Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Important It is possible that the main title of the report Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report. Synonyms Akureyri Disease Benign Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Epidemic Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Epidemic Neuromyasthenia Iceland Disease Raphe Nucleus Encephalopathy Royal Free Disease Tapanui Flu ME CFS Disorder Subdivisions None General Discussion Until the late 1980s, myalgic encephalomyelitis was thought to be a distinct, infectious disorder affecting the central, peripheral and autonomic nervous systems and the muscles. The Fact Sheet for CFS published by the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health states that "[T]oday, CFS is also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, postviral fatigue syndrome, and chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome." ME/CFS is not rare. Resources
Midwest Today: Do High-Voltage Power Lines Cause Cancer? Midwest Today, April/May 1996 Studies link Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) To Illness By NEAL LAWRENCE It was sort of a funny story when we first heard about it a few years ago: A dairy farmer living in Wisconsin near high voltage utility company transmission lines couldn't turn out the lights in his barn. But the story doesn't seem so funny any more -- not after the spate of recent reports of children developing deadly illnesses or adults dying prematurely of rare diseases -- all apparently because they had the misfortune of living near high amounts of electrical current. A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that invisible electromagnetic fields (EMFs) -- created by everything from high-voltage utility company lines to personal computers, microwave ovens, TVs and even electric blankets -- are linked to a frightening array of cancers and other serious health problems in children and adults. This follows on the heels of three epidemiological reports released in 1994. Cover-Up?
Canadian Expert Consensus Panel Criteria for ME/CFS Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Panel 1. Dr. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. This definition was hosted and coordinated by the National ME/FM Action Network of Canada, led by Lydia Nielson. Scorecard Home Fibromyalgia Pictures: Symptoms, Pain, Treatments, Diet, Causes Fibromyalgia Newsletter Find tips and advances in treatment. Advertisement Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD on September 06, 2011 Sources: 1) Rob Gage/Taxi 2) Image Source 3) 3D4Medical.com 4) Steve Pomberg / WebMD 5) B2M Productions/Riser 6) Alain Daussin/The Image Bank 7) Medical RF/Phototake 8) Denis Felix/Taxi 9) Rob Melnychuk/Photodisc 10) P. American College of Rheumatology. This tool does not provide medical advice. THIS TOOL DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE. © 2011 WebMD, LLC. WebMD Slideshows View our slideshows to learn more about your health.
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome ~ Help For IBS Treatments & IBS Education. Learn all about your Irritable Bowel Syndrome diagnosis, IBS treatments, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome symptom management. NAMTPT | National Association of Myofascial Trigger Point Therapists ROUND EARTH PUBLISHING: INTRODUCTION TO HEAD PAIN Many pains do indeed have psychiatric components, but the psychogenic diagnosis is woefully overdone. (Notice how rarely it is applied to knee pain, big toe pain, or shoulder pain.) It is used all too often by the physician, who, when asked for the underlying cause of head pain, cannot bring himself to say “I don’t know.” Of particular concern neurologically is strain or compression of the trigeminal nerve and its branches which mediate tissue inflammation, vasodilation and vascular permeability in the brain — all issues in migraine. If irritated muscles and nerves fire off an inflammatory response and vasodilation, is the resulting headache muscular, neurological, or vascular? For patient or physician, the following pain patterns may look surprisingly familiar and will, we hope, point the user in the direction of truly effective treatment. In the following illustrations, black dots indicate common trigger point locations; red areas indicate the pain referred by the trigger point.
ROUND EARTH PUBLISHING: MYOFASCIAL DIAGNOSES CHART Neurological problems? A pinched nerve perhaps? We tend to imagine a "pinched nerve" as two bloody ends of bones rubbing together with the hapless nerve caught in between but that is car-wreck Emergency Room trauma. Far more every-day common are nerves (and veins and arteries) pulled, sheared, squeezed and strangled by tight muscles, fascia, and adhesions, causing bizarre down-stream symptoms and altering the results of standard neurological tests. For example, tight scalene muscles in the neck or the pronator teres muscle of the elbow are the most common causes of the neurological symptoms attributed to the carpal tunnel of the wrist. Constriction of the hiatus in the adductor magnus of the inner thigh can be so effective in strangling nerve and blood supply to the lower leg that all deep tendon reflexes may be lost. Before you submit to carpal tunnel surgery, be sure the cause is actually the carpal tunnel (rare!) Tingly ring and little fingers are not "carpal tunnel syndrome."