diagnosis and treatment can slow the process‚ ward off complications and improve quality of life. New therapies are on the way‚ but simple prevention is the best treatment of all. After all‚ what is more important than preserving the breath of life? (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: It Takes Your Breath way 1-4). Emphysema is increasing in the United States‚ Canada and other developed countries primarily because of cigarette smoking. It is almost entirely a disease
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Pain is a notoriously difficult symptom for doctors to evaluate‚ because every patient experiences and describes pain differently. This poses a challenge when diagnosing conditions such as fibromyalgia for which pain is a primary symptom. Doctors have learned‚ however‚ that fibromyalgia patients tend to experience pain in certain parts of the body‚ referred to as "tender points." There are nine pairs of tender points throughout the body‚ or 18 in total. The American College of Rheumetology suggests
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a patient could be given due to the pain‚ and how they are treated. As you may know‚ pain can vary from acute‚ subacute‚ to chronic given the frequency of the pain. Affliction may also be categorized as dull or sharp given its’ severity. “The
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of cannabis. People who have cancer‚ aids‚ Cerebral palsy‚ Alzheimer’s disease‚ and other chronic diseases are allowed to use marijuana as like a medicine‚ or an antibiotic. People with cancer for an example can take in marijuana before there chemotherapy to calm them down and not be scared or in pain while in chemo. Marijuana can take pain away from people who have cerebral palsy instead of taking pain killers which can be bad tasting or hard to swallow. Patients can recive a doctor recommendation
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studies have shown an increased rate of depression and schizophrenia in habitual marijuana users (Marijuana|drugfacts|national Institute On Drug Abuse‚ 2010).Patients already dealing with pain issues should not be put at risk of depression symptoms as the drop in mood could easily outweigh the benefits of pain management. Marijuana use greatly increases the heart rate of the user for a one to three hour period immediately after usage and can be dangerous in patients with heart conditions (Marijuana|drugfacts|national
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diabetes‚ and arthritis are the most common‚ costly‚ and preventable chronic diseases in the United States. Seventy percent of the total deaths in the U.S. are attributed to chronic diseases and fifty percent of that deaths are due to heart disease and stroke. Total expenditure for treatment of chronic diseases is $277 billion (Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion‚ 2012). Disease management is the key factor in managing these chronic conditions and improving the quality of life. Health care providers
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after every person who listens to their music. In all these years of rap though there are three people who took the most criticism from the public. Dr. Dre was one‚ after N.W.A. broke up he went on to do his own thing‚ and after he released "The Chronic" he became a star. He took rap to a higher level where it never been before and I think that scared a lot of people. He was rapping about drive by’s‚ having sex with hundreds of women‚ drinking alcohol all day and so on. By this time the crime rate
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Pain The statement made by Diane Ackerman “Being able to withstand pain depends to a considerable extent on culture and tradition‚ “means that the pain people feel can basically be in the mind because of the way they were brought up and what they have seen and heard in their upcoming. People really don’t know anything different besides their cultures and traditions. In Diane Ackerman’s essay she provides multiple examples to prove this statement but I will only share two. The first example she
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Intervention to Life Cycle 1 Chronic Illnesses Radames Rodriguez Rosario M00304263 Interamerican University Intervention to Life Cycle Intervention to Life Cycle 2 Chronic Illnesses Even though chronic conditions vary in severities‚ anyone from a teenager to the elderly can be healthy and competent if they do the proper treatment for their conditions. Not every treatment will be affective to every client but as nurses‚ we must try to maximize the development of improvement in the health and
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Chronic disease has become a national concern in the health care system‚ especially with the elderly population. It has become very costly and will continue to raise costs since today’s technology assists in patients living much longer. According to Curtin and Lubkin (1995)‚ “Chronic illness is the irreversible presence‚ accumulation‚ or latency of disease states or impairments that involve the total human environment for supportive care and self-care‚ maintenance of function‚ and prevention of further
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