Tag Archives: family medicine

Big and Loud Help for Parkinson’s

By Jodi Knight, MS, CCC-SLP, Speech Therapist at Southwest Health Can you repeat that?  What did you say?  I can’t understand what you’re saying.  If you have Parkinson’s disease you have probably heard these phrases at least a hundred times.  Parkinson’s disease is a progressive, neurological disease. In simpler terms, this means that there are [read more]

New Massage Therapy Services at Southwest Health

Southwest Health welcomes licensed massage therapist Aurora Buschkamp, ATC, LAT, LMT, who is now providing a full range of sports, therapeutic, and relaxation massage treatments within the Orthopedic Institute at the organization’s hospital campus in Platteville. Also a certified athletic trainer, Aurora is trained in deep tissue, hot stone, Swedish, prenatal, sports massage, and post [read more]

Know No

By Jaime Collins, Director of Marketing and Communications It’s been buzzing through social media like an angry hornet. News about recent sexual assaults and their clueless, sexist, misogynistic, violent, and criminal perpetrators is everywhere. And it’s shocking. But our goal should not be to make Facebook explode or to shock people by detailing the damages [read more]

Is bladder leakage controlling your life?

by Kim Christopher Mackey, MD, OBGYN – Director of Women’s Health at The Women’s Center at Southwest Health It’s no surprise that as we age our muscles change and even weaken. This also includes the muscles in your vaginal wall that support your bladder. So it shouldn’t be a surprise either that over 40% of [read more]

Why won’t these headaches go away?

by Anna Svircev, DO, MPH of the Platteville Clinic at Southwest Health Sometimes a headache is just annoying, but other times it is downright debilitating. Have you ever had a really terrible one? A headache that is more severe than a traditional headache—one that causes sensitivity to light, sound, and/or smell—may be a migraine headache. [read more]

NATURE VS INDUCTION

By Meghan Raeder, RN, BSN, CLC – OB Supervisor and Certified Lactation Counselor at the Birthing Center at Southwest Health Life is full of so many unknowns. The most challenging of them comes with finding out you’re pregnant. “Will my baby be a boy or girl?” “Will they have my dimples?” But, the most common [read more]

THE SUN CAUSES MORE THAN JUST SKIN CANCER

by Christina Burr, PA-C in Dermatology at the Specialist Clinic at Southwest Health We all love summer. The warmth of the sun, pleasant weather, and outdoor activities make it a joy to be alive. Most of us have been reminded countless times to get out and enjoy life in the summer months, but we should all also be [read more]

BRINGING YOU INTO FOCUS

My son Jack is just a year old, but for my wife Andrea and me, he is the center of our universe. Our family’s health and happiness is everything. We laugh. We share. We play. And we love. Jack is also my pint-sized daily reminder that healthy people make healthy communities. Good health strengthens families. [read more]

Sniffing, Sneezing, Watery Eyes…Is It Allergies?

by Kimberly White-Faull, Rph & Katie Reynolds, PharmD of The Pharmacy at Southwest Health We have waited patiently, and the warmer weather is finally here!  With it arrive the green grass, beautiful trees & blooming flowers. For many it also means a stuffy or runny nose! So is it allergies, or is it a common [read more]

Who’ll Conduct the Rape Exam?

Special To The Washington Post – May 19, 2016 By Terri Slapak-Fugate, Director of Emergency/Urgent Care and the SANE Program Manager at Southwest Health As an emergency-room nurse in southwest Wisconsin, I sometimes encountered patients who had been sexually assaulted — and I was expected to help conduct an exam to collect and preserve DNA evidence, [read more]