The doctors tried their best to save his thumb but he ended up having it amputated. He found that he was never really the same afterward. Despite it being a relatively small amputation it completely changed his life and forced him to relearn how to do many things. Plus, there was the ps...
We've explored some of the atrocities committed by Nazi doctors, but we haven't examined one of their most gruesome efforts:transplantinglimbs and tissue. Victims had their arms, legs and other body parts removed in horrifying fashion. Doctors then attempted to transplant these body parts to oth...
We've explored some of the atrocities committed by Nazi doctors, but we haven't examined one of their most gruesome efforts: transplanting limbs and tissue. Victims had their arms, legs and other body parts removed in horrifying fashion. Doctors then attempted to transplant these body parts to ...
Today I found outwhat causes limbs to “fall asleep”. Technically known as “paresthesia”, this syndrome is caused by the compression of specific nerves. When you sit cross-legged, sleep with your arm above your head, or position any limb in such a way to put excess pressure on a ner...
Later, when her hands turned black, doctors amputated them, too. Copeland told ABCNews.com she figures there are two ways to look at life: She can either think of the bad things that happened to her as random and feel sorry for herself, or she can find meaning in her suffering and us...
Phantom limbs are extremely common in amputees. Cutting off a foot or arm or leg might remove the physical entity from the person, but it doesn’t remap the brain. It’s still not totally clear how and why phantom limb sensations happen, but many belie...
(its September now). After ages of going to Doctors etc she was diagnosed with myocarditis, she says she can hardly do anything. She was fine and healthy before, slim, physically active and on a good diet. Whenever the other staff talk ab...
It is only when the sense of smell disappears that we suddenly realize we’ve lost an important texture of reality that is hard to describe, mainly because it is not always at the forefront of the conscious mind. “It’s just a decrease in quality of life,” is what doctors often say...
The woman was conscious during the procedure and was therefore able to communicate with the doctors. At the first mild stimulation of the angular gyrus at 2–3 mA, the woman reported mild perceptual changes—she felt as if she was falling from a great height or being pulled back into the ...
I too, started with aspergillus in my teens then I had surgery on a broken arm in my 40s and all of the sudden I had PA. It did take going to several lung doctors and infectious disease doctors to diagnose it. It is a miserable disease. The doctors also told me to quit work and ...