If you shun the potato, fearing that it's full of empty starch calories, you can pick up your fork and dig into a tasty spud once again. A generous helping of potassium--as much as 46 percent of the average adult's daily requirement--is among the chemical constituents of the potato, along with other minerals.
In physical medicine, trauma (injury) is damage to a biological organism caused by physical harm from an external source. The term is sometimes used to refer to trauma centers and other medical units that deal with trauma. Major trauma is injury that can potentially lead to serious outcomes.rauma and Pain can be defined in two ways: body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident and in psychiatry, trauma is an experience that produces psychological injury or pain.
Rheumatology (Greek ÏÎµÏÎ¼Î±, rheuma, flowing current) is a sub-specialty in internal medicine, devoted to diagnosis and therapy of rheumatic diseases. Physicians who specialize in rheumatology are called rheumatologists. Rheumatologists deal mainly with clinical problems involving joints, soft tissues, autoimmune diseases, vasculitis, and heritable connective tissue disorders. Many of these diseases are now known to be disorders of the immune system. Rheumatology is increasingly the study of immunology. One of the major changes in modern rheumatology is the development of new drugs called biologics, or disease modifying agents, which can control severe disease more effectively.