Grand Rounds is up at Polite Dissent, a blog filled with bits about comics as well as medicine.
Grand Rounds is a carnival of the weekly roundup of the best medical blogging on the web, chosen by a different host each week.
My favourite posts this week include:
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‘The Ones You Don’t Forget’ by Dr Val with a message to doctors to not let preconceived notions get in the way of helping people.
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‘Spotting Back pain During Running and Walking - what do abs have to do with it’ – hyperlordosis, the problem discussed here has been a pretty big issue of mine for around 15 years now. The article reminded me that I must get back to doing my physio exercises regularly (I have to do them long-term, not just for a while, or they stop helping).
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‘The Brain virtues of physical exercise’ at SharpBrains gives some good advice and info about how physical exercise helps the brain.
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‘Pain Management in Difficult Situations’ which discusses the benefits of a painful but brief intervention allowing less pain in the long-run, as well as touching on the fact that when it comes to pain, stoic does not mean no pain, something I wish people around me and the healthcare pros I come across would all remember! People with Fibro who have had it for a while are often stoic as you get accustomed to the fact that your pain cannot be taken away – but that does not mean that the pain is not there. Painful immediate interventions are something that anyone with HMS or EDS-H who dislocates or subluxs (partially dislocate) joints has to deal with. You learn that to get the joint back in straight away may hurt an awful lot, but it will be better than sticking with the subluxed or dislocated joint for longer (perhaps until you could get medical attention). I have dealt with this for many years and never really thought about it until I had to help a friend who had her first subluxation. Convincing someone that the pain of straightening the joint right away is alot better than calling an ambulance, waiting for paramedics that probably wouldn’t know anything about hypermobility and then probably having to go to the hospital to wait for another doc out of their area of expertise – all the time in pain and with swelling and nerve impingement increasing - is not an easy thing to do, but with HMS joints it is the right thing to do.
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Laurie at A Chronic Dose writes about the benefits of writing for people with chronic illness.
