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Health Literacy video: Help Your Patients Understand

This video is geared toward professionals in the health care field. It is a guide to assist professionals help their patients with health literacy.

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Locked-in Syndrome

Locked-in Syndrome is a condition in which all voluntary muscles of the body are paralyzed, except for those that control eye movements.

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Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and Wellness

The Osher Center practice at Northwestern Medicine provides integrative and wellness services.

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Physical Deconditioning

After experiencing an injury or with any chronic disease, it is common to experience deconditioning, a physical and/or psychological decline in function. Prolonged bed rest and inactivity can affect nearly all systems of the body. Some of these effects include:

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Hearing, Speech and Deafness Center

Services and products for those who are hearing impaired and non-hearing.

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Guillain-Barr¨¦ Syndrome Information Resources

Guillain-Barr¨¦ syndrome (GBS) is a rare neurological disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of its peripheral nervous system. This can cause weakness and sometimes paralysis, and presents differently in stages for each person.

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March of Dimes

The goal of this national organization is to prevent birth defects through increasing public awareness and promoting and funding research.

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American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA)

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), is a professional organization for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, speech, language, and hearing scientists.

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Listing: Free to Low Cost Health Services

Resources to access free or low-cost health services.

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Guillain-Barr¨¦ syndrome

Listing: Guillain-Barr¨¦ Syndrome Resources

Guillain-Barr¨¦ syndrome (pronounced Ghee-YAN Bah-RAY) is a condition in which the immune system attacks the nerves.

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