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More women are delivering their babies by C-section. Why? There is concern because much of this increase in C-sections involves women with no identifiable medical reason for a C-section. As pointed out in the British Medical Journal, "...women, researchers, and the medical establishment are once again debating the use of this procedure." The "caesarean section rates in Canada and the United States are close to 25%...." This is in stark contrast to the 15% mark suggested by WHO as an upper limit.
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Common coccygodynia is poorly understood. Numerous hypotheses have been proposed as to the origin of the syndrome, including pain from the pericoccygeal soft tissues, spasm of the muscles of the pelvic floor, referred pain from lumbar pathology, arachnoiditis of the lower sacral nerve roots, local posttraumatic lesions, somatization, etc (Howorth 1959, Jurmand 1976, Nelson 1991, Postacchini & Massobrio 1983, Stern 1967). Thus far, there has been no sound confirmation of any of these. |
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A few decades ago, scientists discovered that patients with a connective tissue disease had symptoms of both lupus, scleroderma, myositis, etc. These diseases are called ‘overlap-syndromes’. In 1969 Sharp and his co-workers found out that there is one specific type of overlap-syndrome with symptoms of lupus, scleroderma, myositis and rheumatoid arthritis, together with a large quantity of antibodies against one specific antigen, namely U1RNP. They believed it to be a distinct disease entity and called it MCTD. |
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Life has been tough for those of us with myofascial pain syndrome. We have too often been met with doctors who “don’t believe in” CMP. We have been hampered by the lack of a scientifically credible and understandable cause for this condition and an officially recognized set of diagnostic criteria. This resulted in a lack of training of physicians and therapists. The insurance companies and the Social Security Administration made our lives even more difficult. This is about to change.
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