Osteoarthritis is also known as degenerative joint disease or osteoarthrosis. It is the commonest type of arthritis. Osteoarthritis occurs when cartilage in the joints wears…
In my profession, I have diagnosed numerous and varying disorders which are not typically something a primary care doctor would initially send a patient to…
Osteoarthritis is not a single illness but rather the end result of a variety of disorders leading to the structural or functional failure of 1…
What is Lupus? Basically Lupus is a mysterious disease. Often we overlooked this for it smaller signs and symptoms. Actually it is a chronic inflammatory…
Arthritis – specifically osteoarthritis also known as “wear and tear” arthritis – is a sneaky condition. Often progressing slowly, early on the symptoms are subtle,…
Lupus is an autoimmune disease and there are actually several different types of this disease that individuals can suffer from. When most individuals think of…
For many, when the term Arthritis is used, they think of it as only a single disease, but there are in reality over 100 different…
The name arthritis refers to a not only one disease, but to a whole grouping of over 100 different forms of a disease. It is…
I seem to end up spending a lot of time pointing out the faults in mainstream medicine. This I believe is understandable given the numerous…
Most antidepressants are generally safe, but the FDA requires that all antidepressants carry black box warnings, the strictest warnings for prescriptions. In some cases, children,…
Lupus disease is a disorder of the autoimmune system. In these varieties of diseases the immune system begins to attack the body. The result is…
Sensory nerves bring information about pain, heat, cold and other sensory phenomena to the spinal cord from various parts of the body. At least two…
Like normal sensory neurons, nociceptor neurons travel in peripheral sensory nerves. Theircell bodies lie in the dorsal root ganglia of peripheral nerves just inside the spine. As…
The gate control theory of pain, put forward by Ron Melzack and Patrick Wall in 1962, is the idea that physical pain is not a…
The feet which are probably the most abused elements of the body as a lot of the tasks they do, require stress. Strolling, working, jumping,…
There was a time when there wasn’t much a doctor could do for a patient with lupus. But there have been amazing advances since then,…
One physician even remarked that pain is whatever the patient says it is. So let’s just say that pain is a warning sensation to your brain that…
Labors and physical workers use their legs for most of their work. And it is this structure among the various part of the human body…
A pain in foot often indicates that there is something wrong with the interaction of internal structures of the foot as the foot is the…
Three are so many kinds of pains in the body including acute pain and chronic pain. In General, Pain can be classifieds as: MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN Back…