lumbago


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backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back

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was poverty, and an early was an offer In Holland it was sold for stomach complaints, gout, gallstones and lumbago. And it was there that gin evolved and became a favourite of British soldiers fighting in the Thirty Years War and who drank it before battle to give them Dutch courage.
It is to be mentioned here that deputy medical superintendent (clinical) of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital Karachi has also raised the issue by writing letters to principals of all schools in the city, pointing out that most of children visiting his clinic complained of stiff neck, shoulder pain and backache which could lead to severe lumbago.
'I observed in my routine practice that most of the children came to me complaining of stiff neck, shoulder pain and backache which may lead to server lumbago,' he said.
It explains a lot - for one, why I always seem to be stuck behind a battalion of females with shopping trolleys blocking the isles seemingly at a standstill, and then when two old friends meet it is a log jam, two shopping carts splayed out across the path while Doris and Ada rabbit on about Bert's lumbago and the rising price of haemorrhoid cream.
A 37-year-old female patient was admitted to our hospita l with a lumbago for four months and left leg pain which exacerbated for two weeks.
A more detailed pharmacological history revealed that, during the three days prior to the generalized tonic-clonic episode, he had taken a COX-2 inhibitor (etoricoxib 90 mg/day) for the first time ever to treat lumbago. Neurological examination revealed a slight right faciobrachial hemiparesis and a postural tremor of the right arm, but, after a couple of hours, the neurological examination resulted to be normal.
"Yesterday I suffered from some lumbago (lower back pain) when I was switching the lights out," the 31-year-old said.
The patch can be used for the following symptoms: migraine headaches; toothaches; shoulder, elbow, chest, knee, hip joint, kidney and neck pains; gout, tennis elbow; carpal tunnel syndrome; menstrual pains; phlebitis or varicose veins; muscle spasms; lumbago or herniated discs; pain from bone fractures; and insomnia for it reduces pulse rate by 10 percent.
"He has a lumbago (lower back pain) which has been going on for a few weeks.
Pour ses douze ans, son fils voulait un jeu video : elle avait recu tant de coups dans le dos qu'elle gardait un lumbago. Elle sortait juste de son lit quand je lui ai consenti un credit.
Exactly, all there'd be left to gossip about is Maureen from sales' lumbago and whether or not Carl from the post room really had been caught driving naked from the waist down around the city centre ring road in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The microscopic and reductionist approach of the West works best for acute and single-gene conditions such as infections and Mendelian disorders, he says, and the macroscopic and holistic approach of the East potentially fare well in sub-clinical, chronic, and complex conditions such as lumbago, obesity, and aging.
Talking about regional orthopaedic problems he mentioned cervical spondylitis, lumbago sciatica, frozen shoulder, tennis golfer's elbow, Triger finger and carpal tunnel syndrome, Heberden's (1773) and Bouhard's (1866) nodes.