With the exception of preventive care visits like annual physicals, when you see a doctor, you’re usually looking for treatment. You might be seeking out an antibiotic for an infection or a physical therapy referral for an injury. You could be hoping to get help with mental health symptoms you’ve been experiencing, like uncontrollable thoughts…
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If you’re living with treatment-resistant depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), or you need support quitting smoking, consider TMS. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) uses specialized technology to affect particular changes in your brain. This treatment option is medication-free. Instead, you wear a sophisticated headset during a multi-week course of treatment. The device sends safe magnetic pulses to…
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For many people living with depression, treatment begins with approaches that are well known and widely used. Psychiatric medication and psychotherapy, often called talk therapy, have helped countless individuals better manage symptoms, regain stability, and improve their quality of life. These treatments remain important tools in mental health care, and for some patients they provide…
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Tip 1: Make Exercises Challenging but Doable Just like any exercise you have to push yourself a little to get the benefits. Â When doing a balance exercise, if you can keep from falling for at least five seconds, but you are wobbling all over the place, it is challenging, but doable and you will improve…
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Depression can be a devastating disorder where people lose the interest to participate in the things they enjoy. This loss of interest can be so severe that it can interfere with work and caring for one’s self. Psychotherapy and medication can help, but they don’t always help everyone. Thankfully, for those people there is deep TMS.…
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I provided a lecture on BPPV for the Pennsylvania Physical Therapy Association Southeastern District Meeting on March 9, 2016 and had a request to post it online.  Keep in mind that this was a one hour lecture for topic that is often taught in a full day. Unfortunately the videos won’t work, however some of…
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If you experience vertigo you may have heard about many different treatments and wondered if they work or not. Â Here are a couple of tips to guide you in the answer: The most important step in the treatment of vertigo is to find out the cause. Â Keep in mind that vertigo is not a…
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The modified Epley maneuver (or canalith repositioning procedure) is the best treatment for the most common form of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV).  For a detailed explanation of what BPPV is, how it causes vertigo, and why this treatment works, click here. There are many videos on the internet on how to perform this treatment.  Many are…
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A 42 year old woman named Sue wakes up one morning with a sickening feeling of severe dizziness and nausea.  She tries to get up, but can barely walk, because she feels so unsteady.  A feeling of fear and helplessness also fills her as she sees the world around her spinning whenever she moves.  Her husband calls 911 and…
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