Medical Transcription and Healthcare Experience Sharing

Now let us learn about some of the muscular actions and their meanings. As a human being we live with movements using our muscles and bones of different kinds. Each muscle contracts and expands in combination with bone corresponding to the muscle attached to it, and so we can move easily in a smooth manner. These movements are as follows. They are flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, dorsiflexion, plantar flexion, supination, and pronation. As a medical transcription aspirant, we should know about these movement types and should have a good understanding about them. We will see the explanation of each movement type one by one now. 1. For ‘flexion’ the term means lessening or decreasing the angle between two bones or bending a limb. 2. For ‘extension’ the term means increasing or to make much the angle between two bones or straightening out a limb. 3. For ‘abduction’ the term means the movement or acting away from the midline of the body. 4. For ‘adducti...

What is Alzheimer’s disease? Alzheimer’s disease is called AD in short.  The other names of this disease will make us understand the actuality of this disease more.  SDAT is the another name of AD and it is expanded as senile dementia of the Alzheimer type or PDDAT and it is expanded as primary degenerative dementia of the Alzheimer's type.  Generally, all over the world this disease is termed as Alzheimer’s in short.  This is mainly a general type of dementia.  The name was given to this disease by a neurophysiologist name Alois Alzheimer, a German, who did describe about this disease condition for the first time to the world.  Alzheimer’s is a terminal illness as it is incurable and also degenerative.  The common symptoms of this disease are the lack of ability to create new memories, such as complexity in brining to mind newly scrutinized events or facts. Most probably a brain scan will reveal the existence of this disease accompanie...

In this post we will learn about the Muscles and its types. There are three types of muscles in the body which are briefly explained below. They are 1. Smooth muscles:- These muscles are also called involuntary or visceral muscles, are those muscle fibers that move internal organs such as the digestive tract, blood vessels, and secretory ducts leading from glands. These muscles are controlled by the autonomic nervous system. They are so called smooth because they have no dark and light fibrils in their cytoplasm. Skeletal muscle fibers are arranged in bundles, while smooth muscle forms sheets of fibers as it wraps around tubes and vessels. 2. Striated muscles:- These muscles are also called voluntary or skeletal muscles which are the muscle fibers that move all bones as well as the face and eyes. We have deep or conscious control over the muscles through the central and peripheral nervous system. The fibers also called cells known Striated muscle fibers have a pattern or way ...

In this post we will learn about the remaining Pathological conditions in the Musculoskeletal system.  Herniation of an intervertebral disc: Abnormal protrusion of a cartilaginous intervertebral  pad into the neuralcanal or spinal nerves. This situation or condition is generally called as “slipped disk” (disc) that presses on the spinal nerves or the cord. Low-back pain, cervical pain, and ‘sciatica’ or radiating pain down to the leg are the symptoms, which depend on the location of the disk. Bed rest, Physical therapy, and drugs for pain  will help in initial treatment. In patients with chronic or recurrent disk herniation, ‘laminectomy,’ which means surgical removal of a portion of the vertebral arch to allow more room for the protruded disk also maybe advised. Spinal fusion of the two vertebrae with removal of the damaged and herniated disk may be necessary as well. Aspiration percutaneous diskectomy is a new technique for removing the disk by inserting a tube throug...

In this post we will learn some more pathological conditions in the Musculoskeletal system. Rheumatoid arthritis:-  This is a chronic disease in which joints become painful and inflamed. It is believed to be caused by an immune reaction and this reaction is against joint tissues and in which the small joints of the hands and feet are affected first and the larger joints later. Women are generally affected than men. Damaging the articular cartilage and stopping easy movements happen in synovial membranes which become thickened and inflamed. In some of the cases this fibrous forms of tissues calcify creating a bony ankylosis, which is the union or combination at the joint and stopping any movement at all. Swollen and painful joints associations with fever are the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. Blood test when taken will show the presence of rheumatoid factor of an antibody and x-rays will show persisting changes around the joints which are affected by the disease. The treatment ...

In this post we will learn some suffixes and their meanings and some Pathological Conditions.      –desis means to bind or to tie together and its terminology is arthrodesis means bones are fixed across the joint space by surgery which is also called artificial ankylosis. This type of operation is conducted when a joint is very painful, chronically infected, or unstable.      –stenosis narrowing means spinal stenosis in which narrowing of the neural canal or nerve root canals in the lumbar spine. Symptoms like pain, paresthesias, urinary retention, or incontinence come from compression of the cauda equina which means nerves that spread out from the lower end of the spinal cord like a horse’s tail. Some of the Pathological conditions are:- 1. For Arthritis inflammation of joints in which some of the common forms are: a. Ankylosing spondylitis:- Chronic, progressive arthritis with stiffening of joints, primarily of the spine. Bilate...

Vocabulary:      1.       Articulation means joint.  2.    Bursa means sac of fluid at a joint.  3.   Ligament means the connective tissue which binds bones to other bones; or supports and strengthens the joint.  4.   Suture joint is a type of joint in which opposed surfaces are closely united.  5.   Synovial cavity is the space between bones at a synovial joint.  6.   Synovial fluid is the viscous fluid within the synovial cavity. Synovial fluid is as same as the viscosity in egg white; or this results for the origin of the term(syn- means like, ov/o means egg).      7.   Synovial joint is a freely movable joint.  8.   Synovial membrane is the membrane lining the synovial cavity. 9.   Tendon is the connective tissue which binds muscles to bones. The Combining Forms with their meanings are listed below. 1. ankyl/o means crooked, bent stiff and it...