Carpal metacarpal arthritis is arthritis at the base of the thumb joint. In a normal joint, cartilage covers the ends of each bone providing smooth and easy movement between the two surfaces. The cartilage can wear out due to daily use and occurs throughout life.
Living with diabetes can be a challenge every day. Add on limitations from the pandemic, and eating well, staying active, taking medications, testing glucose get even more complicated.
A heart catheterization is a procedure where a very thin cable wire (the catheter) is inserted through an artery in the patient’s wrist or groin. The tube is guided to the heart, providing the physician with images showing how the heart is working and enabling any blockages to be identified.
You may think leg pain or a slow-healing wound is a normal part of aging. Not necessarily. That nagging ache may be your body's way of sending a warning signal that something more serious is going on.
Living a healthy lifestyle can be a challenge for many families – particularly after months of sheltering in place. Here are tips to help your family get the nutrients they need from a variety of foods.
Staying active can be a challenge for many families, particularly when exercise routines are disrupted. Here are tips to help your family get moving again toward a healthy lifestyle.
Sheltering in place has disrupted just about every aspect of our lives, including normal sleep cycles. If you're longing for eight hours of uninterrupted, peaceful sleep again, try these steps to relax, let go and fall asleep.
How is your family getting along with each other now that our homes have become so multi-functional? While it’s only natural to get annoyed with the people we live with, it’s not exactly pleasant. We have some ideas to minimize frustrations and help everyone get along better.
When Kimberly Beachy developed gestational diabetes, she kept the disease under control by eating well and managing a physically demanding job. Then her daughter was born 12 weeks early.
Joint pain can have a wide variety of causes. This can make it difficult to know when it is time to talk to a physician regarding pain you may be experiencing. Sometimes the joint pain can be from an acute injury. Sometimes the pain can be from a chronic ongoing condition with gradually increasing joint pain.
The leading cause of death for women in the U.S. is cardiovascular disease – outnumbering the next 16 causes of death in women combined, including all cancers. Yet prevention and treatment for women are still less aggressive than for men. We need to change this.
It's normal to get out of sync with your exercise routine, particularly when you weren't expecting a pandemic. Take a deep breath and know you can get back on track.