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Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI) occurs when an injured person reaches a state where their condition cannot be improved further or their healing process reaches a Treatment Plateau . It can mean that the patient has fully recovered from the injury or their medical condition has stabilized to the point that no major medical or emotional change ...
Cases which have reached a state where an impairment rating can be determined are said to have reach Maximum medical improvement or MMI. Impairment is distinct from disability. An individual's impairment rating is based on the direct restrictive impact of an impairment, whereas disability includes the indirect consequences one's impairment.
MMI: maximum medical improvement: MMK: Marshall–Marchetti–Kranz procedure MMM: moist mucous membranes Myelofibrosis with Myeloid Metaplasia MMP: medical marijuana patient Medical Monitoring Project (of the US CDC) MMPI: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory: MMR: measles, mumps, and rubella combined vaccination mismatch repair MMR-D
pain: Greek ἄλγος (álgos) analgesic-algia, alg(i)o-pain Greek myalgia: all-denoting something as different, or as an addition Greek ἄλλος (állos), another, other alloantigen, allopathy: ambi-denoting something as positioned on both sides; describing both of two Latin ambi-, ambo, both, on both sides ambidextrous: amnio-
Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage."
Myalgia or muscle pain is a painful sensation evolving from muscle tissue. It is a symptom of many diseases . The most common cause of acute myalgia is the overuse of a muscle or group of muscles ; another likely cause is viral infection , especially when there has been no injury .
Secondary insomnia happens due to a known medical, psychological, or environmental issue. Primary insomnia isn’t due to any of those things. Often, the cause of primary insomnia remains unknown.
Levine's sign is a clenched fist held over the chest to describe ischemic chest pain. [1]It is named for Samuel A. Levine (1891–1966), an influential American cardiologist, who first observed that many patients with chest pain made this same sign to describe their symptoms.