An acute illness versus a chronic illness has always been a definition I could easily define. Acute illnesses are sudden and often severe‚ for example an asthma attack or a broken bone. Chronic illnesses are prolonged and develop over time‚ such as asthma or osteoporosis. A chronic condition can develop into acute conditions as well; a child who has asthma could come into the ER with an exacerbation of their chronic condition‚ which is now an acute condition‚ an asthma attack. The way acute and chronic
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Juliet Acosta Health and Lifestyle 101 Research Project #1 Issue #13: “Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome?” Abortion remains to be one of the most controversially debated issues internationally. Pro-life and pro-choice groups continue to research and contemplate whether the information of the relationship between abortion and depression has quantifiable data. Pro-life groups advocate that the correlation between abortion and mental distress in women is in fact valid due to multiple
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Regardless of your age‚ hip pain can be debilitating. The hip joint is one of the most complex joints in the body. It is also critical to your ability to be mobile. In other words‚ to get around successfully. There are many different things that can cause hip pain. The potential causes include strains‚ osteoarthritis‚ referred pain from other joints‚ inflamed bursa and femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). Any of these can require professional treatment. Conservative treatment would start with noninvasive
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hopeless * Aches and pains
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he heard cracking sound and felt pain and burning in his low back. He is status post anterior retroperitoneal exposure of the L5-S1 space with mobilization of the bilateral iliac vein and artery on 10/02/12. Per OMNI‚ he was declared MMI on 09/18/13. Based on the progress report dated 03/02/16‚ the patient reports increased pain for about a week. He rates the pain 5/10 with medications and 8/10 without. He is interested in some PT to help with the pain. The pain is in the low back and occasionally
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The difference between acute care and chronic care is the duration of times needed for treatment and the approach taken by the medical professionals. The goals of recovery are typically very similar‚ while the maintenance of the conditions can vary greatly. In both of these scenarios there can be a large impact on the patient’s life or lifestyle that must be compensated for along with the treatment for the illness and education for prevention and maintenance. In acute care‚ an individual’s
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Gun control advocates do have a moral obligation to reveal their true intentions regarding the ultimate consequences and potentially obscure implications of the policies that they espouse. By attempting to prohibit firearms incrementally‚ yet failing to inform the public of their true intentions‚ these organizations deceive and manipulate individuals who only support moderate gun controls into unknowingly advancing a cause (prohibition of guns) that they may not necessarily stand for (Kleck‚ 2001)
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Owing to significant co-morbidities‚ it was not a clear cut pre-op clearance. The patient also wanted to address an acute shoulder injury. The physician had to tell him that he does not have enough time to address the shoulder injury as there is another patient waiting. However‚ the patient waiting was the last patient of the day and so the physician would gladly return
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If not for atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ perhaps great directors like Yasujiro Ozu‚ Akira Kurosawa would not surfaced out‚ and golden age of Japan’s cinema would never be revealed. Techniques from these great directors would have not been discovered or ‘re-invented’ into something more innovative. Director such as Kenji Mizoguchi whom uses both directors’ camera technique mentioned above‚ would not appeared if the war wasn’t there. In 1940‚ Japan joined the Axis powers Germany and
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Lifestyle related death. Per the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2014)‚ the lifestyle choses that have been found to contribute to death in America include prescription addiction‚ taking unnecessary risks (i.e.: not wearing protective gear when riding a motorcycle)‚ smoking‚ drinking‚ poor diet‚ being overweight‚ insufficient physical activity‚ and excessive sun exposure (i.e.: laying out outside or in a tanning bed‚ working outside in the sun) (par. 6- 12). To have a better health outcome
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