Arthritis
Headache
Migraine
Dystonia
Osteochondrosis
Scoliosis
Kyphos
Kyphoscoliosis
Slipped Disc
Curvature of bearing
ENT diseases
Otorhinolaryngology, Otolaryngology
Rheumatism
Thrombophlebitis
Cirsoid
Spur (calcaneal spur)
Massage
Psychologist
Laser
Shock-wave therapy
Magnetotherapy
Acupuncture
Doppler Technique
Ultrasound, Ultrasonic Waves
Infertility
Oncology
Colposcope, Vaginoscope

Arthritis - is an inflammation of one or more joints. Joints are swollen, hot by touch. Skin above joints gets red. As a result, a person suffers from pain and restriction of joint movement. Over 200 diseases may cause arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, gout, tuberculosis and many more. Diagnosis is based on the external examination of the affected joints, X-rays, blood test as well as synovial fluid test by aspiration out of the affected joint. Monoarthritis is an inflammation of one joint; oligoarthritis or pauciarthritis is an inflammation of some joints (not more than four); polyarthritis - is a multiple inflammation of joints which is evident at once or with some interval. Any disease with affection of the synovial membrane or with degenerative changes in the articular cartilage, may cause arthritis. Treatment of the arthritis depends on its cause. However, aspirin or similar anaesthetic often helps to eliminate inflammation, reduce pain and swelling of the joint. See also: Psoriasic arthritis. Hemarthros. Pyarthrosis. Hydrarthrosis. Arthritic, Podagric arthritic.

For more details see: Arthritis and arthrosis. Infectional arthritis.

Headache - is a diagnostic syndrome, i.e. a sign of about 45 different diseases. It is not an independent disease. Only migraine is an independent disease - occasional attack-like headaches accompanied by nausea, vomit, giddiness, photophobia, eyesight disorder. For example, headache may be a result of blood pressure changes, poisoning, concussion or brain trauma, vascular disorders (brain nutrition disturbance), chronic fatigue syndrome, psychosis, helminthiasis (intestinal parasites), anemia, allergy, brain tumours etc. If you suffer from a headache, you should have a full examination of your organism, i.e. it is an accurate diagnosis that guarantees a successful recovery and getting rid of the problem. Everybody suffers from a headache at least once in a lifetime. Everybody takes aspirin or other anaesthetic at least once in a lifetime. Anybody may suffer from this problem. We are all human beings. However, if you suffer from a chronic headache, you should consult a specialist and find out the cause of your condition. Timely help may sometimes avert some serious consequences, for example, stroke, atrophy of the cerebral cortex, various psycho-emotional disturbance, memory disorder, intellectual capability disorder. Our clinic offers you a well-qualified consultation, examination and necessary treatment.

Video: HEADACHE

Migraine - an occasional beating headache, usually affecting the certain part of your head. Sometimes before the attack person experiences its harbingers (aura) - visual disturbance and/or weakness in his extremities. They are gradually gone during the attact. A migraine attack is often accompanied by prostration and vomit. Nowadays there are some effective methods to avert these attacks as well as pharmaceutical substances (like sumatriptan) to reduce sharp pain during the migraine attack.

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Dystonia - a postural disorder (dependant on the body position) caused by disease of the basal ganglions of the brain. Dystonia´s symptoms are spasms in the muscles of shoulders, neck, trunk and extremities. One hand of the patient often half-bent, his head bent into the one direction. Condition of the patients with dystonic disorders (for example, blepharospasm) can be improved by injection of the botulinus toxin. Dystonic.

For more details see: Diseases our Clinic deals with

Osteochondrosis - is an inflammation of a bone accompanied by intensive pain. At the roentgenogram you can see an anomalous bone tissue (See: osteosclerosis). Causes of the disease are unknown. Disease often restricts itself to the one skin area, however it can cause a skin deformation. Treatment of the osteochondritis involves analgesics. See also: Kohler´s disease. Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease. Osgood-Schlatter´s disease. The disease used to be called osteochondrosis.

Video: Osteochondrosis - an articular cartilage disorder

Scoliosis - is a lateral curvature of spine caused by inborn or acquired anomalies of its development as well as muscles or nerves innervating it. Treatment of scoliosis may include wearing a special corset fixing your spine in a proper position. If you have a serious curvature, it is necessary to perform a surgical correction by special fixation of the spine or osteotomy.

Video: Scoliosis - a curvature of spine

Kyphos - 1. (Kyphos) - is a deformation of spine located in one place; it causes a protrusion of spine backwards and hump on its place. This deformation occurs as a result of collapse of the vertebra fore-part and most often is a consequence of the osteoporosis, secondary malignant growth or tuberculosis. 2. (Kyphosis) - is an excess curvature of spine causing a hump on the back. Improper bearing or weakness of the back muscles may cause a mobile kyphosis; it can be also a compensation of any other disturbance, for example, a deformation of pelvis. Collapse of the spine (for example, senile osteoporosis), osteochondritis deformans juvenilis, ankylosing spondylitis may cause a fixed kyphosis. Less serious forms of the fixed kyphosis may be a compensation of lordosis (an arched curvature of spine onward) developed in any other part of the spine. Kyphosis treatment depends on its cause and may include physiotherapy, special corset as well as spine osteotomy if there are some serious symptoms.

Kyphoscoliosis - is a anomalous curvature of spine (onward and sideways): a combination of kyphos and scoliosis. This deformation may develop during a human´s growth with no visible reason (idiopathic kyphoscoliosis) or may cause a serious back disease or back muscles. The deformation may be reduced by wearing a special corset; by a serious deformation it is necessary to perform a spine osteotomy.

For more details see: Scoliosis - a curvature of spine

Slipped Disc - is a colloquial term for a prolapse intervertebral disk.

Video: Herniation of intervertebral disk

Curvature of bearing - the same as Scoliosis.

For more details see: Why your spine should be stretched, strong and flexible?

ENT diseases - (coryza, sore throat, cough) and many more diseases related to the Otorhinolaryngology.

Video: ENT diseases - (ear, nose, throat diseases)

Otorhinolaryngology, Otolaryngology- a branch of medicine studying the ENT diseases.

For more details see: ENT diseases (coryza, sore throat, cough).

Rheumatism  - any disease accompanied by pain in the muscles or joints.

Thrombophlebitis - is an inflammation of vein wall accompanied by the secondary thrombosis of the affected vein area. Expectant mothers due to the physiological changes in their blood and high abdominal pressure are especially subjected to the thrombophlebitis. It may affect superficial veins as well as deep veins of the legs (expectant mothers not often suffer from the latter). Thrombophlebitis of the femoral vein may cause phlegmasia alba dolens - a sharp painful edema of the leg due to the venous thrombosis that used to be during the postnatal fever (luckily nowadays this disease is extremely rare). Thrombosis of the deep veins may sometimes precede a pulmonary embolism.

For more details see: Arthritis and arthrosis. Infectional arthritis. Rheumatism. Osteoarthrosis.

Cirsoid - The term is used for stretched varicosity with many nodules and for one kind of the skull tumours (cirsoid aneurysm) which is the type of arteriovenous aneurysm.

For more details see: Varicose veins treatment

Spur (calcaneal spur) - a sharp protuberance on the bone surface (for example, a calcaneal spur).

Massage - a system of mechanical manipulations (rubbing, stroking, tapotement - editor remark) of the soft tissues of human body performed manually. Massage is used for improving blood flow, reducing edema, averting adhesion of the tissue after trauma, reducing muscular spasms and improving muscular tone.

See also: Diagnostics and treatment

Psychologist - a specialist in psychology engaged in scientific study of the human´s psyche. Psychologists may work at universities, enterprises, schools or hospitals. A clinical psychologist is specially trained for diagnostics and treatment of the mental diseases as well as their consequences. These specialists often work at the hospital together with representatives of other medical professions. Educational psychologist is specially trained for educational and emotional development of children. These specialists often work together with school teachers giving them advice as to the best way of working with children.

Psychological help.
For more details see: Psychological help

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Laser - (abbreviation from Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) - equipment allowing to get an extremely thin beam of light with a high concentration of energy. Surgery uses laser for performing operations of small skin area with minimum injury of the surrounding tissues. For example, laser is widely used for eliminating the coronary artery occlusion caused by atheroma as well as for removal of some birthmarks. The eye surgery uses different kinds of laser to perform operations of the cornea, capsule of lens or retina. Moreover, lasers are also used in treatment of the cervical intraepithelial nsoplasia, and a special laser (AHr:Nd-na3ep (Nd:YAG laser)) - for removal of the endometrium layer.

Shock-wave therapy - is high-intensity magnetotherapy. Due to the magnetic fields in ten times exceeding those produced by common magnetotherapy devices, this therapy involves effect on the deep organs: nerves, vessels, muscles, bones and viscera. Due to the great speed of magnetic field change, the therapy produces a powerful impulse (sizzle during a procedure) that has following effects:
1. restores nerve conduction
2. stimulates muscle (muscle fiber)
3. restores vascular wall (vessels get flexible and strong)
4. makes the metabolic process faster
5. results in resorption and "breaking" of salt deposits

See: Diagnostics and treatment

Magnetotherapy - involves influencing human body with magnetic fields on the therapeutic level.

For more information see also Magnetotherapy

Video: Nuclear magnetic therapy

Acupuncture - a traditional Chinese system of healing which includes prickling a special skin area with the thin metal needles with medical purpose. Needles are additionally stimulated by their rotation or a weak electric current. There is an opinion that the stimulation makes the functioning of deep sensitive nerves more active, thus making hypophysis and betweenbrain produce more endorphin - a natural anesthetic produced by the human brain. Acupuncture is widely used in the Far East as a strong anesthetic and in China as an alternative instead of the anesthesia for surgical operations. However, in spite of that the Western medicine has very few well-qualified specialists of the acupuncture.

See: Diagnostics and Treatment

Doppler Technique - diagnostic method of the identifying of consistence and structure of tissues based on the change of frequency in the ultrasonic waves outgoing from the tissues with different thickness. The method is widely used for diagnostics of the tumours and other affections of the soft tissue as well as for heart performance (See: Echocardiography) and blood flow in the peripheral arteries since, depending on the change of relative blood circulation, a frequency of the waves changes. The latter property is also used for diagnostics of the uterine and placental circulation during pregnancy in the prenatal diagnostics of the fetus´s health condition and its possible anomalies. The diagnostics results may require some further (invasive) diagnostic procedures, for example, choriocentesis.

See: Diagnostics and Treatment

Video: Doppler. What is it?

Ultrasound, Ultrasonic Waves - sound waves of extremely high frequency (over 20 000 Hz) indiscernible for a human ear. Ultrasound is used for examining different body structures, performed in much the same way as X-ray. However, a patient doesn´t need to be exposed to the potentially harmful X-radiation. Moreover, ultrasound allows to see the structures invisible in the X-ray diagnostics. Vibration of the ultrasonic waves may be used for treatment of the different deep tissue diseases as well as lithotripsy of the nephroliths and other structures. Ultrasonic instruments are used for removal of the dental calculus as well as for removal of the tooth splinters out of the root canal as a part of treatment of the dental pulp´s root canal.

See: Diagnostics and Treatment

Infertility - a woman´s inability to get pregnant or a man´s inability to fertilize a woman´s ovum. Woman´s infertility may be caused by ovulation disturbance, Fallopian tubes obstruction or by a disease of the uterus mucous tunic (endometrium). Possible treatments (depending on the infertility cause) include medicinal agent (such as clomiphene or analogues of the luteinizing hormone), surgery (salpingostomy, salpingolysis) to restore the Fallopian tubes patency, removal of gametes to the Fallopian tube or vitro fertilization. Man´s infertility may be caused by less amount or mobility of the spermatozoa in the seminal fluid or a lack of them.

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Oncology - a branch of medical science studying the origin of different tumours as well as their treatment. It is often divided into therapeutic, surgical, radiational oncology.

See: Diagnostics and Treatment

Colposcope, Vaginoscope - Diagnostic device inserted into the vagina to visually examine cervix of the uterus and upper part of the vagina (fornix of vagina); used for diagnostics of the precancerous and early stage cancerous changes of the uterus neck (non-invasive).

See: Diagnostics and Treatment

Video: What is Colposcopy and why do you need it?