knee Pain

Are your knees aching from a sudden injury, or have your symptoms developed gradually over time? A common physical complaint, knee pain can occur at any age and may interfere with many aspects of life, from participation in sports to simply getting up from a chair and walking. Any part of the knee — bones, cartilage, muscles, ligaments, and tendons — can be damaged by disease (such as arthritis) or injury. Quick Links:Causes and Prevention Diagnosis Treatment Living With Knee Pai...

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Do Age and Hip Pain Always Go Together?

It's not written in stone that your hips will give out on you as you age. Learn how to avoid hip pain as you get older. Common wisdom holds that as you age, you are destined to face a multitude of ills, including hip pain and possibly hip replacement surgery. In fact, hip replacement surgeries do increase after age 65. Yet this does not have to be your future, say orthopedic surgeons. There are steps you can take to reduce the likelihood of hip pain and surgery as you age. Hip Pain: It’s Not Inevitable “Most people don’t get old and wear...

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Hip Pain and Arthritis: Get the Facts

Hip pain is commonly due to arthritis. Find out how arthritis causes wear and tear on the hip joints and can even lead to hip replacement.  Arthritis is a frequent cause of hip pain and hip replacement. Yet the term arthritis actually covers a number of different conditions, such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriatic arthritis. Hip Pain and Osteoarthritis “The most common type of arthritis is osteoarthritis, so-called ‘wear and tear arthritis,’” says Thomas Parker Vail, MD, professor and chairman of orthopedic...

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Five Common Causes of Hip Pain in Women

 Hip pain in women can be caused by wear and tear, overuse, and a few other sources. Women may be able to use anti-inflammatories for their hip pain. When you tell your doctor your hip hurts, the first thing he should do is confirm that your hip is actually the problem. Women might say they have hip pain, but what they may mean is they have pain in the side of the...

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Hip Pain: What Do Your Symptoms Mean?

When you visit your doctor to find out what you should do about your hip pain, she will probably ask you to describe the kind of pain you are experiencing. Hearing about your symptoms of hip pain will help her determine the cause of your discomfort. “The first question is, where does the hip hurt?” says Steven Stuchin, MD, director of orthopedic surgery at the Hospital for Joint Diseases of New York University Medical Center and associate professor at the NYU School of Medicine in New York City. Many people are confused about where their...

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Hip Pain

Hip pain can make everyday tasks, including getting in and out of a car or walking up a flight of stairs, nearly impossible. Hip pain can affect people of all ages and be caused by injuries to the hip joints or muscles, or by conditions such as tendinitis, bursitis, or osteoarthritis. Hip Pain Causes and Prevention Arthritis is one of the most common causes of hip pain, but other conditions can also cause sharp pain in the hip area, including sciatica, tendinitis, osteoporosis, or infection. Fracture is another serious cause of hip...

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Childcare

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Child Care Centers

Child Care Centers care for children in groups. All states require centers to be licensed. The definition of licensed child care varies by state or territory.  Licensing does not insure quality but it does set minimum health, safety and caregiver training standards which centers must maintain. All states inspect centers at least once a year.  Parents choose centers because they believe that larger groups, multiple caregivers and state inspections make programs safer for their children and make the arrangement more dependable....

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5 Steps To Choosing Care

Start Early Start looking as far in advance as you can. No matter what type of care you are considering - a child care center or care in someone else's home - finding the right child care option can take some time. Make a Call Begin your search by calling your local experts - your Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) agency. CCR&Rs can give you the facts about child care, and a list of child care options in your area that may meet your needs. In addition to what is in this brochure, make sure to ask your CCR&R: What are...

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Epidural steroid injections

An epidural injection, or epidural steroid injection, may be used to help reduce the pain caused by a herniated disc, degenerative disc disease, or stenosis (cervical spinal stenosis or lumbar spinal stenosis). These spinal disorders often affect the cervical (neck) and lumbar (lower back) areas of the spine. The medicine used in the injection is usually a combination of a local anesthetic (e.g. bupivacaine) and a steroid (e.g. triamcinolone). The technique and risks of the procedure are similar to those for standard epidural analgesia. The effects...

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Kidney Stone and Symptoms

A kidney stone, also known as a renal calculus (from the Latin ren, "kidney" and calculus, "pebble") is a solid concretion or crystal aggregation formed in the kidneys from dietary minerals in the urine. Urinary stones are typically classified by their location in the kidney (nephrolithiasis), ureter (ureterolithiasis), or bladder (cystolithiasis), or by their chemical composition...

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Pain management Articles

What is Pain management Low Back Pain Heart-to-Heart: Beyond Pain Kidney Stone and Symptoms  Hip Pain...

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Low back pain

Low back pain (or lumbago, English pronunciation: /lʌmˈbeɪgoʊ/) is a common musculoskeletal disorder affecting 80% of people at some point in their lives. In the United States it is the most common cause of job-related disability, a leading contributor to missed work, and the second most common neurological ailment — only headache is more common.[1] It can be either acute, subacute or chronic in duration. With conservative measures, the symptoms of low back pain typically show significant improvement within a few weeks from onset. What is...

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Heart-to-Heart: Beyond Pain

Heart-to-Heart: Beyond Pain Listen to an 18-minute program on pain control that dispels common myths that many people -- including doctors -- have about pain medications. This segment explains how good pain management can help you keep going as best you can. But getting good pain management may be difficult due to poor physician training, concerns about drug addiction,...

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Pain management

Pain management (also called pain medicine; algiatry) is a branch of medicine employing an interdisciplinary approach for easing the suffering and improving the quality of life of those living with pain.[1] The typical pain management team includes medical practitioners, clinical psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and nurse practitioners.[2] Pain sometimes resolves promptly once the underlying trauma or pathology has healed, and is treated by one practitioner, with drugs such as analgesics and (occasionally) anxiolytics....

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