The popular set phrase "it takes some swallowing" shows that "stressing" life circumstances are sometimes associated with a sore throat.
What’s an tonsillitis ? A sore throat is a frequent cause of consultation which often evokes a diagnosis of « tonsillitis » in people’s minds.
In medicine, the throat is easy to examinate. An tonsillitis is an inflammation which is visible with bare eyes, and strictly limited to the tonsils. In its typical forms, that painful inflammation is a reaction of (...)
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Head and Sleep
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Tonsillitis or sore throat ?
19 November 2007 -
Head and Sleep
18 November 2007The « hypo-sleep syndrome » expresses itself, at the head’s level, through a various range of symptoms which possess all characteristics of the functional disorders.
In some subjects, the repetition or the intensity of the attacks gives cause to numerous complementary explorations (blood balance, scanner...) at the issue of which the absence of an organic cause is asserted. Thus, the attention only focuses on the treatment of the symptoms but tiredness is rarely gone into.
The great (...) -
Migraine and headache
18 November 2007The link between sleep and migraine is often better understood by the sick people than by their doctor.
In the absence of chronobiological considerations, migraine gives way to often useless complementary explorations and sometimes to far too simplistic psychological theories.
Who never suffers from headache» ?
That ordinary symptom often disappears spontaneously (or with a simple pain killer) and rarely gives cause to consultation.
Elsewhere, migraine induces a total (but reversible) (...) -
Ocular fatigue
15 November 2007The eye is a self-regulated neurological tool. Its functioning is very sensitive to tiredness.
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Eyelids and tiredness
15 November 2007Blepharospasm (spasm of the eyelids) is, in our opinion, an early sign of a sleep disorder which can lead to errors of diagnosis.
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Stiff neck
13 November 2007Introduction.
The neck is essentially made of a network of small muscles which work together in order to manage to support the skull’s weight (1 to 2 kg).
That synergy does not depend from will, there exists an automatic system which purpose is to harmonize those muscles’ contractions with the head’s movements.
Just like shrouds supporting a bridge, the system depends on a good distribution of the forces. In the context of the hypo-sleep syndrome, it all looks as though tiredness was (...)