“Bursitis is inflammation or irritation of a bursa sac. You have these sacs all over your body. They’re filled with fluid that helps ease rubbing and friction between tissues like bone, muscle, tendons, and skin. Bursitis is common around major joints like your shoulder, elbow, hip, or knee.”
WebMD
Shoulder bursae
Elbow bursae
Hip & Back bursae
Knee Bursae
Bursitis (bur-SY-tis) is a painful condition that affects the small, fluid-filled sacs — called bursae (bur-SEE) — that cushion the bones, tendons and muscles near your joints. Bursitis occurs when bursae become inflamed.
4 – But know you can also have bursitis by your knee, heel and the base of your big toe. Bursitis often occurs near joints that perform frequent repetitive motion.
1 – Feel achy or stiff
2 – Hurt more when you move it or press on it
3 – The site affected looks swollen and red
Consult your doctor if you have:
1 – The causes are repetitive motions or positions that irritate the bursae around a joint.
Examples include:
2 – Injury or trauma to the affected area
3 – Inflammatory arthritis such as rheumatoid arthritis or gout, and even infection.
Anyone can develop bursitis, but certain factors may increase your risk.
1 – Age. The occurrence of bursitis becomes more common with aging. Why the more wear and tear to the area and repetitively injuring or trauma or inflammation for what ever reason to the site. Just like a car more the more wear and tear to the car the more work needs to be done to it.
If your work or hobby requires repetitive motion or pressures on particular bursae, your risk of developing burisitis increases (take baseball especially a pitcher for 10 plus years playing as opposed to one year playing again there is more wear and tear to the older pitcher so higher potential for the older pitcher to get bursitis but not in all cases. Today for some pitchers they throw 100 mph or more which you see at times the young one injured before as opposed to the older one throwing only at 80 mph or less more often depending on the player. Look how many times in a year a pitcher is thrown out for the season due to an injury to the arm or shoulder for that reason.
Examples in your job could also include carpet laying, tile setting, gardening, painting and even playing a certain instrument for types of bands or orchestras.
Examples of hobbies that could cause bursitis is sports like baseball and certain instruments already mentioned especially for how many times you play it a year and how repetitive in how much time a session or game. Other hobbies could computer playing doing long time sitting to the hip or typing with the elbows leaning, etc…
So be more mindful of repetitive motions you may do at work or out of work.
3 – Other medical conditions. Certain systemic diseases and conditions — such as rheumatoid arthritis, gout and diabetes — increase your risk of developing bursitis.
Revised 4/02/24 by Elizabeth Lynch RN BSN
“The less alcohol you drink, the lower your risk for cancer. Some studies show that drinking three or more alcoholic drinks per day increases the risk of stomach and pancreatic cancers. There is also evidence that drinking alcohol increases the risk for prostate cancer. All alcoholic drinks, including red and white wine, beer, and liquor, are linked with cancer. The more you drink, the higher your cancer risk. In 2020 to 2025 The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends that adults of legal drinking age to choose not to drink or drink in moderation = 2 drinks or less a day for men and a drink or less in women a day. If you don’t drink than don’t start drinking. Don’t drink if you are under 21, pregnant, with a medical condition or health problem that could worsen from drinking, driving, on medications without checking with your MD, and a recovering alcoholic.”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/alcohol/index.htm)
Alcohol depresses your central nervous system. In some people, the initial reaction may be stimulation. But as you continue to drink, you become sedated.
Too much alcohol affects your speech, muscle coordination and vital centers of your brain. A heavy drinking binge may even cause a life-threatening coma or death. This is of particular concern when you’re taking certain medications that also depress the brain’s function
Excessive drinking can reduce your judgment skills and lower inhibitions, leading to poor choices and dangerous situations or behaviors, including:
Remember, it’s the alcohol itself that damages your body, even small amounts. It doesn’t matter whether you drink beer, wine or spirits. All types of alcohol can cause cancer.
There’s plenty of tricks that people claim ‘cure’ hangovers. But even if they work for your hangover, they don’t reverse the damage caused from drinking alcohol.
Drinking alcohol causes 7 different types of cancer. This includes:
Article revised on April 1, 2024 Elizabeth Lynch RN
“According to the ARDI application, during 2020–2021, excessive alcohol use was responsible for about 178,000 deaths and 4 million years of potential life lost each year, on average. More than one third of these deaths and nearly half of the years of potential life lost were due to binge drinking. Keeping in mind alcoholism effects our health over long time heavy drinking one aspect alone the B/P. Drinking a lot of alcohol can affect the muscles in your blood vessels. This can cause them to become narrower. The more alcohol you drink, the higher the risk of developing hypertension. If you drink regularly you are at risk, especially if you’re over the age of 35. High Blood Pressure can cause deaths or long term health problems.”
ARDI/CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Alcohol intoxication results as the amount of alcohol in your blood stream increases. The higher the blood alcohol concentration is, the more impaired you become. Alcohol intoxication causes behavior problems and mental changes. These may include inappropriate behavior, unstable moods, impaired judgment, slurred speech, impaired attention or memory, and poor coordination. You can also have periods called “blackouts,” where you don’t remember events. Very high blood alcohol levels can lead to coma or even death.
Alcohol withdrawal can occur when alcohol use has been heavy and prolonged and is then stopped or greatly reduced. It can occur within several hours to four or five days later. Symptoms include sweating, rapid heartbeat, hand tremors, problems sleeping, nausea and vomiting, hallucinations, restlessness and agitation, anxiety, and occasionally seizures. Symptoms can be severe enough to impair your ability to function at work or in social situations.
1. You drink more than planned. If your coming into this situation drinking more than you planned to or longer than you thought than you are having problem controlling your alcohol!
2. You find yourself spending a long time drinking, even getting sick from the drinking but and in time from the side effects of drinking recover. Why even get to that point. Keep track of your daily activities with seeing how often you drink in a diary and see if the bottles add up highier than one glass of wine a day or one or three glasses a week of alcohol. Again you might see it adds up much higher than that.
3. Has your tolerance build up that you have to drink more for your buzz. Your brain adapts over time to alcohol sensitivity and goes up when drinking high levels of alcohol. Just like a completely different disease but similar concept. In a pt without emphysema (COPD type the worst) where in time the brain adjusts to CO2 – Carbon Dioxide levels with O2 levels. A person without emphysema the brain makes us breath on low 02 levels but with a emphysema pt the brain makes them breath based on low CO2 levels since in time the brain developed sensitivity to it.
4. You crave alcohol frequently, another factor in making you want to seek help. There are times you want to drink so badly bases on emotions or physical feelings you are experiencing that can trigger the craving. You can be at a place (like a bar) triggering that craving. That strong need or urge to drink can be triggered by people, places, things also. When you have a trigger reacts to these factors differently than a social drinker’s does.
5. You give up activities; what do you do for fun besides drinking? Now yes life does change but what have you edged out of your life for drinking and or does everything you do entail a lot of drinking. Has drinking stopped you from doing those things you use to do or pushed them out of your life.
6. Are dropping the ball on life? Take work, how many times have you come to work with a hang over, missed dead lines for your boss, or got behind on college work? Now if your drinking in high school you know your under the age and its against the LAW! When your drinking keeps you home sick or from your responsibilities that is a problem!
7. Is it causing friction in your relationships? If you care about your loved ones but can’t imagine your life without drinking that is a problem! If your in this situation, this does not make you a bad person at all but like any problem you need to resolve it. You need to look for help and make changes to help the relationship you have with a significant one in your life or with family members or friends to get those relationships back on the right track for both of you.
8. Are you having Withdrawal S/S from drinking? (S/S are listed above under withdrawal). Remember alcohol changes your brain’s chemistry. When you drink heavy over a long period of time the brain has adapted to the high alcohol in your body. So understand, if you suddenly stop drinking your brain has to adjust again and with doing so this will make withdrawal s/s occur.
9. Have you been put in the situation that you could have been hurt due to drinking or has an injury actual already happened. Your brain didn’t react fast enough or was it from poor decision making that an injury almost occurred or actually happened (Examples of getting into risky situations due to your heavy drinking could be: Driving, swimming, getting into fights, poor sex-ending up with sexual transmitted diseases or passing on your STD like HIV for example and walking into dangerous areas getting hurt or someone else hurt.)
10. Getting sick with medical conditions or health problems due to your heavy drinking. Alcohol can damage your liver, brain, heart, pancreas and even immune system. It can even raise odds of getting certain cancers.
Drinking alcohol increases the risk of cancer. Drinking alcohol doesn’t mean that you’ll definitely get cancer, but the risk is higher the more alcohol you drink.
People might talk about some alcoholic drinks being better or worse for you than others. But all types of alcohol increase the risk of cancer – as it’s the alcohol itself that causes damage, even in small amounts.
So the more you can cut down on alcohol the more you can reduce your risk of cancer.
Drinking less alcohol has lots of other health benefits, too. You can reduce your risk of accidents, high blood pressure and liver disease by cutting back.
Alcohol can damages our cells and this can stop cells repairing damage. Alcohol effects chemical signals which can make cells more likely to divide this in turn increases the chance of cancer to develop. Alcohol makes it easier for cell in our mouth and throat to absorb cancer causing chemicals.
There are many ways that alcohol can cause cancer. Some of the main ways are:
Remember, it’s the alcohol itself that damages your body, even small amounts. It doesn’t matter whether you drink beer, wine or spirits. All types of alcohol can cause cancer.
There’s plenty of tricks that people claim ‘cure’ hangovers. But even if they work for your hangover, they don’t reverse the damage caused from drinking alcohol.
Drinking alcohol causes 7 different types of cancer. This includes:
Stay tune for Part III in tomorrow’s article.
If yes to any of the questions listed in the first box above on the right side you may want to be checked out if you done know by now for your health!
“Specifically, Neuroticism has been recognized as the strongest predictor among other personality traits that discriminate between non-drinkers, drinkers, and moderate drinkers in women (Lac & Donaldson, 2016), with lower scores in binge drinkers (Adan et al., 2017). Neuroticism is defined as a tendency toward anxiety, depression, sensivity, self-doubt, sensitive, and other negative feelings. A chronic disease in which a person craves drinks that contain alcohol and is unable to control his or her drinking. A person with this disease also needs to drink greater amounts to get the same effect and has withdrawal symptoms after stopping alcohol use. You don’t have to have these symptoms to be an alcoholic or drinking too much. Heavy Drinking is considered:
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-consumption/moderate-binge-drinking)
Alcoholism, or alcohol dependence, is a disease that causes
With alcohol abuse, you are not physically dependent, but you still have a serious problem. The drinking may cause problems at home, work, or school. It may cause you to put yourself in dangerous situations, or lead to legal or social problems.
Alcohol use disorder (which includes a level that’s sometimes called alcoholism) is a pattern of alcohol use that involves problems controlling your drinking, being preoccupied with alcohol, continuing to use alcohol even when it causes problems, having to drink more to get the same effect, or having withdrawal symptoms when you rapidly decrease or stop drinking.Unhealthy alcohol use includes any alcohol use that puts your health or safety at risk or causes other alcohol-related problems. It also includes binge drinking — a pattern of drinking where a male consumes five or more drinks within two hours or a female downs at least four drinks within two hours. Binge drinking causes significant health and safety risks. If your pattern of drinking results in repeated significant distress and problems functioning in your daily life, you likely have alcohol use disorder. It can range from mild to severe. However, even a mild disorder can escalate and lead to serious problems, so early treatment is important.
Another common problem is binge drinking. It is drinking about five or more drinks in two hours for men. For women, it is about four or more drinks in two hours.
Too much alcohol is dangerous. Heavy drinking can increase the risk of certain cancers. It can cause damage to the liver, brain, and other organs. Drinking during pregnancy can harm your baby. Alcohol also increases the risk of death from car crashes, injuries, homicide, and suicide.
Genetic, psychological, social and environmental factors can impact how drinking alcohol affects your body and behavior. Theories suggest that for certain people drinking has a different and stronger impact that can lead to alcohol use disorder.
Over time, drinking too much alcohol may change the normal function of the areas of your brain associated with the experience of pleasure, judgment and the ability to exercise control over your behavior. This may result in craving alcohol to try to restore good feelings or reduce negative ones.**
Alcohol use disorder can include periods of alcohol intoxication and symptoms of withdrawal.
Alcohol use disorder can be mild, moderate or severe, based on the number of symptoms you experience. Signs and symptoms may include:
To all have a Happy Easter and safe one!
“Phytotherapy was introduced into scientific medicine by a french physician Henri Leclerc (1877-1955). Phytotherapy is a method of treating, alleviating, and preventing disease and ailments by using whole or parts (flowers, leaves, roots) of medicinal plants. This ranges from capsules, tinctures, teas, ointments, actual chemo meds and other medicines. Phytotherapy is not an alternative to medicine but a part of scientific medicine. Besides treating medical problems the keep the human body healthy and restore harmony and balance to the human body. When used therapeutically and as prescribed they are not addictive and usually do not have side effects.”
Danijela Grizelj MD; PhD
(https://martifarm.com/the-importance-of-plants-in-the-pharmaceutical-industry/ )
