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High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a common condition in which the pressure in the blood vessels is persistently elevated. This increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack, stroke and heart failure.

Inflammatory bowel diseases or IBD is an umbrella term for chronic inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

The elbow nerve or ulnar nerve is a nerve that runs in a tunnel (cubital tunnel) on the inside of the elbow, just behind the bony protuberance. When this tunnel is narrowed, the nerve becomes pinched and symptoms develop.

A speech disorder (dysarthria) can occur after a brain injury. The muscle strength and mobility of the muscles decreases, making your speech more difficult to understand.

A tailbone cyst or sacrococcygeal cyst can develop at the level of the gluteal cleft. Often this does not bother you, but if the cyst begins to inflame, further action is necessary.

A brain injury can cause you to have difficulty understanding, formulating and producing spoken or written language. Speech sounds as well as vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure and communication skills may be affected.