Mary Frances Dorrell MSW, LCAS

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• Trapezius Muscle Strain: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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• What Are the Risks of Carpal Tunnel Surgery?

  Carpal tunnel surgery is a procedure done to treat carpal tunnel syndrome. The surgical procedure involves the severing of a ligament referred to as the transverse carpal ligament so that the pressure it was exerting on the median nerve gets released.The pressure exerted on the median nerve causes...

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• Widow Creates Fashion Line to Help Parkinson's Disease Patients

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• How Joining a Clinical Trial Will Help

  The words compassion, unity, and charity are some of the words that are widely used since the pandemic of COVID-19 started this year. Donation drives have been initiated by groups and individuals. Companies have given cash donations or food and other basic necessities. Millions of dollars were...