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  2. Blepharospasm - Wikipedia

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    Injections of botulinum toxin increase the risk of visual complaints and ptosis (eyelid droop). [46] Patients who do not respond well to medication or botulinum toxin injections are candidates for surgical therapy. The most effective surgical treatment has been protractor myectomy, the removal of muscles responsible for eyelid closure. [49]

  3. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    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-

  4. Ptosis (eyelid) - Wikipedia

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    Myogenic ptosis, which includes oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis, myotonic dystrophy, ocular myopathy, simple congenital ptosis and blepharophimosis syndrome. Aponeurotic ptosis, which may be involutional or postoperative. Mechanical ptosis, which is the result of edema or tumors of the upper lid.

  5. Mirror therapy - Wikipedia

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    Mirror therapy is now also widely used for treatment of motor disorders such as hemiplegia or cerebral palsy. As Deconick et al. state in a 2014 review, the mechanism of improved motor control and pain relief may differ from the mechanism of pain relief.

  6. Scrambler therapy - Wikipedia

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    Unlike transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), another form of transcutaneous electrical stimulation for pain relief, in which the analgesic benefit has only been seen during and sometimes in the immediate hours after treatment, treatment with scrambler therapy has been shown to produce long lasting pain relief. [6] Pain relief with ...

  7. Therapeutic ultrasound - Wikipedia

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    This shows that for pain relief and short-term treatment ultrasound can be an effective treatment for Calcific Tendonitis [27] A review with five small placebo‐controlled trials from 2011, did not support the use of ultrasound in the treatment of acute ankle sprains and the potential treatment effects of ultrasound appear to be generally ...

  8. Phantom pain - Wikipedia

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    Out of 115 publications between 2012 and 2017 that investigated the use of mirror therapy for phantom pain, a 2018 review found only 15 studies whose scientific results should be considered. From these 15 studies, the reviewers concluded that mirror therapy is an effective tool to reduce both the duration and intensity of phantom pain.

  9. Medical terminology - Wikipedia

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    In forming or understanding a word root, one needs a basic comprehension of the terms and the source language.The study of the origin of words is called etymology.For example, if a word was to be formed to indicate a condition of kidneys, there are two primary roots – one from Greek (νεφρός nephr(os)) and one from Latin (ren(es)).

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