ARD Education & Information

1.) ARD Validation for "Social Security" & "Medical Appoints"
YOUR voice DOES make a difference in getting ARD recognized!!!!
THIS report is a MUST to take to your "Medical Appointments" and to add to your file for applying for "Social Security" as it validate that "ADHESIONS" are recognized at the national level as the etiology (cause) of chronic abdominal/pelvic pain!
BACKGROUND: Intra-abdominal adhesions constitute between 49% and 74% of the causes of small bowel obstruction. Traditionally, laparotomy and open adhesiolysis have been the treatment for patients who have failed conservative measures or when clinical and physiologic derangements suggest toxemia and/or ischemia. With the increased popularity of laparoscopy, recent promising reports indicate the feasibility and potential superiority of the minimally invasive approach to the adhesion-encased abdomen.
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2,) Constipation and Adhesions:
Now the New guidelines for severe or persistent constipation
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3.) Adhesions: Adhesions are internal scars that bind organs and tissues that are not normally connected. Adhesions form as a result of trauma due to surgery, infection, disease or other injury.
Adhesions can distort and disturb body functions and cause pain, intestinal obstruction and infertility, giving rise to a complex of problems, collectively termed "Adhesion Related Disorder (ARD)" - Dr. David Wiseman, founder International Adhesion Society
The rate of adhesion formation after surgery is surprising given the relative lack of knowledge about ADHESIONS among doctors and patients alike. From autopsies on victims of traffic accidents, Weibel and Majno (1973) found that 67% of patients who had undergone surgery had adhesions. This number increased to 81% and 93% for patients with major and multiple procedures respectively. Similarly, Menzies and Ellis (1990) found that 93% of patients who had undergone at least one previous abdominal operation had adhesions, compared with only 10.4% of patients who had never had a previous abdominal operation. Furthermore, 1% of all laparoscopies developed obstruction due to adhesions within one year of surgery with 3% leading to obstruction at some time after surgery. Of all cases of small bowel obstruction, 60-70% of cases involve adhesions (Ellis, 1997).
Recent analysis of the latest US health statisticsby the International Adhesions Society (IAS) (www.adhesions.org) reveals that over 2200 people died in 2001 with a diagnosis of intestinal obstruction due to adhesions. This number has been consistent for five consecutive years with between 2100 and almost 2500 deaths per annum. Women account for a 60% majority of these deaths.
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