North Palm Beach Edition

By Dana Luzon Coveney, Au.D. Board Certified Doctor of Audiology It’s important to clean your hearing devices every day, either before you put them in your ears every morning or when you removed them at night. Your Audiologist can instruct you on how best to clean your particular hearing aid model and will give you some small tools to brush …

Shockwave Therapy, also known as ESWT and EPAT Shockwave therapy is a relatively new treatment option in orthopedic and rehabilitation medicine. The first medical treatment developed from this research was lithotripsy. This allowed focused shockwaves to essentially dissolve kidney stones without surgical intervention. Today, over 98% of all kidney stones are treated with this technology. The use of shockwaves to …

By Alan J. Bauman, MD, ABHRS A lot of the blame for hair loss gets directed at the mother’s side of the family, but today, we know that hair loss genes can be inherited from either your mother’s or father’s side of the family, or a combination of the two. This means one of the best indicators you have is …

By Charles Etgen Certified Aging in place consultant Falls are the second leading cause of accidents in the home and account for 8.9 million trips to the emergency room every year. Fortunately, most are preventable. With a few simple changes around the house, you can reduce your risk greatly. According to the National Safety Council there are lots of preventative …

We humans, are creatures of habits. Habit get us into automatic ways of behavior and give us an illusion that we control the situation we are in, and a sense stability and security. Many people justify this tendency with a common sense view: “why change something that is working ok?” Before we recommend to be proactive with regards to the …

There are different ways that you can receive your Medicare coverage, or add onto that coverage. Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement Insurance are options that may sound familiar, but they’re quite different. They do have one main thing in common: they’re both offered by private insurance companies. There are two options commonly used to replace or supplement Original Medicare. One …

A good majority of the questions we answer pertain to how patients can replace their missing teeth.  There are a multitude of ways this can be accomplished.  The more important question that needs to be addressed first is “what do you want”?  In our experience, the response to this question can vary widely.  Some patients are fine with empty spaces …

Do you have knee pain? Does it keep you from certain activities? Do you take medication for knee pain? Do you have knee pain after exercise? Do you have difficulty going up and downstairs? Are you considering knee replacement surgery? Have you tried everything to get rid of knee pain without success? If you have answered yes to any of …

Michael Cohen, Director and Chief of Neurotechnology One of the most frequent questions I hear from people seeking help for anxiety or depression is: Can I ever get off my medication? Some have tried stopping medications and struggled badly. Often they’re resigned to taking drugs, even though those drugs may not work very well or may have unpleasant side effects. …

Dana Luzon Coveney, Au.D. Board Certified Doctor of Audiology According to the Better Hearing Institute, hearing loss is the third most common health problem in the country today, behind only arthritis and heart disease with more than 50 million Americans suffering from its effects. With May being recognized as the National Better Hearing Month and to help bring attention to …