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• Back Pain
  Back Pain
  

  Each year, up to one-quarter of U.S. adults experience low-back pain. Most people have significant back pain at least once in their lives; often, the cause is unknown. Back pain varies widely. For many people, it lasts only a few weeks, no matter what treatment is used. But for others, the pain can become chronic and even debilitating. Low-back pain is a challenging condition to diagnose, treat, and study.
  
  Overall, studies have shown that spinal manipulation can provide mild-to-moderate relief from low-back pain and appears to be as effective as conventional medical treatments. In 2007 guidelines, the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society include spinal manipulation as one of several treatment options for practitioners to consider using when pain does not improve with self-care.
• Addison's Disease, Adrenal Insufficiency
  Addison's Disease, Adrenal Insufficiency
  

  Also Adrenocortical hypofunction and Hypocortisolism.
  
  Your adrenal glands are just above your kidneys. The outside layer of these glands makes hormones that help your body respond to stress and regulate your blood pressure and water and salt balance. Addison's disease occurs if the adrenal glands don't make enough of these hormones.
  
  A problem with your immune system usually causes Addison's disease. The immune system mistakenly attacks your own tissues, damaging your adrenal glands.
  
  Symptoms can include weight loss, muscle weakness, fatigue that gets worse over time, low blood pressure, and/or patchy or dark skin.
  
  Lab tests can confirm that you have Addison's disease. If you don't treat it, it can be fatal. You will need to take hormone pills for the rest of your life. If you have Addison's disease, you should carry an emergency ID. It should say that you have the disease, list your medicines and say how much you need in an emergency.
• Allergies
  Allergies
  

  An allergy is a reaction of your immune system to something that does not bother most other people. People who have allergies are usually sensitive to multiple things. Scientists think both genes and the environment play a role in who has an allergy and who does not. Symptoms of allergies can vary but often include runny nose, sneezing, itching, rashes, swelling or asthma. Although allergies can make you feel miserable, they usually are not life threatening. However, some people are severely allergic to some substances and experience a reaction called anaphylaxis. This reaction is life-threatening and 911 should be called immediately.
  
  Millions of people suffer from allergies caused by every day exposures to agents such as dust mites, cat dander, and pollens. Agents encountered by workers can also cause allergic problems such as asthma, nasal and sinus allergies, hives, and even severe anaphylactic reactions. Examples of these work-related agents include animal proteins, enzymes, flour, natural rubber latex, and certain reactive chemicals.
  
  If you suspect that you have an allergy you should see your healthcare provider for an exam and to discuss options for decreasing your symptoms.
• Arrhythmia, Irregular heartbeat
  Arrhythmia, Irregular heartbeat
  

  An arrhythmia is any disorder of your heart rate or rhythm. It means that your heart beats too quickly, too slowly or with an irregular pattern. When the heart beats faster than normal, it is called tachycardia. When the heart beats too slowly, it is called bradycardia.
  
  Many factors can affect your heart's rhythm, such as having had a heart attack, blood chemistry imbalances or abnormal hormone levels. Some substances or medicines may also cause arrhythmias. Symptoms of arrhythmias include, fast or slow heart beat, skipping beats, lightheadedness, dizziness, chest pain, shortness of breath, paleness, and/or sweating.
  
  Your doctor can run tests to find out if you have an arrhythmia.
• Arthritis, Rheumatoid
  Arthritis, Rheumatoid
  

  Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease that affects the joints, often those in a person's wrists, fingers, and feet. The common symptoms of RA are pain, stiffness, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and fever. There are treatments for RA in conventional medicine, and also treatments in complementary, alternative and integrative medicine (CAIM). Arthritis is the most common cause of disability in the United States, limiting the activities of nearly 19 million adults.
  
  Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is what is called an autoimmune disease. In this type of disease, a person's immune system (the system in the body responsible for fighting disease) mistakenly attacks the person's own body. In RA, the parts attacked are the linings of the joints (places in the body where two bones connect). The reasons that this happens are complex and not fully understood. RA causes pain, swelling, and stiffness in a person's joints and problems with functioning. However, RA affects different people in different ways, in terms of the symptoms they have, how serious the symptoms are, and how long the symptoms last. RA is different from other types of arthritis (such as osteoarthritis).
  
  There are many proven treatments for RA that are used to relieve pain, reduce swelling, slow down or stop the damage to joints, help the person function better, and improve the person's sense of well-being. These treatments range from complementary and alternative options to pharmaceuticals to combinations of both.
  
  It is important for people with RA to have their condition followed by a health care professional. This helps prevent or minimize damage to the joints and disability, which can occur if RA is left untreated over time.
• Bell's Palsy
  Bell's Palsy
  

  If you have Bell's palsy, the muscles in your face become temporarily paralyzed. It usually affects just one side of the face. Symptoms appear suddenly - you can't shut your eye and your mouth droops. Symptoms are usually worst about 48 hours after they start.
  
  Scientists think that a viral infection makes the facial nerve swell or become inflamed. You are most likely to get Bell's palsy if you are pregnant, diabetic or sick with a cold or flu, sometimes symptoms appear after sleeping near an open window.
  
  Three in four patients improve without treatment. With or without treatment, most people begin to get better within 2 weeks and most recover completely within 3 to 6 months.
• Bronchitis
  Bronchitis
  

  Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common cause of bronchitis and pneumonia among infants and children under 1 year of age. Illness begins most frequently with fever, runny nose, cough, and sometimes wheezing. During their first RSV infection, between 25% and 40% of infants and young children have signs or symptoms of bronchitis or pneumonia, and 0.5% to 2% require hospitalization. Most children recover from illness in 8 to 15 days. The majority of children hospitalized for RSV infection are under 6 months of age. RSV also causes repeated infections throughout life, usually associated with moderate-to-severe cold-like symptoms; however, severe lower respiratory tract disease may occur at any age, especially among the elderly or among those with compromised cardiac, pulmonary, or immune systems.
  
  RSV is spread from respiratory secretions through close contact with infected persons or contact with contaminated surfaces or objects. Infection can occur when infectious material contacts mucous membranes of the eyes, mouth, or nose, and possibly through the inhalation of droplets generated by a sneeze or cough. For children with mild disease, no specific treatment is necessary other than the treatment of symptoms (e.g., reduce fever). Children with severe disease may require serious medical treatment.
  
  Current prevention options include good infection-control practices. Frequent hand washing and not sharing items such as cups, glasses, and utensils with persons who have RSV illness should decrease the spread of virus to others. Excluding children with colds or other respiratory illnesses (without fever) who are well enough to attend child care or school settings will probably not decrease the transmission of RSV, since it is often spread in the early stages of illness.
• Epilepsy
  Epilepsy
  

  Epilepsy is one of the Nation's Most Common Disabling Neurological Conditions. It is a general term that includes various types of seizures. People with diagnosed epilepsy have had more than one seizure, and they may have had more than one kind of seizure. A seizure happens when abnormal electrical activity in the brain causes an involuntary change in body movement or function, sensation, awareness, or behavior.
  
  People of all ages are affected, but particularly the very young and the elderly. About 10% of Americans will experience a seizure sometime during their lifetime, and about 3% will have had a diagnosis of epilepsy by age 80.
  
  The goal of eliminating seizures, while at the same time preventing side effects from treatment, is achievable for most people with epilepsy. However, most areas of the country do not have the organized systems of care necessary to provide needed service, and support for all people with epilepsy.
  
  More research is needed on epilepsy, in particular on how the causes, frequency, and severity of the condition differ among age groups, races, and communities.
  
  People with epilepsy often struggle to overcome low self-esteem and the stigma that is attached to having epilepsy. The stigma is due in part to a lack of understanding by people they see every day - family members, schoolmates, colleagues. Some people mistakenly believe that epilepsy is a form of mental illness or mental retardation, that seizures are something to fear, that drastic first aid measures must be taken to help someone having a seizure, or that people with epilepsy cannot be valuable and productive employees. Public education is needed to eliminate these misconceptions.
• Gallstones, Cholelithiasis
  Gallstones, Cholelithiasis
  

  Gallstones are hard substances, usually from bile, that block the flow of bile from the Gallbladder through the bile duct. Bile is made by the liver to help your body digest fat. When the bile cannot get through to the stomach and intestines to help with this digestion, you may experience nausea, vomiting or pain in the abdomen, back or just under the right arm. When these symptoms occur together after eating, they are commonly referred to as a gallstone attack.
  
  People at highest risk for gallstones are older adults, women, if you are overweight, Native American, or Mexican American.
  
  If you suspect you may be suffering a gallstone attack, you need to see a healthcare professional right away. If the chosen course of treatment is to remove the gallbladder, bile can get to the small intestine through other routes.
• Insomnia
  Insomnia
  

  Insomnia is characterized by an inability to initiate or maintain sleep. It can also present as early morning awakening where a person awakens several hours early and is unable to go back to sleep. Difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep may often present itself as excessive daytime sleepiness, which commonly results in functional impairment throughout the day. Before being diagnosed with primary insomnia, other potential causes need to be ruled out, such as other sleep disorders, side effects of medications, substance abuse, depression, or other previously undetected illness. Chronic psychophysiological insomnia (or "learned" or "conditioned" insomnia) may result from a stressor combined with fear of being unable to sleep. People affected with this condition may sleep better when not in their own beds.
• Kidney Disease, Renal Disease
  Kidney Disease, Renal Disease
  

  The function of your kidneys is to filter your blood. The actual parts of the kidney that do the filtering are called the nephrons. When the nephrons take the waste and extra water from the blood, it makes urine. When the nephrons no longer function you have kidney disease. The waste and extra water back up into your system and your body becomes toxic.
  
  Kidney disease usually develops over a long period of time and the symptoms are not always obvious. Your chances of developing kidney disease increase if you have a family history of the disease, if you have high blood pressure or hypertension, or if you have diabetes.
  
  Depending on the severity of the disease, you may have to undergo dialysis or a kidney transplant to replace the filtering function of the nephrons.
• Lung Cancer
  Lung Cancer
  

  Cancer is a disease in which abnormal cells in the body grow out of control. Cancers are named after the part of the body where the abnormal cell growth begins.
  
  Lung cancers are cancers that begin in the lungs. Other types of cancers may spread to the lungs from other organs. However, these are not lung cancers because they did not start in the lungs. When cancer cells spread from one organ to another, they are called metastases.
  
  Research has found several risk factors for lung cancer. A 'risk factor' is anything that changes risk of getting a disease. Different risk factors change risk by different amounts.
  
  The risk factors for lung cancer include smoking and being around others' smoke, things around us at home or work (such as radon gas), and personal traits (such as having a family history of lung cancer).
• Myasthenia Gravis
  Myasthenia Gravis
  

  Myasthenia gravis interferes with messages your nerves send to your muscles. Normally, nerve endings release a substance that attaches to receptors on your muscles. That tells your muscles to contract. If you have myasthenia gravis, your body's own immune system makes antibodies to block that signal. Myasthenia gravis often affects muscles in your head. Common symptoms are trouble with eye and eyelid movement, facial expression and swallowing. If you have myasthenia gravis, it is important to follow your treatment plan. If you do, you can expect your life to be normal or close to it.
  
  Medicine can help improve nerve-to-muscle messages and make muscles stronger. Other medicines can keep your body from making so many abnormal antibodies. Sometimes surgery to take out the thymus gland helps. It is important to seek care from a healthcare practitioner if you suspect you have
  this condition.
• Obesity, Overweight
  Obesity, Overweight
  

  Overweight and obesity are both labels for ranges of weight that are greater than what is generally considered healthy for a given height. The terms also identify ranges of weight that have been shown to increase the likelihood of certain diseases and other health problems.
  
  For adults, overweight and obesity ranges are determined by using weight and height to calculate a number called the body mass index' (BMI). BMI is used because, for most people, it correlates with their amount of body fat. An adult who has a BMI between 25 and 29.9 is considered overweight. An adult who has a BMI of 30 or higher is considered obese. It is important to remember that BMI does not directly measure body fat. As a result, some people, such as athletes, may have a BMI that identifies them as overweight even though they do not have excess body fat.
  
  Other methods of estimating body fat and body fat distribution include measurements of skinfold thickness and waist circumference, calculation of waist-to-hip circumference ratios, and techniques such as ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
  
  For children and teens, BMI ranges above a normal weight have different labels (at risk of overweight and overweight). Additionally, BMI ranges for children and teens are defined so that they take into account normal differences in body fat between boys and girls and differences in body fat at various ages.
  
  BMI is just one indicator of potential health risks associated with being overweight or obese. For assessing someone's likelihood of developing overweight- or obesity-related diseases, take a look at two other predictors: 1) Waist circumference (because abdominal fat is a predictor of risk for obesity-related diseases) and 2) Other risk factors the individual has for diseases and conditions associated with obesity (for example, high blood pressure or physical inactivity).
  
  Obesity increases the risk of many diseases and health conditions. These include; Hypertension (high blood pressure), Osteoarthritis (a degeneration of cartilage and its underlying bone within a joint), Dyslipidemia (for example, high total cholesterol or high levels of triglycerides), Type 2 diabetes, Coronary heart disease, Stroke, Gallbladder disease, Sleep apnea and respiratory problems, and some cancers (endometrial, breast, and colon).
• Parasites
  Parasites
  

  A parasite is an organism that lives on or in a host organism and gets its food from or at the expense of its host. There are three main classes of parasites that can cause disease in humans, Protozoa, Helminths, and Ectoparasites.
  
  Protozoa are very tiny, microscopic, one-celled organisms that can live without a host or be parasitic in nature. They are able to reproduce in humans. Protozoa that live in the human intestine can be transmitted to another human most commonly by a fecal-oral route (for example, contaminated food or water, or person-to-person contact). Protozoa that live in the blood or tissue of humans can be transmitted to other humans most commonly through the bite of a mosquito or sand fly.
  
  Helminths are large, multicellular organisms which can be seen with the naked eye when in their adult stages. They can be either free-living or parasitic in nature, and in their immature form can multiply in humans. The three main groups of helminths that are human parasites are; flatworms - these include flukes and tapeworms, thorny-headed worms, and roundworms - the adult forms of these worms can reside in the gastrointestinal tract, blood, lymphatic system or subcutaneous tissues. Alternatively, the immature (larval) states can cause disease of various body tissues because they can reproduce in the body. Some consider the helminths to also include leeches. However, these organisms are not typically considered parasites.
  
  Ectoparasites can include mosquitoes, although this term is generally used more specifically to refer to ticks, fleas, lice, and mites that attach or burrow into the skin and remain there for relatively long periods of time (e.g., weeks to months).

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