4 Tips for Starting Your Allied Health Career
An allied health career comprises one of the most diverse and fastest growing sectors in healthcare, offering wide-ranging career choices and job opportunities. Better yet, you can travel across the U.S. to work in refreshing new locations whenever you’d like — how many people get to say that? But, before this ends up sounding like a sales pitch (though I hope you’re at least a little jazzed up) you’ll need to think about your plan...
Treating Lower Back Pain, New Guidelines
Last April, I told you all about the guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released. These guidelines were created to help battle the opioid epidemic in the United Sates. Now, the American College of Physicians (ACP) is joining the fight against opioids by releasing new guidelines for treating lower back pain. The reason for releasing these guidelines is to...
Smell You Later: Aromatherapy for Anxiety
We live in a hectic world and sometimes, no matter what we do, it can be exceedingly difficult to relax. This can be especially true if you have high anxiety or a high-stress job. Finding time to practice common forms of relaxation like yoga, regular exercise, or napping can be tough. Aromatherapy is an easier way to work into relaxation time for yourself. It can be done while you’re eating, bathing, driving, and even when you...
Simplifying Medicare Coverage for Therapy
There is a common misconception when it comes to Medicare coverage for therapy that is adversely affecting seniors. Medicare claims processors believe that beneficiaries are eligible for physical therapy, occupational therapy, and other skilled care only if their health is improving. The end result is that seniors are often inaccurately denied Medicare coverage for therapy once their health stops improving. Four years after Medicare...
Pet Therapy for Patients with PTSD
Whether you live alone or have a family, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a tough condition to manage. Flashbacks, nightmares, mood swings and emotional detachment are just some of the issues PTSD patients live with every day. But can having pet therapy help deter or resolve these symptoms? Pet therapy has been an ever-growing force of treatment in the medical world to help patients suffering from many disorder. PTSD is...