If you’ve ever felt like yoga classes were too complicated or intimidating, these simple yoga poses and their health benefits may persuade you to give the practice a try. For thousands of years, people have embraced yoga, which in its simplest, modern form supports mental and physical health through focused breathing, stretching and moving your muscles into specific positions. Yoga …

What does it mean to be a wine mom? Self-proclaimed wine moms are plentiful online. They usually have at least a few things in common. They’re moms, they enjoy wine — or “mommy juice” as they sometimes call it — and they typically use self-deprecating humor in their social media feeds and blog posts, joking about drinking wine to cope …

When pain and limited movement prevents you from doing the things you love, joint replacement surgery can help you get your life back. If you’re thinking about joint replacement surgery, you can trust that today’s procedures are very different than years past. Today, patients don’t have to experience an extended hospital stay or a painful, slow recovery. Same-day joint replacement …

Sleep apnea affects nearly 18 million Americans. Many people with sleep apnea use a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine to help with continuous breathing while they sleep. Using a mask, a CPAP device keeps the upper airway passages open — preventing snoring and the dangerous repeated stop and start breathing that occurs with sleep apnea. “Some people find this …

Ever wondered why you get covered in mosquito bites every summer and some of your friends come away without one? Some humans really are more “appetizing” than others. To learn why mosquitoes bite some people more than others, check out the  New York Magazine  video below: Remember, even if you don’t get bit too frequently, it’s still a good idea …

Veronica and Sean Williams could not have imagined the events following a high heart rate alert from Veronica’s health watch. After mom-to-be and her partner notified their obstetrics care team via MyChart, it was recommended that they visit the Emergency Room (ER) for what they assumed would be a quick checkup. Little did they know, Sean would later be forced …

Maybe you’re recovering from surgery – or perhaps you’re finally ready to tackle that nagging injury that’s giving you pain. No matter what your reason for pursuing physical therapy, it can positively impact your daily life. There is a little-known but helpful alternative for many physical therapy patients: aquatic therapy. This specialized form of physical therapy is aquatic-based, meaning it …

Skin cancer is by far the most common type of cancer. Fortunately, it is also one of the easiest forms of cancer to detect if you know how to spot it. “Skin examinations can be lifesaving,” says Dr. Holly Gunn, medical director of the Dermatology, Aesthetic and Laser Center at St. Elizabeth Physicians in Florence. “You can even save yourself, …

An aneurysm is a bulge or widening in the wall of an artery – the so-called “highways” of the body’s vascular system that carry oxygen-rich blood from the heart to veins throughout the rest of the body. The body’s largest artery, the aorta, extends off the heart and runs through the chest down to the abdomen. When an aneurysm affects …

Roles of a Vascular Surgeon Vascular surgeons are specialists trained to treat conditions affecting the vascular system. This is the system of veins and arteries that carry blood throughout the body. It is also called the circulatory system. While the term “surgeon” is in their name, vascular surgeons do much more than surgery. “I think the term ‘vascular surgeon’ is …