Acute flaccid myelitis infectious disease should be considered as a cause when patients presented with neurologic symptoms. A subsequent report described 29 cases of enterovirus D68-associated acute flaccid myelitis in Europe in 2016, noting that "these probably represent only the tip of the iceberg." AFM is diagnosed by examining a patient’s nervous system in combination with reviewing images of the spinal cord. A doctor can examine a patient’s nervous system and the places on the body where he or she has weakness, poor muscle tone, and decreased reflexes. In addition, a doctor can do magnetic resonance imaging to look at a patient’s brain
Sociology of the body such as anorexia and bulimia, and on the other end, there is a growing epidemic of obesity, especially in the US. Both ideals have increased widely over the last few decades due in part to growing mass media coverage in which there are norms within society and the always growing pressure to either look and feel a certain way. Sociology of the body Sociology of the body is a branch of sociology studying the representations and social uses of the human body in modern societies. According to Thomas Laqueur, prior to the eighteenth century the predominant model for a social