Leprosy‚ also known as Hansen’s Disease‚ is a medical condition that basically attacksthe surface nerves of an individual‚ causing a feeling of numbness and lack of sensation. Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae. This disease is acquired‚ transmitted and spread by common airborne infections such as sneezing and coughing. The most evident primary symptom of leprosy is the appearance of a patch on the skin‚ commonly associated with loss of feeling or sensation. Most people think that people
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Hippocrates‚ the father of medicine‚ first recognized what a stroke over 2‚400 years ago. At this time it was called ’apoplexy’’‚ which means "struck down by violence" in Greek. This was due to the fact that a person developed sudden paralysis and change in well-being. Physicians had little knowledge of the anatomy and function of the brain‚ the cause of stroke‚ or how to treat it. (internet no 1-3-10) It was not until the mid-1600s
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CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT Cerebrovascular accident‚ termed as “brain attack‚” is also referred to as Stroke. Stroke is a sudden loss of function resulting from a disruption of the blood supply to a localized part of the brain. The mortality and morbidity of CVA in the Philippines is relatively low. There are two types of stroke: 1. Ischemic Stroke is a disruption of the blood supply due to an obstruction‚ usually thrombus or embolism that causes infarction of brain tissue. 2.
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neuropathological investigations of hysteria during the last ten years of his life.[3] Freud questioned Charcot’s claim that heredity is the unique cause of hysteria‚ but he lauded his innovative clinical use of hypnosis to demonstrate how hysterical paralysis could result from psychological factors
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Count: 154 Prasarani Tail – Effective for Chronic Issues Prasarani Tail is especially manufactured Ayurvedic oil that is very much helpful in treating serious issues like sciatica‚ stiffness in head and neck‚ rheumatoid arthritis‚ neck pain‚ facial paralysis‚ lumbago and many more. Used for external application in a gentle manner. It holds the ability to balance vata and kapha. It is manufactured by taking into usage extracts of natural ingredients that include prasarini‚ piplamul‚ yashtimadhu‚ gaudugdha
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Brain Activity During Sleep Imagine spending 1/3 of your life doing something and not knowing why you do it or what purpose is behind it. Sleep is one of the greatest mysteries that science is struggling with. It was once considered an inactive or passive state in which the mind used to recuperate from the day. This of course is not true‚ since the brain is in active stages while asleep and sometimes may even reach to a higher state of awareness than when awake. This fact has bewildered many scientists
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STROKE or CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT (CVA) Definition ← is the rapidly developing loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain Epidemiology ← Stroke is currently the second leading cause of death in the Western world‚ ranking after heart disease and before cancer ← The incidence of stroke increases exponentially from 30 years of age‚ and etiology varies by age ← 95% of strokes occur in people age 45 and older‚ and two-thirds of strokes occur
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stop and offering to say a “Hail Mary” for his sinful father‚ seems to clinch the response. However‚ it is extremely important to remember that Farrington is sinned against as well as sinning: that he is a product as well as a perpetrator of the paralysis of Dublin. Like other Dubliners‚ Farrington is trapped by the Irish nets of religion‚ language‚ and nationality. In fact‚ Ireland’s misgovernance by English law is illustrated by the story of Farrington’s mistreatment‚ so that Farrington’s inarticulate
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eye movement (REM) was discovered in 1953 by University of Chicago researchers Eugene Aserinsky‚ a graduate student in physiology‚ and Nathaniel Kleitman‚ Ph.D.‚ chair of physiology (Obringer 2005)”. During REM our bodies enter a paralysis condition. “This paralysis is caused by the release of glycine‚ an amino
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who was bound to a wheelchair due to his diagnosis of poliomyelitis. “Poliomyelitis is a debilitating muscle disorder‚ caused by the enterovirus known as the poliovirus” (Khan Academy‚ 2015). There are three serotypes of the virus that can cause paralysis; “poliovirus is a positive-strand single-stranded RNA virus” (Racaniello‚ 2005). This virus is transmitted through human to human contact‚ the contact consists of fecal to oral contact or oral to oral contact. The virus mostly affects infants and
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