and its often helpful to identify the stress source although that is easier to say than to actually do. Its often helpful for a person to reflect u...
19/05/2010 The physical effects of stress
Although, we are not conciously aware, stress does in fact have physical effects upon the body. To illustrate this fact, and if you are able to, think back to the times of prehistoric man, and conside...
18/05/2010 A definition of stress
People tend to define stress as a modern day response, but its been a word in use for many hundreds of years, documented by physicians, apothercaries and psychotherapists of old. In the middle ages st...
17/05/2010 Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is chronic pain of muscle and connective tissue. It can be accompanied by heighted sensitivity to pressure, difficulty swallowing, sleep disturbance, joint stiffness, bowel and bladder p...
14/05/2010 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a combination of chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Two disease conditions which exist in the same body together. It is characterised by the narrowing of...
14/05/2010 Crohns Disease
Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory condition of the intestinal tract, that can in fact effect any area from the mouth to the anus. It is believed to be autoimmune in nature, and its symptoms vary from...
14/05/2010 Knee Pain
Knee replacements or Knee arthroplasty are done to alleviate the pain and disability of osteoarthritis. The procedure can be used for other knee related conditions, such as cartilage defects and ligam...
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