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Welcome to CentraState Healthcare System’s blog, your trusted resource for wellness tips, health trends, medical insights, and more.

Browse through our vast collection of articles, backed by our expert team of healthcare professionals and doctors. From essential preventive care strategies to cutting-edge medical innovations and uplifting patient stories that embody resilience and hope, our blog will help you stay informed and inspired on your journey to optimal health.

Tough But Ready with LSVT Rehab

By |2024-11-25T14:45:29-05:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Neuroscience, Patient Stories|Tags: , , , |

Lydia Arana, 79, is a soft-spoken woman, living with Parkinson’s disease but not willing to let it keep her down. The Matawan resident was diagnosed with the degenerative neurological disease in 2007 and has lived with fluctuating levels of intense tremors for years, but last year she started the [...]

Rock Steady: How Ken Fights Back Against Parkinson’s

By |2024-05-10T08:42:41-04:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Health A-Z, Patient Stories|Tags: , , , |

Rock Steady Boxing can help patients improve balance, strength, and agility. Ken Springer goes to the gym twice every week to box his enemy. But he’s not fighting against any ordinary opponent—this one is a degenerative movement disorder that causes a deterioration of motor skills, balance, speech, and sensory function. [...]

Freedom to Live: Pelvic Floor Program Offers Gina Relief from Chronic Pain

By |2024-05-10T08:42:42-04:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Patient Stories, Women’s Health|Tags: , , , |

Gina Barnett was living in extreme pain. Her pelvic area felt so heavy that she could barely walk, forcing the 52-year-old Freehold resident to give up exercise, singing, and just about every other activity she loved. “I was constantly uncomfortable,” says Gina, describing unbearable pressure and pain that extended [...]

Balance and Dizziness Program Restores Mary Jean’s Stability and Independence

By |2024-05-10T08:42:43-04:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Neuroscience, Patient Stories|Tags: , , |

Life has been compared to a carousel—sometimes up, sometimes down, and sometimes round and round. No one understands that better than Mary Jean Sehnal, who suffered from vertigo (the sensation of spinning), weakness, and other problems that impaired her balance for the past 10 years. [...]

Growing Confidence after Parkinson’s Rehabilitation

By |2024-05-10T08:42:45-04:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Health A-Z, Patient Stories|Tags: , , , |

Before the program, Mark Herman was falling frequently. “He was very unsteady,” his wife, Barbara, recalls. “Frankly, it was very frightening.” Mark, a Jackson resident, had been living with Parkinson’s disease for the past four years, and his now 72-year-old body was having difficulty performing everyday tasks. His recurrent falls were [...]

Heather Thinks BIG to Fight Parkinson’s

By |2024-05-10T08:42:49-04:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Health A-Z, Patient Stories|Tags: , , , |

Though Howell resident Heather Cooper had once been an active, outgoing person, her symptoms from early onset Parkinson’s disease began five years ago and got progressively worse. “I’d always been very adventurous and athletic and had even worked as a yoga instructor and at a ski resort managing a lodge, [...]

Concussion Rehabilitation After a Motor Vehicle Accident

By |2024-05-10T08:42:53-04:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Neuroscience, Patient Stories|Tags: , , , |

In January 2014, 35-year-old Michael Wachter lost control of his vehicle on an icy highway, leaving him with a shattered left collarbone. But following the accident, he didn’t realize he had experienced head trauma. “I was kind of out of it from the accident and the medicine for my [...]

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