A-Z of conditions and treatments

Our fingernails grow about three times faster than our toenails.

Naturopathy uses a range of treatments to stimulate your body's own healing powers.

Traumatic events usually happen quickly and chaotically. A near-miss experience occurs when you are involved in a traumatic event where you think you will die or be badly hurt, but are not. This can have a deep psychological impact, sometimes with lasting effects

Treatments like physiotherapy, osteopathy or remedial massage can generally help neck and shoulder pain.

A needlestick injury means the skin is accidentally punctured by a used needle. Diseases that could be transmitted by a needle or needlestick injury include human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

The nervous system helps all the parts of the body to communicate with each other.

Neuralgia is pain in a nerve pathway. Generally, neuralgia isn’t an illness in its own right, but a symptom of injury or a particular disorder.

Neurofibromatosis is caused by faulty genes, which may be inherited or have spontaneously mutated at conception.

The combination of the nervous system and muscles is known as the neuromuscular system.

In Australia, hepatitis C is most often spread through the sharing of unsterile drug injecting equipment. New all oral combination treatment has greatly improved health outcomes for people with hepatitis C. It may also help prevent hepatitis C transmission to other people.