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Chest pain can take many forms, from sharp stabbing to dull throbbing. It can be a crushing pressure or a burning sensation. It may climb up to your neck, shoot into your jaw, and radiate to your back or one or both arms. Chest pain can be triggered by a variety of problems. Among the most dangerous causes are diseases of the heart and lungs. Because of these risks, it is essential to seek medical help immediately when chest symptoms appear. Depending on what causes the chest pain, it can produce many different sensations. Often its onset has nothing to do with your heart, although this is difficult to determine without a medical examination.

Perhaps the greatest change in healthcare over the past decades was not the appearance of a new drug or a surgical technique. The paradigm shift is much deeper: medical science has recognized that in the treatment of chronic diseases the patient must be an active participant in the healing process, not a passive sufferer. This insight gave rise to the concept of home medical technology — a therapeutic modality that fundamentally changes the doctor–patient relationship and the options for treating chronic conditions.

In my previous articles about lymphedema I did not mention the possibility of lymphatic reconstruction surgery. However, medicine is constantly changing and developing. With the expanding possibilities of microsurgery we are getting closer to a surgical solution for lymphedema. Because many people may be interested in this option, I asked the expert in the field, lymphatic reconstruction surgeon Dr. Balázs Mohos, to help clarify the topic.

Spinal curvature, medically known as scoliosis, refers to a sideways bending of the spine. It most commonly occurs during rapid body growth, that is, mainly before and during puberty. From behind, the trunk does not appear symmetrical and the spine is not located on the midline. Let's go over how to recognize it and why it is worth taking action.

Among domestic athletes the stubborn belief persists that “you must train a lot and hard — nothing else is needed.” Many think the more they train, the more they improve! Those who do not understand how the human body works and how it responds to load may agree with them. In reality, however, this is not the case at all! During training destructive processes dominate in your body, which make improvement impossible. The effect of training does not take place immediately during the session, but afterwards, during rest. This process — regeneration — restores the stores “worn down” by training, heals torn fibers, clears metabolites and builds stronger tissue in their place. It has been proven that the correct balance of quality training and effective regeneration is the key to progress.

Most patients live under the false belief that their complaints will disappear immediately after the first pill or a single physiotherapy session and that health will be fully restored. Well... that's not the case. You need to understand a few things about how diseases develop and your body's self-healing abilities.

Massage is one of the oldest natural methods for treating muscles and thereby improving joints, ligaments, and, indirectly, the general condition of the whole body. For millennia massage has been performed by a masseur using his two strong arms as tools. Until now it made little sense to reconsider this, but technological development has reached a level that may make it worthwhile. […]

If you experience a sudden, severe lower back pain radiating into the buttock, thigh, or leg, first and foremost consult a doctor, because a serious condition may be behind it. Never begin self-treatment without ruling these out!

If, after examination, a diagnosis of sciatica was made, you were likely given a handful of pain relievers, anti-inflammatories and muscle relaxants. These can temporarily ease the complaints, but they do not eliminate the underlying cause.

That is why the pain may return over time. If you want to avoid this, you must — and can — take action.

Vibration trainers are very popular because they can work the muscles thoroughly in a short time with almost no sweating. They are excellent at any age, and regular vibration training is especially beneficial for older adults. But when should they not be used? In recent times several research groups have examined the effects and contraindications of whole-body vibration therapy. I wrote about the favorable effects on health in a previous article, and now I have summarized the contraindications.

The treatment performed with a muscle stimulation device is electrical muscle stimulation (EMS = electrical muscle stimulation). It is a method suitable for treating voluntarily controlled, so-called striated (skeletal) muscles and does not affect the viscera (intestines, internal organs). You can apply it to any muscle that lies close to the body surface and to which you can deliver an electrical impulse directly. For deeper-layer muscles it is therefore less applicable. In this article I explain the general rules of application so that you can successfully use it on almost any muscle of your body.

A ganglion cyst is a lump that appears on the hand or foot and is often painful. Despite its alarming appearance, it is usually nothing to fear because it is benign. Due to the symptoms and the disturbing appearance, patients most often choose removal surgery. Postoperative rehabilitation plays a key role in restoring movement. I write now about the important things you should know.

With the spread of technology, health problems that were previously rare are appearing and can make your everyday life quite miserable. Lately a characteristically curved back is increasingly noticeable among young people. The condition even has a name: "tech‑back." English speakers know how catchy that name is; in Hungarian you might call it a programmer's back or an administrator's back. The phenomenon is caused by poor workplace posture, constant computer use and fiddling with mobile phones, and the complaints it causes can be very unpleasant.