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Palm Coast Physical Therapy Offers Telehealth, Virtual Office Visits: What You Need to Know

Palm Coast Physical Therapy Offers Telehealth

Telehealth, virtual office visits have become the new normal in patient care. Popular for years in urgent care due to the convenience for patients, it’s now a great way to receive virtual physical therapy treatment. Although it is always best to be seen and treated by your physical therapist, our current situation with Coronavirus is causing us to make adjustments …

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CMS Issues Guidelines for Reopening Facilities for Non-COVID-19 Care

CMS Issues Guidelines for Reopening Facilities

Courtesy of Dr. Taba, Personalized Retina Care of Naples The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued recommendations on April 19, 2020 for the first phase of reopening physician offices and ambulatory surgery centers that provide nonemergent, non-COVID-19 health care. An example of nonemergent non-COVID-19 healthcare are elective procedures such as cataract extraction surgery. Retinal specialists offices remained open …

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Managing Diabetes Amidst the Coronavirus

By Denise A. Pancyrz – Diabetes Reversal & Holistic Lifestyle Coach, Speaker, Author Coronavirus is here with reports that it may return this Fall. If you or a loved one has diabetes and/or heart disease, extra steps should be taken to remain healthy. Be safe, don’t panic, be cautious, be informed. Thousands of people die from the influenza annually. And, …

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A Letter to my Tribe: Planning for the Invisible Enemy

A Letter to my Tribe

Provided by Nina Azwoir I can feel my fingers pitter patter away on an enormous keyboard, yet my gaze often pivots to a view outside my unwelcome sliding glass doors. I find myself looking out to a stunning backyard. A pool with water like Caribbean turquoise seas, surrounded by Mango trees ripe with fruit. If it were any other year, …

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The Tale of the Ugly Bufo Toad is More of a Nightmare for Pet Owners

Ugly Bufo Toad

Bufo toads, also known as cane toads, were introduced to Florida back in the 1930s from Central and South America to protect our sugar cane and other crops. Bufo toads have a lethal secretion that can kill pests within minutes. That’s why they were brought here to protect farmers and plantation owners’ crops. Over the years, these pesky bug-eyed frogs …

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The Role of COVID-19 Antibody Testing

The Role of COVID-19 Antibody Testing

Viruses like the novel coronavirus need a host to proliferate and mutate. Once they invade the body, they need the body to continue to live, or the virus dies if it does not move into another host. One way that we as hosts to viruses can either ward it off or fight it aggressively is through a bolstered immune system …

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SWFL’S MILLENNIUM PHYSICIAN GROUP TO HIT 30,000 TELEHEALTH VISITS ON PROPRIETARY VIRTUAL HOUSE CALL NETWORK IT BUILD FROM THE CLOUD DOWN

SWFL’S MILLENNIUM PHYSICIAN GROUP TO HIT 30,000 TELEHEALTH VISITS ON PROPRIETARY VIRTUAL HOUSE CALL NETWORK IT BUILD FROM THE CLOUD DOWN

Florida’s largest independent medical group Millennium Physician Group to hit 30,000 telehealth visits today five weeks after launching its MPG Connect platform to dampen the spread of COVID-19. What’s exceptional about Millennium’s Telehealth Service MPG Connect is that it connects Millennium’s 450,000 patients with their physicians, which is a departure from most telehealth services that use third-party healthcare providers who …

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Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Facts & Myths

Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Facts & Myths

By Andrea Bickerton, M.D. Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) has been around since the 1930’s and has been a topic of much research and discussion since that time. As the debate continues over the risks vs benefits of hormone replacement, Dr. Andrea Bickerton, MD of Refined Image discusses some of the myths and misconceptions of BHRT below. Myth: BHRT is …

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Pain in Your Feet and Toes: Don’t Let the Symptoms Escalate

Pain in Your Feet and Toes: Don’t Let the Symptoms Escalate

Whether young or old, most people lucky enough to live in Florida appreciate the great outdoors. The weather and sunshine allow Floridians and visitors alike time well-spent kayaking, golfing, playing tennis, jogging, and participating in competitive sports for the majority of the year. While exercising outdoors is a healthy luxury, ballistic movements through exercise and sports- related activities can cause a …

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Anxiety & Your Brain

By Natalie Klas MS/LMFT Why is it that some people see the light, while others are constantly reminded of the darkness? The intriguing anatomy and process of our brains help us to better understand the production of fear, anxiety, worry and the decision to take flight or to fight. In Paradise Lost, John Milton may have summed up this scenario …

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