May is Healthy Vision Month, bringing attention to the importance of regular comprehensive eye exams. An eye exam is different from a vision screening, which is a visual acuity test that checks how well you see letters from a standard distance. Performed by nurses (or even volunteers), vision screenings may …

Sumter Senior Living is a special place for seniors to enjoy their lives in every aspect. At Sumter Senior Living, our story is yours. We grow older and wiser but are sure to never lose the spark that started it all. Grace Management continues to evolve, and we’re ever more …

By Physicians Rehabilitation Got aching joints? It’s tough to be in constant pain, but one of the worst things is it puts a big damper on all of the activities that we love and enjoy. Do you want to improve your golf game, pickleball game, tennis, and card playing? Physicians …

Every Year, nearly 200,000 people are diagnosed with spinal compression, which causes significant pain in the spine and surrounding back muscular structure. Osteoporosis usually causes spinal compression and mostly affects the aging population, but can also be attributed to other diseases of the bone, cancers, tumors, long-term steroid use, herniated …

Ask the majority of adults today how important omega fatty acids are, and they are sure to have an opinion on taking oral supplements or incorporating cold-water fish, krill, or algae into their daily diet. Several researchers, physicians, and key thought leaders in wound care began to develop prototypes based …

By Craig S. Aderholdt, BSc, DC VAX-D, short for Vertebral Axial Decompression, is a patented non-surgical therapy proven to successfully treat chronic low back pain, caused by prolapsed, bulging, herniated or degenerative discs, facet syndrome, stenosis and sciatica. Even post-surgical patients and those suffering from central canal or foraminal stenosis …

When joint pain, stiffness and inflammation affect your everyday life, you want to find fast, accurate answers so appropriate treatment can begin. Your primary care physician will likely perform a physical exam and order blood tests to look for signs of rheumatoid arthritis, gout, infection and other possible problems. Blood …

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, clinical research has continued to bring promising new treatments to cancer patients. Twenty-one new cancer drugs received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2020 and some of these therapies were for difficult-to-treat cancers, such as triple-negative breast cancer.* No other field of …

Master Herbalist Steve Frank If you suffer from chronic sinusitis and have been through multiple courses of antibiotics then you know the ills of the antibiotic approach. The antibiotics leave you with intestinal problems and often yeast infections while they only get rid of the sinus infection for 6 months …

Maybe you’ve thought about getting a hearing aid, but you aren’t sure how it will look or if it will really help you. If you have trouble hearing, a hearing aid can significantly improve your quality of life. It can: • Improve communication • Help you stay more alert • …