Medical

Plastic surgery is no longer just for women.  I have been performing many more surgeries lately on men at my office and Town Center Surgery.

Doctors of chiropractic, such as Dr. Ekengren, think of pain as the body’s way of signaling a deeper health concern.  They don’t consider pain an isolated problem requiring a drug solution.  Like a car’s dashboard warning light, pain alerts you to issues needing attention.
The Big Cover Up: What’s Wrong with Painkillers

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.

Check your thyroid function.  Avoid thyroid toxins and inhibitors, including excess polyunsaturated fats (soybean, safflower, canola, flaxseed and fish oils); raw cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage; lightly steaming them destroys the thyroid inhibiting substances they contain); fluoride (check toothpaste and mouthwashes) and mercury in silver amalgam fillings.  A low protein diet also promotes hypothyroidism.

For more than 10 years I’ve heard story after story about how colon hydrotherapy is beneficial to ones health and wellness.  This is because I’m married to a colon hydro therapist.  I’ve always been curious about the benefits from colon hydrotherapy.

Many individuals do not realize that muscles play an important role in dentistry.  The science of Neuromuscular Dentistry (NMD) evaluates and treats your overall oral health by considering how your muscles, teeth and joints all work together.  

Wow, isn’t it exciting, you’re pregnant.  It should be the most exciting time in your life.  You are having a baby.  Unfortunately, many women soon discover that with pregnancy come major bodily changes, such as lower back pain.  In fact, many women begin to suffer from lower back for the first time in their life.  

Men are coming around to cosmetic dentistry.  The realization has dawned and better, healthier teeth open doors whether you’re a foreman on the construction site or chief poobah in the boardroom.  For good reason, nearly one-third of patients seeking cosmetic dental care today are men.
It’s important that our appearance reflects our new national level of health.  It follows that stained, missing or misaligned teeth conflict with that image, no matter how buff you are.  Given that premise, the dentist will consider your personal needs and your sex.

“The earlier you take your child to a dentist, the easier it will be for them later in life when it comes to visiting a dentist,” says Dr. Christopher Ezzat, a pediatric dentist with a gentle touch and an eye on dentistry.

Heel/Arch pain is one of the most common foot ailments affecting millions of people on a daily basis.  Unfortunately, this affliction is left untreated by a majority of the population, figuring that it will go away or accepting that the pain is typical with excessive standing or walking.  Eventually, this ailment becomes chronic in nature, often manifesting with first step pain when getting out of bed or after a period of rest, usually dissipating after a few minutes of walking, then eventually returning later in the day.

It’s a rite of womanhood, yet that first gynecological exam may seem a little mysterious or maybe even a little scary.  It doesn’t have to be.  Todays gynecologists are especially sensitive to a young woman experiencing her initial exam.

Dr. Peter H. Grossman is a Board-certified plastic surgeon whose private medical practice is divided between cosmetic and reconstructive surgery and the care of the burn-injured patient.  A graduate of Northwestern University and the Chicago Medical School, Dr. Grossman continued his medical education with a general surgery residency at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, a plastic and reconstructive surgery residency at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and fellowships in breast reconstructive surgery and aesthetic and endoscopic surgery at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. 

Annual eye examinations are important.  Dilations allow your Optometrist to look inside your eyes with little obstruction.  Looking inside a non-dilated eye is like looking through a peep-hole, however, once the eye is dilated, it is like opening up the door to see inside the eye.  An Optometrist can sometimes be the first doctor to notice changes in your blood vessels.  

Medicine for the 21st century developed by Dr. Robert Marshall, radio host of Nationally Syndicated Health Line, can now quickly assess a person’s bone density and determine precisely what nutrients the body needs and how much to help restore healthy bone and bone metabolism.  Dr. Marshall’s method is Quantum Reflex Analysis.  Quantum Reflex Analysis or QRA is a very specific and direct form of Applied Kinesiology. 

Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital expects to provide Santa Clarita Valley residents with some of the most advanced state-of-the-art imaging capabilities in the Los Angeles area upon completion of an ongoing construction and equipment upgrade project.

“Once completed in early 2009, we’re going to have one of the most modern facilities in the region,” said Connie Hage, CRA, Director of Imaging and Cardiology.

When it comes to weight loss there are many avenues available to help us reach our goals.  Starting with a myriad of diets from books, nutritional guides and eating programs.  And if that’s not enough, there’s also medication, weight loss pills, liposuction and even gastric bypass surgery.  However, statistics are increasingly showing that in many cases, regardless of which of these avenues is taken, people eventually return to their previous state.  The weight returns and the stomach stretches back to its original state. 

Laser stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.  Lasers were first introduced for dentistry in 1988 and received FDA clearance in 1990.  The effects of the light transmission vary by wavelength.  This means that different types of tissue (hard/soft) absorb different wavelengths of light.  In dentistry two types of lasers have been developed, hard tissue (teeth and bone) and soft tissue (gums, cheeks, tongue and lips).  There are various procedures that each can perform. 

You or a close relative has just been diagnosed with cancer and radiation therapy has been recommended by your doctor.  Maybe you’ve read that the best radiation therapy treatment is IMRT.  So, exactly what is IMRT?