DESCRIPTION  Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), sometimes called Forestier's disease, is considered a form of degenerative arthritis and is characterized by excessive bone growth along the sides of the vertebrae of the spine. It is also associated with inflammation and calcification (bone growth) at other areas of the body where tendons and ligaments attach to bone, such as at the elbow, knee and the heel of the foot. These can lead to bone spurs. Heel spurs, for example, are common among people with DISH. |
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HERBS OF CHOICE Herbs are often used in combinations when combating an illness. Some of the most frequently used herbs are listed below. These nine herbs were picked up from different herbal combinations and are not meant to form a recipe. Our reference code for the different combinations of herbs used for this condition is MHS. This listing is not meant to diagnose, only to inform. This is of course not a complete list and is not meant to be used in the place of a doctor's advice. Click the image of each herb for a brief introduction in terms of Traditional Chinese Medicine. |
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CLINICAL SUCCESS IN CHINA Chinese herbal doctors have reported some successful applications of these herbal combinations. During observation on 160 patients receiving treatment with herbal remedy, 109 cases were judged as healing (full recovery and symptom free), 42 cases other significant improvement, 9 cases other moderate improvement. Physicians judged the clinical efficacy to be good or excellent in 100%. Check the table below for details. |
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HERBAL REMEDY BEST FOR YOU The most powerful feature of Traditional Chinese Medicine is that it allows you to easily combine multiple ingredients to form a recipe to suit the specific need of individual. The list below are to give you an idea of why you can get the herbal remedy best for you from here with us. |
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Authoritative Oriented Recipes: All these well chosen herbal combinations source from experienced and authoritative experts, and have been most commonly recognized by the practitioners in this field. When you choose a herbal remedy there are two important things among your concerns: a good recipe and a correct way to cook it. A good recipe is half the good results. |
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Custom-made with Unique Technology: When you order a herbal remedy at this website you can figure out your symptoms by using our online questionnaire system. In this way a basic herbal recipe could be customized and optimized by adding or removing some herbs to address the individual symptoms exactly. Chinese herbs should not be used in form of standard industrial products manufactured in bulk to cope with all body issues. Only custom-made is the traditional and professional way to use Chinese herbs. All the herbal remedies available at this website are purposed to be custom-made on each single order base. With our unique technology called Low-temperature Concentration the active ingredients of herbs could be survival as much as possible while being concentrated. Eevery 8 ml of the extracts, as one dose, might equal to about 50 grams of raw herbs. |
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Safe and Side Effect Free: All these herbs have been being used in China for thousands of years, and have been proven to be safe. In fact most Chinese herbs are tonics without side effects. What important is that experienced practitioners should know how to use herbs to avoid possible side effects.
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This disorder generally affects people older than age 50. It tends to occur in people who are large-boned, muscular and overweight and have gout. It also affects people who have high blood pressure or diabetes. |
The exact cause of DISH is not known, but people who have been overweight since childhood may be at greater risk of developing the disease. |
DISH occurs more commonly in males (65%) than in females (35%). |
It is likely that many patients who experience regular back pain may have DISH without knowing it. The disease is usually confirmed through x-rays of the thoracic (upper) spine or chest, which reveal the characteristic bony outgrowths of DISH along the vertebrae. |
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DISH typically doesn't cause symptoms. But when the spine is involved, signs and symptoms may include increased stiffness in the back or neck. |
DISH occurs most commonly in the thoracic spine (97% of cases). It presents as laminated calcification and ossification along the anterolateral aspect of the vertebral bodies, continuing across the intervertebral disc spaces, which are relatively preserved. Ossification may extend to involve both the right and left lateral aspects of the vertebral column, but is more common and exuberant on the right side, presumably due to the inhibiting effect on ossification by a left sided, pulsating descending thoracic aorta. |
Lumbar spine changes in DISH include hyperostosis along the anterior aspect of the vertebral bodies. With progression, cloud-like increased bone density and pointed body excrescences develop. Additional findings that can occur are close apposition of spinous processes or ossification of interspinous ligaments, mild to moderate disc space narrowing, and apophyseal joint space narrowing and sclerosis. Due to the ossification of the ligaments, which can include the joint capsule, foraminal and central stenosis can occur at any spinal level. |
In the cervical spine, bony prominence may become so extensive that a thick bony plate is formed anteriorly and may cause dysphagia. Alterations can occur on the posterior aspect of vertebral bodies, most often in the cervical spine. These radiographic features include osteosclerosis of the posterior vertebral margin, posterior vertebral osteophytosis, and calcification or ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament. Cervical myelopathy and cord compression has been associated with patients demonstrating bony proliferation along the posterior aspect of the vertebral bodies. |
Extraspinal manifestations of DISH are not uncommon and may even be present in absence of significant spinal changes. These extraspinal changes consist of hyperostosis at sites of tendon and ligament attachment to bone, para-articular osteophytes, and ligament ossification. Generally in the peripheral skeleton, periosteal spurs arising at the site of osseous attachment of the tendon are more prominent than true calcification of the tendon itself. These ossifications extend into the fibres of the tendon, particularly the Achilles' tendon and plantar aponeurosis, triceps, and quadriceps tendons. |
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