Pain
What is Cervical Dystonia (what I have…)
Cervical dystonia (spasmodic torticollis) Cervical dystonia, also known as spasmodic torticollis, is a focal dystonia characterized by neck muscles contracting involuntarily, causing abnormal movements and awkward posture of the head and neck. The movements may be sustained (�tonic�), jerky (�clonic�), or a combination. Spasms in the muscles or pinched nerves in the neck can result in considerable pain and discomfort. Cervical dystonia may be primary or secondary. Terms used to describe cervical dystonia include:...
read moreWhat Is Torticollis (Dystonia) And How Is It Caused?
What Is Torticollis (Dystonia) And How Is It Caused? What Is Torticollis? Torticollis comes from the Latin: torti (twisted) and collis (neck).Torticollis (sometimes called cervical dystonia or spasmodic torticollis) is a condition in which the muscles controlling the neck are locked in a sustained contraction causing the neck to twist to one side. Different forms of torticollis can cause the head to twist to the side, to tilt back, to tilt forward or lean ear to shoulder.It can be a very painful condition that can cause a lot of...
read moreSolutions
Our world right now is akin to a pot of water that is just about ready to boil; the surface of the water is still relatively calm, but there are obvious indications of agitation and energetic activity. When a society loses its way, the tendency is toward entropy – our population is devolving to the neanderthal behaviors of racism, overzealous jingoism and angry envy driven actions that fail reason. There are many reasons for this but my primary thoughts are that this is due to a lack of hope. Hope is generated from God and the...
read moreThe Science of Victimization
This blog post from Skip is very much on point – by looking outward to blame others we ignore/escape the real issues that lay within each of us to deal with. Life is what it is; it is brutish, hard and short. Life is NOT fair. Ask anyone with an invisible condition about fairness. Fairness shares a portion of it’s etymology with fairy, as in fairy-tale. The moment we allow the idea of fairness of OUTCOME to creep into our thoughts we are doomed to this cycle of apathy, socialism, awakening and...
read moreDisabled Discrimination – One of the last tribal stigmas
Skin tone, sex and sexual orientation, race, religion and class are all stigmas that have existed from humanity’s beginnings. Anything that appears to be different from the eye of the beholder’s own experience was foreign and not understood. We began to eliminate our prejudices based on our understandings. Sometimes the shift was relatively smooth and bloodless, but more often than not the shift from persecuting someone who was different than us to not persecuting them was filled with violence ranging the scale. One stigma that our...
read moreGoogle is my Doctor
Reposted from Scott Adams blog @ Dilbert.com (original link) Some of you have heard this story, but I will reiterate to make a larger point. I had a mysterious voice problem that I accurately diagnosed using Google after several doctors were baffled. I woke up one day thinking my voice problem might be related in some way to my hand problem – a writer’s cramp called focal dystonia. So I Googled “voice dystonia” and up popped a link to a video of a person speaking with exactly the same speech defect I had at the time,...
read moreThe Wrong Prescription – repost
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/246198/wrong-prescription-andrew-stuttaford The Corner The Wrong Prescription September 10, 2010 9:59 A.M. By Andrew Stuttaford Oh dear: Sheriffs in North Carolina want access to state computer records identifying anyone with prescriptions for powerful painkillers and other controlled substances. North Carolina’s sheriffs quite obviously have way too much time on their hands, but even if we ignore the insult to privacy concerns implicit in the sheriffs’ suggestion (not to speak of the stupidity of...
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