Headaches

The patient for this case study is a Caucasian male in his late fifties who is retired. The patient arrives at Roper Rehabilitation Hospital via EMS from home. Patient’s wife reports a friend reported to her an abnormal gait pattern the day prior. Patient’s wife reports slurring of speech today. Patient’s CT scan results indicated Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)/Hemorrhagic Stroke /saccular aneurysm in the cerebellar brain site. According to O’Sullivan (2007), a stroke (CVA) is an acute onset of…

Introduction Sleep apnea is a disorder in which breathing is interrupted due to obstruction of the airway. While the individual is asleep, they are unable to breathe for short increments of time. These increments can lasts from 10 seconds to a minute and can occur multiple times during the night. Sleep apnea can be induced by obesity, age, gender, and other factors that are vital to the diagnosis of the disorder. Those suffering from sleep apnea may appear to act abnormally and have cognitive…

The disease Ebola is causing an epidemic in Africa that is extremely dangerous on many fronts. Diseases are problems that must be faced by people of many different disciplines. However, the funds for fighting Ebola are not unlimited. One big problem of the disease right now is what to do with the money received from mainly Western aid. With the ultimate goal of deciding which danger of Ebola warrants the most financial aid from the world, each aspect of the disease’s negative effects must be…

the speech processor. Singles from the speech processor are changed to electric impulses in the stimulator. The auditory nerve receives the impulses from the electrode array. A cochlear implant can cost up to 100,000 dollars and it is a big risk. Headaches, dizziness or…

players may experience thousands of hits. The symptoms of CTE are cunning. They first become apparent in the failure of attention, concentration, and memory, as well as disorientation and confusion. Occasionally accompanied by dizziness and mild headache. With time, additional symptoms become more noticeable, such as lack of insight, poor judgment, and dementia.This progresses to slowing of muscular movements and impaired speech. Social instability, erratic behavior, memory loss, and initial…

(Autism-Society 2015) Those that are uneducated have gone as far as to claim that the everyday common cold, ear infection, or headache could have been avoided by being vaccinated. Vaccines do not give immunity to the everyday germs that a child may face growing up. Where in fact everyone, whether vaccinated or not, will at some point in their life deal with the common ear infection, headache or even asthma as it could be induced by environmental causes verses actual…

At the time of evaluation, Mrs. Smith was a 54-year-old white married heterosexual female that was referred by her PCP, Dr. Dell, to assess her psychological and emotional functioning. Specifically, Mrs. Smith complained of headaches, stomach aches, and chest pains, along with depressive and anxious symptoms. Furthermore, Mrs. Smith shared that she felt overly emotional when confronted with stressful situations, which has worsened in the past six months and caused her to feel tearful, fatigued…

head and/or neck, alcoholism, diabetes, and HIV infection. The typical presentation of parotitis involves a rapid onset of localized pain, swelling, and hardening of the infected gland. Associated generalized symptoms may include low-grade fever, headache, arthralgias, malaise, and chills (Buttaro et al., 2011). Clinical presentation and physical examination determines the diagnosis of parotitis. Labs drawn should include complete blood count (CBC) with differential and differential, as well…

sleep. I was just lying on my bed and wondering if I would remember what I had studied. As a result, I stayed awake the whole night. Finally, getting headache is another affect of stress on college students ' health. The stress drains all of the energy that our body need for the immune systems. As a result, college students can easily get headaches just by cramming for finals, late night parties, or even changing weather. Those health problems can cause negative consequences to college students’…

Coghlan, Andy. "Baby Cells Patch up Mother's Brain." New Scientist, vol. 187, no. 2513, 20 Aug. 2005, p. 8. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=18056495&site=ehost-live. The Article, “Baby Cells Patch up Mother’s Brain”, describes a study on fetal stem cells and how they can help regrow cells in the brain. When areas of the brain are damaged by a stroke or other types of injuries, they leave a black spot filled with dead cells. In the article about this study, it…