Conditions & Diseases

The only thing worse than get­ting hit with a cold or the flu is shar­ing it with your whole fam­i­ly. Many virus­es can live for up to 24 hours, while oth­ers can linger for days. Here are tips on how to safe­guard against spread­ing germs includ­ing infor­ma­tion on where they like to hide and how to deep clean after ill­ness strikes.

Your pain med­i­cine and physi­a­try doc­tors are sole­ly focused on the eval­u­a­tion, treat­ment and pre­ven­tion of pain in order to help your body get back to a healthy and pain-free state. While both spe­cial­ties aim to iden­ti­fy and treat your pain, there are some impor­tant dif­fer­ences between them. Dr. Paul Man­ganel­li, Pain Med­i­cine, and Dr. Lena Shah­ban­dar, Physi­a­try, out­line key sim­i­lar­i­ties and dif­fer­ences between the two pain spe­cial­ties to assist you in mak­ing informed deci­sions about your care.

Find that you’re sud­den­ly hav­ing trou­ble hear­ing? Sud­den Sen­sorineur­al Hear­ing Loss (SSHL), also known as sud­den deaf­ness, is rapid hear­ing loss that occurs all at once or over a peri­od of three days.

DuPage Med­ical Group’s Phys­i­cal Ther­a­py spine group is com­prised of expe­ri­enced Phys­i­cal Ther­a­pists that have an invest­ed inter­est in spine relat­ed ail­ments. At DMG we use the most cur­rent research and evi­dence-based treat­ments in order to pro­vide the best pos­si­ble care and recov­ery to our patients.

My knee has been hurt­ing when I run. When should I see a doctor?

Hip arthroscopy surgery is used to treat var­i­ous hip con­di­tions, most com­mon­ly labral tears and hip impinge­ment. The pro­ce­dure is per­formed by an orthopaedic sur­geon who uti­lizes a small cam­era to guide sur­gi­cal tools that are insert­ed into the hip joint through small inci­sions. Hip arthroscopy surgery is a less-inva­sive alter­na­tive to open surgery, pro­vid­ing less pain and stiff­ness in the affect­ed joint and result­ing in short­er recov­ery times.

Head and Neck can­cers are those that form in the throat, nose, sinus­es, mouth, lips, sali­vary glands, and lar­ynx (your voice box). When can­cer forms in the head or neck, it is one of three types. These include squa­mous cell car­ci­no­ma, thy­roid can­cer and lymphoma.

Plan­tar fasci­itis typ­i­cal­ly affects adults aged 40 – 60. It is most often caused by a com­bi­na­tion of overuse and poor arch sup­port. It results in injury of the plan­tar fas­cia in the heel area, lead­ing to inflam­ma­tion and pain. The plan­tar fas­cia is a thick band of tis­sue that lines the bot­tom of your foot; it is anchored to the base of the heel bone and attach­es to ball of your foot.

Veins of the body are respon­si­ble for car­ry­ing blood from the var­i­ous parts of the body to the heart. As peo­ple age, prob­lems can devel­op in the veins and can cause a vari­ety of dis­eases. Approx­i­mate­ly one third of men and women have vari­cose veins with vary­ing presentations.

Mol­lus­cum Con­ta­gio­sum is a skin dis­ease that is caused by the pox virus. The virus enters the skin through a break in the skin. The virus then incu­bates and then growths appear. Mol­lus­ca usu­al­ly look like small flesh col­ored or pink dome shape growths. The have a small cen­tral inden­ta­tion or white core. They often become red and inflamed. They are often found in the folds of the skin but can also appear on the abdomen, chest, groin and face.