Weight loss and diet plan for a healthy lifestyle. » Pain Relief-Muscle Relaxers http://mediccentral.net Get news, information, and opinions on weight loss, diet, nutrition, and health. Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:49:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 INVESTIGATION OF HEADACHES: PHYSICAL EXAMINATION http://mediccentral.net/2011/07/investigation-of-headaches-physical-examination http://mediccentral.net/2011/07/investigation-of-headaches-physical-examination#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:49:26 +0000 admin http://mediccentral.net/?p=186
The physical examination can include a general examination of all the body’s systems, e.g. the pulse is taken, the heart listened to, blood pressure measured, and the abdomen felt. In a full neurological examination, the cranial nerves are tested one by one. The ability to smell may need to be tested. It is important to test vision, especially visual acuity and visual fields. The ophthalmoscope is an instrument designed so that the doctor can look at the optic nerve and the blood vessels at the back of the retina; its use is particularly important in certain cases. Movements of the eye, facial muscles, soft palate, and shoulder movements are tested as are sensation on the face and hearing.
The power of the muscles and sensation in the rest of the body is then tested as are fine movements and co-ordination. The reflexes are tapped to see if they are equally brisk on each side and the sole of the foot scratched: a down-going toe in response to this is normal. At some stage the doctor will listen over the neck, head, and eyes for any murmurs, noises caused by turbulence in blood flow produced by narrowing or malformations in blood vessels.
In most cases of headache, the examination is negative, suggesting that all is well but, occasionally, a small change may alert the doctor to the possibility of a more serious problem and it is then that the patient may be referred to the specialist for investigations.
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Stressors – that’s factors that cause stress – are divided into two main groups:

Stressors you can either avoid altogether or eliminate most of the time. For example, if you find that you always become highly irritated and ‘up-tight’ whenever you visit your in-laws, it would be sensible to perhaps see them less frequently; or if your temper rises to boiling point every time you can’t find a place to park your car in town, consider going in by bus or train instead.

Stressors about which you can do little, or at least not in the short term, and which are essentially beyond your control. Typical stressors of this type include work problems, money worries, or deteriorating family and marital relationships.

Identify your own personal stressors by making a list of those events, situations, and other factors that you know make you feel stressed. In this list also include seemingly minor problems that bother you frequently as it’s not uncommon for these – if they come up often – to be a cumulative source of stress whose total effect is considerably more powerful than you might expect.

Divide your list into two parts: the stressors you can avoid or eliminate and those which you’ll have to grin and bear, at least for the immediately foreseeable future. Review your list carefully, considering each item in turn and thinking about what you can do about it to make things better for yourself. As you go through this exercise, you’re likely to be surprised by how much stress you can avoid by making the simplest of adjustments to your lifestyle or environment. Naturally, you’ll be reducing your total stress level every time you find a way to avoid or reduce the impact of a stressor.

Extremely useful though this eliminatory approach can be, it may still not be enough to bring your stress down to an acceptable level as there will probably still remain a number of major stressors which will not disappear or change overnight. What can be done, however, is to change the intensity with which you react to these ‘permanent’ stressors, so reducing their impact upon you and making their effects less harmful to you in the long term.

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