What military disability rating do you get for low back pain?
First of all, if you are still on active duty, you do not get disability. Disability is compensation because you cannot earn a living. You earn a living while on active duty. Therefore, the military does not give you disability rating. It is the VA's responsibility to determine your service related injuries once you separate or retire from active duty.
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What is the difference between a burn and a scald?
A burn is caused by dry heat whereas a scald is caused by wet heat. A burn can be caused by heat or cold, and this can be wet or dry. A scald is a burn caused by wet heat such as boiling water.
Why do you have pain in the back of your knee?
There are a number of possible reasons, which only a full medical check can identify.
A common reason for pain in the knee when bending is inflammation of the joint, or rather, of the membranes in and around the joint.
(Arthritis, as it happens, means inflammation of the joint!)
Included in possible causes are: infection, wear and tear, or crystal deposits.
Maybe you have over-exerted yourself, or twisted your leg. A pharmacist, or better still, a doctor, will quickly be able to advise you and offer treatment, either to relieve the symptoms or to help you manage the stuation and deal with possible causes.
If symptoms persist, an X-ray of the knee joint might reveal the real cause of the pain.
Possible treatments and/or therapies will then be suggested to you by these medical professionals.
It's possible. You should wait a week and then take an early pregnancy test. If it is negative wait another week and take another.
Does gum lancing relieve the pain of teething?
You should consult your doctor or pharmacist for effective medicines to relieve swelling and pain.
Stiffness and pain in the left side of the body?
It's a neurological problem and doctors put it as fibromyalgia.
What causes pain at the tip of the buttock and sharp pains in the right hip?
Hi,
If you experience hip pain while walking, running or at rest, it is likely that you have aggravated the sacroiliac joints, or if it is sharp stabbing pains it is likely to be sciatica. It could also be a simple water infection such as Pelvic Inflammatory Disease though I would try the exercises first to see if this lessens the pain. If it is a water infection, the exercises will not alleviate any of the symptoms so each of the three are easily identified. The fourth possibility is that you could be pregnant, especially if it is your first child as the hips widen during pregnancy and it is fairly usual to experience hip pains throughout.
Sacroiliac joint pain management and exercises can be found here:
http:/www.pilates-back-joint-exercise.com/si-joint-exercise.html
If it is sciatica the following information will be useful. Neither sacroiliac joint exercises or sciatica exercises will damage your spine, discs or nerve endings and will only increase your mobility and lessen your pain. You will soon know which of the two you have after doing some of the exercises and seeing which ones are working for you and these exercises will not damage you further if your pains are caused by a water infection or pregnancy. I think a water infection or pregnancy are the most unlikely of the four things I think it could be, due to the sharp pains you describe but they are options to consider if the exercises do not lessen the pain for you.
I suffer from a spinal disease and have sciatic pains similar to those you describe which is what I am certain you are suffering from as sciatica is typified by sharp stabbing pains that radiate down one or both legs.
My specialist physiotherapist has assured me that all of the sensations and pain that I was experiencing was typical of my spinal disease and the nerve compression. Add to the fact that when I am in severe pain, I am virtually immobile and I get numb. The best thing to do is to actually exercise the joints slowly several times daily by doing a few simple exercises. The easiest is to lay on your front with your hands at your sides and to slowly lift your left leg 10 times to the point just past where it hurts (not before as most people would say), and to then repeat this with the right leg. It is ESSENTIAL that you lift your leg until you feel the pain and to raise it another inch or so and to try to hold it for a second or two before releasing your leg slowly down as this will start to loosen up the nerve endings. If you stop before you get the pain (probably in your lower back), you may as well not do the exercises. It is important to ensure that you change position every 20 minutes throughout the day and I have a pill-box timer that I now set at 20 minute intervals to remind me as I often forget especially when in I have reduced pain and am on the internet. As my beeper goes off, I get up or move position or do an exercise for a few minutes before resetting the timer. It sounds like a lot every 20 minutes but you can gradually increase this to 30 then 40 minutes as your mobility increases and your pain lessens. The pain at tip of the buttock can be caused by either numbness from sitting in one position or more likely by the spinal discs compressing as you are sitting down or standing up for periods of 20 minutes+ at a time. I hope this answers your question and good luck. Kind regards-Steve Chiocca.
Can flossing loosen a tooth and as a result cause pain and infection?
No, not as long as you aren't using it like a hemp rope! Flossing is excellent for getting the food away from the gum and also from between the teeth. Take it slow and easy! Also, when brushing use a SOFT tooth bush (electric tooth brushes should be used only 3 - 4 times a week) and take gentle circular motions around the gum of each tooth (front and back) then push up. This strengthens the gums and gets the food particles out. 3 times a week I use plain table salt, wet my tooth brush and use the gentle circular motion around each tooth. Salt is not only healing, but it strengthens the gums. Rinse our your mouth when finished. I'm almost 65 years old and my dentist can't believe how great my gums are (could it be because I have no teeth! LOL) Just kidding!
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When using dental floss you should move the floss up and down, and not back and forth cause that way you can damage your teeth. Here's a video about proper use of dental floss -
http://www.checkdent.com/en/videos/dental-floss-240.HTML
What cerberal cortex structures have pain receptors?
Skin and Internal tissues. Not in the nervous tissue of the brain, which lack of pain receptors.
Great question.
I ask myself this question all the time.
I am a chronic pain patient and it is true that those who abuse meds have made it much, much harder for those of us with real pain that require real treatment.
Unfortunately, law enforcement doesn't distinguish between good and bad patients and doctors. They are after one thing - reducing the amount of drugs that make it to the street. If they can do that by outlawing the kind of meds that help genuine pain patients, it's just too bad for us I guess.
Since they have failed to take down the law breaking distributors and the dealers they have to go after whatever source of drugs are left. Too bad for us that this happens to be limiting doctor's in what they can prescribe, limiting pharmacies in what they can sell and limiting patients in what they can take. I've seen the statistics and those in law enforcement actually believe that the great majority of chronic pain patients abuse their medications. Many do not believe that patients can actually take their meds as prescribed and not abuse them or sell them. It's really sad. Right when society and the medical community reached the place where treating chronic pain with strong medications was acceptable there is a boatload of press about folks dying from overdose and abuse and law enforcement decides it's OK to go after all patients and docs. Even the public accepts this because of all this "terrible abuse."
And we suffer, literally. Is there a good, rational reason why we must be affected negatively? No.
How will you deal with severe toothache during last trimester of your pregnancy?
See a dentist right away. You need to get rid of the infection and the pain. Both can lead to premature labor and complicate the delivery.
Even if the dentist does not treat the problem definitively, he/she can knock down the infection and get you out of pain until the baby is born. After the baby is born, you can return to the dentist to complete the necessary treatment and services.
Check with the vet that gave you the medicines. Are you sure the pain medications are meant to be injected?My vet gave me pain medication in syringes WITH NO NEEDLE on the end and they are to give orally(that means in the cats mouth) If there are needles, DO NOT put it in the cats mouth Take the cap off the end of the syringe (the plastic part)and make sure there are needles on it. If there are, call and ask for directions.If your vet is closed they may have an answering service that will reach them off hours.
What is the function of the motor nerves?
Your motor nerves inhabit the anterior columns of the spinal cord and transmit excitatory action potentials from the motor cortex down and outward to your extremities so that your body may move. (walking, sitting, standing, turning your head, blinking the eyes, talking, picking things up)
Why do I feel as if I'm having growing pains in my calves but I'm not growing at all?
Your statement about not growing is wrong. Humans actually never stop growing from the moment they are conceived, ever.
Growing pains is defined as a cramp of sorts. it is possible you are growing without realising it.
Cramps can also be caused by a physical injury or an infection.
Or it may be joint hypermobility, which is extra-flexible joints. A genetic condition which runs in families.
If your symptoms are also accompanied by either of these:
What is the best medication for constant knee pain?
Its not the medication,its the helping hand for you,take a glass of milk and mixes it with one egg yolk and shakes it and drink daily..it will help you out for relieving the pain of your knee.
If you are a woman and over over 40, it could be the side effects of menopause. When your estrogen levels begin to fall, chronic fatigue, back pains and so many other unknown ailments and pains begin. If you are within this group of people, have your doctor check your estrogen levels. I found that Estroven, sold over the counter, has done wonders for me.
Good luck.