Scales are a visible peeling or flaking of outer skin layers.
Skin flaking
Every new year I wonder what will happen in the world to bring us to our knees and cause us to mourn not as single individuals but as part... Read more »
Recently in the news, a sophisticated study conducted jointly by the University of California San Diego and Harvard Medical School... Read more »
Screening for postpartum depression is easy to accomplish by administering self-report screening tests to women during pregnancy or... Read more »
Hi everyone Well we made it to Saturday! Hot enough for you? What is with this weather? I am looking forward to autumn. I... Read more »
The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) published a new set of diagnostic criteria they are proposing for fibromyalgia in the May... Read more »
Source: eOrthopod
About 10 years ago, the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK) was developed and validated. It is a scale used to measure fear of movement or reinjury... Read more »
Source: eOrthopod
Determining pain levels in patients is not an easy task since pain is such a subjective sensation. In verbal patients, they can be asked to rate... Read more »
In Part 1 of this piece, I very briefly described emotional states related to feelings of depression and depressed mood. I then, even more briefly,... Read more »
Studies have shown that stroke often leads to depression, but the evidence from those studies has been mixed as to whether depression could lead to... Read more »
If you are a chronic pain patient, you have most likely been asked to “rate your pain on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being no pain and 10 being the... Read more »