Special equipment may be required for treatment of several disorders such as obstructive apnea, the circadian rhythm disorders and bruxism.

Bedside EMG units and Biofeedback headbands can both be used either as a diagnosis measurement or in biofeedback mode as a treatment to help patients break their bruxism habit.

Calcium is known to be a treatment for gastric problems, and gastric problems such as acid reflux are known to increase bruxism.

An example of a mouthguard used in the treatment of bruxism

A mouthguard is most often used to prevent injury in contact sports, as a treatment for bruxism or TMD, or as part of certain dental procedures, such as tooth bleaching.

Botox treatment typically involves five or six injections into the masseter muscles.

Options for treatment of cerebral palsy include the paralysis of spastic muscles using Botox or the lengthening, re-attachment or detachment of particular tendons.

A combined surgical and pharmacological treatment, administered by colorectal surgeons, is direct injection of botulinum toxin ( Botox ) into the anal sphincter to relax it.

* A more recent treatment for severe Raynaud's is the use of Botox.

Botox can be a effective treatment for neurogenic TOS.

In addition to medication, patients may respond well to treatment with Botox.

Cachexia physically weakens patients to a state of immobility stemming from loss of appetite, asthenia, and anemia, and response to standard treatment is usually poor.

A number of harmful and undesired ( adverse ) effects have been observed, including lowered life expectancy, extrapyramidal effects on motor control – including akathisia ( an inability to sit still ), trembling, and muscle weakness – weight gain, decrease in brain volume ( although this is being debated, since schizophrenia, which is often treated with antipsychotics, also causes a shrinkage of brain volume ), enlarged breasts ( gynecomastia ) in men and milk discharge in men and women ( galactorrhea due to hyperprolactinaemia ), lowered white blood cell count ( agranulocytosis ), involuntary repetitive body movements ( tardive dyskinesia ), diabetes, sexual dysfunction, a return of psychosis requiring increasing the dosage due to cells producing more neurochemicals to compensate for the drugs ( tardive psychosis ), and a potential for permanent chemical dependence leading to psychosis worse than before treatment began, if the drug dosage is ever lowered or stopped ( tardive dysphrenia ).

* Benzodiazepines are well known for their strong muscle-relaxing properties and can be useful in the treatment of muscle spasms, although tolerance often develops to their muscle relaxant effects.

Most major IC / BPS clinics now evaluate the pelvic floor and / or refer patients directly to a physical therapist for a prompt treatment of pelvic floor muscle tension or weakness.

The myotonia ( delayed relaxation of a muscle after a strong contraction ) occurring in myotonic muscular dystrophy may be treated with medications such as quinine, phenytoin, or mexiletine, but no actual long term treatment has been found.

To be specific, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue, such as muscle.

Additionally, an emerging adjunct to diagnosis and treatment is the use of sonography for diagnosis and to guide treatments such as muscle retraining.

Prior to treatment, a patient is given a short-acting anesthetic such as methohexital, etomidate, or thiopental, a muscle relaxant such as suxamethonium ( succinylcholine ), and occasionally atropine to inhibit salivation.

If treatment is delayed, however, the disorder can quickly spread to the entire limb and changes in bone, nerve and muscle may become irreversible.

Penicillamine is not without problems: about 20 % experience a side effect or complication of penicillamine treatment, such as drug-induced lupus ( causing joint pains and a skin rash ) or myasthenia ( a nerve condition leading to muscle weakness ).

This treatment is injected intramuscularly ( into a muscle ) every few weeks, and has a number of unpleasant side effects such as pain.

Its use peaked in the early 1970s as a hypnotic, for the treatment of insomnia, and as a sedative and muscle relaxant.

Even if some recent clinical studies have shown that low-dose GH treatment for adults with GH deficiency changes the body composition by increasing muscle mass, decreasing fat mass, increasing bone density and muscle strength, improves cardiovascular parameters ( i. e. decrease of LDL cholesterol ), and affects the quality of life without significant side effects.

In children with burns, treatment with propranolol during hospitalization attenuated hypermetabolism and reversed muscle wasting.

In case of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer the TUR is initself the treatment, but in case of muscle invasive cancer, the procedure is insufficient for final treatment. Immunotherapy in the form of BCG instillation is also used to treat and prevent the recurrence of superficial tumors.

For at least a thousand years, tiger bones have been an ingredient in traditional medicines that are prescribed as a muscle strengthener and treatment for rheumatism and body pain.

Nevertheless, some ( low-quality ) evidence suggests muscle relaxants can add benefit to treatment with NSAIDs.

This study helped make the frontalis muscle the placement-of-choice in EMG assessment and treatment of headache and other psychophysiological disorders.

Her research produced new anesthetic techniques for the treatment of painful back muscle spasms that proved very successful among patients.

Furthermore, in one of these patients ( who had received the highest dose of treatment ), a western blot assay revealed that normal protein gamma-sarcoglycan was being expressed in the muscle fibers.

Clinical trials of a progressive resistance vaginal exerciser concluded that the device was as effective as supervised pelvic floor muscle training, the gold standard treatment of the UK NHS where patients are referred to a specialist continence advisor for one on one training over a three month period.

Due to the chronic nature of the treated disorders, antipsychotic medications, once started, are seldom discontinued, and the aim of the treatment is often to gradually reduce dosage to a minimum safe maintenance dose that is enough to control the symptoms.

Seizures may require anticonvulsant treatment, but sometimes are infrequent enough to allow physicians to defer treatment.

Historic interpretations of the Pandora figure are rich enough to have offered Erwin Panofsky scope for monographic treatment.

Under the Convention, chemicals that are toxic enough to be used as chemical weapons, or that may be used to manufacture such chemicals, are divided into three groups according to their purpose and treatment:

However, if changes were not quick enough, or if decisions by the judges were regarded as unfair, litigants could still appeal directly to the King, who, as the sovereign, was seen as the ' fount of justice ' and responsible for the just treatment of his subjects.

In the absence of specific exceptional treatment in style guides, the possessives of these plurals are formed by adding an apostrophe and an s in the standard way: seven titmice's tails were found, the dice's last fall was a seven, his few pence's value was not enough to buy bread.

The infection is usually self-limiting and in most cases, symptomatic treatment by liquid and electrolyte replacement is enough in human infections.

The city received national publicity in 2004 after a student at the Thayer Learning Center in the community died after not receiving treatment early enough.

* Usui Reiki Shiki Ryōhō ( 臼井靈氣式療法, commonly translated as meaning " Usui's Spiritual Energy Style of Therapy ", but a more literal translation is " Usui's Spiritual Energy Style of Medical Treatment " ( Ryōhō ( 療法 ) meaning medical treatment )) is the name given to the Western system of Reiki, and is a system that has tried to stay near enough the same as the original practises of Hawayo Takata.

Topical corticosteroids frequently fail to enter the skin deeply enough to affect the hair bulbs, which are the treatment target.

To show the thoroughness of the treatment it will be enough to quote the headings of the chief remaining chapters: " Of the Ideas of a Man limited to the Sense of Smell ," " Of a Man limited to the Sense of Hearing ," " Of Smell and Hearing combined ," " Of Taste by itself, and of Taste combined with Smell and Hearing ," " Of a Man limited to the Sense of Sight.

The " simiñoco ", a term that he later extended to represent any gadget, became popular enough to deserve dictionary treatment in the Spanish language elsewhere.

Sangster's treatment impressed Hammer enough to rescue the film from its place on the ' quickie ' treadmill and to make it as a colour film.

Although Holinshed's treatment of the Wars of the Roses is derived in large part from Hall's work, even to the point of reproducing large portions of it verbatim, there are enough differences between Hall and Holinshed to establish that Shakespeare must have consulted both of them.

Another 25 people were injured, 12 of them seriously enough to have to be airlifted 1, 500 km to Montreal for treatment.

If the symptoms are severe enough, treatment may be needed.

* an intelligent control mechanism that flushes the collected water if it has been stored long enough to be hazardous ; this completely avoids the problems of filtration and chemical treatment

Species formerly in Prinia but now considered distinct enough to warrant separate generic treatment:

If the sponsor cannot obtain enough patients with this specific disease or condition at one location, then investigators at other locations who can obtain the same kind of patients to receive the treatment would be recruited into the study.

Toward the end of the 19th century, kumis had a strong enough reputation as a cure-all to support a small industry of " kumis cure " resorts, mostly in southeastern Russia, where patients were " furnished with suitable light and varied amusement " during their treatment, which consisted of drinking large quantities of kumis.

Another thing that is strongly criticised on the practice is that, upon failure of the treatment, practitioners tend to use excuses such as that the patient was a non-believer, didn ’ t have enough belief or faith in the practice or practitioner, including other excuses that shield the practitioner at the cost of the patient.

While some are small and do not require any treatment, others may be large enough to block light and obstruct vision.

Those with abnormalities severe enough to warrant treatment have an increased risk of death, reported to be 23 % over 18 months and 46 % over 50 months.