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Foot Pain Each day, a great deal of pressure is placed on your feet. The average person walks between 7,500 to 10,000 steps per day, and the force placed on your feet with every step is two to three times your body weight. Your feet have more than 100 muscles, ligaments and tendons, 26 bones and 33 joints. That’s a …

While October is traditionally “PINK” month, in support of breast cancer awareness, Dr. Troy Shell thinks PINK every day.  As a fellowship trained breast surgeon, Dr. Shell is focused on breast health, and the treatment of breast disease exclusively. Originally from Virginia Beach, Dr. Shell graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School, where the program director for her surgical residency was …

By Evie Breedlove-Mangapora, ARNP & Deborah J. Post, ARNP “Cancer is just the tip of the iceberg revealing that there are so many other underlying things. You have to be sick to get cancer. Your body is already compromised. Your immune system is weak, you’re toxic, you’re stressed out, and that’s how cancer develops. Cancer isn’t just something that gets …

Join the Stroke Recovery Foundation for our inaugural Naples fundraising event on the luxurious Naples Princess. Enjoy a scenic boat ride, heavy hors d’oeuvres, dessert, wine, champagne, a raffle and more, all while benefiting a great cause. Allison and her husband recently moved to Naples from DC.  She is volunteering with the non-profit Stroke Recovery Foundation. While there are many …

By Dr. Marc Havig Physical rehabilitation is a relatively new area of veterinary medicine that has become essential in providing animals the best chance at a full recovery from surgical, arthritic and chronically debilitating diseases and conditions. Much like humans, animals require physical rehabilitation to recover muscle strength and joint flexibility following an injury or long-term disuse. Animal rehabilitation also …

By Steven A. Meckstroth, MD – Gastroenterology Specialists If you have difficulty swallowing food or liquids, you may have a medical condition called dysphagia. If it happens occasionally to you, it’s nothing to worry about, but if you find you regularly need more effort to swallow or if you feel pain when swallowing, seek medical attention from a gastroenterologist quickly. …

By Physicians Rehabilitation Your Knees Walking, standing and exercising put a lot of strain on our knees. For example, a person that weighs 150 lbs. walking up a flight of stairs will put approximately 500lbs of pressure on their knees with each step. Not only is the knee the most intricate of all the joints in the body, it is …

By Blake W. Kirkpatrick and Rebecca Vaccariello We Stand Together.  We stand together in honor of the many who cannot stand or risked at one point not being able to stand because they gave their lives or sacrificed healthy bodies, which has and continues to give us the freedom, comfort, safety and privilege to stand.  Anything we can do to …

By Toni Eatros, MS, Dipl Ac, AP Do you know what is in the syrup you are putting on your pancakes?  Is there any maple in the pancake syrup you are using in the morning?  Is there a difference between real maple syrup and the syrup you are putting on your pancakes? What is real maple syrup? Real maple syrup …

By Pastor Timothy Neptune Life can feel overwhelming at times. I think we’ve all been to the place where we’ve wondered just how much more we can take. Here’s what I’ve learned over the years—you can handle a lot more than you ever realized if you just hang on and refuse to quit. Thomas Edison once said, “Many of life’s …