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Cervical spondylosis

Friday, May 1st, 2009

I have stiff neck when I getup in the morning..I have to sit hrs on my desk and the pain in neck wnt go. I try to take breaks and do neck exercise..pain becomes less after it but wont go away.
I also do body building and I am very sure not to pickup heavy weight [...]

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Whiplash injury symptoms?

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

I have had neck/back pain since a young child. I am 31 now. I had whiplash from being startled by a spider in June. I started doing Yoga which helped until Sept. when I started having severe muscle cramps in my legs and feet. My hand began to “wobble” back and forth when I would [...]

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Symptoms or Something Else?

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

I was hoping you could give me advice with regards to a series of symptoms that nobody has been able to explain, despite my seeing many doctors and having many tests.
It all started when I was 12 when I woke up randomly with back pain. I’m pretty active, so I wrote it off as overdoing [...]

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Degenerative Disc Disease, Spine MRI

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Degenerative Disk Disease - Spine MRI explanation - Degenerative Disc Disease
Hello I am 44 yr old woman who has multiple sclerosis. I suffer from horrible chronic back pain. Below is results from my mri. Does anyone recognise what any of it means??? Looks greek to me! Does it seem like surgery would fix any of [...]

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Shoulder Injury and Army Career

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Hello there, I am a 23 year old Military Police Officer at Ft. Bragg, NC. I have been in the army 4 1/2 years, and participated in the Iraqi invasion in 2003, to give you a little background.
In Special forces training (PLDC/BNOC to be specific) I had a very heavy rucksack about a year ago, [...]

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Accident Injury, Failure to Diagnose Fibula Fracture?

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Failure to Diganose, failure to treat fractured fibula, accident injury
I have been involved in a motor vehicle accident five six weeks ago where i was struck by a car. I as admitted to the emergency room where they failed to diagnose my broken fibula. I then got a second opinion where the fracture was overlooked [...]

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Bone Bruise - or something else?

Friday, December 8th, 2006

I fell 20 years ago and was told I bruised the shin bone on my left leg. It is now hurting in the same spot. I can actually see a very faint red mark, like an old bruise. It sometimes hurts up into my knee and wakes me up at night. [...]

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Shoulder pain radiating to fingers

Monday, December 4th, 2006

I have been having shoulder problems for many years. For the last couple of months, the top of my shoulder blade hurts. I can push in between the joints and feel the pain. But, the last couple of days the pain runs from my shoulder to by elbow and into the joints [...]

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Thigh numbness - Meralgia Paresthetica - Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve

Friday, December 1st, 2006

About 1 year ago i had burning,tingling,pins/needles on the outer left thigh just about the knee, which resulted in numbness (about 2 inches in length). As of recent, same sensations front of same thigh with numbness comes and goes. I have no back pain, and no loss of function in muscle, seems topical [...]

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Neck Pain - Stiff Neck, Cracking

Monday, November 27th, 2006

For the last few weeks I’ve noticed that my neck has been extremely stiff, and usually once a day or sometimes twice I’ll tilt my neck as far as I can to the left and something will crack/shift. It doesn’t crack when I tilt it to the right. Also, for the last few weeks I’ve [...]

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