Peripheral Neuropathy Kills Your Nerves!

Peripheral Neuropathy Can Kill You!

Do you suffer with the following symptoms?
1. Numbness in the feet, legs, hands and/or arms.
2. Tingling hands tingling feet feelings.
3. Burning hand, burning feet sensations.
4. Electric shock hands pain and electric shock feet pain.
5. Shooting hand pain and shooting feet pain and/or Stabbing like hand pains and stabbing like feet pain.
6. Inability to achieve or sustain erections.
7. Extreme sensitivity to touch, even light touch.
8. Lack of coordination.
9. Bowel or bladder problems.

Peripheral Neuropathy usually begins long before the person afflicted ever realizes that they have a problem. The brain inhibits our ability to perceive these first symptoms.

Most commonly, Peripheral Neuropathy starts in the longest nerves, the ones that reach to your toes. Symptoms vary, depending on which types of nerves are affected.

However, as time passes and the damage accumulates the symptoms become much more pronounced and the brain must allow for the warning signs to be acknowledged.

What confuses most doctors about Peripheral Neuropathy is that each patient will describe their symptoms in their own individual language of pain.

 

This can easily become unsettling to any doctor not trained in the recognition and treatment of the various Peripheral Neuropathy symptoms, especially someone whom, instead of focusing on Peripheral Neuropathy, becomes spread thin due to their treating many different and varied types of health disorders, basically seeing anything that walks into their office.

This makes it next to impossible for these doctors to realize and appreciate that these different patient subjective complaints are really all about the same problem, that being Peripheral Neuropathy.

So, in the end it is you, the patient that pays the price. You begin to shuffle from doctor to doctor, being given ever stronger, and more dangerous drugs, until you are completely drugged and so out of it that you are unable to function in the same capacity as before, not unlike a person addicted to common street drugs.

 I do things differently than any of these specialists that you have seen for your Peripheral Neuropathy.

To find out what has been called "miraculous by my patients visit my Peripheral Neuropathy website and watch the videos to learn how you too may achieve a life free from the pain and misery that peripheral neuropathy brings. 

http://NoNeuropathyHouston.com

Peripheral Neuropathy Can Kill You!

Do you suffer with the following symptoms?
1. Numbness in the feet, legs, hands and/or arms.
2. Tingling hands tingling feet feelings.
3. Burning hand, burning feet sensations.
4. Electric shock hands pain and electric shock feet pain.
5. Shooting hand pain and shooting feet pain and/or Stabbing like hand pains and stabbing like feet pain.
6. Inability to achieve or sustain erections.
7. Extreme sensitivity to touch, even light touch.
8. Lack of coordination.
9. Bowel or bladder problems.

Peripheral Neuropathy usually begins long before the person afflicted ever realizes that they have a problem. The brain inhibits our ability to perceive these first symptoms.

Most commonly, Peripheral Neuropathy starts in the longest nerves, the ones that reach to your toes. Symptoms vary, depending on which types of nerves are affected.

However, as time passes and the damage accumulates the symptoms become much more pronounced and the brain must allow for the warning signs to be acknowledged.

What confuses most doctors about Peripheral Neuropathy is that each patient will describe their symptoms in their own individual language of pain.

 

This can easily become unsettling to any doctor not trained in the recognition and treatment of the various Peripheral Neuropathy symptoms, especially someone whom, instead of focusing on Peripheral Neuropathy, becomes spread thin due to their treating many different and varied types of health disorders, basically seeing anything that walks into their office.

This makes it next to impossible for these doctors to realize and appreciate that these different patient subjective complaints are really all about the same problem, that being Peripheral Neuropathy.

So, in the end it is you, the patient that pays the price. You begin to shuffle from doctor to doctor, being given ever stronger, and more dangerous drugs, until you are completely drugged and so out of it that you are unable to function in the same capacity as before, not unlike a person addicted to common street drugs.

 I do things differently than any of these specialists that you have seen for your Peripheral Neuropathy.

To find out what has been called "miraculous by my patients visit my Peripheral Neuropathy website and watch the videos to learn how you too may achieve a life free from the pain and misery that peripheral neuropathy brings. 

http://NoNeuropathyHouston.com

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Kentucky hospitals score mostly Bs and Cs on hospital safety scorecard; most in U.S. earned an A or B

In an analysis of the nation's hospitals and their safety records, many of Kentucky's health care facilities have some shortcomings. A study by the Leapfrog Group finds that the vast majority of the state's hospitals score a B or C in overall patient safety, a term defined here by analysis of data on accidents, errors and infections as kept by the Centers for Disease Control, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research. At least a dozen of the state's hospital earned an A rating. To check the grade of your own hospital, go here.

In this data analysis and grading system, 26 different points of criteria were used. Of the 2,618 hospitals reviewed, about 56 percent of the hospitals earned an A or B, and an additional 38 percent passed with a C grade. Only 6 percent of hospitals -- 146 total -- received a D or F. According to CBS News, at least 180,000 Americans die in hospitals every year from incidents that occur because of their stays there. (Read more)

In an analysis of the nation's hospitals and their safety records, many of Kentucky's health care facilities have some shortcomings. A study by the Leapfrog Group finds that the vast majority of the state's hospitals score a B or C in overall patient safety, a term defined here by analysis of data on accidents, errors and infections as kept by the Centers for Disease Control, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research. At least a dozen of the state's hospital earned an A rating. To check the grade of your own hospital, go here.

In this data analysis and grading system, 26 different points of criteria were used. Of the 2,618 hospitals reviewed, about 56 percent of the hospitals earned an A or B, and an additional 38 percent passed with a C grade. Only 6 percent of hospitals -- 146 total -- received a D or F. According to CBS News, at least 180,000 Americans die in hospitals every year from incidents that occur because of their stays there. (Read more)

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Task force recommends changes to protect safety and health of middle school students who play interscholastic sports

The boys of North Marshall Middle
School of Benton, Ky., after winning
a Christmas tournament last year.

Beth Musgrave of the Lexington Herald-Leader reports that the state Task Force on Interscholastic Athletics at the Middle School Level announced its preliminary recommendations this week to address concerns about young athletes' health and safety. It seems that middle school sports in Kentucky have never had the advantage of being governed by a unified code of rules and policies like their counterpart in high school sports. This has led to a confusing mish-mash of guidelines that the legislature is setting out to get right in the coming year.

Preliminary task force recommendations include requiring all middle school teams to follow high school rules on physical exams, medical coverage, concussions and practicing during extreme heat, and requiring the tracking of injuries and incidents for all sports. The task force also suggested that the Kentucky Board of Education look to create a single governing body, like the Kentucky High School Athletics Association that governs high school sports, to oversee all middle-school sports. Wilson Sears, executive director of the Kentucky Association of School Superintendents and a task force member, told Musgrave that the recommendations represent "real progress." (Read more)

The boys of North Marshall Middle
School of Benton, Ky., after winning
a Christmas tournament last year.

Beth Musgrave of the Lexington Herald-Leader reports that the state Task Force on Interscholastic Athletics at the Middle School Level announced its preliminary recommendations this week to address concerns about young athletes' health and safety. It seems that middle school sports in Kentucky have never had the advantage of being governed by a unified code of rules and policies like their counterpart in high school sports. This has led to a confusing mish-mash of guidelines that the legislature is setting out to get right in the coming year.

Preliminary task force recommendations include requiring all middle school teams to follow high school rules on physical exams, medical coverage, concussions and practicing during extreme heat, and requiring the tracking of injuries and incidents for all sports. The task force also suggested that the Kentucky Board of Education look to create a single governing body, like the Kentucky High School Athletics Association that governs high school sports, to oversee all middle-school sports. Wilson Sears, executive director of the Kentucky Association of School Superintendents and a task force member, told Musgrave that the recommendations represent "real progress." (Read more)

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The world is getting fatter, but Kentucky's rate of obesity is two and a half times the world rate

Take no solace from The Economist, which proclaims in its yearly analysis-and-prognostication issue that this is the year world leaders will take on worldwide obesity because, writes Charlotte Howard, "they will realize something must be done."

So, no, it is not just you, Kentucky. In fact, Howard, the health-care correspondent for the magazine, writes that 30 percent of Mexico's adult population is obese. That is precisely the same percentage of Kentuckians that were considered obese by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America's Health analysis released in August. (We ranked sixth fattest state nationwide.) It is also the same percentage of Chinese adults that are, as Howard put it, "too wide" -- a term that Howard uses here to include the overweight as well as the obese.

But there is no room to crow here. Kentucky is far ahead of the trend. Only 12 percent of the world counts as obese today. We beat that two and half times over. (The number of Kentuckians who were merely overweight was not calculated or included in the figures in the study.) A study released in September by the same group found that if trends continue, 60 percent of Kentuckians will be obese by 2030. The World Health Organization's estimate of the world's obesity was at 15 percent by 2020.

The Economist folks favors an approach that a democratic path to better health and fiscal sanity, given the health care cost ramifications of obesity. They like a tax on soda -- it's pure sugar, no real nutrition. They like subsidies to make fresh produce cheaper. And they like better school lunches and labeling, labeling, labeling so consumers will make better choices.

Take no solace from The Economist, which proclaims in its yearly analysis-and-prognostication issue that this is the year world leaders will take on worldwide obesity because, writes Charlotte Howard, "they will realize something must be done."

So, no, it is not just you, Kentucky. In fact, Howard, the health-care correspondent for the magazine, writes that 30 percent of Mexico's adult population is obese. That is precisely the same percentage of Kentuckians that were considered obese by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America's Health analysis released in August. (We ranked sixth fattest state nationwide.) It is also the same percentage of Chinese adults that are, as Howard put it, "too wide" -- a term that Howard uses here to include the overweight as well as the obese.

But there is no room to crow here. Kentucky is far ahead of the trend. Only 12 percent of the world counts as obese today. We beat that two and half times over. (The number of Kentuckians who were merely overweight was not calculated or included in the figures in the study.) A study released in September by the same group found that if trends continue, 60 percent of Kentuckians will be obese by 2030. The World Health Organization's estimate of the world's obesity was at 15 percent by 2020.

The Economist folks favors an approach that a democratic path to better health and fiscal sanity, given the health care cost ramifications of obesity. They like a tax on soda -- it's pure sugar, no real nutrition. They like subsidies to make fresh produce cheaper. And they like better school lunches and labeling, labeling, labeling so consumers will make better choices.

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UK study: Old, perhaps obsolete heart drug increases deaths in patients with atrial fibrillation

A drug widely used against heart disease can increase the possibility of death when used by patients with atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm problem, according to a study by University of Kentucky researchers. Digoxin, a derivative of the foxglove plant, is an old yet controversial heart drug. Though considered obsolete by some, it is still widely used.

The study, published in European Heart Journal, analyzed data from 4,060 atrial-fibrillation patients. It was led by Dr. Samy Claude Elayi, associate professor of medicine at UK HealthCare's Gill Heart Institute. The results of the study indicate that further review by the Food and Drug Administration is warranted to determine if stronger warnings about its use should be required. (Read more)

A drug widely used against heart disease can increase the possibility of death when used by patients with atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm problem, according to a study by University of Kentucky researchers. Digoxin, a derivative of the foxglove plant, is an old yet controversial heart drug. Though considered obsolete by some, it is still widely used.

The study, published in European Heart Journal, analyzed data from 4,060 atrial-fibrillation patients. It was led by Dr. Samy Claude Elayi, associate professor of medicine at UK HealthCare's Gill Heart Institute. The results of the study indicate that further review by the Food and Drug Administration is warranted to determine if stronger warnings about its use should be required. (Read more)

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Does coat color predict cat personality?

Delgado MM, Munera JD and Reevy GM. Human perceptions of coat color as an indicator of domestic cat personality. Anthrozoos. 2012; 25: 427-40.
 
Did you ever wonder what was behind the stereotype of black cats being evil or unlucky now that we have passed the Halloween season? Or if there was a real reason why black cats might be adopted less from shelters than other cats? A recent study by researchers at California State University and the New College of Florida explored where these biases originate by using an Internet-based study of about 200 individuals. The survey used a 7-point scale to assign 10 terms (active, aloof, bold, calm, friendly, intolerant, shy, stubborn, tolerant, and trainable) to five different colors of cats (orange, tri-color, white, black, and bi-color). Significant differences were found in that people tended to assign “friendliness” to orange cats, “intolerance” to tricolored cats, and “aloofness” to white and tricolored cats. “Stubbornness” was not assigned in any color of cats.

White cats were considered less bold and active and more shy and calm than other colors. Orange cats were also considered more trainable than white cats. There was a glimmer of hope from the survey in that respondents placed more importance on personality than color when they selected a cat companion, though some evidence shows they believe the two qualities are linked. The study’s information will be beneficial for shelters and those in cat rescue to help promote adoption of different color cats, how to educate potential adopters, and how to avoid relinquishment of some cats due to coat color bias. [VT]

See also: McConnell AR, Brown CM, Shoda TM, Stayton LE and Martin CE. Friends with benefits: on the positive consequences of pet ownership. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2011; 101: 1239-52.

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How the tabby cat got its stripes (October 2012)

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Delgado MM, Munera JD and Reevy GM. Human perceptions of coat color as an indicator of domestic cat personality. Anthrozoos. 2012; 25: 427-40.
 
Did you ever wonder what was behind the stereotype of black cats being evil or unlucky now that we have passed the Halloween season? Or if there was a real reason why black cats might be adopted less from shelters than other cats? A recent study by researchers at California State University and the New College of Florida explored where these biases originate by using an Internet-based study of about 200 individuals. The survey used a 7-point scale to assign 10 terms (active, aloof, bold, calm, friendly, intolerant, shy, stubborn, tolerant, and trainable) to five different colors of cats (orange, tri-color, white, black, and bi-color). Significant differences were found in that people tended to assign “friendliness” to orange cats, “intolerance” to tricolored cats, and “aloofness” to white and tricolored cats. “Stubbornness” was not assigned in any color of cats.

White cats were considered less bold and active and more shy and calm than other colors. Orange cats were also considered more trainable than white cats. There was a glimmer of hope from the survey in that respondents placed more importance on personality than color when they selected a cat companion, though some evidence shows they believe the two qualities are linked. The study’s information will be beneficial for shelters and those in cat rescue to help promote adoption of different color cats, how to educate potential adopters, and how to avoid relinquishment of some cats due to coat color bias. [VT]

See also: McConnell AR, Brown CM, Shoda TM, Stayton LE and Martin CE. Friends with benefits: on the positive consequences of pet ownership. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2011; 101: 1239-52.

Related blog articles:
How the tabby cat got its stripes (October 2012)

More on cat health:
Winn Feline Foundation Library
Find us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
Join us on Google+

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The Soda Ban Debate: What Does It Mean for Your Health?

The New York City Board of Health will decide this week whether to implement Mayor Michael Bloomberg's controversial proposal to limit the sale of super-sized sodas.

By Brett Spiegel, Production Editor

<a title="The Soda Ban Debate" href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/0912/the-soda-ban-debate-what-does-it-mean-for-your-health.aspx">everydayhealth.com</a>

About Dr Kevin Lau

Dr Kevin Lau DC is the founder of Health In Your Hands, a series of tools for Scoliosis prevention and treatment. The set includes his book Your Plan for Natural Scoliosis Prevention and Treatment, a companion Scoliosis Exercises for Prevention and Correction DVD and the innovative new iPhone application ScolioTrack. Dr Kevin Lau is a graduate in Doctor of Chiropractic from RMIT University in Melbourne Australia and Masters in Holistic Nutrition. He is a member of International Society On Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT), the leading international society on conservative treatment of spinal deformities. In 2006 I was awarded the "Best Health-care Provider Awards" by the largest Newspaper publication in Singapore on October 18 2006 as well as being interviewed on Primetime Channel News Asia as well as other TV and Radio. For more information on Dr Kevin Lau, watch his interviews or get a free sneak peek of his book, go to: http://www.hiyh.info.

The New York City Board of Health will decide this week whether to implement Mayor Michael Bloomberg's controversial proposal to limit the sale of super-sized sodas.

By Brett Spiegel, Production Editor

<a title="The Soda Ban Debate" href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/0912/the-soda-ban-debate-what-does-it-mean-for-your-health.aspx">everydayhealth.com</a>

About Dr Kevin Lau

Dr Kevin Lau DC is the founder of Health In Your Hands, a series of tools for Scoliosis prevention and treatment. The set includes his book Your Plan for Natural Scoliosis Prevention and Treatment, a companion Scoliosis Exercises for Prevention and Correction DVD and the innovative new iPhone application ScolioTrack. Dr Kevin Lau is a graduate in Doctor of Chiropractic from RMIT University in Melbourne Australia and Masters in Holistic Nutrition. He is a member of International Society On Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT), the leading international society on conservative treatment of spinal deformities. In 2006 I was awarded the "Best Health-care Provider Awards" by the largest Newspaper publication in Singapore on October 18 2006 as well as being interviewed on Primetime Channel News Asia as well as other TV and Radio. For more information on Dr Kevin Lau, watch his interviews or get a free sneak peek of his book, go to: http://www.hiyh.info.

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