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In recent years social media and online marketplaces have been flooded with extremely cheap “medical” and “cosmetic” devices. Their ads promise wonderful effects: skin tightening, wrinkle reduction, muscle building, pain relief – often all from a single device, and sometimes for just a few thousand forints. A lay buyer may reasonably think: “If the expensive clinical machines work on a similar principle, why wouldn’t this cheap version work too?” The reality, however, is quite different.
Peroneal nerve palsy can result from damage to either the central or peripheral nervous system, although peripheral causes are more frequent. The condition primarily affects the common peroneal nerve (nervus peroneus communis), which branches from the sciatic nerve and runs around the head of the fibula, making it particularly vulnerable due to its superficial position and anatomical course.
Pelvic floor exercises — also called pelvic floor training, perineal exercises or Kegel exercises — are a specialized exercise system developed to specifically train the pelvic floor muscles and preserve their elasticity.
These muscles hold the pelvic organs (bladder, uterus, rectum) in place and play an important role in urination, defecation and sexual function. Imagine them as a hammock that stretches from the pubic bone to the tailbone and supports your internal organs. When these muscles weaken or become injured, various problems can occur — many of which can be helped by pelvic floor exercises.
There are two main technical implementations of electrical muscle stimulation: whole-body stimulation (WB-EMS, Whole-Body Electromyostimulation) and targeted neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES or EMS). The same biophysical principle – a biphasic square-wave electrical pulse – is applied in two different ways, with different positioning, differing cost structures and distinct safety profiles. In this article I summarize the practical differences between the two methods in light of the recent 2020+ clinical evidence.
Prostate surgery is most often performed to treat prostate cancer or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The term prostatectomy refers to the complete surgical removal of the prostate. The procedure can be associated with various complications, which can be divided into acute (short-term) and long-term complications.
Here’s what to expect — and which treatment options are available.
Imagine your life changing overnight. After an unexpected illness or accident you end up in hospital, where doctors do everything to save your life. However, after acute care you often face the situation of being left on your own on the road to further recovery. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case in Hungary but a systemic problem that severely affects thousands of patients.
If you see a doctor or go to emergency care for chest pain, trauma or shortness of breath, a chest X‑ray is usually taken (often along with other tests such as an ECG). X‑ray is an imaging method that is typically one of the first diagnostic tests used to clarify diseases affecting the chest. I wrote about why it is done and what can be seen on it.
Joint pain and inflammation are among the most common complaints in the adult population. In addition to classic treatments (NSAIDs, physiotherapy, exercise programs, and surgery in more severe cases), electrotherapy — specifically microcurrent therapy (MENS) — is increasingly appearing in recent studies as a complementary modality. This article summarizes what the clinical evidence since 2020 says about the intra-articular use of microcurrent — and also what we cannot claim.
A muscle strain is an injury that occurs when your muscles are overstretched or overloaded. This condition is accompanied by pain, swelling and a limited range of motion, something anyone who leads an active lifestyle will encounter a few times. It can vary in severity from a mild strain (merely a few torn muscle fibers) to a complete muscle rupture.
The BMI calculator is a simple tool that lets you calculate your body mass index (BMI). This number helps determine whether your weight is in an appropriate proportion to your height. The concept of the body mass index is attributed to the Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet, who developed this measure in the 1830s. It was originally developed for population-level studies to assess the prevalence of obesity in larger groups.
An inguinal hernia develops when part of the abdominal organs, most often the intestines or a portion of the omentum, protrudes through the inguinal canal. The inguinal canal is located in the lower, lateral part of the abdomen. The hernia gate is the opening through which the hernia contents protrude. This usually occurs congenitally or with increasing age, or as a result of physical strain. Inguinal hernia symptoms and […]
