Neck injuries
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Neck pain - Better Health Channel
Treatments like physiotherapy, osteopathy or remedial massage can generally help neck and shoulder pain.
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Head and spinal injuries first aid - Better Health Channel
Head injuries can be serious and require urgent medical attention. A hard blow to the head from a fall, knock or assault can injure the brain, even when there are no visible signs of trauma to the scalp or face. Symptoms of serious head injury include wounds, altered consciousness, clear fluid leaking from the eyes or nose, black eyes or bruises behind the ears, vision changes, nausea and vomiting.
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Consumer resources
RECOVER Injury Research Centre has developed a number of resources to assist people who have been injured in road traffic crashes.
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Spinal and neck injury
First aid fact sheet
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Traumatic Vascular Injury - Head & Neck - InsideRadiology
InsideRadiology provides free and easily accessible, accurate, up to date and credible information about medical imaging tests and procedures.
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Neck — Arthritis Australia
Neck pain is pain that is felt in the upper part of the spine
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Neck Pain - Pain Conditions - painHEALTH
Learn about neck pain as a musculoskeletal pain condition to identify how you can approach neck pain in your co-management treatment plan
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ACD A-Z of Skin - Spider Naevi
Spider naevi are prominent blood vessels affecting up to 10% of the population. They usually occur as single or multiple blood vessels on the face, chest and neck areas.
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Thyroid Nodules - Hormones Australia
Thyroid nodules are lumps on the thyroid gland, which is located at the base of the neck. Nodules in the thyroid are quite common, and often discovered by MRI or x-ray during other medical tests.
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Head injuries and concussion - Better Health Channel
There is no specific treatment for mild head injury other than plenty of rest, and not overdoing things.
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What is Complex Regional Pain Syndrome?
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic pain condition that can last for months or even years. It is a syndrome that doesn’t discriminate, often occurring after an injury such as a fracture or sprain.
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Risedronate for preventing fractures caused by osteoporosis in postmenopausal women | Cochrane
Authors' conclusions: At 5 mg/day a statistically significant and clinically important benefit in the secondary prevention of vertebral, non-vertebral and hip fractures was observed, but not for wrist
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Risk of Osteoporosis - Australasian Menopause Society
Risk of Osteoporosis
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Bone mineral density: testing for osteoporosis | Issue 2 | Volume 39 | Australian Prescriber
Diagnosing osteoporosis requires a careful search for fragility fractures and measuring bone mineral density.
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Prevention of falls and fractures - Australasian Menopause Society
Prevention of falls and fractures
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Larger Patients in the Operating Theatre | Ausmed
Obesity is not only a growing epidemic in the general population with 67% of Australian adults overweight or obese - it’s increasingly becoming an issue within peri-operative practice. As a result, there are extra considerations we need to be aware of within the operating theatre department.
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Paediatric Respiratory Assessment | Ausmed
In order to recognise, manage and treat respiratory conditions in children effectively, we need to be able to confidently assess a child’s respiratory rate, effort and efficacy. We need to know what’s normal before we can assess what is abnormal.
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Physical activity and exercise for chronic pain in adults: an overview of Cochrane Reviews - Geneen, LJ - 2017 | Cochrane Library
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What is Dengue? (Mosquito Transmitted Diseases) | Ausmed
Dengue is a mosquito-transmitted virus that causes dengue fever, a flu-like illness. It is estimated to affect up to 400 million people worldwide every year and is most commonly transmitted through a bite from an Aedes aegypti mosquito. It is not endemic in Australia, but there are imported cases.
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Five Evidence-Based Ways to Hone Proprioception | Ausmed
Proprioceptive training can be easily broken into 5 different categories of techniques. Each category contains a wide variety of treatments - everything from simple balance training to magnetic stimulation. The question must be asked: do any of these actually work?
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