The escalating number of chronic conditions is driving the need for robotic-assisted surgery, which is helping to grow the market in the area. For instance, the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention revealed that in 2023, 60 percent of adults in the U.S. were affected with one or more chro...
5. The default postural position of using a smartphone or tablet massively increases neck strain. Many chiropractors argue today’s digital natives will reach their middle years and there will be an epidemic of chronic pain from neck strain and lower back problems. 6. 21% of UK children feel...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Ischemic heart disease alone was responsible for about 8.89 million deaths in 2019. However, all cardiovascular diseases together cause around 17.9 million deaths annually. Show more - ...
Those with lower incomes or who are living in poverty are at higher risk for chronic diseases, mental illness, and mortality, and experience lower rates of health insurance and access to medical care than wealthier individuals. A survey of U.S. adults from 2022 found that while only 14 ...
More than three-quarters of people who suffer from this condition look for medicinal cannabis as a form of therapy for their illness. Research in Israel has discovered that 87.2% of fibromyalgia patients suffer from chronic pain on a daily basis. In addition, researchers have also found that th...
Point-of-care screening for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction using artificial intelligence during ECG-enabled stethoscope examination in London, UK: a prospective, observational, multicentre study. Lancet Digit Health. 2022;4(2):e117-e125. doi:10.1016/S2589-7500(21)0...
(RF) can be detected 5 years prior to the onset of symptoms2. Joint pain and swelling are also reported for preclinical RA patients2. Patients who progress to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), may develop anti-nuclear antibody (ANA), antiphospholipid, anti-Ro (SS-A), and anti-La ...
Low-Level Light Therapy Device Claims It Treats Chronic Pain Living with chronic pain is unbearable, and many patients are finding alternatives to pharmaceuticals. This caused many companies to tout non-conventional treatments to target vulnerable patients, including new technologies like low-level light...
The UK also recorded a decline in the overall number of diagnoses among the risk groups, i.e. by 22% among gay and bisexual men. The numbers dropped by 25%, among people who were born in the UK, and by 22%, among young adults (aged 15-24). Next, it was reduced by 15% among...
The value of interdisciplinary treatment for sickness absence in chronic pain: a nationwide register-based cohort study. Eur J Pain. 2021;25(10):2190-2201. doi:10.1002/ejp.1832PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 132. Lu Y, Gehr AW, Meadows RJ, et al. Timing of adjuvant ...