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Foraminal Stenosis: Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment Options, and Home Remedies

What is foraminal stenosis? Foraminal stenosis, also referred to as neural foraminal stenosis, is a narrowing of the foramen. The foramen, put simply, is the area between the vertebrae – the hole - from...

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Preventing and Understanding Lower Back Pain

What do do about back pain? When to get medical help for back pain? What causes lower back pain? This hub on preventing lower back pain answers those questions and more.

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Inversion Tables-Simple Home Remedies

Do inversion tables really work? For many people yes. For me it certainly did. Lower back pain in middle age can be painful, debilitating and can zap your energy and willpower. There are many frightening...

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Which procedure to choose? Bypass surgery or angioplasty

Bypass surgery (CABG) as the name suggests is a surgical procedure in which blood vessel(s) from the chest or leg is/are grafted to the coronary artery beyond its most diseased segments. On the other hand,...

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Ileus

Clinical Features. Mechanical or obstruction ileus causes colicky abdominal pain, frequently with periumbilical localization. Intestinal colic, which results from painful contraction of the intestine to...

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What is Stroke - Symptoms, Signs, Risk Factors of Stroke

I would not be wrong in saying that stroke is one of the least understood conditions among other similar life-threatening, life-changing conditions such as heart disease, cancer, etc. The American Heart...

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What Is Fibromuscular Dysplasia?

This condition is called FMD and in layman's terms means that one of your arteries has abnormal cells in it which grow in the arterial wall.  These clusters of abnormal cells cause the artery to narrow thus...

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Chronic Pain

Chronic Pain is a complex phenomenon that over the years has proven to be quite difficult to define by health care professionals, as well as being equally challenging to describe by those who suffer with it....

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Spinal Stenosis Treatment--The Different Methods of Treating Spinal Stenosis

The goal of a spinal stenosis treatment is to relieve pain, numbness, and weakness in the lower back and the legs, as well as improve the overall quality of life.  Spinal stenosis is the narrowing of...

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Stenosis of the Spine--The Basics of Spinal Stenosis

Stenosis of the spine is a condition that results from the narrowing of the spine. Oftentimes, spinal stenosis can be a debilitating condition that causes pain, decreased quality of life, weakness, and...

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