2021

What You Need to Know About Botox Injections

Do you wish to enhance your looks by reducing facial wrinkles? Perhaps you want to treat a lazy eye, overactive bladder, or excessive sweating? If your answers to any of these questions are affirmative, you may benefit from Botox injections. This post highlights the uses and procedures of Botox injections. What Are Botox Injections? Botox injections aim to block particular chemical signals from nerves, the majority of which cause muscle contractions.

You Can Get Help With Your Chronic Pain

Chronic pain includes any type of pain in any area of the body that is expected to last for a long period of time. In many cases, chronic pain is an ongoing situation that someone needs to deal with for the unforeseeable future. Chronic pain is not the pain that stems from an injury that is in the process of healing and will go away once the injury is healed. Learn more about this type of pain, as well as some ways a pain management provider can help you when you read the information below: 

Postoperative Nursing Interventions for General Surgery Patients

Before you are transferred back into your hospital room following your general surgery, you will need to spend some time in the post-anesthesia care unit. Also called the PACU and the recovery room, it is there where the perioperative nurses will monitor your condition until you are stable enough to return to your room. Depending upon your postoperative medical condition, you will either return to your hospital room on the general medical-surgical floor, or you will be transferred to the intensive care unit if you require close monitoring or if you require complex treatments such as mechanical ventilation.

Simple Guide To Understanding Long Term Medicaid Services

Not all elderly people can stay in their homes because of an illness that prevents them from caring for their daily needs. When it's time to move to a facility providing 24-hour care, paying for it is often an issue. Whether a person is disabled or elderly, there are several options for Medicaid services. Many people 65 and older have Medicaid services through their state, understanding long-term Medicaid services can help in paying for care in health care facilities.

Sports Medicine Doctors Do More Than Treat Acute Injuries

Obviously, you would see a sports medicine doctor if you sprained your ankle or tore your ACL. They primarily help with diagnosing and treating these acute sports injuries. But that's definitely not all that sports medicine doctors do. Here are some other situations in which you should seek out a sports medicine doctor. Chronic and Overuse Injuries  Some sports tend to cause overuse injuries, rather than acute injuries. These are injuries that develop over time, due to overuse of a certain muscle, ligament, joint, or other tissue.