Brief overview Symptoms: reduced growth in the length of the upper arm and thigh bones, enlarged skull, deformation of the spine Causes: Premature ossification of the cartilage cells formed in the growth plates, as a result of which length growth comes to a standstill Diagnosis: suspected diagnosis based on typical symptoms, confirmed by genetic analysis … Achondroplasia: Symptoms, causes
Brief overview Treatment: Injection with cortisone medication, hearing aid, long-term surgery to replace all or part of the stapes bone in the ear with a prosthesis Symptoms: Increasing hearing loss, untreated to the point of deafness, often ringing in the ears (tinnitus), rarely dizziness Causes and risk factors: Exact cause unknown, possibly infections (measles), hormonal … Otosclerosis: Symptoms and treatment
Brief overview Symptoms: Heel pain (worsening in the course), morning start-up pain, gait disturbances. Treatment: Conservative treatment with relief, cooling, painkillers, for a short time also cortisone, stretching exercises, shoe inserts, splints, tape bandages, physiotherapy with massage, extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT), x-ray inflammation irradiation, surgical treatment with open incision. Prognosis: After conservative treatment or … Plantar Fasciitis: Symptoms, Therapy, Prognosis
Brief overview Causes and risk factors: Incorrect posture and weight-bearing, different leg lengths, injuries and traumas, loose ligamentous apparatus, chronic diseases such as osteoarthritis, inflammatory rheumatic diseases, obesity, genetic factors. Symptoms: Pain on one side during movement or stress, which may radiate to the buttocks or legs. ISG syndrome in pregnancy: The sacroiliac joint is … Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction (SI Joint Blockage): Causes
Alzheimer: Brief overview What is Alzheimer’s disease? Most common form of dementia, affects about 20 percent of those over 80. Differentiate between presentile (< 65 years) and senile Alzheimer's (> 65 years). Causes: Death of nerve cells in the brain due to protein deposits. Risk factors: Age, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, vascular calcification, diabetes … Alzheimer’s: Symptoms, causes, prevention
What is a dead tooth? If the holes in the tooth are too deep, the decay is too pronounced, and the patient is too lax in oral hygiene, even a dentist cannot save anything: The tooth dies. More precisely, the pulp – the bundle of nerves and blood vessels that supplies the tooth from the … Dead Tooth: Symptoms, Treatment
Brief overview Symptoms: Sharply defined, reddened areas of skin covered with silvery scales, severe itching Causes and risk factors: Genetic predisposition, autoimmune reaction in the skin, possible relapse triggers are stress, infections, hormonal changes, skin irritation and damage Diagnostics: Physical examination, skin sample if necessary Treatment: Medication, for example anti-inflammatory ointments and creams with urea … Psoriasis: Symptoms, Causes
Brief overview Symptoms: No symptoms for a long time, then mainly pain, possibly pale and cool legs Treatment: Cause treatment, gait training, blood thinning medication, possibly surgery. Causes and risk factors: smoking, calcified arteries as well as high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, chronically high blood lipid levels, overweight Diagnostics: Medical consultation, physical examination, walking test, … Smoker’s leg: Symptoms & treatment
Brief overview Symptoms: Pain below the thumb, especially when holding and gripping; sometimes palpable and audible rubbing and crunching; blockage of the thumb Treatment: Conservative with immobilization (sometimes in a cast); local painkillers, possibly anti-inflammatory cortisone injections; surgery in more severe cases Causes and risk factors: Overloading and incorrect loading of the joint, other factors … De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis: Symptoms, Therapy
Paranoid personality disorder: description Paranoid personality disorder is characterized by the fact that sufferers have no trust in other people. They constantly assume that others want to harm them, without having any evidence to support this. For example, if a work colleague smiles at them in a friendly way, they feel laughed at. If their … Paranoid Personality Disorder: Causes, Symptoms, Therapy
Heart valve defects: Description The term heart valve defect or valvular disease is an umbrella term for an altered, leaky (insufficiency) or narrowed (stenosis) heart valve. Different symptoms occur depending on the affected heart valve and the type of defect. Heart valves have a very important valve function in the blood flow through the heart. … Heart valve defect: symptoms, therapy
Brief overview Course of disease and prognosis: Usually very good, regresses after several weeks to months; sometimes increased neonatal icterus, very rare complications Symptoms: Doughy-soft, later turgid-elastic swelling on the newborn’s head Causes and risk factors: Shear forces acting on the child’s head during birth, increased risk with assistive devices such as forceps or suction … Cephalhematoma: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
