Author: St. Elizabeth Healthcare

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 improves balance, flexibility and strength and may lower stress levels and blood pressure, promote sleep, and provide relief for back, neck and head pain. Perhaps the best aspect of this exercise is bare feet are encouraged, and it requires little…

Have you ever been so mortified by a medical concern you felt too uncomfortable to discuss it with your healthcare provider? You’re not alone. It’s an all-too-common occurrence, but when it comes to provider visits, you can prioritize your health by being an open book. How Do I See a Provider About Something Embarrassing? An itchy backside, urinary incontinence or hemorrhoids, excessive or painful gas, sexual health or behavioral health issues — these are just some of the conditions that you may find hard to discuss with anyone, including your provider. Feeling anxious and vulnerable is a normal reaction to having a medical concern, especially one of a sensitive…

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 with parenting pressures. What is wine mom culture? Wine mom culture is the online community that has materialized around these women. Wine moms bond by following one another’s social feeds and promoting memes featuring slogans and sayings about drinking wine…

Intracept Procedure: Long-Lasting Relief for Lower Back Pain Lower back pain affects more than 31 million Americans each year – and it’s the number one reason why people see their doctor. Most back pain typically goes away with over-the-counter medications, stretching exercises and other at-home remedies. However, if you experience back pain lasting more than six months, an MRI can determine if you have any chronic inflammatory changes in the bone. When this occurs, the source of the pain is typically in the difficult-to-treat nerve endings of the bone. Now, St. Elizabeth Healthcare offers a new, cutting-edge procedure for durable…

Hear Meghan Markovich, MD, Primary Care Physician/Pediatrician at St. Elizabeth Physicians, and Suzi Francis, PharmD, Supervisor of Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacy with St. Elizabeth Healthcare, discuss the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19 vaccine appointments are available at St. Elizabeth Physicians (SEP) primary care locations in Kentucky and Indiana, including:- Moderna (18 years and older)- Pfizer (12 years and older)- Pfizer pediatric vaccine (5 to 11 years old) – available at SEP primary care practices, pediatric or family medicine offices Vaccine boosters are now available for all adults 18 years of age or older. Third dose vaccines, intended for immunocompromised…

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Jessica Wise, a nurse at the St. Elizabeth NICU, experienced her own baby being a patient in the NICU. She’s right here for you, because she’s also been there. Learn more at stelizabeth.com/baby

OrthoCincy surgeon who performed first robotic knee replacement in Ohio successfully completes the 2000th replacement. Suresh Nayak, MD, is passionate about helping his patients get back to enjoying life without muscle, joint, tendon or bone pain. He has been practicing orthopaedic surgery — specializing in joint replacement — in the Cincinnati area for more than 25 years. With the merging of Wellington Orthopaedics and OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine earlier this year, Dr. Nayak officially began practicing at St. Elizabeth Healthcare as a part of the Orthopaedic Institute at St. Elizabeth. Recognized as a Top Doctor in Cincinnati for over 15 years, Dr. Nayak…

It started simple enough: a bothersome little knot on the side of Ronald Carson’s neck. Ron’s concern grew when the knot was still in the same spot near his throat after two months. He decided to have it checked out by his doctor, just to be sure. Ron’s doctor felt the lump and immediately scheduled him for a computerized tomography (CT) scan the next day. Ron wasn’t expecting a call until Monday, but first thing Sunday morning, his doctor called with the news: it was cancer. “You hear the word cancer and you’re just immediately scared,” says Ron. “My doctor…

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 common method of treating sleep apnea uncomfortable and cumbersome,” says Thomas Hamilton, MD of ENT& Allergy Specialists who perform surgery at St. Elizabeth Healthcare. “Obstructive sleep apnea is one of the most prevalent sleep disorders we treat,” says Dr. Hamilton.…