John Drew Laurusonis Doctors Medical Center www.doctorsmedicalctr.comReyes syndrome By: John Laurusonis, MD About the Author Dr. Laurusonis was conferred his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1983 and has been actively taking care of patients since completing his Internal Medicine residency in 1987 in the Garden State of New Jersey. Dr. Laurusonis has been licensed in four states but ultimately chose to permanently relocate to...more
What is Thoracic Outlet Syndrome?Thoracic outlet syndrome, also called TOS, is a condition in which a bundle of nerves and/or arteries becomes pinched as they pass from the cervical region to the arm. This pinching is often intermittent and can cause symptoms including pain, tingling, weakness, and feelings of heaviness or cold sensations in the arm or hand. Such symptoms can have a great impact on the ability to use the arm with functional...more
Prader-Willi syndrome is a congenital (present from birth) disease characterized by decrease in muscle tone, decreased mental capacity, hypogonadism and obesity.Prader-Willi is caused by the deletion of a gene on chromosome 15. However, the reason for this is still unknown. Only the father's copy of the gene on chromosome 15 is active. The gene from the maternal side is inactive. The disease occurs, when the only copy received from father's side is deleted; since the maternal copy is always inactive.At birth, new infants born with the disease are often very floppy (hypotonic) and small. Testicles in male infants may be undescended. The child shows slow mental and motor development, characteristically small hands and feet and increasing obesity.The patient develops uncontrollable hunger, which becomes a cause for rapid weight gain. The weight gain leads to Obesity, respiratory failure with hypoxia and corpulmonale (right-sided heart failure). There is slow mental development, and the IQ seldom exceeds 80.There is no general consensus as to the cause for morbid obesity, although genetic abnormalities in chromosome 15 obstructs the normal functioning of the hypothalamus. Since...more
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Prevention By: Dr. Michael Taggart About the Author Doctor of Chiropractic, Palmer-West College of Chiropractic 1990Certified Applied Kinesiologist, Industrial consultant,and pettibon spinal rehabilitation practionner, functional neurological and functional metabolic specialist. Founded Lake...more
Empty Nest syndrome occurs to lots of parents when their last son or daughter ultimately leaves the home. This takes place mainly because there were some decades having children around and from now on it is simply you and your husband the very first time in years alone with each other. Often people aren't sure what direction to go or how to...more
Premenstrual syndrome or PMS and premenstrual dysphoric disorder or PMDD are both quite common between women from 30 to 40 years of age. These disorders occur when women reach their menopause. The symptoms of both are quite same but the symptoms of PMDD are severe.Both these disorders have emotional symptoms like depression, anger, frustration and irritation and physical symptoms like bloating, headache and joint ache. These two are can also cause insomnia. The cause of these disorders can be hormonal imbalance in the body. Imbalance of the two female hormones estrogen and progesteron are proposed to be the root cause of these disorders. Women can take progesteron supplements which can be taken in tablet form. Women who take progesteron supplements should check their hormone levels every one to two months to ensure that the progesteron is not transformed into estrogen.PMDD can be treated naturally with the help of evening primrose oil. Evening primrose or lady primrose is a very common flower and grows anywhere. Every part of the flower can be consumed like the petals, the roots, the leaves and also the seeds. From its seed the oil which is extracted is the evening primrose oil...more
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a unbearable and tortuous problem characterized by profound exhaustion of six months or longer length of time that is not improved by bed rest and that may be made worse by physical or mental activity. Chronic fatigue...more
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THE PROBLEMDysfunction of the jaw joint is probably the most misdiagnosed cause of chronic pain. Estimates of people actually affected with varying degrees of this condition range from 25% to as high as 80%!The condition may arise from one or more of...more