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Heel Pain When You Walk After Sleep

Heel Pain When You Walk After Sleep

You wake up, get out of bed, and the moment you put weight on your feet a pain shoots through your heel. The cause is plantar fasciitis, one of the most common complaints in orthopaedics. The condition would more accurately be called fasciosis, since it is a degenerative disorder and not an inflammatory disease. (The ending “-itis” belongs to inflammations: rhinitis, gastritis and so on.)

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The Ego. Psychology

The Ego. Psychology

To make sense of personality types, you first have to make sense of Ego types. The Ego is easy to explain through vivid examples and hard to explain in scientific terms. There is a reason for that: the Ego is the individual's awareness of themselves as a separate “I”, the centre of self-awareness formed in the course of a person's development.

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Sleep disorders in adults and children.

Sleep disorders in adults and children.

Almost everyone has short-lived sleep problems lasting a few days during stressful phases of life or during an illness (a cough, say, or a “blocked nose” from a cold). Most of them are harmless. With “real” sleep disorders it is different. These are sleep problems that go on for a longer stretch of time (three to four weeks, and sometimes years) and markedly reduce a person's ability to function. They can be physical as well as psychological. So the first thing to do is to fin

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