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What Causes Septic Arthritis?

The main causes of septic arthritis are viruses, fungi, and bacteria, such as staphylococcus aurous, and in some patient E. coli may also cause infection. In sexually active young adults gonorrhea may be the cause as well as tuberculosis.

The joint infection usually manifest when there are certain risk factors involved, such as medication of autoimmune disorders, intravenous drug users, post-operative surgery infection, or prior medical conditions such as alcoholism, sickle cell disease, and diabetes as well as rheumatic diseases.

Patients who have prosthetic joints or prosthetic joint surgery are also at risk and usually in the first three months of receiving the implant and can last up to two years afterwards during the healing process. Those prosthetic joint infections are usually as a result of S aureus and the spread of infectious foci through the blood stream.


 
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Root Relieves Back Pain

The British Journal of Sports Medicine has releases findings that an ointment made from the comfrey root has medicinal properties that aid in the relief of back pain.

The study included more than 120 participants who had chronic back pain yet were all able to feel marked improvement in regards to the amount of pain they felt.

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Migraine Link to Breast Cancer

According to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, women who experience chronic migraine headaches are at a significantly lower risk of breast cancer.

Because of the hormone related triggers, there is a direct correlation between migraines and breast cancer, said Dr. Christopher Li.

Women that have a history of migraines are at a 30-percent less risk of cancer.

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Environment Affects Sleep

In a study conducted at the Sousze Sleep Center in Hamburg, Germany, it was found that the root cause of more than 40-percent of all sleep related disorders or problems had an environmental cause.

"This was a progressive, three year study in which we asked a hundred patients to keep accurate logs and record their sleep experiences, including what would disturb them," said Dr. Sousze.

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