What’s Special about a Specialty Hospital?
Courtesy Carrus Specialty Hospital, Texoma LIVING WELL Magazine
Specialty hospitals offer people who have complex medical needs or have significant injuries a place to receive intensive, focused care. Carrus Specialty Hospital is a long-term acute care facility (LTAC) that provides an essential continuum of high-level care. […]
Are you suffering from back or neck pain?
By Robert May, Progressive Rehab, Linn County LIVING WELL Magazine
When you have back or neck pain, it can affect your entire life. Constant pain can make you irritable and easily frustrated, affecting not only you, but your family, job and friends as well. Pain can affect your social life, making it impossible to enjoy many of the fun and relaxing activities you like to do. New technology, non-surgical spinal decompression, may well be the answer to resolving your back or neck pain. […]
Take Control of Your Health: Breast Cancer Screenings
Courtesy The Medical Center of Aurora, East Denver LIVING WELL Magazine
Screening for breast cancer is a team effort. You, your healthcare provider and your mammography center staff all play an important role in finding breast cancers early. Early detection facilitates early treatment and optimum health outcomes. […]
Oral Cancer: Are You Aware?
By Thomas S. Jennings, DDS, Colorado Springs LIVING WELL Magazine
Are you aware that more than 36,000 Americans are annually diagnosed with oral and pharyngeal cancer? The incidence of this disease is on the rise and currently accounts for about one death per hour in the U.S. or over 8,000 people every year. […]
No Limitations – Blue Skies Ahead
By Dr. Gil Ortega, Dr. Kurtis Staples, and Dr. Brian Miller, Sonoran Hip Center, Scottsdale LIVING WELL Magazine
Hip replacement surgery is one of the most successful surgeries ever performed for its real indication – pain that interferes with one’s quality of life. With over 250,000 of these surgeries performed annually in the U.S. alone, many individual’s lives are being changed for the better every single day. This is exciting, however, like any surgical procedure, it is not without some potential risk. It is major surgery, and complications do happen, one of which is termed ‘dislocation.’ […]
American Cancer Society Relay For Life Helps Community Fight Back Against Cancer
By Rhonda Hollen, American Cancer Society, Northshore LIVING WELL Magazine
The American Cancer Society is looking for committee members to be a part of the 2012 Relay For Life events on the Northshore. People interested in being a part of a committee will be a part of the community’s biggest effort to fight cancer. […]
Stopping Killers in their Tracks… (Part Two)
By Vicky L. Chappell, M.D., Texoma Cardiovascular, Texoma LIVING WELL Magazine
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the top three leading causes of death are heart disease, cancer and stroke. There has been a decline in the age-adjusted death rate for 10 of the 15 leading causes of death. However, deaths from heart disease and cancer alone still accounted for 48% of deaths in the U.S. in 2009. […]
Do I Really Need to Worry About All of These Tests?
By Larry Norfleet, MD, FACOG, Colorado Springs Health Partners, Obstetrics and Gynecology,
From the moment we are born, we have schedules for our health: immunizations, check-ups, physicals, all in the midst of our busy lives. Why all these tests when there is so much else to keep track of? Here’s why: […]
Finally, Your Last Diet
By Courtney Albritton, PA-C, MPA, Clinical Director, Innovative Aesthetics, Linn County LIVING WELL Magazine
As a medical provider, I hear all too often from my patients, “I eat a balanced diet, but I keep gaining weight,” “I exercise daily, but continue to gain weight,” or they ask for a weight loss prescription medication just to “give them a boost.” […]
A healthy sex life…it’s not just for youngsters anymore
Courtesy Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton, Denton LIVING WELL Magazine
The kids are grown and have moved out. You’ve taken up golf or perhaps gardening. You’re in the golden years, the new “prime” of life. And yet, why does a healthy sex life seem so out of reach? […]
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