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Angina should be suspected in people presenting tight, dull, or heavy chest discomfort that is: [41] Retrosternal or left-sided, radiating to the left arm, neck, jaw, or back. Associated with exertion or emotional stress and relieved within several minutes by rest. Precipitated by cold weather or a meal.
Post-coital tristesse (PCT) is a feeling of melancholy and anxiety after sexual intercourse that lasts anywhere from five minutes to two hours. PCT, which affects both men and women, occurs only after sexual intercourse and does not require an orgasm to occur, and in that its effects are primarily emotional rather than physiological.
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For example, women with asomatognosia tend to claim that their left arm belongs to a man (i.e., their husband) while men claim their arm belongs to a woman, such as his daughter or wife. There also exist patients that treat the arm as a child or small animal. (Keenan, 2004)
When it comes to muscular diseases, most of us have heard of especially common ones like muscular dystrophy and Lou Gehrig's disease.But one of the rarest muscular disorders is also one of the ...
Men are ten times more likely than women to develop ACS. The mean age for ACS in men is 30 years while the mean age is 44 years for women. [ 19 ] Acute compartment syndrome may occur more often in individuals less than 35 years old due to increased muscle mass within the compartments . [ 9 ]
Not all women get symptoms - but most do, around 75%. A quarter of women say they are severe. Symptoms last for an average of seven years, with one in three women experiencing them for even longer.
Referred pain, also called reflective pain, [1] is pain perceived at a location other than the site of the painful stimulus.An example is the case of angina pectoris brought on by a myocardial infarction (heart attack), where pain is often felt in the left side of neck, left shoulder, and back rather than in the thorax (chest), the site of the injury.