ESCANABA — Our healthcare system is in crisis mode. Millions of Americans go through their daily lives without any form of healthcare insurance. Physicians are calling for strikes and pushing to unionize, proposals once considered heretical. Private, for-profit, privately held insurance ...

ESCANABA — Walking can be a traumatic act. This may seem a ridiculous statement but when examined from a perspective of an individual’s biomechanics, it is accurate. Although we don’t particularly think about it, walking is extremely complex. With every single step, various joints are ...

ESCANABA — The scourge to humanity that is heel pain. (Taking some dramatic license here.) But if you want drama, talk to someone in the throes of acute plantar fasciitis, the most common cause of heel or arch pain. Although we don’t have precise data, it is believed that this has been ...

ESCANABA — The attention directed at the opioid epidemic has been considerable of late, a consequence of the many deaths and hospitalizations resulting from its abuse. Too often, some injury or surgical procedure necessitates a prescription for pain, treated with one of the many prescription ...

Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) is a problem with the functioning of the nervous system and how the brain and body send and receive signals. Physical and/or psychological risk factors can cause functional symptoms which include a variety of physical, sensory and cognitive symptoms that ...

ESCANABA — The scourge to humanity that is heel pain. (Taking some dramatic license here.) But if you want drama, talk to someone in the throes of acute plantar fasciitis, the most common cause of heel or arch pain. Although we don’t have precise data, it is believed that this has been ...