Long-lasting/chronic pain is a common issue in across the globe, and people living with this pain are more likely to experience mental distress, worry, and depression as well as ailments such as fear and stress and anxiety more so than those in the general community....
A collection of bones that are interconnected by muscles and ligaments to form the backbone. In between these bones are the disk which protects the spinal column from sudden stress caused by impact forces. The lower backbone is responsible for supporting the upper torso. As...
For some people, suicide represents sacrifice, for love, for religion, or for politics. For others, it is was an escape, an escape from the Earth’s prison which we were in since birth. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the...
The purpose of this article was to establish whether the compensatory movements the college athletes make to achieve high and better performance predispose to an injury. The Functional Movement Screening (FMS) was utilized to evaluate these athletes to determine if an injury in this population...
Pregnancy is the most precious gift for women. Though it is tough and stressful, sometimes it is a little scary too. Women experience all kinds of crazy sensations during pregnancy. By this time some of Pregnancy Gadgets may help you to relief from few unwanted...
The endocrine system is a network of glands that produce hormones to promote the body’s homeostasis. The glands that make up the endocrine system are the hypothalamus, pineal, pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, thymus, adrenals, pancreas, ovaries, and testes. The pituitary gland is divided into two parts...
Preeclampsia is a condition characterized by hypertension, excessive quantity of protein in urine and swelling in legs and feet (Suhonen et al., 1993). Lewis et al. (2014) defined preeclampsia as a hypertensive condition of pregnancy diagnosed when a woman with no history of hypertension develops...
Many parts of the myth suggest, through its basic obscurity, the tragic nature of Medusa. Even though the gifts that Medusa was given was the gift from Athena to Asclepius of two drops of Gorgon’s blood. One of the drops has the power to cure...
Asthma is a relatively common lung disease which causes the airways to become inflamed and, in turn, swell. This causes shortness of breath, tightness in the chest, and wheezing and/or coughing when attempting to breathe. The severity is solely dependent on the case at hand;...
The term Sciatica is described as a pain going through the distribution of sciatic nerve, commonly known as a symptom of spinal disorder and not a spinal disorder itself. Symptoms of sciatica includes pain from sciatic nerve compression which may feel dull, sharp, tingling, numbness,...
In the name of charity and rehabilitation, Americans with disabilities were effectively segregated from society and denied their constitutional rights for much of U.S. history. Into the late 20th centuries, citizens with disabilities often were treated like charity cases, tragedies or freaks. Unable to support...
Darkness that Surrounds the World The world is wrapped in a thick, black veil that hangs anonymously above, coating the world in darkness. In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Masque of the Red Death, published in 1842, Poe writes another gripping Gothic horror story...
Although it’s been around since the beginning of human life, the process of dying is still a relatively foreign and unknown process to humanity. There isn’t much that we know about the occurrence except for what we can see and feel for ourselves; i.e., paling...
Different significant and pivotal moments in my life involving animals or death? There has been no lack of death in my family, animals and people included. The first thing that comes to my mind when I think about animals or death was when my dog...
While it is true that greater care must be taken with certain foods when you have diabetes, TOP 10 Bad Foods for Diabetes you should circumvent are the same as all the people that want to improve their health. Refined elements, oily foods and extra...
Pregnancy and birth is the largest emotional and physical change that a woman’s’ body will undergo. It is a time of great change where women become more aware of the workings of their body, and as the baby grows in the womb, the extra weight...
In pregnant woman there are many physiological changes during pregnancy, which are entirely normal, including changes in different trimesters and changes in different systems like cardiovascular, metabolic, renal, hematologic, and respiratory changes. The progesterone and estrogens levels rise continually during pregnancy, and they suppress the...
Death is a cruel and heartless enemy. All of us deal with death at some time or another. Maybe you received bad news from a doctor. Or perhaps you are struggling to move forward after the death of a son, a daughter, or a spouse....
Although nothing can be capable of preventing a heart-attack imminent, a quick course of the action of a viewer can help prevent the death. Take immediate action if someone thinks that they are having a heart-attack or that are witnesses of a heart-attack occurs, is...