Many terms are used interchangeably to refer to arthritis in the neck and these include cervical osteoarthritis, cervical spondylosis, or degenerative joint disease. Generally it is referred to as cervical osteoarthritis. Just as in your lumbar spine, the facet joints in the cervical spine can degenerate and lead to arthritis in the neck. What causes…
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Buttock Pain: How to Deal With it?
We’ve probably all used, or at least thought of a phrase, which describes the type of pain and the exact location we’re describing here, but buttock pain really can be a pain in the butt and it’s not funny as it can make walking, sitting or even sleeping painful and difficult, so we’ve identified three…
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Alzheimer’s: Is It Hereditary?
Many people tend to be extremely worried about getting Alzheimer’s disease, especially if they have parents, siblings, aunts, or uncles that have had the disease. (3) The first question that usually comes to such people’s minds is, “Is Alzheimer’s hereditary?” Is Alzheimer’s hereditary? People tend to wonder that just because their parents or other family…
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How to Improve Your Long Term Memory
Our brains are incredibly complex organs, still partly undiscovered, and we hear lots about improving our short-term memory and trying to avoid dementia, but how about our long term memory? After all, it’s where all our knowledge is stored, so shouldn’t we be looking after it, nurturing it, giving it the five-star treatment? Our thoughts…
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Arthritis in the Knee – 5 Tips to Avoid The Pain
Arthritis in the Knee; Arthritis is a disease that affects the joints and the knee tends to be one of the most commonly affected joints. As it is with other joints, three different types of arthritis can affect the knees. These include osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and post-traumatic arthritis. Osteoarthritis refers to a progressive disease that…
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10 Foods to Lower Blood Sugar
For most of us, balancing our blood sugar level is something we take for granted, or at least don’t think about too much on a daily basis, but then again, most of us don’t know what our blood sugar level is either. However, for many people, dealing with blood sugar levels is part of a…
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Short Term Memory Loss: Let’s Take a Look Now at How Your Brain Works in Terms of Memory
With a good memory, so many more things are open to you. First of all, you will undoubtedly be able to perform better in tests and exams. (4) When you have the information that you need to learn, you can simply memories it and keep it all in your head. Then when it comes time…
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Prediabetes Symptoms
Prediabetes is also commonly referred to as ‘borderline’ diabetes and is a metabolic condition and growing global problem that is closely linked to obesity. If undiagnosed or untreated, prediabetes can develop into type 2 diabetes; which, whilst treatable, is currently not fully reversible. The main problem is that prediabetes is usually not diagnosed as there…
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What are the Symptoms of Diabetes?
There are a few kinds of diabetes, namely, type I, type II and gestational diabetes. (2) These kinds of diabetes differ in the treatment required and how they were caused though their symptoms are rather similar. What are the symptoms of diabetes – Type I Type I diabetes happens when the pancreas fails to produce sufficient…
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Rib Pain: How to Deal With it?
Our rib cage plays a hugely important role in protecting our cardiovascular system. Most people have 12 rib bones on either side of the rib cage in the thoracic cavity and often people can feel pain or discomfort of various levels under the rib cage. There are many potential reasons for rib pain, and it…
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