Stroke Recovery: A Week-By-Week Timeline and What Speeds It Up
Stroke recovery usually follows a pattern: the fastest gains come in the first days and weeks, most spontaneous improvement happens within about three months,…
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Acibadem Health Blog
463 plain-language articles across 34 topics — symptoms explained, nutrition, lab results, medical technology and everyday wellbeing — written by Dr. Şule Eren, published daily by the group behind 45 hospitals and clinics in Türkiye, Bulgaria, Serbia, Netherlands and North Macedonia. For clinical guidance on a condition or procedure, see the Health Library.
What Rehabilitation Is: How It Works, Who It Helps and What to Expect
Rehabilitation is a planned set of therapies that helps a person regain, keep or adapt the abilities they need for daily life after illness,…
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Occupational Therapy vs Physical Therapy: The Difference, When Each Is Used and How to Decide
Physical therapy focuses on how the body moves: strength, balance, joint range, pain with movement, and walking. Occupational therapy focuses on how a person…
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Hip Surgery Rehabilitation Time: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Hip surgery rehabilitation time varies with the operation and the person, but after an elective hip replacement most people walk with a frame or…
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Acl Rehabilitation Time: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
ACL rehabilitation time is the period from injury or surgery until the knee regains its strength, control and confidence. For most people that means…
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Childhood Liver Cancer: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Childhood liver cancer is rare, accounting for roughly 1 to 2 percent of cancers in children. The two main types are hepatoblastoma, usually found…
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What Causes Childhood Cancer: Risk Factors, Triggers and What You Can Change
Most childhood cancers have no identifiable cause. They usually begin when a dividing cell in a growing body acquires a random DNA error that…
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Types of Childhood Cancer: How Each One Works and When It Is Used
Childhood cancers are grouped into 12 main types by the International Classification of Childhood Cancer: leukemias, lymphomas, brain and spinal cord tumors, neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma,…
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Medulloblastoma Survival Rate: What the Statistics Mean, Stage by Stage, and What Changes Them
Across all children, roughly 70 to 75 percent diagnosed with medulloblastoma are alive five years later, according to NIH cancer summaries. Odds vary widely:…
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Signs of Childhood Cancer: What to Watch for and When to Seek Care
The most common signs of childhood cancer are ordinary symptoms that behave in an unusual way: fever or infections that keep returning, tiredness with…
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Most Common Childhood Cancer: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
The most common childhood cancer is leukemia, and specifically acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a cancer of immature white blood cells that begins in the…
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Neuroblastoma vs Wilms Tumor: The Difference, When Each Is Used and How to Decide
Neuroblastoma and Wilms tumor are both childhood cancers that often first appear as a lump in the abdomen, but they start in different tissues.…
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Childhood Cancer Symptoms: Early Signs, Warning Signs and When to See a Doctor
Childhood cancer symptoms are usually ordinary-looking signs that persist, return, or cluster: unexplained bruising or pallor, fevers with no clear source, a firm lump…
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Medulloblastoma Prognosis: What Shapes the Outlook and What the Numbers Really Mean
Medulloblastoma prognosis depends mostly on the child's age, whether the tumor has spread within the brain and spine, how much remains after surgery, and…
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How Soon Does Clubfoot Need to Be Corrected: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Clubfoot does not need to be corrected in the delivery room, but treatment ideally begins within the first one to two weeks of life,…
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Menopause Symptoms: What’s Common, What’s Treatable, What to Ask
Common menopause symptoms include irregular periods, hot flashes, night sweats, disrupted sleep, mood changes, brain fog, and vaginal dryness. Most begin during perimenopause, often…
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What Causes Clubfoot: Risk Factors, Triggers and What You Can Change
In most babies, the exact cause of clubfoot is unknown. It develops early in pregnancy when the tendons and ligaments on the inner side…
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Clubfoot in Adults: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Clubfoot in adults is almost always the long tail of a condition present at birth, either treated in infancy or never corrected. Treated feet…
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