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    Chief Complaint Followup for inpatient stay for "complicated migraine". History Patient is a 54-year-old right-handed white female who has a long history of migraine headaches. She states she had headaches as a child. When she started having her menses‚ they became menstrually related. It would also occur during ovulation. For a while‚ she was on Topamax and other medications. She went through menopause four years ago with a marked decrease in her migraine frequency. She did note that in

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    Cause Of Dementia Essay

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    (Alzheimer’s Association). Alzheimer’s contains a high number of hallmark abnormalities‚ including “deposits of the protein fragment beta-amyloid and twisted strands of the protein tau” (Alzheimer’s Association). Vascular dementia is typically caused by strokes and/or instances that cause blood vessel complications‚ and dementia with lewy bodies contains clumps of alpha-synuclein on the cortex (“Dementia”). Furthermore‚ there is mixed dementia‚ Parkinson’s disease dementia‚ and frontotemporal dementia that

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    Migraine Headache Essay

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    A migraine headache is a recurrent throbbing headache that usually affects one side of the head and is usually accompanied by nausea and disturbed vision. Migraine headaches can cause pain that can last for hours to days and can be so severe that all you can think about is spending some time in a dark‚ quiet place. Migraines can be accompanied by warning signs‚ like flashing lights‚ or tinging in your arm or legs. Usually patients with chronic headache often do not come back to normal neurologic

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    Fall Risk Assessment

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    study will focus on protecting patients from falls and fall-related injuries after stroke. At first I would identify the patients who are at great risk of fall currently and after going back to the community. I will use the Morse Fall Risk Assessment (MFA) to initially identify fall risk patients in my unit. In fact at Acute Rehab Unit all patients are considered to be at high risk of fall‚ there is no question about stroke patients. CDC’s Injury Center has created a tool kit‚ called STEADI (Stopping

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    Localised Chest Pain

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    And the incidence of clinical consequences of atherosclerosis such as ischemic heart disease rises with age‚ especially after the age of 40 (Chambless et al.‚ 1997). It is much more common in men in comparison to women and the important risk factors that predispose towards atherosclerosis include smoking‚ hypertension‚ diabetes

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    Introduction In this paper I will be discussing a patient who at 49 years of age became incapacitated by a left sided cerebrovascular accident (CVA) following a motor vehicle accident. To keep her identity completely confidential‚ I will be referring to her as Mary. I will not refer to any medical staff or buildings by name for this same reason. Mary had two seizures while in hospital recovering from the motor vehicle accident (MVA). Mary ’s recovery was progressing normally but was compromised

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    Benefits of Exercise

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    We’ve all heard it before‚ "Exercise is good for you because...." Nowadays you can’t check out at the grocery store or do much of anything without being reminded that we mortal humans need to exercise. Still‚ we persist‚ procrastinate and eventually complain that we’re overweight‚ sick‚ dying‚ etc. Listen. Some exercise is better than none‚ more exercise is generally better than less‚ and no exercise can be disastrous. No one is asking for you to start a rigorous daily regimen‚ just do something

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    Aphasia is a language disorder that results from damage to portions of the brain that are responsible for language. For most people‚ these are parts of the left side (hemisphere) of the brain. Aphasia usually occurs suddenly‚ often as the result of a stroke or head injury‚ but it may also develop slowly‚ as in the case of a brain tumor. The disorder impairs the expression and understanding of language as well as reading and writing. "Aphasia may co-occur with speech disorders such as dysarthria or apraxia

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    stress on their cardiovascular system. They are at a high risk for heart disease. Aspirin treatments can be used to control these risks. Strokes and Transient Ischemic Attacks are also common causes of death. The prognosis for children diagnosed with progeria is fairly grim. Most children with the disease die by age fourteen‚ often as a result of heart disease or strokes due to arteriosclerosis (3). However‚ specific symptoms can be controlled to allow for a better quality of life for patients. Additionally

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    Structured Report on the Health Benefits of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption. Introduction: The importance of the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables as a means of preventing disease has been known since at least 1747 when a ships surgeon‚ James Lind carried out an experiment which conclusively proved that citrus fruit prevented scurvy. According to Lind‚ scurvy caused more deaths in the British navy than French and Spanish arms combined. He gave some crew members two oranges and one lemon

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