Conditions

GLOSSARY

Acid Reflux: If the muscle between the esophagus and the stomach (lower esophageal sphincter) relaxes when the stomach is full, food might flow up the baby's esophagus. Infant reflux, when a baby spits up, occurs when food moves back up from a baby's stomach. Reflux occurs in healthy infant‚ multiple times a day.

Baby Acne: Red bumps that appear on a baby's cheeks, nose, and forehead. Baby acne often develops within two to four weeks after birth. It may look worse when a baby is fussing or crying. Symptoms include small red bumps or pustules on a baby's cheeks, nose, and forehead.

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Blocked Tear Duct: A blocked tear duct usually happens when the membrane inside the lower end of the tear duct, near the nose, is slow to open after a baby is born. This creates a blockage. Although the blockage is usually present from birth, it might not be obvious until your baby is around one month old. Blocked tear ducts are common.

Breathing Concerns: RSV, coughing can be a sign of blockage or narrowing of the lower airways. The blockage might be caused by: asthma, pneumonia, respiratory syncytial virus.

Colic: Colic is often defined by the rule of three: crying for more than three hours per day, for more than three days per week, and for longer than three weeks in an infant who is well-fed and otherwise healthy.

Constipation: Constipation in infants and children occurs when they have hard stools or have problems passing stools. A child may have pain while passing stools or may be unable to have a bowel movement after straining or pushing. Constipation is considered after 2 days of irregular small stool "bunny beans."

Cranials: CST involves massaging and lightly touching the bones around the skull using a highly specialized, hands-on, therapeutic technique in order to minimize pain, promote growth and immunity, and help babies recover from birth trauma. This type of therapy focuses on relieving the pressure and tensions in and around the baby's central nervous system.

Diaper Rash: A common form of inflamed skin (dermatitis) that appears as a patchwork of bright red skin on your baby's bottom. Diaper rash is often related to wet or infrequently changed diapers, skin sensitivity, and chafing.

Ear Infections: Ear infections are caused by bacteria and viruses. Many times, an ear infection begins after a cold or other respiratory infection. The bacteria or virus travel into the middle ear through the eustachian tube (there's one in each ear). This tube connects the middle ear to the back of the throat. The bacteria, virus and teething can also cause the eustachian tube to swell. This swelling can cause the tube to become blocked, which keeps normally produced fluids to build up in the middle ear instead of being able to be drained away.

Eczema: A condition where the skin gets irritated, red, dry, bumpy, and itchy. There are several types of eczema, but the most common is atopic dermatitis. To many people, "eczema" and "atopic dermatitis" mean the same thing. This usually stems from the gut.

Gassy Baby:Mama food or formula related. May be due to vaccination regiments.

Teething: The first growth of teeth. 2: the phenomena accompanying growth of teeth through the gums producing excessive runny nose, tugging on the ears, very irritated bowel movements.

Torticollis: Infant torticollis (tor-ti-col-lis) is easily diagnosable by tightened muscles on one side of the neck, which leaves your baby's head at a tilt or rotation.

Acne: The occurrence of inflamed or infected sebaceous glands in the skin; in particular, a condition characterized by red pimples on the face, prevalent chiefly among teenagers with hormone change. Adult occurs with poor gut function and dietary insult. Possible Sulfur allergy.

Anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. A more sever case is a nervous disorder characterized by a state of excessive uneasiness and apprehension, typically with compulsive behavior or panic attacks.

Asthma: A respiratory condition marked by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing. It usually results from an allergic reaction or other forms of hypersensitivity. Mucus formation from food related products greatly worsen the accumulate in the bronchial causing less air to pass.

Chronic Antibiotic Use: Too much use of an antibiotic can cause bacteria to become increasingly antibiotic resistant. Consequently, the resistant bacteria will not respond to the antibiotic in the future when this therapy may truly be needed. Thus, antibiotics should be used sparingly and with caution in all situations.

Foot Pain: The sensation of discomfort in the foot arising from disorders or injury to any of the structures in the foot including bones, nerves, muscles, blood vessels, or connective tissue. There are numerous and varied causes for foot pain, since the foot is an extremely complex anatomic structure made up of 26 bones and 33 joints along with 19 muscles and 107 ligaments.

Growing Pains: A neurologic pain which occurs in the limbs of some young children. Can be due to calcium deficiencies and the body drawing from the medullary of the long bone ex: middle of femur or humorous.

Headaches: There are several hundred types of headaches, headaches are always classified as either primary or secondary. There are four very common types:

Sinus: Sinus headaches are headaches that may feel like an infection in the sinuses (sinusitis). You may feel pressure around your eyes, cheeks and forehead. Perhaps your head throbs.
Tension: A tension headache is generally a diffuse, mild to moderate pain in your head that's often described as feeling like a tight band around your head. A tension headache (tension-type headache) is the most common type of headache.
Migraine: A migraine can cause severe throbbing pain or a pulsing sensation, usually on one side of the head. It's often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. Migraine attacks can last for hours to days, and the pain can be so severe that it interferes with your daily activities.
Cluster: A type of severe headache that tends to recur over a period of several weeks and in which the pain is usually limited usually limited to one side of the head. Male denominated usually around between 35-45 year old.

Night Terror: Night terrors are episodes of intense screaming, crying, thrashing, or fear during sleep that happen again and again, usually in children ages 3 to 12. New cases peak at age 3 1/2. Night terrors are different from common nightmares, which happen during REM sleep. You might have a hard time waking your child during a night terror episode. Your child likely won't remember the episode the next morning.

Sports Injury: Sports injuries refer to the kinds of injury that occur during sports or exercise. While it is possible to injure any part of the body when playing sports, the term sports injuries is commonly used to refer to injuries of the musculoskeletal system.

Angina: Angina is a type of chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart. Angina (an-JIE-nuh or AN-juh-nuh) Angina, also called angina pectoris, is often described as squeezing, pressure, heaviness, tightness or pain in your chest. Some people with angina symptoms say angina feels like a vise squeezing their chest or a heavy weight lying on their chest.

Balance and Balance Concern Training: Exercises that improve a person's agility and stability of gait and ability to prevent falls. These include stepping over obstacles on a rough or random surface, rapidly shifting direction while walking, developing core muscle strength, and improving ankle strength and lower extremity proprioception.

BPPV: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is one of the most common causes of vertigo - the sudden sensation that you're spinning or that the inside of your head is spinning. BPPV causes brief episodes of mild to intense dizziness. It is usually triggered by specific changes in your head's position. This might occur when you tip your head up or down, when you lie down, or when you turn over or sit up in bed.

Brain Fog: A clinical definition of brain fog. Brain fog may be described as feelings of mental confusion or lack of mental clarity. It is called brain fog because it can feel like a cloud that reduces your ability to think clearly. It can cause a person to become forgetful, detached and often discouraged and depressed.

Carpal Tunnel: Caused by pressure on the median nerve. The carpal tunnel is a narrow passageway surrounded by bones and ligaments on the palm side of your hand. When the median nerve is compressed, the symptoms can include numbness, tingling and weakness in the hand and arm. The anatomy of your wrist, health problems and possibly repetitive hand motions can contribute to carpal tunnel syndrome. Proper treatment usually relieves the tingling and numbness and restores wrist and hand function.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A medical condition of unknown cause, with fever, aching, and prolonged tiredness and depression, typically occurring after a viral infection.

Chronic Low Back Pain: Low back pain refers to pain that you feel in your lower back for extended periods of time regardless and sleeping or awake. You may have exceptionally decreased range of motion and difficulty standing straight.

Complex Autoimmune Condition: Relating to the immune response of an organism against any of its own tissues, cells, or cell components.

Complex Neurological Conditions: A neurological disorder is defined as any disorder of the human body nervous system. There are over 600 known neurological disorders and conditions that affect the human nervous system and for many of them treatment options are extremely limited.

Concussion: A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that affects your brain function. Effects are usually temporary but can include headaches and problems with concentration, memory, balance and coordination. Concussions are usually caused by a blow to the head. Violently shaking of the head and upper body also can cause concussions.

Dysautonomia: Refers to a group of medical conditions caused by problems with the autonomic nervous system (ANS). This part of your nervous system controls involuntary body functions like your heartbeat, breathing and digestion. When the ANS doesn't work as it should, it can cause heart and blood pressure problems, trouble breathing and loss of bladder control.

Frozen Shoulder: Also known as adhesive capsulitis, is a condition characterized by stiffness and pain in your shoulder joint. Signs and symptoms typically begin gradually, worsen over time. Your risk of developing frozen shoulder increases if you're recovering from a medical condition or procedure that prevents you from moving your arm - such as a stroke.

Ileocecal Valve Pain: The Ileocecal valve syndrome is a disorder where the waste or undigested food backs up from the large intestine to the small intestine. It results in causing abdominal pain in the lower area and also the problems of bad breath and nausea. Mimics an appendicitis.

Intercostal Dystonia (rib pain or neuralgia):Considered to be a process that occurs as a result of infringement or irritation of the intercostal nerve, this ailment manifests itself in the guise of acute, piercing pain in the chest area.

Migraines, Dizziness, Headaches: See youth section

Motion Sickness: Nausea caused by motion, especially by traveling in a vehicle. This person typically have an underlying neurological condition. Example: Post concussive, stroke, vertigo etc.

Neuropathy: A condition affecting the nerves supplying the arms and legs. Typically, the feet and hands are involved first. If sensory nerves are involved, numbness, tingling, and pain are prominent, and if motor nerves are involved, the patient experiences weakness.

Plantar Fasciitis: Inflammation of the plantar fascia, the bowstring-like tissue that stretches from the heel bone to the base of the toes. Plantar fasciitis can be due to calcaneal spurs, which typically cause localized tenderness and pain that is made worse by stepping down on the heel.

Post Concussion Syndrome: Post-concussion syndrome is a condition related to a head injury, such as a concussion or a mild traumatic brain injury, that lasts for weeks to months afterward. Symptoms, which can be vague, include headache, dizziness, sleep problems, mood issues, and trouble with memory and thinking.

POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome): One of a group of disorders that have orthostatic intolerance (OI) as their primary symptom. OI describes a condition in which an excessively reduced volume of blood returns to the heart after an individual stands up from a lying down position.

Sciatica: Sciatica happens when irritation, inflammation, pinching or compression affect one or more nerves that run down your lower back and into your legs.

Shoulder Tendonitis: Shoulder tendonitis is an overuse injury causes inflammation of one of the tendons in the shoulder joint, usually a rotator cuff tendon. describes degeneration of a tendon, rather than acute inflammation. Symptoms of shoulder tendinitis include pain when moving the shoulder.

TBI: Defines a traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a disruption in the normal function of the brain that can be caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head, or penetrating head injury.

Tennis Elbow: Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) is a painful condition that occurs when tendons in your elbow are overloaded, usually by repetitive motions of the wrist and arm. Despite its name, athletes aren't the only people who develop tennis elbow. People whose jobs feature the types of motions that can lead to tennis elbow include plumbers, painters, carpenters and butchers.

Thyroid Conditions: Your thyroid creates and produces hormones that play a role in many different systems throughout your body. When your thyroid makes either too much or too little of these important hormones, it's called a thyroid disease. There are several different types of thyroid disease, including hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, thyroiditis and Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Symptoms: experiencing anxiety, irritability and nervousness, having trouble sleeping, losing weight, enlarged thyroid gland or a goiter, muscle weakness and tremors, irregular menstrual periods or having your menstrual cycle stop, and feeling sensitive to heat.

Trigger Finger: Signs and symptoms of trigger finger may progress from mild to severe and include:

Vertigo: The sensation that either your body or your environment is moving (usually spinning). Vertigo can be a symptom of many different illnesses and disorders. Food Related as well.

Weight Loss: Ask about our metabolic consult and our fat emulsification laser for long term loss.

Holistic Milk Production Increase: Educate mom on nutrients and practices beneficial for good volume and quality of milk.

Metabolic Consult: 60 min intake on bloodwork, origin of concern and plan execution.

Morning Sickness: Nausea and vomiting that occurs typically in the morning especially during the earlier months of pregnancy. This may have to due with the female natural detox system ( Gallbladder/Liver) or opposite sex of babe.

Nursing Aids: Education on nipple shields, pillows etc.

Nutrition Consult: 90 min conversation intake and goal setting from type 2 diabetic to weight management.

Round Ligament Issues: Round ligament pain is an uncomfortable sensation you may feel in your abdomen, hips or groin during pregnancy. Your round ligaments are two rope-like bands on each side of your uterus. Each one is about 10 to 12 centimeters long. They connect your uterus to your lower abdominal wall through your groin.

Scar Tissue Repair: When a person has an injury, the body responds by repairing the damaged tissue, which creates scar tissue. Scar tissue is a collection of cells and collagen that covers the site of the injury. People can develop scar tissue on their skin as the result of an injury, surgery, or acne. We have class 2 cold laser therapy to offer these patients.

Crawling or Walking Concerns: Army crawling, Hip dysplasia or skipping crawling to walking

Difficulty Swallowing: Concerns after having a feeding tube or premature delivery

Ear Aches: Pulling and tugging at ears during teething.

Primitive Reflexes: Primitive reflexes are automatic responses that are measured in terms of timing, strength, and symmetry and indicate how the signals are sent from the brain to the spinal cord and outward to individual muscles of the face, neck, torso, and extremities that are involved in postural control and movement. As locomotion develops, early primitive, or primary, reflexes should become be suppressed into late adolescence.

Rashes: Eczema, food, hormonal, environmental, etc.

Sleeping Concerns: Adrenal wind up, night terrors, low sugars.