Meralgia paresthetica is a very painful type of neuropathic pain that can range from a mild tingling to complete numbness and intense burning, all of the outer thigh. It can affect either one or both legs, and it can seem to “turn off” randomly, then start back up again without any warning. It can be ...
In the United States, thousands of families are caring for aging adults who suffer from dementia related symptoms. Of this aging population, many suffer from a curable form of dementia secondary to a brain complication known as subdural hematoma. As a result, when caring for an aging adult, with a sudden onset of dementia related ...
Marfan’s Syndrome affects one out of every 5,000 individuals in the United States. Hereditary in nature, the condition will lead to a lifetime of health issues which must be monitored and treated accordingly. Marfan’s Syndrome does not discrimate based on ethnicity nor race and no cure has been found. MArfan’s Syndrome affects the connective tissues ...
In my mind, enduring three pounding headaches – each lasting weeks – in 15 years didn’t make me a typical headache patient. Several doctors shrugged their shoulders and labeled each episode an atypical migraine after MRIs failed to suggest anything else. However, my new neurologist wondered aloud if I wasn’t experiencing a series of events ...
Statistically, it is believed that more than 750 children born each year, in the United States, are born with a genetic defect known as Down syndrome. Often diagnosed during pregnancy, parents of a Down syndrome child eagerly await the arrival of the infant, preparing for the life challenges, rewards and health complications. For a small ...
Defining epilepsy isn’t easy as epilepsy comes in all kinds of different configurations. Epilepsy is a seizure disorder that involves a pattern of at least two seizures whose cause is unrelated to a known medical condition. The word epilepsy is a broad term for a vast variety of different types of seizures. When I first ...
West Syndrome is an epileptic condition that typically presents in the first year of life, mostly between 4-8 months of age. The formal definition involves infantile spasms, developmental delay and hypsarrythmia, an abnormal brain electrical pattern, on brain EEG. Infantile spasms are sometimes subtle to parents, and other times very debilitating to infants. They manifest ...