What Is Headache? – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment

What Is Headache?/Headache or head pain sometimes can be difficult to describe, but some common symptoms include throbbing, squeezing, constant, unrelenting, or intermittent. The location may be in one part of the face or skull or may be generalized involving the whole head. The head is one of the most common sites of pain in… Continue reading What Is Headache? – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment

Treatment of Meningitis, Treatment, Prevention

Treatment of Meningitis/Meningitis is inflammation of the meninges covering the brain. It is a pathological definition. The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) typically exhibits an elevated number of leucocytes (or a pleocytosis). In adults, >5 leucocytes/μL is defined as elevated. Bacterial or viral meningitis is confirmed by the detection of a pathogen in the CSF. Bacterial meningitis… Continue reading Treatment of Meningitis, Treatment, Prevention

Phantom Leg Syndrome Treatment, Causes, Symptoms

Phantom Leg Syndrome Treatment/Phantom Pain is clinically defined as the perception of pain or discomfort in a limb that no longer exists.  Although PLP most commonly presents as a pathological sequelae in amputee patients, the underlying pathophysiology remains poorly understood. PLP can present along a wide clinical spectrum and varying severity of symptoms.  The condition should be differentiated from other… Continue reading Phantom Leg Syndrome Treatment, Causes, Symptoms

Phantom Limb Pain, Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment

Phantom limb pain (PLP) is clinically defined as the perception of pain or discomfort in a limb that no longer exists.  Although PLP most commonly presents as a pathological sequelae in amputee patients, the underlying pathophysiology remains poorly understood. PLP can present along a wide clinical spectrum and varying severity of symptoms.  The condition should be differentiated from other related… Continue reading Phantom Limb Pain, Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment