Lifestyle & Wellness

This win­ter, focus on safe­ty to pre­vent injuries by pay­ing atten­tion to these 4 dif­fer­ent parts of your body.

Many hol­i­day activ­i­ties can cause back pain or dis­com­fort. This win­ter, be aware of these poten­tial back pain trig­gers so you can avoid back discomfort.

As you pre­pare to select the right health insur­ance plan for you, there are a few things you should know before mak­ing that big decision.

While warmer tem­per­a­tures can be relax­ing, they can also be dead­ly. Here’s how heat affects your heart — and some sun safe­ty tips to prac­tice this summer. 

Mos­qui­to bites are itchy and annoy­ing. Here’s how to avoid them, and when it may be time to vis­it one of our Imme­di­ate Care locations.

Peo­ple love rid­ing bikes because it’s a great way to get exer­cise; it has low-impact on your joints as you rotate your legs thou­sands of times dur­ing a typ­i­cal ride. But small issues with your bik­ing tech­nique can cause big prob­lems over time, includ­ing knee pain, the most com­mon low­er body injury in the sport.

The endocrine sys­tem secretes 50 dif­fer­ent hor­mones through­out your body and each plays a vital role in main­tain­ing home­osta­sis, or sta­ble body func­tions. The fol­low­ing are five hor­mones and the most com­mon imbal­ances in both men and women.

Expo­sure to var­i­ous sounds can affect your hear­ing and cause dam­age, includ­ing tem­po­rary or per­ma­nent hear­ing loss, depend­ing on how loud the noise is and the length of time you are exposed to it. Noise-relat­ed hear­ing loss is com­mon, affect­ing near­ly 15 per­cent of adults in the Unit­ed States (U.S.).

Aller­gist, Dr. Andrey Leonov, explains the effect your aller­gies have on your sleep and ener­gy lev­el, and what you can do to min­i­mize symp­toms, includ­ing brain fog.

In recent years, health care has been focused on pre­ven­tive med­i­cine. Pre­ven­tive med­i­cine empha­sizes the pro­mo­tion of a healthy lifestyle and proac­tive­ly mon­i­tor­ing for var­i­ous health con­di­tions includ­ing hyper­ten­sion, dia­betes or can­cers. To sup­port these efforts, most com­mer­cial insur­ance providers now cov­er the cost of an annu­al well­ness exam pro­vid­ed by an in-net­work provider*. Pre­ven­tive med­ical care is impor­tant because it pro­vides you and your care team with an oppor­tu­ni­ty to assess your cur­rent health, which can be use­ful for antic­i­pat­ing future health care needs.