(SIX MINOR ZONES)-3RD MAJOR ZONE—BONES AND SKIN

The third major zone is also divided into two zones—the fifth and sixth minor zones. The fifth minor zone is called the Skeletal zone. Further iris research may eventually require many minor modifications to this schema.

When a condition of the skeletal system is presented [...]

An incurable disease of the nervous system, multiple sclerosis, or MS, results from inflammation and scarring of the sheaths surrounding the nerve fibres of the central nervous system. The symptoms of the disease vary according to which nerves are affected. Characteristic symptoms include weakness or pins and needles in a limb. Pain in moving the [...]

All people have biological cycles that govern their days and nights. Called “Circadian Rhythms,” these rhythms include sleeping, waking, hunger and changes in body temperature and hormones throughout the 24 hour day. The timing of these cycles is linked to the ability to fall and stay asleep instance, as we fall asleep there is a [...]

Atypical absences (petit mal variant)-This phrase is used in two different ways—to describe absences which are clinically similar to typical absences associated with an EEG record that is not typical, and to describe absences in association with other features which are not typical, of which loss of postural control is the most marked. In these [...]

Once you’ve made an appointment to see your doctor, it’s a good idea to spend a few minutes beforehand jotting some down quick notes about how your symptoms developed, so as to have the answer to any questions you may asked readily at hand. For example, try to recall when you first noticed any symptoms. [...]

That the human spine can cope so well most of the time with all the demands that are placed upon it is truly a marvel, especially when you consider that its basic design leaves much to be desired. Reduced to its essentials, the spinal column consists of a bunch of building-blocks placed on top of [...]

If you are wondering if your child’s sleep habits qualify as a “problem,” you might want to consider the following issues. Mark each statement A (agree) or D (disagree). If yours is a two-partner family, it is helpful if both partners mark the statements separately to see how each of you [...]

As already noted briefly, sciatica can be experienced in a number of ways. Most typically it manifests itself as one or more of the following sensations, with some sufferers having more than one kind of sciatic pain or discomfort:

A pain that sufferers describe as ‘aching’, ’stinging’, or even ‘burning’, this either following a specific course, [...]

Just how difficulties in the back cause sciatic pain – this being a typical example of what is called ‘referred pain’ (medical name: synalgia), that is a pain that occurs in a part of the body other than where it might have been expected – will be explained in full in the next chapter. In [...]