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An Overview of Bone Grafting

Devices for graft delivery are an important device used throughout the world for bone grafting. Here is an overview of bone graft delivery devices, as well as, the main purposes of bone grafting.

What is a bone graft?

Bone grafting is a procedure that transplants bone tissue to areas that have suffered trauma or are prone to joint problems. It can also be beneficial towards accelerating bone growth around implants, such as knee replacements, where the bone can be fractured or otherwise weakened. The bone used can be from the patient’s body, a donor, or synthetically constructed. It provides a support where new growth can flourish, provided the grafting is accepted by the patient’s body.

In a standard procedure a bone is is implanted into the area and it provided a base on which new growth can occur. While the treatment can be done in open surgery

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Top 5 Benefits of Exercising Regularly

Top 5 Benefits of Exercising Regularly

Exercising on a regular basis is crucial to overall health. Without it, a person would not be able to function properly or have proper muscle development. Some of the top benefits to exercising regularly include:

1) Preventing type 2 diabetes can be achieved with regular exercise. One in three Americans will develop this type of diabetes in their lifetime and regular physical activity can help prevent it or manage a current condition

2) 30 minutes five times a week can help strengthen cardiovascular health. This equal to about 2.5 hours per week. This physical activity prevents weakening of the heart and increases proper blood flow in the body.

3) As an active parent, passing on physical activity is an important part of your child’s overall well-being. According to the Department of Health, only one in three children is active on a daily basis. This inactivity can affect a child later on in life and cause health problems. Being

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Skin Care from a Dermatology Specialist

It’s easy to assume that skin conditions like acne or scars may be worth treating at home or leaving alone. However, there may be a need at any time to reach out for the help of a dermatology specialist. Then, there are other things like moles and melanoma that may not appear to be a skin problem until later in life, but they can always be managed in a preventative fashion by a dermatologist.

What to Look for in a Dermatology Specialist

It is important to know that a quality dermatology specialist can cover any possible skin condition, from the acne that starts as a teen to the basal cell carcinoma that affects over four million annually. It is important to know that any little spot or mole that you see may not be what you expect, so a highly trained and certified dermatologist is important. While there may be things like anti-aging treatments or Botox injections that you would like to pursue, there may be the unexpected flare up of psoriasis, eczema, or other skin condit

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Intermittent Catheters What are they, Why are they Used and How to Use them

There are many reasons someone may find themselves in need of a catheter and there is more than one type of catheter. Those who are hospitalized will find themselves needing an indwelling catheter to assist the bladder in emptying the urine. These catheters have been used for more than 3500 years to help drain the bladder, but there are couple different varieties. Some are placed inside the bladder and stay, while others are only inserted when the bladder must be emptied. These are called intermittent catheters and they are used for a variety of health conditions and chosen over indwelling catheters for a few different reasons. Read below to see why these catheters are chosen and why they are better choices for certain health conditions.

Reasons

There are a variety of reasons that could lead to the use of an intermittent catheter in an individual. Sometimes the bladder is not able to open enough to allow a continuous flow of urine to exit. Sometimes the bl

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Finding the Right Health Care Solution Is Always Important

After nearly 18 years of having daughters in high school and college sports you are finally done with late night visits and day long procedures at local health care centers and surgery clinics. Or so you thought.
The year after your youngest daughter graduated from college was supposed to be relaxing. You would no longer be traveling around the country to watch gymnastics meets or cross country races. You would not need to schedule your lives around the college calendars that had long stretches with no time off and long breaks in the summer and at Christmas. You and your wife planned to take long four day weekend trips without having to worry about the schedules of your daughters. Just when you thought that you were done with the late night calls about an injury that required your one of your athletic daughters to go in for an x-ray, you found yourself dealing with your own pain.
A nagging ache in your right shoulder has now turned into a popping and crackling sound that happen

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Taking a Look At Hair Loss In The United States – And What Can Be Done About It

As hair surgeons all throughout the country know, balding and hair loss are incredibly common all throughout the United States. And while hair loss does predominantly impact men, women can suffer from it too, with up to twenty million women in some stage of hair loss in this country alone. For men, however, this number is quite a bit higher, currently at around thirty five million people.

There are a number of causes of hair loss and balding. For some, it is in direct relation to a drug treatment, such as is commonly the case when a course of chemotherapy is undergone. In addition to this, many people lose their hair as part of an autoimmune condition called alopecia, but many other conditions can also result in some degree of hair loss, even if it is not full blown balding. Of course, male pattern baldness is the most common cause of hair loss in men, as it causes up to ninety five percent of hair loss cases across the gender.

And male pattern baldness is incredibly prevalen

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What to do After an 18 Wheeler Accident

If you have suffered a workplace injury, it can have devastating consequences. You may have severely sprained, strained, or even broken something in a way that will restrict your mobility for the rest of your life. You may no longer be physically capable of doing your job. You may have even lost a limb or extremity. Not to mention the loss of wages, loss of employment, the accumulation of hospital and rehabilitation bills, and a stressful civil lawsuit between you and your employer. Or, maybe, you are pursuing a settlement because of the wrongful death of a loved one at a workplace.

So a lift at the warehouse you work at was not properly inspected or secured, and you have fallen and think you may have broken your ankle because of it. What now?

The most important part of properly settling a workplace injury is immediately reporting it to your place of employment. You should not be embarrassed or worried that you did something wrong that led to your injury, or try to rest it

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Proton Therapy Quick Guide

If you are enjoying all of the benefits of the prime of your life, which may include recently paying off your home, getting the vehicle of your dreams, retiring after a lifetime of dedication to a job, or partaking in wonderful vacations with your spouse, the last thing you want to hear from your doctor is that you are now in need of treatment of prostate or head and neck cancer. For most of us, cancer is a terrifying and loaded word, and its diagnosis oftentimes could not have come at a more inconvenient time. However, try to keep in mind that this news is not the end of the world for you, and you have many prostate cancer options in front of you. Here are six facts about prostate cancer and prostate cancer treatment.

One: One form of treatment of prostate cancer is proton therapy for head and neck cancer. This type of non-invasive cancer treatment is a newer form of radiation that stops at a very specific point in the cancer stricken tissues. In contrast, traditional radiation

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