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Treatment of Back Pain. Back Pain usually is the lower back pain which is commonly seen. Most of the people who suffer from pain in the back or pain in the lower back  get relief within a few days or weeks after treatment for back pain or treatment of lower back pain. These are the [...]

Back Pain Effects.

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Effects of Back Pain. Back Pain effects , particularly Lower Back Pain effects, can give rise to complications, which can be crippling.   Surgery for Back Pain becomes necessary as a last resort. It is therefore necessary to take proper care to arrest the “ Back Pain Causes”. The Complications of  Back Pain are explained below.

Back Pain Symptoms. The most common  back pain is the Lower Back Pain.  This Pain in the Lower back is due the pathological changes in the lumbar and sacral vertebrae. If you have read  Back Bone, you will be in a better position to understand. Symptoms of Lower  Back Pain vary depending on the Causes of [...]

Back Pain. Back pain is not a disease. It is a symptom or a complaint of the patient. Back pain or backache, usually is  the lower back pain. Among the back pains,  lower back pain is the most common. If you have read the Back Bone, you will know  that  this is the area of the [...]

Back Bone.

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Backbone. Back Pain is the second most common cause, after  “Common cold”, for people staying absent from work. And, everyone at some time or the other gets a backache. Some of us get off lightly, while the others have a very hard time fighting it. They have to live with the pain all their life, [...]

Graves’ Disease. What is Graves Disease. Graves’ disease of the Thyroid is named after Dr Robert Graves, who first described it as early back in 1835.  Hyperthyroidism has several causes as it is explained hyperthyroidismand  Graves’  Thyroid disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism. Remember that hyperthyroidism is a condition and Graves’ disease is [...]

Enlarged Thyroid. Non toxic goiter is  enlargement of the thyroid gland without any hyper functioning of the thyroid. In other words, there is no increase in the blood levels of the thyroid hormones, T3 and T4. There are therefore no symptoms of “hyperthyroidism”. Yet, on detection, prompt treatment should be sought, as this swelling in [...]

Hypothyroidism is a condition resulting from hypo functioning of the Thyroid gland. As the thyroid gland is responsible for the metabolism in our body, Hypothyroidism gives rise to decreased metabolic activity in our body.

Hyperthyroidism|Hyperthyroid. Hyperthyroidism is one of the thyroid problems due to an overactive thyroid.  It is a condition, wherein the thyroid becomes over active and as a result,  secretes excessive amounts of its hormones, T3 and T4 into the blood.  This overactive thyroid causes certain complications to develop which can be serious.  

Thyroid.

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Thyroid. A Thyroid disease or the Thyroid disorder causes  disturbance in the Thyroid function resulting in abnormal thyroid secretion levels of  the thyroid hormones, T3 and T4. This gives rise to thyroid disease symptoms such as weight loss or weight gain and some such symptoms which are explained in the subsequent posts related to the [...]