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Receiv­ing a can­cer diag­no­sis can be a life-chang­ing event and you may be over­whelmed with what to do next. A sec­ond opin­ion can pro­vide you with a bet­ter under­stand­ing of your diag­no­sis and treat­ment options. A fresh look at your health from anoth­er physi­cian may pro­vide a dif­fer­ent man­age­ment plan or reaf­firm that the plan pro­vid­ed is appropriate.

DuPage Med­ical Group Phys­i­cal Ther­a­py is ded­i­cat­ed to address­ing the unique mus­cu­loskele­tal prob­lems of the pelvis region that can have a sig­nif­i­cant impact on a wom­an’s qual­i­ty of life. Pelvic pain, uri­nary or fecal incon­ti­nence, osteo­poro­sis and pain asso­ci­at­ed with preg­nan­cy are all con­di­tions that can be eval­u­at­ed and treated.

“I was scared, but I knew it had to be done.”

When you are going through can­cer treat­ment, and more specif­i­cal­ly chemother­a­py, your health care team is there to make sure you are com­fort­able. You will have the lux­u­ry of your own pri­vate reclin­ing chair along with med­ica­tions to help man­age side effects but bring­ing a favorite book, movie, blan­ket or friend can also pro­vide com­fort dur­ing your treat­ments. The num­ber of chemother­a­py ses­sions and dura­tion of each treat­ment will vary from patient to patient and even vis­it to vis­it, but it is help­ful if you bring some things to help pass the time and keep you com­fort­able while receiv­ing treatment.

As tem­per­a­tures drop and sea­sons change, it’s not uncom­mon to devel­op symp­toms such as nasal con­ges­tion, sneez­ing, itchy eyes, cough­ing, facial pres­sure and body aches. You may shrug off these symp­toms as noth­ing more than a head cold, but they may be caused by sea­son­al aller­gies or a sinus infec­tion which may require dif­fer­ent treat­ments to resolve. To help you deter­mine what’s behind your symp­toms, board-cer­ti­fied oto­laryn­gol­o­gist (ENT), Feodor Ung, MD, shares dif­fer­ences between colds, aller­gies and sinus infec­tions and how you can get symp­tom relief.

Exter­nal beam radi­a­tion ther­a­py, the most wide­ly used type of radi­a­tion ther­a­py, comes from a machine (lin­ear accel­er­a­tor) that aims radi­a­tion at the spe­cif­ic spot that is affect­ed with can­cer. The machine is large and may be noisy. It does not touch you, but rotates around you, send­ing radi­a­tion to your body from many directions.

Every­day life can seem like a bal­anc­ing act. The demands that come from our fam­i­ly and work often make putting our own health last on our pri­or­i­ty list.

Sleep is increas­ing­ly being rec­og­nized as an impor­tant health fac­tor, as sleep insuf­fi­cien­cy has been linked to motor vehi­cle crash­es, indus­tri­al acci­dents and oth­er work relat­ed errors. While some sleep issues are caused by chron­ic dis­eases such as hyper­ten­sion, dia­betes, depres­sion and obe­si­ty, oth­ers are caused by sleep dis­or­ders such as insom­nia and sleep apnea.

Select­ing the right health insur­ance plan is an impor­tant deci­sion and at times can feel like a daunt­ing task. Cov­er­age is con­tin­u­al­ly chang­ing and there are more con­fus­ing health insur­ance terms out there than ever before. DMG enables you to crack the health insur­ance code and pro­vide sim­ple steps to allow you to pick a plan based on the total costs of care.

Many peo­ple expe­ri­ence joint pain, espe­cial­ly in the hands. Joint pain becomes par­tic­u­lar­ly more preva­lent as we age. It is impor­tant to dis­tin­guish pain that is due to inflam­ma­tion in the joints, from pain that is due to degen­er­a­tion of bone and cartilage.