Feb07

Knee injuries

by admin on February 7th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Posted In: Family Health

Knee injuries
The knee injury suffered by Ruud van Nistelrooy is typical of those suffered by footballers, as BBC News Online discovers.
Ruud van Nistelrooy’s knee ligament injury is one of thousands suffered by professional footballers each year.

The strains put on the knee by the action of twisting and turning put the ligaments – bands of fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilage and strengthening joints – under tremendous strain.

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Feb07

Epilepsy

by admin on February 7th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Posted In: Medical Notes

Epilepsy

Epilepsy is caused by surges of electrical activity
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder which causes seizures.
One in 133 people in the UK has epilepsy, and at any one time 300,000 have an active form of the condition.
What causes epilepsy?
An epileptic seizure is caused by over-activity of the brain cells, which produces a surge of electricity.

This may be due to a variety of factors, such as brain ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Feb07

Alzheimer’s disease

by admin on February 7th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Posted In: Medical Notes

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, degenerative and irreversible brain disorder that causes intellectual impairment, disorientation and eventually death. There is no cure. It is estimated that 2-5% of people over 65 years of age and up to 20% of those over 85 years of age suffer from the disease

What causes Alzheimer’s?

The causes of Alzheimer’s disease are not yet fully understood.

There are some very rare inherited cases caused by genetic mutations, but these account for around 1% of people with Alzheimer’s.

For most cases, there is a complex interaction ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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