Some uses of Botox are neither cosmetic nor used to treat eye spasms.
For patients who suffer from prostatic hyperplastia (which is an enlarged prostate) are finding Botox a very useful treatment.
The unique properties of Botox reduce the severity of the symptoms, making life easier for people who suffer from an enlarged prostate.
In research, Botox has been extremely valuable in studying nerves and nerve endings and how they all connect together.
Since botulism toxin essentially blocks nerve receptors, the low grade and controllable levels in Botox treatments allow for new kinds of research in this field.
Many of the most painful and difficult to treat and cure diseases involve the nervous system.
Finding ways to control and harness Botox has been a boon to discovering new treatments.
Very interestingly, despite Botox deadening nerves, it has been found to be very therapeutic for damaged nerves.
People who have crossed eyes, and many kinds of tremors and stuttering, and other problems with nerve failures has found that because Botox blocks nerve receptors but does not harm or modify them in any way, in some cases the nerves will respond to the blockage that Botox performs by regenerating or re-sprouting.
Botox has become astoundingly popular because it is relatively inexpensive, can be done in 10 minutes or less, and the effects are almost immediate.
It is made from a special version of a protein made by Clostridium botulinum bacterium.
By itself, this protein is extremely lethal, but the version used in Botox is highly diluted and safe when applied correctly.
Since the organic compound in Botox eventually breaks down, the results are temporary, but the low cost of treatment and the ease and quickness of administering it offsets this downfall to most Botox patients.
Botox's ability to reduce wrinkles by obstructing the nerve endings around muscles to paralyze them has made it a household name, but Botox has other non-cosmetic uses as well.
Some things are still being researched, but there has been real results or promising studies done with Botox to reduce migraines, people who have problems with excessive sweating, and muscle spasms in the neck.
In fact, Botox was originally developed as a treatment for eye spasms, as the company that developed it, Allergan, was primarily an optical pharmaceutical company.
The further uses of Botox were discovered when some doctors noticed that treating eye spasms decreased the appearance of wrinkles around the areas the patients were being treated for.
Another use that is growing in clinical treatments is incontinence.
Since many people who suffer from this have problems with muscle spasms that are leading them to having a lack of control, when Botox is used to relax the spasming muscles, it allows them to control their bladders much better.
There are continually new treatments developed, so come back here often as we'll be sure to have information on them!
For patients who suffer from prostatic hyperplastia (which is an enlarged prostate) are finding Botox a very useful treatment.
The unique properties of Botox reduce the severity of the symptoms, making life easier for people who suffer from an enlarged prostate.
In research, Botox has been extremely valuable in studying nerves and nerve endings and how they all connect together.
Since botulism toxin essentially blocks nerve receptors, the low grade and controllable levels in Botox treatments allow for new kinds of research in this field.
Many of the most painful and difficult to treat and cure diseases involve the nervous system.
Finding ways to control and harness Botox has been a boon to discovering new treatments.
Very interestingly, despite Botox deadening nerves, it has been found to be very therapeutic for damaged nerves.
People who have crossed eyes, and many kinds of tremors and stuttering, and other problems with nerve failures has found that because Botox blocks nerve receptors but does not harm or modify them in any way, in some cases the nerves will respond to the blockage that Botox performs by regenerating or re-sprouting.
Botox has become astoundingly popular because it is relatively inexpensive, can be done in 10 minutes or less, and the effects are almost immediate.
It is made from a special version of a protein made by Clostridium botulinum bacterium.
By itself, this protein is extremely lethal, but the version used in Botox is highly diluted and safe when applied correctly.
Since the organic compound in Botox eventually breaks down, the results are temporary, but the low cost of treatment and the ease and quickness of administering it offsets this downfall to most Botox patients.
Botox's ability to reduce wrinkles by obstructing the nerve endings around muscles to paralyze them has made it a household name, but Botox has other non-cosmetic uses as well.
Some things are still being researched, but there has been real results or promising studies done with Botox to reduce migraines, people who have problems with excessive sweating, and muscle spasms in the neck.
In fact, Botox was originally developed as a treatment for eye spasms, as the company that developed it, Allergan, was primarily an optical pharmaceutical company.
The further uses of Botox were discovered when some doctors noticed that treating eye spasms decreased the appearance of wrinkles around the areas the patients were being treated for.
Another use that is growing in clinical treatments is incontinence.
Since many people who suffer from this have problems with muscle spasms that are leading them to having a lack of control, when Botox is used to relax the spasming muscles, it allows them to control their bladders much better.
There are continually new treatments developed, so come back here often as we'll be sure to have information on them!
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