Wound pain is an important warning signal to alert to disorders and diseases that can be dangerous to the body. Therefore, injuries, whether from surgery or accidents, are always associated with pain. They may even persist beyond the actual healing. What is wound pain? Wound pain includes not only pain, from the injury itself, but … Wound Pain: Causes, Treatment & Help
Cocci occur in several organizational forms and can lead to serious infections if they multiply rapidly and the infected person has a weakened immune system. Several cocci subspecies are so adaptable that they have now evolved strains that are resistant to conventional antibiotics. It is also particularly insidious that cocci can repeatedly cause severe food … Cocci: Infection, Transmission & Diseases
A contusion (medical term: contusion) is an injury to a tissue or organs caused by blunt trauma, such as a bump, kick or impact. Depending on the severity of the tissue damage, a distinction is made between a mild and a severe contusion. While mild contusions usually heal completely on their own, a doctor should … Bruise: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment
Swollen legs are a common problem. Mostly in the evening, the ankles or the whole leg swells, it feels tired and heavy. Both women and men are affected. What are swollen legs? Swollen legs are caused by water accumulation in the tissues (edema). This water leaks out of the vascular system of the legs and … Swollen Legs: Causes, Treatment & Help
Rare calciphylaxis is a marked calcification of small and minute skin arteries (arterioles). The condition is usually caused by severe kidney disease and secondary nephropathy-induced overproduction of parathyroid hormone in the parathyroid glands. Untreated calciphylaxis has a poor prognosis and is usually accompanied by painful ischemic bluish-black necrotic skin patches and ulceration in advanced stages. … Calciphylaxis: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment
Rehabilitation serves to make patients independent after serious operations, illnesses and accidents. During rehabilitation, patients who have been dependent on assistance for a long time learn to cope as independently as possible in their daily lives with possible new limitations. What is rehabilitation? Rehabilitation is intensive care for patients who have suffered limitations and disabilities … Rehabilitation: Treatment, Effect & Risks
In the context of diseases of the cardiovascular system, very different clinical pictures occur, which affect not only the heart, but likewise the blood-carrying vessels and the involved organs. This also includes peripheral arterial occlusive disease, or pAVK for short. What is peripheral arterial disease? Hardening of the arteries can quickly lead to a heart … Peripheral Arterial Disease: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment
Body schema is the awareness of one’s own body, including its body-surface demarcation from the environment. The concept is present from birth and thus presumably genetic, but does not fully form until after puberty. In addition to perceptual stimuli, language development contributes to its formation. What is the body schema? The body schema is the … Body Diagram: Function, Tasks, Role & Diseases
Podiatry corresponds to medical foot care and therefore a medical professional category that deals with the curative and preventive treatment of the feet by using individual applications such as foot baths, anointments and measures for nail as well as callus care. Podiatrists work closely with doctors, shoemakers and physiotherapists, and a doctor usually refers his … Podiatry: Treatment, Effect & Risks
Stellate blockade is a targeted locally applied conduction anesthesia in the area of the stellate ganglion to relieve vasospasm in the form of arteriovenous spasm. In this process, the blood vessels in question are sympathetically innervated and vasodilation occurs within the entire area. In other words, the blood vessels dilate, decongest, there is a decrease … Stellate Blockade: Treatment, Effects & Risks
Complex regional pain syndrome is also known as complex regional pain syndrome or CRPS for short. The term replaces the synonymously used terms Sudeck’s disease, sympathetic reflex dystrophy, Sudeck’s dystrophy, and algodystrophy. What is complex regional pain syndrome? Complex regional pain syndrome occurs after soft tissue injury or after nerve injury. The syndrome often develops … Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment
Even small bruises can lead to the penetration of bacteria and fungi through the cuticle, nail salt or nail wall into the skin of the nail bed, causing a painful nail bed inflammation (medically also called onychia, paronychia, panaritium). This infection represents one of the most common diseases of the fingers. What is nail bed … Nail Bed Inflammation: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment