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 Chiropractor
can aid in stomach trouble
When we have aches and
pains, sometimes there’s an easy answer, and other times there
isn’t. What’s important when finding the cure for what ails
you is to explore all options, and sometimes that might include
natural remedies. When chronic stomach problems start to get in
the way of daily life, the answer might lie in a natural treatment
- chiropractic care.
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 Back
on track
The Olympic Games bring renewed interest in the top athletes of
the world, individuals who have spent their life training to be in
prime physical condition. What happens when the unthinkable
occurs; the body does break down, requiring nothing less than
surgery?
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 Accutane
Last
fall, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak appeared on the “Today” show,
suggesting that an acne medication called Accutane may have been
behind his teenage son’s suicide. His suggestion sparked a
national debate on the issue. Since that time much of the research
on the link between the drug and increased incidence of suicide
has proven inconclusive.
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 Battling
the enemy with the BAT
Prostate
cancer is a force to be reckoned with. It is the most common type
of cancer in men in the United States, other than skin cancer. The
American Cancer Society reports there were nearly 180,400 new
cases of prostate cancer diagnosed this past year alone. The
disease, which mostly affects men over age 65, claimed the lives
of almost 32,000 victims in 1999 and the numbers continue to rise.
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Newborn
screening
If
you’re heading east workday mornings on Watertown Plank Road,
keep an eye out for the man on the bicycle. He might be Dr.
William Rhead, a relatively new kid on the block both in the Elm
Grove neighborhood where he resides and at the Wauwatosa
institutions where he works. The physician’s fitness-friendly,
eco-friendly commute might seem like kid stuff to some. Once he
stashes his wheels, however, Rhead spends his day taking “kid
stuff” very seriously. It isn’t unusual for a ringing phone in
his office at Children’s Hospital to signal a request for input
that could dramatically affect a special child’s quality of
life.
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Oh my aching head!
Surgery
is almost always a last resort, no matter what the medical problem
is. Physicians favor trying less invasive treatments first, such
as medications. The same policy holds true when someone suffers
from chronic sinusitis, or inflammation of the sinuses.
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 In
the surgeon's hand
The human kidneys
are remarkable glandular organs. Nestled on each side of the back
in the upper abdominal cavity, they separate water and the waste
products of metabolism from blood, then excrete them as urine
through the ureters and bladder. With two kidneys, the body is
well-equipped for this function, but when something goes wrong
with one or both of them, it can be a serious problem indeed.
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Protect
your children from poisons
Children’s
Hospital of Wisconsin recommended the following tips on keeping
poisonous products out of the reach of children. Medicine and
household cleaning products are the leading cause of unintentional
poisonings in children.
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Stretching
the benefits of massage
BROOKFIELD
- Thousands of years ago, the approach to
healing was much simpler.
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Tossing
and turning
WAUWATOSA -
If you’ve seen hundreds of imaginary sheep hopping
over a fence or the numbers on the clock pass by night
after night, a sleep disorder may be a possibility. |
Building
the bionic ear
On March 7,
1973, a dramatic series called “The Six Million Dollar Man”
debuted on our television sets. The premise? After a character
named Col. Steve Austin is critically injured, the so-called
Office of Scientific Investigations (OSI) fits him with bionic
legs, an arm, and an eye, and then sends him out on missions of
national concern that require his special newly engineered skills
and strengths. Since that first episode aired, the science fiction
notion of cyborgs and terminators running amok on the planet has
been the basis of many movies and television shows. Today, such
themes may be more science than fiction. |
Titivating
your torso
With the
silicone-gel scare a distant memory, more women than ever are
requesting plastic surgery on their breasts. |
Botox®
One of the
elements of exciting spy stories is the character of the double
agent. This often mysterious and sinister threat can be dangerous
and deadly, something to be respected and feared. Then the plot
twists, revealing another side to the agent, with its powers
turned in a completely different direction, for the benefit of
mankind instead of its destruction. |
More
women are seeking the pouty look
Thanks to
the likes of many Hollywood actresses and models, we are now
acutely aware of the fact that full, pouty lips are all the rage.
Women across the country are anxiously searching for ways to
enhance their lip shape, a move thought to give them a more
innocent, younger, sexy look. |
Going
mobile
Necessity
is the mother of invention. Maybe that’s what drove a Brookfield
dentist and his wife to take their show on the road to some folks
in their community who don’t get to a dentist as often as they’d
like. |
100
ways to live to be 100
Sometimes in
casual conversations — you know the ones where you’re standing
around with half a glass of Sam Adams or White Zin in your hand
wondering if you really have to go through the receiving line or
step into the banquet hall and listen to the speech — the topic
of growing old comes up. Most people profess the belief that they
don’t want to get really old. They just want to live a healthy
life until about 80 and then die in their sleep. |
To Russia, with hope
When he isn’t traveling across the
country or to the other side of the world, you might find Fox Point’s Jeffrey A.
Kelly, Ph.D. occupying a seat at The Comet coffee shop on Milwaukee’s East Side. |
The traveling
man
He would have to
be considered, by anyone’s standards, a good guy. He is the sort of guy who would
loan you ten bucks in a crunch or his John Deere lawn tractor if yours was on the fritz.
He is the sort of guy who buys ice cream cones for his family on a hot humid Friday night.
That’s the kind of guy Dr. David Olson is a good guy. A caring guy.
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She's on a mission
Gloria Halverson is a Waukesha
physician specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. The list of her professional
accomplishments and activities is long and impressive, as is the number of publications in
which her scholarly works have been printed. But all of that is less important to her than
the time she devotes to her patients—and they can be found all over the world. |
A new chest for Alex
The moment Alex was born, over
nine years ago, Teri Edmunds and her husband, Doug, could tell something was wrong.
Although the second of their three children weighed nearly 11 pounds, Alex’s chest
was dramatically sunken, the result of a rare congenital hereditary deformity known as
pectus excavatum, or "funnel chest." |
The parish nurse
Good health is much more than
having low cholesterol, watching your diet and exercising regularly. It’s a
combination of mind, body and spirit — ignore one of these three aspects and your
body’s system is bound to break down. |
Juggling the pressure
A high school
student dreams of attending a prestigious military academy. She doesn’t get in and
falls into depression. A straight "A" student gets his first "B" and
is devastated. A boy who has played soccer since kindergarten doesn’t make the
varsity team and quits. Pressure. |
The female drunk
This is one battle of the sexes no woman wants to win,
or even face. While both male and female populations experience alcoholism equally, women
tend to experience more serious health problems, a greater speed of addiction, and a
societal stigma not faced by their male counterparts.
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 Backing
you up
Anyone who has shoveled snow, slipped on ice or push-started a car
with a dead battery can probably tell you a little bit about lower
back pain.
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Ergonomics & Exercise
With informal public hearings
slated to begin this month on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s
recently released “Ergonomics Proposal,” attention is being focused on a nagging
problem plaguing many Northshore residents—white collar, middle-age back pain. |
Back talk
If you suffer from
debilitating back pain, you’ll try just about anything to relieve it. These days,
more patients are turning away from traditional Western medicine and toward so-called
alternative and complementary therapies. |
The aches of ages
You can blame your mother for
the eyes that sit too far apart on your face, and you can blame your father for the
premature gray hair. But the aching and stiffness in your back and the pain that can
shoot down your legs—that’s nature, not genetics. |
Shift weight to prevent pain
Small changes in the home and
office can prevent head, neck and back pain. Whitefish Bay chiropractor Dr. Edie Beguelin
advises people to become more aware of their habits. |
Take back pain seriously following an
accident
You’ve never had a car
accident in your life, but the one day you do is the day you do yourself some damage. You
fear you have somehow injured your back and the pain is almost unbearable. What should you
do? |
