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Hair loss does not always appear as a result of androgen activity and genetic predisposition (known as androgenetic alopecia, or Male and Female Pattern Baldness). There are other forms of hair loss which can come on gradually or very suddenly and can change a person’s life forever. The causes may still be genetic and may still be hormone (androgen) related; however, there are other influencing factors like the immune system, auto-immune conditions and numerous other more elusive factors. These conditions most often present themselves as sudden patchy hair loss and sometimes a total loss of head or body hair. While all hair loss is technically called “alopecia”, this term is more commonly seen in relation to the patchy or universal loss of hair.

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Hair loss does not always appear as a result of androgen activity and genetic predisposition (known as androgenetic alopecia, or Male and Female Pattern Baldness). There are other forms of hair loss which can come on gradually or very suddenly and can change a person’s life forever. The causes may still be genetic and may still be hormone (androgen) related; however, there are other influencing factors like the immune system, auto-immune conditions and numerous other more elusive factors. These conditions most often present themselves as sudden patchy hair loss and sometimes a total loss of head or body hair. While all hair loss is technically called “alopecia”, this term is more commonly seen in relation to the patchy or universal loss of hair.

We’re an online blog which discusses about hair care, hair treatment, tips to take care of hair.

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Respiratory conditions are a very common presentation in community and hospital settings, with a wide variety of diagnoses being assessed and treated by physiotherapy. Conditions which can present include pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, asthma, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, hyperventilation and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Physiotherapists are trained to assess respiratory conditions and manage, treat and advise on them. Respiratory skills are an important part of every physiotherapist’s training and early work, if they have a job in an acute area of practice. It is a difficult skill to learn and physiotherapists have a lot of responsibility for managing acutely unwell patients in hospitals.

The physiotherapist will begin the assessment by reading the patient’s observation charts and medical notes to familiarise themselves with the doctor’s treatments, diagnosis and prognosis. The physiotherapist will be familiar with the usual values for the typical respiratory blood tests. The physiotherapist introduces themselves and asks the patient about their illness whilst observing the patient to acquire useful information. The effort the patient makes to breathe, the use of neck or arm muscles to help make breathing easier, the patient’s weight, how well they look, the rate per minute of their breaths, the use of treatments such as oxygen, the colour of the extremities and the face, all these things give useful information and help with the objective examination.

Having gathered a lot of information very efficiently by observation the physiotherapist can then decide what form the objective examination should take. The patient’s lung expansion and air entry are assessed by the physiotherapist feeling the rise of the ribs with their hands and deciding if it is normal and the same on both sides. Listening to the chest via stethoscope indicates the status of air entry to the peripheral airways, whether there are any areas of consolidation, collapse or bronchospasm giving wheeze. This part of the assessment will indicate how much oakleigh physio further investigation is needed and what treatments might be indicated.

The physiotherapist initially looks at the patient’s oxygen concentration as the correct level is critical for the patient’s respiratory and overall status. If the blood oxygen saturations are below normal then the doctors will prescribe oxygen at a specific percentage such as 24 percent or 28 percent via a venturi type administration device which maintains a constant oxygen concentration as variations in concentration would be damaging. Continuous gas delivery can dry the airways and the secretions, making treatments more difficult, so oxygen should always be administered humidified and heated to body temperature by the appropriate gas delivery circuit.

The next clinical aspect for the physiotherapist to address is the air entry to the peripheral airways of the lungs. The airways can collapse or become occluded by swelling or sputum, blocking air entry and reducing the lungs’ ability to maintain oxygen concentrations. Physiotherapists initially use breathing exercises to attempt to re-inflate the collapsed areas, instructing the patient to attempt to breathe deeply every hour or so. If this is not sufficient then intermittent positive pressure breathing may be attempted, using a pressure device to deliver gas at varying pressures into the lungs to re-inflate the desired areas passively.

Physiotherapists specialise in the removal of retained secretions from the lungs, caused by inactivity, reduced ability to breathe and infections. Active cycle of breathing technique encourages the movement of secretions from the peripheral airways towards the central airways where they can be expectorated by coughing or huffing. Physiotherapists teach patients to perform a progression of inhalations and exhalations, gradually increasing the depth of breathing, until the secretions are within reach of a huff. A patient can use this technique very effectively to self treat and avoid any increase in bronchospasm which excessive coughing can cause.

Physiotherapists can also apply manual techniques directly to the chest, using vibration or clapping to mechanically disturb the secretions and make coughing and expectoration more likely. Flutter devices are useful to mechanically oakleigh physiotherapist disturb the sputum as the patient breathes in the vibrating air, again promoting coughing. Surgery to the thorax or abdomen or fractured ribs can inhibit deep breathing and coughing and physiotherapists will encourage patients to take regular pain control medication and to support the wound or painful part whilst practicing their inspiration and huffing.

Jonathan Blood Smyth is a Superintendent Physiotherapist at an NHS hospital in the South-West of the UK. He specialises in orthopaedic conditions and looking after joint replacements as well as managing chronic pain. Visit the website he edits if you are looking for physiotherapists in Glasgow.