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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.

You’ve fol­lowed your physi­cian’s rec­om­men­da­tion and had your year­ly screen­ing mam­mo­gram per­formed, but then you get called back for addi­tion­al imag­ing. Nat­u­ral­ly your ini­tial reac­tion caus­es your blood pres­sure to spike … this is a test that detects breast can­cer after all. How­ev­er, only 10% of women called back for more tests are found to have breast can­cer accord­ing to the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety. Learn more about call-backs and why it might not nec­es­sar­i­ly be cancer.

Grow­ing old may be inevitable, how­ev­er, aging well is a choice. Thanks to med­ical advance­ments and increased access to care, the aver­age Amer­i­can is liv­ing to near­ly 80 years old. Tak­ing a proac­tive approach, and estab­lish­ing healthy habits now can help you to feel your best as you enter into your gold­en years. Our Inter­nal Med­i­cine physi­cians, as well as some of their active senior patients, share what you can do now to remain healthy, regard­less of your age.

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.

Your breasts are made up of glands, ducts and fibrous tis­sue, referred to col­lec­tive­ly as fibrog­lan­du­lar tis­sue, and fat­ty tis­sue, all wrapped in skin. Dur­ing a mam­mo­gram, your radi­ol­o­gist eval­u­ates the images to deter­mine the amount of dense ver­sus fat­ty tis­sue in your breasts.

Essen­tial­ly, there are two fac­tors that can cause issues to the spine as we age. The first is change in the struc­tur­al integri­ty of the bone itself, oth­er­wise known as bone min­er­al den­si­ty. The sec­ond is wear and tear, or degen­er­a­tion, of the var­i­ous motion pro­duc­ing struc­tures of the spine. While there are a vari­ety of spine issues one may expe­ri­ence, these two types of con­di­tions tend to make up the major­i­ty of med­ical issues that bring patients to their doctor.

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.

For many fam­i­lies, swim­ming is a favorite sum­mer pas­time and is a great way to cool off on a hot sum­mer day. From fatigue to hydra­tion, it is impor­tant to take pre­cau­tions to pre­vent injury or ill­ness when­ev­er you spend time in the water. Fam­i­ly Med­i­cine physi­cian, Dr. Eliz­a­beth Giese shares healthy swim­ming habits that will help keep you and your fam­i­ly safe while enjoy­ing your time in the water this summer.