Medical

What does summer mean to you?  For me it means vacations, lazy evenings, and delectable fruits and veggies.  Summer lifts our spirits, giving us new energy like no other time of year.  Why not use this to your advantage?  It’s the perfect time to start a new season of healthy living.  Here are five quick tips to help make necessary changes and incorporate healthy habits into your life that will pay big dividends in the months and years to come.

Holistic and natural health practitioners look at the skin as mirroring a myriad of health problems — a reflection of internal health connected to specific toxic overload within the body. 

If you’re like so many patients, the lingering numbness of local anesthesia is something you’ve become used to, but never comfortable with — it’s not easy getting on with your day when part of you is still not feeling or looking normal.  Are you ready for a new possibility?

Contact lenses have come a long way in development since they were first introduced in 1960.  The early contact lenses were “hard” lenses made of PMMA or polymethylmethacrylate.  Although this represented a revolution in correction of refractive error, these contact lenses had relatively poor oxygen permeability which caused problems for the cornea. 

Cutting back on spending, shouldn’t include cutting back on health.  Right now, we’re dealing with more stress than ever, yet we’re doing less to alleviate it.  It’s easy to forget about our health when we’re bombarded with reminders of the “state of the economy.”

The most concern about dentures is how to deal with loosening.  I think that the most effective approach is implant-retained dentures.  Two to four implants and attachments help to create better retention.  I have those questions from my denture patients.

Urination disturbance is manifested by frequency of urination, painful urination and incontinence of urination, resulting mainly from accumulation of heat in the bladder, and sometimes also from emotional factors and deficiency of the kidney.

The key factor to balancing family and work when one has a chronic illness such as diabetes, fibromyalgia, arthritis, migraines, etc. is self care.  We should all be kind to ourselves and make sure we get time to rest and slow down.  However, it just doesn’t seem so easy with working 20 to 40 hours a week, plus taking kids to and from school, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundry, plus participate in our kids’ activities such as soccer, Brownies, Boy Scouts, dance, swim, and the list goes on.

May 14 marked the two-year anniversary of DermaCure of Valencia, Santa Clarita’s premier cosmetic skin care office.  In May of 2007, Craig Ingber, MD, a board certified facial plastic surgeon, opened DermaCure in the Smyth Medical Plaza as a practice dedicated to laser skin care, Botox and dermal fillers.

When you walk through the doors of Kenneally Acupuncture and Healing Light Center you feel an immediate sense of peace and relaxation.  By combining several modalities under one roof, people have the opportunity to optimize their health care experience.  Their team of health professionals and staff are dedicated to helping people achieve wellness on all levels.  In this warm, caring, safe and healing environment, children and adults can experience the highest quality of holistic healthcare available in the Santa Clarita Valley.

Ever been to Disneyland, the happiest place on earth? A young mother in her 30s took her daughter to celebrate her birthday.  After seeing Mickey and friends, they settled down to celebrate.  The tables where they sat were not bolted to the ground.  That particular day the wind blew hard.  So hard that one of the tables was hurled and became airborne.  The edge of the table hit the young mother’s temple, and she fell to the ground.

Many patients tell me they would love to have whiter teeth, however, in the past, after a whitening procedure, they experienced quite a bit of tooth sensitivity, which is the main reason why whitening is no longer an option for them.  The question then, “Is there a way to get whiter teeth without the sensitivity?” 

In our modern society more and more emphasis is being placed on looks and appearances.  Constant exposure in the media along with greater health awareness has caused more and more adults to have an interest in orthodontic treatment.

Robert, a 42-year-old diabetic, enjoyed medical care provided through his health insurance for years. His doctor’s visits and medications were provided for a small co-pay. Unfortunately, he was laid off from his job and lost his health insurance. He didn’t know what to do with bills piling up; he worried about his home, providing food for his family and how he would pay for his two boys to attend a sports camp in the summer. His health became the lowest priority and his glucose skyrocketed to 400 by the time he came to Samuel Dixon Family Health Centers, Inc. (SDFHC).

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According to the federal government, an approximate 15 million Americans have a health problem that most don’t want to talk about. That problem is urinary incontinence.

Patients with headaches also commonly complain of neck pain.  This relationship is the rule, not the exception and therefore, treatment for headaches must include treatment of the neck to achieve optimum results.  The term, “cervicogenic headaches” has been an accepted term because of the intimate connection between the neck and head for many years.  There are many anatomical reasons why neck problems result in headaches.  Some of these include:

Ask any physical therapist the most common complaint they hear from patients and it will be “my back hurts” with the implication that the therapist should fix it.  My first response is to examine the patient and then educate them.  There’s no point in treating the patient’s pain without educating them on how to avoid it in the future.  The patient needs to understand the spine, what will hurt it and what will keep it healthy and pain free.

Back injuries are one of the leading causes of doctors’ visits every year.  In fact back injuries account for about one in every five job-related injuries in California.  Disabling back injuries are no laughing matter, due to lost time from work and from personal activities.