Sentences with phrase «of painful surgeries»

This is particularly helpful for people suffering from the aftermath of painful surgeries or uncomfortable ongoing medical treatments.

His nickname for the series of painful surgeries he's endured is «Playing Mr. Potato Head.»

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To get rid of a tattoo involves painful surgery that leaves a scar.

Comic Relief Pitcher On April 16, doctors diagnosed the painful back condition of the Padres» Larry Andersen as two bulging disks in his neck, but he decided not to have surgery.

How many children are going to endure painful surgeries and lengthy rehabilitations due to overuse injuries before parents get the message that children need diversity in their athletic activities before the age of 12?

He saved me hundreds of dollars and my poor son a painful and needless surgery.

Recovery from c / s surgery can make any movement painful and difficult — including lifting your baby, or having to get in and out of bed to take care of him.

«Or, they don't want to go through labor pain, because it is painful, and think they can handle the pain of surgery better because it's a controlled setting.»

As with any surgery, there is a small risk of death or other serious complications, and it's painful, even under the best of circumstances.

The goal with MRE is to eliminate the need for painful biopsies and offer a sort of virtual palpation that could even be used to examine organs including the heart and the brain, which doctors can not reach without major surgery.

The idea is, a patient would come in with a nasty broken bone — say, a shattered jaw — and instead of going through painful autograft surgeries or waiting for a custom scaffold to be manufactured, he or she could be x-rayed and a 3D - printed hyperelastic bone scaffold could be printed that same day.

The benefits of the current, painful test are controversial as it frequently produces inaccurate results that prompt men to have unnecessary surgery, putting them at - risk of urinary incontinence or erectile dysfunction.

At C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, we believe the most compelling evidence of your child having just had surgery should be that there condition has been resolved, not that they have a large painful incision that will require a long, painful recovery.

This means that every year thousands of women go through painful, expensive, scar - inducing surgeries that weren't even necessary.

The painful, degenerative process of bone destruction is a major cause of longtime suffering and the leading indication for prosthetic knee and hip replacement surgery.

THURSDAY, May 3, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- Testing for small changes in the flow of lymph fluids after breast cancer surgery can spot the start of a painful swelling known as lymphedema before it becomes hard to treat, a new study suggests.

He's at the forefront of research on using adult stem cells in orthopedics to repair common injuries and provide an alternative to painful and invasive surgery.

Dysmenorrhea, or painful menstruation, may result from stress, ingestion of oxytocic herbs, endometriosis, and surgery.

If you have had your gall bladder removed, you may experience this as well — about 5 % of patients report painful diarrhea after surgery, which does not abate.

Also related to surgery (Lasik), and following a bout of conjunctivitis, I've developed chronically painful dry eyes severe enough to keep up me at night; extended courses of steroid and antibiotic eye drops haven't helped.

Many of the treatments for cancer such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery also cause painful inflammation.

Studies show the debridement, meaning the removal of damaged tissue, with bromelain is less painful than debridement using surgery.

For me, health scares trigger a cellular memory of repeated, long journeys riddled with blood tests, tissue samples, emotional agony, family distress, surgery and painful recovery processes that followed a moment just like the one I described above.

During the week, I had trouble sleeping; the fear would creep in and paint terrible pictures of illness, loss, painful surgery and emotional turmoil.

There is also reduction surgery; I know a few ladies who've had it because they were the perfect weight and had no desire to diet whatsoever but the size of their chest was inconvinient and painful.

Recognizing his genius, Frankenstein whisked the hunchback out of the ring and into his laboratory where a quick - but - painful session of day surgery cures his disfigurement and alters his entire existence.

Mild cases may need no more than an occasional aspirin; moderate cases can be corrected by surgery, and severe cases can result in painful crippling and euthanasia, even of pups less than a year old.

Unfortunately the vast majority of hip surgeries are performed on mature dogs that have developed severe arthritis, are painful, and have not responded adequately to medical management since early detection of hip dysplasia can be quite difficult and require specific tests.

«Countless dogs suffer painful cosmetic surgeries and millions of wonderful dogs die in animal shelters because of the AKC's inhumane policies,» says PETA Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch.

You should be in no doubt of the fact that this surgery, even though anesthetics are used, is painful.

I don't know if I would have put him through a painful surgery with the possibility of infection, having to keep him immobilized while he recovered, then physical therapy.

We had to weigh the risk of the lump growing rapidly and being itchy and painful, as mast cell tumors can do and potentially spreading internally, reducing not only his remaining lifespan, but the quality of those remaining months or years, with the risks and costs associated with surgery, and potential chemotherapy.

Firstly, as in humans, any kind of surgery is a stressful and painful experience for dogs.

And like any other types of surgery, declawing is painful for cats.

In other words, if your horse continues to be painful and needs repeat dosing of sedation and analgesia, then the need for more intense work - up, treatment and possible surgery is very likely.

The treatment usually involves surgery - often amputation - to remove the painful tumor followed by chemotherapy to slow down the spread of the cancer.

Declawing is a euphemism for the devastatingly painful surgery of paw tip amputation (amputation of the first joints) and that often paw amputation results in lifelong behavioral problems such as biting, hiding and urinating and defecating out - of - box because use of the paws to cover litter becomes forever associated with excruciating pain.

An additional potential complication in eyes not undergoing surgery is lens luxation, which can be quite painful depending on how the lens slips (luxates) out of position.

Bear has had entropion surgery to relieve him of the painful condition.

There are adopters to meet with, kennel cough to be treated, biographies to write, veterinarians and trainers to consult with, surgeries to find funding for, rescue groups to reach out to, documentation of cruelty cases to fill out, baths to be given — hard, painful choices to be made.

Both hips are replaced in over 50 % of the dogs that are painful on both sides, but the surgeries are almost always staged about 6 weeks to several months apart.

Nail regrowth has been known to occur up to 15 years after surgery; and the process of regrowth is painful as it occurs.

The Paw Project's mission is to educate the public about the painful and crippling effects of feline declawing, to promote animal welfare through the abolition of the practice of declaw surgery, and to rehabilitate cats that have been declawed.

The surgery is so excruciatingly painful that it is used to test the effectiveness of pain medications.

When she started suffering from painful osteoarthritis, the Webbs brought her to the CVM and to Duncan Lascelles, professor of small animal surgery and pain management and an internationally renowned expert on measuring and treating companion animal pain.

The ailments acupuncture for dogs can heal include skin disorders, internal organ disorders which otherwise may require complicated and possible fatal surgery, muscle and skeletal abnormalities, painful joints due to arthritis and loss of bone strength, neurological illness, female dogs reproductive issues as well as male dogs with problems siring litters of pups.

Your pet was likely painful for an extended period of time, one can only hope that the scar tissue stabilized the joint at the correct angle, the pet will likely have much more severe arthritis and sooner than with a surgical procedure and the knee still may not be as stable as with surgery.

Contrary to misleading information, declawing is not considered «minor» surgery, it is rather, 10 separate, painful ampputations of the distal phalanx at the joint and causes significant pain and suffering that can be ongoing and long - term.

She is able to perform procedures such as root canal therapy, placement of crowns, correction of painful bite abnormalities due to misalignment, cleft palate and large oronasal fistula repair, advanced treatment of jaw fractures and surgery to remove more advanced oral cancers.

After painful surgery to remove 100s of stones and then a long recovery, she eats this every day and has had no more stones, UTIs and has kept her weight stable.