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  • How You Can Cope with Cancer Pain

    The simplest things – getting to the bathroom, eating or even sleeping – can become ordeals when you have cancer and suffer from chronic pain. And if you’re a cancer survivor, the pain can spark fears that the disease has returned or that something new is wrong.

  • How to Make the Pain Go Away – Without a Pill

    Sometimes people with acute or chronic pain can’t find the right solutions for what is hurting them. They will often need assistance in finding alternative treatments. In most cases, they don’t want to take medications and will connect with a specialist to figure out how we can help them. Many times, their pain will stem from neck or back pain, but it can include anything that is making them hurt. Our goal is to get them back to living a largely pain-free life again, one where they are more comfortable and can enjoy a good quality of life. 

  • This New Approach Treats Pain Without Reliance on Opioids

    Prescription drug addiction has become a crisis in many states across the country. In Florida, Governor Rick Scott recently deemed the opioid crisis a public health emergency.

  • 3 Tips To Help You Safely Deal with Chronic Pain

    Disease, injury and aging have at least one thing in common: Pain. While short-term pain is the body’s way of signaling damage and encouraging rest to allow for recovery, chronic pain sticks around long past any normal healing time, disrupting sleep and potentially leading to social withdrawal and isolation.

  • How Nerve Blocks Can Help with Your Chronic Pain

    If you are one of the millions of Americans who live with chronic pain, you understand the toll it can take on your enjoyment of life and ability to work. That pain can be a significant source of anxiety and depression – even during periods of remission when worries over flareups can dominate a person’s thoughts.

  • Coping with Side Effects from Chemo and Other Cancer Treatments

    When you have cancer, it means there's a problem in one part of your body. But treatments like chemotherapy and radiation – along with the cancer -- can cause stress throughout your  body while they fight the cancer.

  • Coping with Fatigue After Cancer Treatment

    It’s a feeling that many of us know all too well. After staying up late one night or spending a long day at work, we feel tired—exhausted, even. As we pour our second cup of coffee by 10 a.m., we struggle to keep our eyes open, wishing we could go home and go to bed. Thankfully, once we do get a good night’s rest, the feeling goes away, and we feel recharged and rejuvenated.

  • New Treatment Offers Hope for Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease

    Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a condition that restricts blood flow to a person’s limbs, most commonly the legs. Caused by a buildup of fatty plaque in the arteries, PAD affects between 8 to 12 million Americans.

  • CDC: Low Treatment Rates for African Americans with HIV

    Though the rate of HIV diagnoses has declined in the last decade, a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report finds that some

  • Managing Surgical Pain Without Narcotics: Here’s How It’s Done

    It’s natural to feel a bit nervous when heading into bladder, kidney or prostate surgery – about the procedure and how you will control the pain you might have afterward.