For patients and caregivers, understanding clinical progression, diagnostic imaging results, and pharmacological treatment options is vital for managing acute and chronic health conditions.
Your muscles are strong, tough fibers. However, frequent use, strain and pressure can stretch your muscles too far, resulting in an overuse injury. This injury type is most common in your back and in the muscles in the back of your legs, which are subject to pressure while you exercise.
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Think of a bone in your body like a wooden stick -- the larger and denser the stick, the harder it is to break. As you age, however, the hormones that signal your body to build bone start to diminish in production, which can make your bones less dense and more injury-prone.
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Also known as water pills, diuretics are medications recommended to treat a number of conditions where your body’s ability to regulate water is affected, such as kidney disease.
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Stomach flu, or gastroenteritis, occurs when your infant’s digestive tract becomes inflamed. This condition can cause a number of unpleasant symptoms, including diarrhea, vomiting, fever and chills. If the stomach flu is accompanied by a cough, you need to take further steps to care for your infant.
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After you finish a tough workout, you should feel sore and a little worn out — like you have challenged your muscles but will recover with time. While muscles spasms or twitching may be normal, explosions that make you feel like your muscles are about to jump out of your skin are not.
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Nighttime tooth pain can be caused by a number of factors, not all necessarily related to a problem with your tooth. When you experience this pain, knowing its causes and when to seek help can help you find relief.
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You rely on your knees to support your movements during a workout. When you experience pain after exercising, you may be concerned that an underlying condition exists.
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Crestor and its generic form, rosuvastatin, are cholesterol-lowering drugs known as a statins. These medications lower low-density lipoprotein, or bad, cholesterol while increasing high-density lipoprotein, or good, cholesterol.
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Your child should drink fluids to help him recover from the tummy troubles that cause vomiting, diarrhea or constipation. While milk is often a go-to drink for many children, it may not be the best option as clear liquids are a better choice for minimizing stomach upset.
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Muscle spasms occur when your muscles contract involuntarily. This occurrence can be both painful and alarming, especially when you have just finished an exercise routine and may be concerned that you have experienced a muscle injury.
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Lower back pain can stem from your spine and the sacroiliac joint that connects the bottom of your spine with your pelvis. At its most painful, your back can feel locked in place, as if it won’t rotate easily from your right-turning position.
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Your foot and ankle are comprised of many small bones that work together during exercise to help you run, shift your weight and jump. Because exercise places extra pressure on foot and ankle joints, ligaments, muscles and tendons, the feet are subject to injury, swelling and pain.
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Blisters form when there is a separation in the upper layers of the skin. Fluid collects where the skin layers have separated, forming a bubble -- the blister. As the name implies, a blood blister has some blood within the skin bubble caused by injury to tiny blood vessels in the skin.
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Both Motrin and Midol are well-known medications utilized for their ability to treat pain. Motrin is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that is utilized to treat fever, aches and pains related to illness, headaches or toothaches.
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Blood clots occur when your blood transitions from a liquid to a solid. This is a dangerous occurrence because a blood clot can break off from a vein and travel to the heart or lung, which can result in death. Exercising frequently is vital to blood clot prevention and treatment.
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Constipation is an unpleasant digestive condition that makes having a bowel movement difficult. This occurs most often when you have not been drinking enough fluids, eating enough fiber or exercising, among other lifestyle factors.
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Zinc is an essential mineral in your diet responsible for providing structure to proteins and to help enzymes in your body speed up chemical reactions.
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You rely on your contact lenses to provide crystal clear vision that you can wear daily. However, contacts require careful maintenance to prevent protein buildup. Proteins are naturally found in your tears and can bind to your contacts, according to Contact Lens Answers.
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Your legs consist of a number of veins that can become thickened and hardened over time, according to ePodiatry.com. When this occurs, you may experience poor leg circulation, which causes pain and cramping in the legs.
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A bone spur is a bony growth that can appear along the edge of any bone. Also known as osteophytes, bone spurs do not always cause pain.
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