Traumatic and nontraumatic conditions can lead to anklebone pain. Acute and chronic ankle injuries prove common because of high-level, weight-bearing stress on the bones. Nontraumatic abnormalities of the anklebones often mimic ankle injuries, as...
Having diabetes can lead to many serious complications. These complications can be debilitating and cause long term disability. It is common for diabetics to have complications with their feet. According to the National Diabetes Education...
According to the American Diabetes Association, 12 million American men are affected by Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. The ADA calculates that more than 11 percent of men aged 20 or older are affected by these diseases. While many of the symptoms of...
The degree of contamination at the time of an operation concludes how medical professionals determine the type of surgical wound for classification on medical charts. As determined by the American College of Surgeons, there are four classes of...
The biceps is at the front of the upper arm, and the biceps tendons connect the muscle to bone. There are two upper tendons that attach the muscle to bone at the shoulder, and one tendon to connect the biceps muscle to the bone at the elbow --...
Tearing your biceps tendon is a very painful injury that results from overexertion of the muscle due to lifting too much weight or falling on an outstretched arm. Over 90 percent of all biceps tendon tears happen near the shoulder, rather than...
A collapsed lung, or pneumothorax, occurs when air enters the chest cavity, surrounding and compressing the lungs. Pneumothorax can occur spontaneously when an air leak develops in one of the lungs. A trauma that ruptures the chest wall can also...
Chronic diseases such as arthritis, diabetes, stroke, cancer and heart disease are the leading causes of disability and death in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chronic diseases are the most costly and common...
The average person loses about 100 hairs per day. There is no cure for baldness, or alopecia, according to MayoClinic.com. There are, however, ways to slow the loss of hair and encourage new growth. These treatments can include oral medication,...
Any injury to the upper arm or shoulder can hamper movement, function, flexibility and strength in the shoulder joint. An injury to this area may be called a biceps tear or rotator cuff injury, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic...
Parents, coaches, medical professionals and the media all have expressed concern about contact sports causing concussions in children. Head injuries can be extremely serious in children, and ignoring a head injury can be serious or even fatal. But...
Potassium is a dietary mineral essential to human life. Potassium is necessary for maintaining electrolyte balance in the body and helping nerve and muscle cells work properly. But too much potassium can be toxic and result in serious health...
Diabetic patients commonly experience sensory loss, or diabetic neuropathies, a family of disorders related to nerve damage. According to the American Diabetes Association, between 60 and 70 percent of people with diabetes experience some form of...
Knox gelatin is a specific brand of gelatin that contains a variety of internal and external uses. While no evidence supports the use of Knox gelatin as an ulcer treatment, some preliminary studies have found encouraging connections between...
Meniscus tears are one of the most common causes of knee pain and instability. Traumatic tears may happen playing sports, while degenerative tears happen slowly over time. Severe or unstable tears require surgery. While it is possible to...
Your spinal cord is one of your body's nerve centers, providing movement and sensation to all areas of your body and relaying messages to your brain. Spinal cord injury can damage nerves, leading to loss of feeling and/or motor function. When...
The spinal cord contains nerve cells that are connected to different parts of the body and transmit neural signals from the brain to your peripheral tissue. According to BrainandSpinalCord.org, an estimated 12,000 spinal cord injuries occur each...
When newly diagnosed diabetics are told that they have a serious metabolic disease, one of the last things they think about is their feet. According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), more than 23.6...
There are over 25 million people living in the United States with diabetes, according to the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of these, 7 million people are undiagnosed. Diabetes is a disease...
