CUPPING THERAPY HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT SECTION MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT DIVISION MINISTRY OF HEALTH MALAYSIA 010/2012 i DISCLAIMER Technology review is a brief report‚ prepared on an urgent basis‚ which draws on restricted reviews from analysis of pertinent literature‚ on expert opinion and / or regulatory status where appropriate. It has not been subjected to an external review process. While effort has been made to do so‚ this document may not fully reflect all scientific research available
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A 22yo. client complains of low back pain on their right side. They describe the pain as a dull ache while standing or sitting that worsens while laying and can become a shooting pain upon standing from a seated or laying position. The pain can be felt on their left side while bending‚ twisting‚ or walking. Client states that this began happening 4 months ago and has been getting progressively worse. They state that they have had no prior issues and have never had an injury or surgery that could
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DISCHARGE SUMMARY Patient Name: Deanna Martinez Patient ID: 117232 Date Admitted: 5/26/---- Date Discharged: 6/07/---- Surgeon: Shelia Goodman‚ MD‚ Neurosurgery Consultation: None. Procedure: Lumbar laminectomy. Complications: None. Admitting Diagnosis: Low back and right leg pain. Questionable herniated disk. BRIEF HISTORY: This 40-year-old Latin female was admitted for low back and right lower extremity symptoms. She had been suffering from intermittent low back pain dating back to an
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Mini-Mental Status Exam JS scored twenty-eight out of thirty possible on the Mini-Mental State Examination. This shows no cognitive impairment without any clinical signs of cognitive impairment present. She received a perfect score on everything except two areas. The first one was only being able to recite only two of the three items to be remembered. Second area was difficulty counting back from one hundred by sevens (Demential Today website‚ n.d.). Fall Prevention Scale JS scored a total of
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HISTORY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION Patient Name: Deanna Martinez ID No.: 117232 Room No.: 425 Date of Admission: 05/26/2013 Admitting Physician: Sheila Goodman‚ MD Admitting Diagnosis: Questionable herniated disk Chief Complain: Low back pain‚ right leg pain. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: This 40-year-old Latin female presents with complaints of low back and right leg pain. She said that she hurt her back in a motor vehicle accident three years ago and she has had a history of intermittent
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Neurogenic shock is a type of shock that is caused by a spinal cord injury that affects important nerves in the nervous system. Injury to the nervous system causes the walls of blood vessels to relax‚ which increases the blood pressure. Neurogenic shock mainly affects the spinal cord. The spinal cord consists of nerves that carry incoming and outgoing messages between the brain and the rest of the body. Neurogenic shock occurs when a spinal cord injury happens‚ particularly involving the region of
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Nervous System Differences according to: Motor neurons Sensory neurons Autonomic neurons Function Transmits impulses from the CNS which consists of the brain and spinal cord to muscles and glands elsewhere in the body Transmits impulses inwards from the sense organs to the CNS Located within the CNS‚ they transmit the electrical impulses generated by the stimuli to other nerves Structure Have Dendrites‚ Cell Body‚ Myelin Sheath‚ Node of Ranvier and Synaptic Knobs. The cell body is
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the spinal cord. Paraplegia is paralysis below the chest or waist. It involves the trunk and lower limbs; with quadriplegia the upper limbs are also affected. Spinal cord injuries quite often are caused by a severe accident. Statistics show that like the majority of people with paraplegia sustained from injury from road accidents. These along with diving and sporting accidents affect many people for the rest of their lives. Spinal injury‚ resulting in paraplegia can also occur if the spinal cord
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brain with nerve cords traversing the length of their bodies. Mammals have highly evolved nervous systems. They have large brains which process information and sense organs located near the brain. The human nervous system is made up of nerves‚ the brain‚ and the spinal cord. The nerves themselves do not form one single system‚ but several which are interrelated. Some of these are physically separate while others are different from one another in function only. The brain and spinal cord make up the
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brain and spinal cord/vertebrae. The brain is like the central computer that controls all bodily functions‚ and the nervous sends messages back and forth from the brain to the rest of the body. The way the nerves travel is through the spinal cord. It starts at the brain and travels down the spinal cord in the back which contains threadlike nerves that branch out to every organ and body part. What is it made of? it is made up of three major parts ‚ the brain‚ the spinal cord ‚ and
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