Posts Tagged ‘Healthcare’

1. Rotator Cuff Surgery Explained

Mark Wichman, MD, orthopaedic surgeon with Aurora Advanced Healthcare in Wisconsin, explains the steps of a rotator cuff repair surgery caused by a bone spur. In this video, he begins by showing how he files the spur down to prepare for surgery.

Sports Injuries, Treatments and Medical Tourism

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Sports injuries are inevitable when indulging in physically demanding or contact sports. So much so that there is an altogether separate branch of medicine dedicated to the treatment of sports injuries and is called sports medicine. While minor wounds can heal in a few days or weeks, major ones may require surgical attention. However, just like any other surgery, surgical treatment of sports injuries may be expensive in the United States and other Western countries. But thanks to medical tourism, now these treatments can be obtained for cheap.

Injuries are an inevitable part of playing any sport, be it tennis, squash, football, baseball, hockey, cycling, golf or any other. Just like defeats don’t stop an athlete from moving on, physical injuries should not prevent you from playing sports because there almost always is a way to treat the injury and even major injuries can now be treated affordably through medical tourism.

TYPES OF INJURIES

Sports injuries may range from bruises and muscle strains, to fractures and head injuries. The most common sports injuries are:

TREATMENT OPTIONS

To accelerate the overall healing process it’s important that the initial phase (inflammatory phase) of the injury be minimized with the initial treatments. Treatment often begins with the RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation) regime to relieve pain, reduce swelling and speed healing. Other possible treatments include pain relievers, keeping the injured area from moving, rehabilitation and sometimes surgery.

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF INJURIES

Surgery is recommended when the more conservative methods of healing and physical therapy have failed to relieve pain and restore normal function. Based on the site and extent of injury and evaluation by your doctor, the surgical approach used could be traditional or laparoscopic (keyhole).

The most common surgeries to treat sports-related injuries are:

MEDICAL TOURISM AND SURGERY

If you are insured, your insurance may cover the cost of surgery. But if you have to pay for the surgery out of pocket it may cost you a fortune to have the surgery in the US. Therefore, Americans are increasingly shopping for surgical care in other countries – medical tourism – where the cost of surgery is much less while at the same time the quality offered is superior to what is available in the US.

When William Nilsson, an uninsured American, sustained knee injuries while playing football and tore his knee ligaments while playing golf, he resorted to an Indian hospital to get a total knee replacement surgery so he could return to his sports hobbies. Assisted by Healthbase, a medical tourism facilitator based in Boston, he managed to have his surgery for $6,500. The same surgery in the US would have cost him between $30,000 and $40,000.

Similarly, Daniel Biggs broke a tendon in his hand when playing golf. He had his tendon repair surgery coordinated by Healthbase in Panama for which he paid $5,500 – a price that was a mere 20% of what he was quoted in the United States.

These are just two examples of the hundreds and thousands of people traveling overseas to seek affordable health care for sports-related injuries as well as non-sports related conditions. Countries such as Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica and India are popular medical tourism destinations for such treatments.

Price differential is the leading factor for the popularity of medical tourism. Other benefits of using medical tourism are access to high quality and immediate care. You may find more information about affordable medical tourism on the Healthbase website.

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Total Fitness Starts on the Inside

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Like me, you’re probably tired of giving your hard-earned money to the health insurance companies for family healthcare. You’ve tried the 24 hour fitness clubs, Bally total fitness, fitness books, weight training fitness, treadmill fitness. In your fitness quest, you’ve bought fitness books, used fitness trainers, bought vitamins and fitness equipment. You’ve tried the gym for fitness, home fitness, you’ve done everything you can think of to achieve and maintain your total fitness.Well let me tell you that all the fitness books, health clubs and fitness trainers in the world won’t help you achieve total fitness if they’re not telling you about the importance of cellular health.I’ve discovered a product called MeridiumXN that works at the cellular level. MeridiumXN is marketed and manufactured by BioNovix, Inc., and promises to change the healthcare industry as we know it today.The results that are being reported are phenomenal to say the least. Since using the product I’ve been able to stop taking medicine for high blood pressure and my blood pressure has returned to normal. I’ve gained energy without the jitters that I used to get from energy drinks containing caffeine, and I’m more focused mentally. MeridiumXN has helped to balance my insulin and glucose levels, and I’ve stopped having the symptoms of low sugar between meals. I no longer have achy joints in the morning or exhaustion in the afternoons either.MeridiumXN will not be sold in health food stores, but can only be ordered through a BioNovix, Inc. distributor.I’ve added MeridiumXN to my family healthcare program because I believe that when you want total fitness, you must take the cells in your body into consideration also.I believe in total fitness for everyone. But in our fitness quest at the gym, while building our muscles and our stamina, we’ve managed to pollute our bodies during our workouts. This leads to metabolic stress. Metabolic stress causes actual damage to your cells and tissues, and leads to the breakdown of the metabolic functions that keep you healthy. Metabolic stress also produces more metabolic waste and toxins than your body can rid itself of. Over time, metabolic stress leads to serious health problems.This in turn makes us reliant upon the medical community to treat the symptoms and not the cause. Now, this drives up the cost of healthcare as we are subject to the ever-increasing premiums paid to our health insurance companies. It’s a vicious cycle to say the least. Now, whether you train at a gym for fitness, run for fitness, swim for fitness, no matter what you do in your quest for fitness, I think you’ll agree that if there’s more to be done you’re going to do it! After all, we’re looking for total fitness, and that includes every cell in our bodies.for more information on The Master Molecule you can visit my site: www.health-4-u.org
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