Central Florida Health and Wellness Magazine Health and Wellness Articles of the Villages
By Terry Hoskins – Truth leads us to reality The first step into freedom from an addiction begins with facing the truth. You must be willing to face and accept reality. Are you willing to take a look at your life as it really is? Or do you want to …
Read More »The Leader in Comprehensive Pain Management Announces Regenerative Injection Therapy with Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP)
Prospira PainCare offers the cutting-edge Regenerative Injection Therapy with Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) at our National Pain Institute, Winter Park location in Florida. What is Regenerative Injection Therapy? Regenerative Injection Therapy with Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) is an alternative approach to healing tendon and ligament injuries. Known for its restorative healing, Regenerative …
Read More »VENUS FREEZE – The Cool Treatment for Stubborn Areas
Do you want to improve the look, feel and shape of resistant areas that do not respond to traditional exercise and diets? Would you like to decreases wrinkles and obtain a fresh youthful look without the use of painful needles or complicated surgery? Have you considered improving your appearance by …
Read More »Heart Disease and Women Know Your Numbers
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over 1 million Americans suffer a heart attack each year and an individual dies nearly every minute from one. Women make up nearly half of all the cardiovascular deaths. Regardless of a woman’s racial or ethnic background, she is at …
Read More »Effective Treatment for Mild to Moderate Sleep Apnea with Oral Appliance Therapy
By Village Dental – Sleep apnea is the condition in which a person stops (“apnea”) breathing for more than 10 seconds, many times in a night. People with untreated sleep apnea stop breathing repeatedly during their sleep, sometimes hundreds of times during the night and often for a minute or …
Read More »Healthy Happy Brain!
By Darla Miller, BS, MBA – Your body is an amazing complex of nerve cells, electrical impulses and chemical messengers. The nervous system “wires” us together! Your brain houses 98% of your body’s neurons. While it makes up only 2% of your body weight it consumes 25% of your oxygen …
Read More »Heel Pain
By Richard S. Benjamin, DPM – The heel bone is the largest of the 26 bones in the human foot, which also has 33 joints and a network of more than 100 tendons, muscles, and ligaments. Like all bones, it is subject to outside influences that can affect its integrity …
Read More »Why All the Buzz About InterStim?
InterStim® Sacral Neuromodulation is a clinically proven, FDA approved (since 1997) therapy for management of Refractory OAB (Overactive Bladder), Incomplete Bladder Emptying (not due to outflow obstruction), and Fecal Incontinence (the latest since March 2011). This particular therapy targets the communication problem between the brain/body and the nerves that control …
Read More »Erectile Dysfunction
Q: My husband likes the option of treating erectile dysfunction with a pill because of the simplicity, but would that be dangerous after a coronary stent placement several months ago? A: Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra are PDE5 inhibitors that work by dilating blood vessels to increase penile blood flow. They …
Read More »DECADE PLANNING
With so much of senior care and income planning tied to government programs, a needed perspective is understanding how budgets are measured. The federal government measures the impact of each program change made at the decade level, meaning what the effect on the budget is over the next ten years. …
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