Posts by Symptomsky

Can texting too much hurt your thumb and cause pain in your wrist or your thumb? Well, there is a condition called the de quervein syndrome. So, the Finkelstein test is basically grabbing your thumb and then flexing your wrist in the ulnar direction and if the patient experiences pain. Well, Then we consider this Finkelstein test to be positive and it indicates that the patient is suffering from de quervein syndrome. But, there are many other causes for pain in the wrist and a competent doctor should be able to diagnose them then go to this link

And while the

needlepoint

indeed is a triumph of human evolution

that allows us to walk in an upright way

because of these structures.

And so many other structures

that are in the knee joint

or around the knee joint,

it is no wonder that the human knee

is often a location of inflammation,

injury and pain.

These knee conditions

and diseases can cause pain

and damage in many parts of the knee.

For example, underneath the patella

or in the patellar tendon

or in the quadriceps tendon.

Furthermore, the pain can be caused

laterally on the femur or immediately

in the tibia.

Can you recall three knee

conditions from the list I’ve just shown?

One thing we can do to diagnose osteoporosis in all of those bones is send radiation through those bones: the hipbone, the femur and the lumbar spine, and then we can measure how much of the radiation is absorbed by these bones. We refer to this examination as DEXA. Dual energy X-ray ABSORPTIOMETRY and that can help us define osteoporosis and strike the right diagnosis. Healthy bones are supposed to absorb a lot of radiation, a lot of X-rays. Why? Because they’re dense. But osteoporosis reduces the density of the bone tissue, and it causes microarchitecture to deteriorate. Therefore, osteoporotic bones cannot absorb the radiation, and a lot of radiation simply goes through them. Can you recall the medical examination used to diagnose osteoporosis?

but now back to our joints how to treat it well treatment of rheumatoid arthritis depends a lot on the underlying activity of these cells and the molecules they produce they are three specific things I’d like to highlight when it comes to treatment of rheumatoid arthritis first and foremost we know that exercise and physical therapy help but the first line treatment for rheumatoid arthritis is typically non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs these dangerous developments not always cause symptoms and therefore they can be hard to recognize a lot of people suffer from rheumatoid arthritis but they are not yet aware of it.

Now if we would open my chest like this, we could see a small organ here called the thymus.

It is responsible for teaching these cells not to attack our own body, but clearly in

rheumatoid arthritis, something is wrong here.

So what exactly goes wrong is not known yet, but sadly we do know that additional immune

cells called macrophages come to this region and they release enzymes into the joints and

ultimately cause damage.

They can also activate fibroblasts, and fibroblasts are supposed to repair the damage, but they

cannot do it in the right way or in the right spot.

And so the permanent damage to the joint is done and this can have serious consequences

for the life quality and health of the patient in the future.