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Treating bell’s palsy with instrument adjusting

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) defines Bell’s palsy as “a form of temporary facial paralysis resulting from damage or trauma to the facial nerves.” It afflicts roughly 40,000 Americans annually, with most of the individuals affected being between 15 and 60 years of age. Named after Sir Charles Bell, the first surgeon to describe this condition in great detail, Bell’s palsy generally involves paralysis on just one side of the face, but it sometimes occurs on both. This means that it affects a person’s most basic facial functions.

Consider Sound Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization

Every year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases the latest statistics on workplace injury. Among the most recent numbers provided are that 1.15 million Americans are hurt on the job annually. Of these, 31 percent sustained some type of musculoskeletal disorder (MSD), a majority of which were caused by overexertion. Furthermore, the BLS reports that the leading MSDs revolved around soft tissue issues such as “sprains, strains, or tears,” resulting in more than 421,000 days of missed work.

Treatment of tech neck for future generations

There’s absolutely no question that we love our high tech gadgets. In fact, in the time it would take you to finish reading this article, you have almost certainly gotten or sent more than one text or email. Over the course of a single day, more than 4 billion people around the world will send almost 19 billion text messages. Americans are responsible for approximately half of those texts. Furthermore, Americans text on a weekly basis and are twice as likely to communicate by text message as by talking on the phone.

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