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Pain In Hands And Feet - Articles
Hands and Feet - Ultra Painful. Is it MS? It's gotta be ...
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Diana ..
Posted
Thu 19 Nov 2009 10:00pm
I have been playing Flamenco guitar since January and have been dealing with some tendinitis type of pain in my thumb. It would be easy to target the guitar and my thumb except that this pain goes into both wrists and my feet too. Oh yay.
It is reminiscent of the time before I was OFFICIALLY diagnosed with MS in 2001 when I was beginning a P ...
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Bone pain after transplant
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Matt S.
Posted
Wed 02 Feb 2011 8:52am
Keeping the bone theme:
This is a 52 year-old female who had ESRD secondary to PKD who underwent a living related-kidney transplant one-month prior. At clinic visit, she was complaining of severe throbbing pain in her hands and feet. The pain was worse on weight bearing and exertion. Physical exam was unremarkable with no joint erythema, ed ...
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Cold feet and a cheerleader
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marathonmom
Posted
Thu 07 Mar 2013 8:41am
Forgive me for the amount of complaining to come but winter has gotten me to this point and I am over it! I'm sure many others are with me on this sentiment especially after our lack of snow and cold last winter. I know my daughter is done with it too as she asks daily if we can go back to Costa Rica!
First I want to thank the city for my grea ...
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Acupuncture
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Teresa K.
Posted
Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:34pm
Acupuncture has been used as an alternative treatment for neuropathy. Richard has found it very helpful in reducing the pain he has in his hands and feet from thalidomide induced neuropathy.
The word "acupuncture" comes from the Latin word acus (needle) and punctura (penetration). The procedure originated in China over 2000 years ago. Toda ...
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What is Arnold-Chiari Malformation?
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Christine from WI
Posted
Mon 17 Nov 2008 11:44pm
Arnold-Chiari (kee-AR-ee) Malformation is a neurological condition in which the cerebellum descends out of the skull and crowds the spinal cord, putting pressure on the brain and spine.
There are three main types of Chiari. Chiari-Malformation-1, the simplest and most prevalent form, is generally considered to be congenital, (meaning you are ...
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What is Arnold-Chiari Malformation?
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Christine from WI
Posted
Mon 17 Nov 2008 11:44pm
Arnold-Chiari (kee-AR-ee) Malformation is a neurological condition in which the cerebellum descends out of the skull and crowds the spinal cord, putting pressure on the brain and spine.
There are three main types of Chiari. Chiari-Malformation-1, the simplest and most prevalent form, is generally considered to be congenital, (meaning you are b ...
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Depression intensifies pain
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Dave W
Posted
Tue 22 Jun 2010 7:49am
Data presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Neurological Society indicates that depression alters the processing of pain impulses as well as the sensitivity to pain. New evidence of this relationship is being presented today by Italian experts in Berlin. The anatomical cause of this connection may be due to the fact that, in part, th ...
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All About my Stinky Feets, Part 1
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Side of Sneakers
Posted
Sun 17 Jan 2010 5:13am
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about what’s wrong with my feet. I’ve been hesitant to write too much about it because I don’t want to sound whine-y, but I do want to try to answer your questions. So here’s the gist.
Thirteen and a half months ago I felt a pain in the forefront of my foot, around the metatarsals. I had been weari ...
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