Arthritis

Arthritis comes from the Greek / Greek: Arthon (joint) and itis (inflammation), in general, arthritis is a medical term for a disease or a disorder resulting in swelling / inflammation or damage to the joints. Arthritis is an inflammatory disease in a group of degenerative disease with a very diverse forms, there are approximately 100 types of arthritis.

Arthritis Patients will typically experience pain, aches and stiff joints, which can complicate them in performing daily activities. Even in some types of arthritis is not only attacking the joints but also attacks other organs such as muscle and skin.

Out of 100 more species present, Arthritis can be classified into several major groups namely:

1. Osteoarthritis

2. Inflammatory arthritis - Rheumatoid Arthritis - Ankylosing Spondylitis - Juvenile Arthritis - polymyalgia rheumatica - psoriatic arthritis - Reactive arthritis - Seronegative Arthritis

3. Infectious Arthritis - Lyme Disease

4. Other rheumatic disease - Gout

5. Other conditions like Arthritis: bursitis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Tendinitis

According to research by experts, there are three factors cause a person suffering from arthritis are:

Heredity: For this type of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, heredity factor greater role as a cause, a person with a family history had ever suffered from arthritis types are based on the statistic has a greater chance of exposure than those who do not.

Biological factors: A combination of several biological factors including age, gender, hormones, body weight, activity in daily activities and genetic profiles that produce specific characteristics in the body that cause a person to become susceptible to arthritis?

Environmental Factors: The environment here is the environment in a medical sense that the point is that anything that comes from outside the body, such as: diet, never had an accident earlier in the joints, have experienced a particular infection, the type of work ever done, daily activities etc. where each of these factors can influence the possibility someone may have arthritis.

Activities such as typing, using a telephone call with the clamping side of the head, sat long in the same position and various other activities that may risk causing Muscle Strain / strained muscle, If this happens frequently, it can also be a cause of arthritis.

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Aritmia

Aritmia - Normal heart rate derived from the SA node and has a regular vibration without barriers impulse supra (intraventrikular) with frequency in the range of 60-100 times / minute. Healthy life - Heart rate beyond those mentioned above into the category of arrhythmias. In other words Arrhythmia is a disease of heart rhythm abnormality / abnormal heart rhythm with an irregular heartbeat, could be too fast or it could be too slow compared with a normal heartbeat. Healthy life - Some examples of symptoms a person has Arrhythmias include: often experience dizziness, shortness of breath, tiredness, pain in the chest, and sometimes experience fainting. Healthy life - To prevent or reduce the likelihood of arrhythmias one should avoid some things such as: smoking, diet had high cholesterol, alcohol, caffeine, sugar etc. Healthy life

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Anosmia

Anosmia is abnormalities in the sense of smell in the form of reduced or loss of smell or the person's ability to detect odors caused by:
- The occurrence of disturbances in the form of nasal obstruction or blockage in the nasal gland channel
- damage to the nerve
- Injury to the head
- Due to the aging process
- Post-surgery
- Consumption of drugs
- toxic chemicals
- or because of other diseases such as chronic allergies, sinusitis, influenza or olfactory sulcus tumor.
Anosmia can occur at any age and nature in general took place while the (partial), except in a few cases where patients suffered permanent anosmia (total) mainly occur in patients who were elderly or people with a brain tumor. Anosmia can cause sufferers lose their appetite which ultimately result in weight loss, malnutrition and even depression.

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Aneurisma

Aneurysms: is a disorder where blood vessels occurred in areas of weak ridge of blood vessels. As a result of these bumps can cause surface blood vessels become thin as a balloon that the risk is that these aneurysms can rupture at any time. Rupture of these aneurysms can cause a stroke that can lead to death. Aneurysms can occur in any blood vessels throughout the body, and until now the cause of aneurysms is still not yet known with certainty. There are allegations that the aneurysm occurred in the absence of muscle layers of the blood vessels so that blood vessel is often a contraction (shrinking) and dilation (widening) the long run this will make it thin and stretched and this be the beginning of the process of aneurysm formation.

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Amnesia

Amnesia word comes from the Greek, which is composed of a = not, and mnasthai = remember. Literally meaning amnesia can not remember. Amnesia is a condition in which a disruption in memory caused by organic disorders atapun functional. Amnesia Causes of disorders that are organic can be brain damage due to trauma, disease or resulting from the use of drugs. While the cause of the functional is a psychological factor. Amnesia can also occur spontaneously, transient global amnesia, which usually began to occur in middle age until old age. One effect of amnesia is the loss of the ability to think about the future. Latest research results published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that amnesia with damage to the hippocampus will result in loss of ability to imagine about the future. The loss of ability to imagine the future because patients experience memory loss amnesia about the past, but for normal people the memory of the past is an ingredient for her to construct a scenario of events that may be encountered in the future. There are two forms of amnesia, namely:
 Anterograde amnesia: is a disruption of memory due to the loss of the ability to transfer information about a new event in the short-term memory into long-term memory is permanent. So for people, he can not remember any incident that recently occurred.
Retrograde amnesia: the disturbance of memory in the form of loss of ability to bring the memory of the past whose levels are higher than a commonly forgotten like a normal human experience.
Both forms of amnesia can occur simultaneously on the same one.

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Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia: A form of fear of someone when he is at a place that is not available assistance. Sufferers usually fear in a crowd and this could cause him to be a loner. This disease sometimes have a relationship with other forms of anxiety disorders like panic disorder or specific phobia. Usually women experience more than men Agoraphobia. Some of the symptoms of Agoraphobia is when a person starts at home likes to shut himself for some time, its dependence on other people is quite high, experiencing fear when alone, frightened when in a closed place where he can not run / save themselves, and feel they have no hope.
One technique that is used to treat Agoraphobia is with systematic desensitization, that is by asking the patient to relax while imagining the cause asietas, then exercise to try to walk into a scary place and so on. The goal of treatment is to help people with Agoraphobia in order to become more independent and brave. Effectiveness of healing a patient is very dependent on the surrounding environment, if the people around him contribute and help eliminate the fears of people with the healing process will be able to run more effectively.

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Achondroplasia

Achondroplasia: A disturbance in the body of a congenital abnormality of cartilage in the bone plate that resulted in the body structure to be short-boned. Achondroplasia term first used by Parrot (1878). Achondroplasia derived from the Greek achondros: no cartilage and plasia: growth. Achondroplasia literally means without the formation / growth of cartilage, despite the fact that only people with achondroplasia have cartilage that becomes a problem is interference when the formation of cartilage into bone where it often happens, especially in long bones. The disease is inherited in an autosomal dominant with 85-90% of cases is a form of genetic mutation. Because this disease is a defective gene, then the disorder can not be prevented or treated. Percentage incidence of achondroplasia is 1 / 25000 of the birth rate and of the statistical data of this disease is more common in girls than boys. In general, males with achondroplasia has a body height of less than 130 cm, whereas in women is much shorter. In general, people with achondroplasia have the physical characteristics of the larger skull with prominent forehead, pug nose and hand and foot bones that tend to be short.

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