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If you are obese, and diet and exercise haven’t helped you reach a healthy weight, weight-loss surgery may be an option. While this may seem like a quick fix, it’s far from it. Not only is bariatric surgery a complex medical procedure, but after the surgery, you must adjust how you eat and commit to maintaining those changes for your lifetime. 

Everyone urinates or pees several times during the day, but for some people, the urge to go to the bathroom occurs too frequently. In general, frequent urination is described as needing to go more often than you’d like, and is usually defined as needing to urinate more than eight times a day.

Bariatric surgery is a major undertaking, but it can reap the benefits weight-challenged patients dream about: thinner bodies, fewer health problems and better mobility.

If you’re recovering from injury, illness or surgery, a physical therapist can help you regain your strength, range of motion and functional mobility. Setting goals is one of the most important parts of your rehabilitation program. 

When you have a headache, it can be hard to pinpoint the cause. Is it a sinus headache? Is it a migraine? While it may not matter to you in the aching, painful moment, understanding the difference between the two can help you to manage your pain more effectively. 

It's not just adults who get stressed – kids do, too, and they can show signs of stress in different ways. 

About 33 percent of American adults are obese. It’s been well documented that obesity increases your risk for various chronic conditions, including high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes and even cancer.

Ever looked down at your arm or leg and wondered, “Where did that bruise come from?” A bruise, or contusion, is the body’s normal response to damaged, leaking blood vessels under the skin, without a break in the skin. Bruising is a response to injury — like bumping against a sharp corner — but there are other conditions that can cause bruising or increase the risk. 

Do you sometimes leak a little when you laugh, sneeze or exercise? You’re not the only one. Known as urinary incontinence, this involuntary urine leakage is common. In fact, nearly 50 percent of adult women experience some form of incontinence. 

Another New Year, another resolution. And sadly, for most people they don’t work, especially when the resolution focuses on losing weight, which according to a recent survey, accounts for over 20 percent of all New Year’s resolutions. And the success rate of New Year’s resolutions? Only about 9 percent say they have made and successfully kept them.