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“So what are you going to do when you don’t like running anymore or your body gives out?” a family member asked me, only wishing, I was certain, to antagonize me. “That can never happen,” I thought to myself – and I reassured that pesky relative that I was a capable, strong, determined, collegiate cross-country […]
This April, tens of thousands of those in the medical community will be celebrated during Occupational Therapy Month. They work with patients in a variety of settings, from schools to home health, hospitals, outpatient clinics and more. Physical therapists work in the same capacities, and for many the lines between the role of occupational and […]
It was a triumphant return to Roper Rehabilitation Hospital. I was powered by my own two feet – not a limp in sight – appropriately dressed in street clothes (“It’s nice to see you dressed up,” Dr. Douglas McGill said.) and excited to learn about the new advances in therapy and care since my extended […]
“But COPD is first and foremost a smoking-related lung disease. If cigarettes didn’t exist. I would literally be out of a job…” Sting may have been thinking about a possessive lover when he wrote the hit, “Every Breath You Take.” But he might just as easily have been writing an anthem for pulmonologists. Their goal […]
According to the American Psychiatric Association, eating disorders are illnesses in which people experience severe disturbances in their eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions. People with eating disorders typically become preoccupied with food and with their body weight. An eating disorder takes over one’s thoughts, body and life. As someone who has recovered from […]
Five years ago, Mount Pleasant mom Elaine DeaKyne went to her obstetrician’s office. She’d given birth to her first daughter two months prior, and DeaKyne wondered if she might have postpartum depression. The nurse asked her a series of questions about how she was doing as a new mom, including “Do you think you would […]