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By Maged Ghattas, MD Sometimes you have to play it cool to find pain relief. For those suffering from chronic pain, finding relief often means invasive spinal fusion surgeries or potentially addictive opioid medications. A new treatment – water-cooled radiofrequency (RF) ablation – is a non-invasive outpatient option that is helping many local residents get ...
By Peter Hynes, MD, FSCAI, FACC, RPVI For people with peripheral artery disease (PAD), walking can be a painful experience, so it may seem counterintuitive to prescribe an exercise program to alleviate pain. However, a simple treatment approach can help patients overcome PAD and get back to an active lifestyle. Peripheral artery disease develops when ...
Achoo! We can’t control the person sneezing next to you on the bus or plane, but we can offer these health tips to help you avoid illness while traveling during the holidays: Wash your hands with hot water for at least 30 seconds before and after eating as well as after using the bathroom. Carry ...
The excitement and festivities of the holiday season are just around the corner. Soon, we’ll be thrown out of our regular routines and tempting foods and beverages will be all around us. The demands of the holidays also mean more stress, less time to exercise and definitely less sleep. For people with diabetes, this time of ...
By Caryn Alter, MS, RD Many of the top 10 most commonly broken New Year’s Resolutions, according to a survey by Time.com, involve lifestyle changes: #1 – Lose weight and get fit #2 – Quit smoking #4 – Eat healthier and diet #8 – Be less stressed #10 – Drink less. It’s not surprising that losing weight ...
Heads up! You’re sitting at your daughter’s soccer game when a ball gets kicked toward the sidelines. It strikes you in the side of the head. You’re caught off guard, but you shrug it off and send the ball back into play. Later in the day you develop a headache. Could you have a concussion? ...
By Alfred DeLuca, MD It sounds like the plot of a latest science fiction novel: Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, creating a concerning combination of potent “superbugs” and a lack of new antibiotics to treat them. Unfortunately, this is not a work of fiction. Adequately treating resistant bacterial infections is one of modern medicine’s ...
By Zeeshan Khan, MD When I decided to dedicate my professional practice to the field of geriatrics, I never imagined I someday would be helping to start up the new ACE unit at CentraState Medical Center. ACE stands for acute care for elders, which is a model of patient care that focuses specifically on the ...
By Sabine Paul-Yee, MD A person far wiser than me once said that “you are what you eat.” So true when you consider that the body’s physical well-being is greatly impacted by one’s day-to-day diet regimen – of course, balanced with regular activity and disciplined rest. While a reality all year long, this is particularly ...
By Melissa Bonilla, MD, FAAP 2:30 am, the dead of night. The alarm is set to wake you in a few short hours and then it’s off to a long day at work. But you’re already wide awake, restless and irritable from listening to your 2-year-old crying out to you from the room next door. ...
