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If you take pain medicine to mask the problem and keep doing what you are doing, the injury will get worse. There’s an epidemic going on. We read about it in magazines and see segments about it on the news. It’s the opioid prescription pain medication epidemic and data shows that the problem is particularly […]
Medicare payments totaled $705.9 billion in 2017, up 4.2% from the previous year and accounting for 20% of the total federal spending budget for that year alone, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. AARP reported that 44 million Americans are currently enrolled in Medicare, and, by 2030, that number could reach 79 […]
First you notice the TV is turned up just a little too loud. Then you notice you are having to constantly repeat yourself. And then you realize your loved one is reducing his or her time talking to family and friends. It might be a hard conversation to have, but when your relationship with a […]
The opioid epidemic has taken its toll in South Carolina. The “Just Plain Killers” campaign, which was created by the South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, released that in 2017, there were 748 deaths involving opioids in our state. That was up from 616 in 2016. State-funded treatment data showed that […]
Dr. Andrew McMarlin decided to increase his focus on concussions in his career practice of sports medicine after he was the physician for the major league soccer team in Washington D.C. “Three of the players had to retire early because they had not recovered properly from concussions,” he said. “Every time they exerted themselves, to […]
You know when you board an airplane and flight attendants go through the safety regulations just before you take off? They remind all the passengers that if oxygen is needed, due to a loss in cabin pressure, the oxygen masks will deploy from the overhead bin and to be sure to obtain oxygen for yourself […]