Medical

A survey of over 2,700 hearing aid owners, published in The Hearing Journal, reported the top reasons people don’t wear their hearing aids.  Those reasons included: poor benefit, background noise, poor fit or discomfort, they don’t need help, poor sound quality, problems adjusting the volume, the hearing aids only work in limited situations, couldn’t use it on the telephone, whistling and feedback and poor directivity.

In traditional Chinese medicine there are five main elements within our environment and each is connected to a particular season:  wood-spring, fire-summer, earth-late summer, metal-fall and water-winter.  The ancient Chinese looked to the natural ebb and flow within the natural world around them and applied this knowledge to define balance, health and well-being within the body.  Energetically it is easy to see how each of these elements differs from one another.  For example, the cooler, quieter energy of the winter moving into the noisy explosion of new life and energy of spring.

Last time, we took a look at the differences between raw milk and the milk you most likely buy at the grocery store.  Starting with the cows, the differences are huge.  Commercial dairy cows are unlikely to ever see grass, much less eat it.  They produce milk only because they are pumped full of hormones.  Their milk is so contaminated by harmful bacteria that it must be pasteurized.

Constipation is quite uncomfortable.  Colon Irrigation is a great way to get rid of the discomfort.  Take the simple test below.

How often do we treat the root causes behind our weight gain?  Dr. Joseph Koh and the New Hope Acupuncture Medical Group are doing just that, using a combined approach of Oriental Medicine, Acupuncture and a painless treatment using the latest in weight loss machines.

A lot of men as well as women fear the thought of going bald. Baldness is something that is common among men. Male baldness creates a feeling of stress, embarrassment, anxiety, and other different psychological complications. Baldness also increases distress. 

This is the final installment in our series on seven ways of checking your health.
6) How are your menstruations?

Hypno-energy utilizes hypnosis and holistic energy-based therapies like pranic healing, EFT, Psych-k™ and sound therapy. 
Hypnotherapy helps create a shift in perception.  Through the use of induced deep relaxation and without giving up control or becoming unconscious, hypnotherapy can tap into the inner wellspring of wisdom and power that lies within each of us to access the root cause of a habit, pattern, or discomfort.  While accessing the cause and releasing its influence, hypnosis allows us to get in touch with the wise inner mind to learn from the experience and transform.

Ever feel tempted to miss your dental appointment because you overslept?  Now you have the chance to do both at once with Sedation Dentistry.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men.  One in six men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime.  The chances of getting prostate cancer go up as men age.  It is also more common in African-American men.  Prostate cancer can also be hereditary, so if your father or brother had prostate cancer you are more likely to get it yourself.

The issues that affect today’s women are complex.  One very personal issue is that of urinary incontinence.  Urinary incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine.  This problem is often thought to be a usual and expected occurrence especially as age progresses, therefore, it is often not discussed.

Plans toward making Henry Mayo a digital hospital have received a boost following a decision by the state of California Community College Chancellor’s Office to provide a joint College of the Canyons/Henry Mayo $333,000 grant to train hospital employees in the use of a new computer system.

In a recent study published by Harvard Medical School, 80 percent of Americans at some point in their lives experience lower back pain.  It is the fifth most common reason for visiting a doctor, one of the top reasons people miss work and the most common cause of work-related disability in people under age 45.  Outside of trauma, research suggests that more than half of those suffering are caused by improper biomechanics of the feet.  This is also true with knee and hip pain.

What is glaucoma?  Our eyes have a continuous flow of liquid into and out of them.  The liquid drains through little drains in our eyes.  Pressure is created by this liquid.  Optometrists measure the pressure using the air puff non-contact tonometry or using a blue light applanation tonometry.  This is just the beginning when testing for glaucoma.  We also need a dilated exam to evaluate the nerves inside the eyes and we evaluate the front of the eye where the drain is located.  Visual field testing also will help determine if there is any nerve damage.  Sometimes we measure the corneal thickness to help in diagnosing glaucoma.

Are you one of the many who is forced to take a large dose of antibiotics before visiting the dentist?  For decades, the American Heart Association, AHA, has recommended pre-medication for patients with certain heart conditions before most dental procedures.  

Hair loss and/or thinning hair is a problem that affects both men and women.  DHT is a by-product of testosterone and is the cause of hair loss in 95 percent of men and 70 percent of women.  Other causes include autoimmune diseases, prescription drugs, iron deficiencies, stress, hormonal changes and thyroid disease.

High blood pressure or hypertension is the most common primary diagnosis in the United States with 35 million office visits last year alone.  Why is this significant?  Because it does not account for the millions of undiagnosed people not being treated for this very serious problem.  The main reason for the unaccounted cases is this.  For the most part you feel healthy. 

Our minds and bodies function optimally in homeostasis, state of balance.  The biggest threat to our wellbeing is stress.  We all feel stress in our lives and a certain amount of it is actually healthy.  However, when we feel imbalanced and overwhelmed, stress becomes destructive permeating all areas of our life.