Head and neck cancer treatment rehabilitation and outcomes
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My 27 year old son has been experiencing severe neck pain, muscle spasms in the neck and arms, and sharp stabbing headache pain which he describes as being like electrical jolts in his head. He has been experiencing most of these symptoms for the past 15 months. The headaches last for days. He was first diagnosed with a bone spur in the neck but the doctor ruled that out. He has gone for steroid injections and physical therapy with short term relief.
Holz specializes in various musculoskeletal disorders, pain management, cancer rehabilitation and electrodiagnostic medicine. She focuses on a multi-disciplinary approach to treatment with functional restoration as a major goal.
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Janet Kunz, RN, MS
Ms. Kunz, a certified family nurse practitioner, has an extensive background in trauma and critical-care nursing.
Hey,
I am sorry to hear about your father.
As you have experienced with your father, stroke is a common and a serious condition. The way that our brain reacts following a stroke is pretty much amazing. In case of your father, regaining his abilities to walk and talk is good expected. The fact that the hand is still "paralyzed" (although I won't call it paralysis) is because the upper limb's functional use in normal individuals is very complicated.
He is 37 he first noticed the lump in may and it has continued to grow he is now feeling achey all thr time and is sweating not just at night but in the day too and his temp his going up to over 37.
Hi there, sorry to hear about the news.
Be assured there would not be a danger if you wait til after the birth, I fact safer if you need RAI. Congratulations if you are pregnant :)
I can't help with doctors as I am in Australia, but they are questions you should ask your endo or surgeon?
I was diagnosed earlier this year with papillary thyroid also by accident and it was 6mm and also spread to a parathyroid and lymphnode.... So outside the thyroid.
Independent studies show that all three definitive treatments for prostate cancer have overall, similar survival outcomes. However, as I mentioned, functional outcomes can vary widely and but are associated with the specific nature of the patients disease and surgeon experience.
Results of prospective trials comparing the treatment options should hopefully be published in the coming year or two. These results should provide more insight into your question.
There are a group of three pairs of muscles in the lateral neck, namely the scalenus anterior, scalenus medius, and scalenus posterior. In a forward head posture those muscles become foreshortened. The scalene muscles have an important relationship to other structures in the neck. The brachial plexus (nerves), which is responsible for cutaneous and muscular innervation of the entire upper limb, passes between the anterior and middle scalenes.
The tingling is provoked by neck movement and neck stiffness. I seen a neuro, she did a ton of blood work, and thoracic and another brain MRI, they were normal, theonly thing that showed was the bulging disk that my PCP sent me for, I also had a lumbar MRI, it was also normal. I tried trigger point injections, and also PT, it didn't seem to help.
Everything that I have read says that the disk problem wouldn't cause the tingling in my face.
Whereas in the past, the “face” of head and neck cancer was a man in his 60s with a history of heavy smoking and alcohol consumption, the men diagnosed with HPV oropharyngeal cancer do not smoke heavily and may still be in their 50s or younger, although older men are also affected.
Dr. Wirth explains that HPV cancers show a specific pattern as to where they arise.
My husband had robotic prostatectomy in jan 2008 for prostate cancer and it was deemed successful as he had no need for rado or chemo therapy afterwards. However, six months later, he still seems to have incontinence as our mattress smells of urine . More troubling is the inability to resume sexual function as he cant seem to achieve an erection with me even with the help of medication. Please can you give suggestions on how I can help?
The C1 / C2 vertebra (called the atlas and axis) allow rotational motion of the head. Fusion of C1/C2 will severely restrict your ability to turn your head.
There are 6 cervical discs (C2-C3 to C7-T1) that allow flexion (forward bending) and extension (backward bending) of the neck.
In general, whenever you fuse three discs, you tend to loose 50% of your ability to look up and down.
My grandmother is 79 and her health has been going from bad to worse within the last half year. She had stopped excersizing due to a bad knee and was scheduled in for a knee replacement when she got, what she thought, was the flu. They went ahead and had the knee replacement done, but she never really managed to do a lot of rehabilitation of the knee because she had this persisent flu. The flu was paired with a loss of touch and the feeling of numbness in her left side of her face.
Nasal polyps (NPs) represent a common clinical end point for a number of inflammatory disease processes involving the paranasal sinuses. Chronic rhinosinusitis is the most common cause for NPs, but not all NPs are created equally.
The presence of a nasal polyp may offer the best clue as to what is happening in your nose and sinuses. Such polyps are often associated with the production of excessive mucous that leads to throat clearing.
Started off as a knot on the back of my head right where necks start on the bottom of head.. then I noticed I had a tiny knot in my neck. Did some research and cancer started to pop up on the Internet.. I freaked out and anxiety went into overdrive.. doctor examined me and thought it was due to allergies.. got cat scan and the side with knot the lymph nodes and glands was bigger but they said they didn’t see anything wrong ..
My son had similar problems with his neck and shoulder, and he is only 20 yrs. old. What I did was I took him an orthopedic specialist. He treated him conservatively with the muscle relaxers, etc. By the third visit I demanded he do an MRI to find out what's going on. He had an MRI on his neck and shoulder. They found a torn ligament in his shoulder.
You really should get at the least, x-rays, but an MRI is better. You need to know what's going on.
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