For those who struggle with joint pain or arthritis, the winter months can be especially harsh. The wintry weather and lack of sunlight can cause joints to become stiff, tender, sore, and achy. Joint pain may even cause the person to miss out on important events due to their discomfort or lack of mobility. Thankfully though there are ways to help alleviate joint pain during these cold, dark months. Here are 6 tips for managing your winter joint pain.
While wintertime may be full of joy and family fun for many people, there are also those who struggle with mental health issues during these winter months. They can’t seem to shrug off the feelings of sadness, loss of interest, and fatigue. Many times, they will brush these feelings off as nothing, but these are symptoms of seasonal depression, also known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD). There are treatment options out there to help the person struggling with seasonal depression. Knowing the symptoms of seasonal depression can help you recognize when you or a loved one needs help. In this blog, we will discuss the symptoms of seasonal depression and the treatment options available.
Orlando Landrum is a pain specialist serving South Bend, IN, and Elkhart, IN through his Cutting Edge Integrative Pain Centers. He also treats patients in all areas of Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan via telemedicine. As a new clinical advisor for Lin Health, Dr. Landrum sat down with the Lin Health team to discuss his alternatives and approaches for pain management. Let’s see what he had to say.
The world of medicine is constantly changing and evolving. Drugs that were once thought to only be useful for one thing have been found to be effective in treating other ailments. One of those drugs that have been found to treat more ailments than the one they were originally created for is ketamine. Originally used as an anesthetic on battlefields and operating rooms, ketamine is now showing promise as a treatment for major depression, neuropathic pain from cancer treatment, and more. Let’s take a deeper look at how ketamine infusion treatments can help those struggling with mental health issues or chronic pain. (more…)
Did you know that pain is the most common reason people seek the services of a healthcare professional? Whether its chronic and severe or acute and unexpected, pain severely impacts the ability for patients to function normally and lowers their overall quality of life. Severe pain can impede a patient’s ability to sleep, disrupt normal concentration, lower their appetite, restrict their mobility and cause them a great deal of anxiety. People with severe pain are also four times more likely to develop a mental illness and are susceptible to opioid dependence. (more…)