Medicine The Way it Should Be!!!

We have had a lot of patients Ask us what they can do for their plantar fasciitis. Managing this kind of pain is hard especially if you work and have to be on your feet. My son loves to run but his left foot gives him so much pain. We would golf ball and have him roll his foot over it. then wrap a ice pack on the bottom of his foot for about 15 to 20 mins. At night he would put a sock splint on. All of this sometimes didn't work but it did help.  After talking to Dr. Sperbeck she told me to get him orthotic inserts and do stretches. They have a lot of different stretches on youtube. So we have tried a lot of the stretches and he is doing better. When it track or cross country time we will tape up his foot be for he runs. All of this has made a big difference in his life. 

Our office is now offering red light therapy to everyone. We have came up with packages that can range from $7 to $90 depending on what will work for you. I use it everyday and my skin feels so much better. It helps with a lot. The main reason we started it was because it help patients with pain, inflammation and wrinkles. Who don't want to feel and look younger?   Red light therapy is a treatment that helps our skin, muscle tissue, and other parts of your body heal. It expose you to low levels of red and near-infrared light. infrared light is a type of energy your eyes can't see, but your body can feel. Red light is similar, but you can see it.

" Christmas lights — lights that are hung up  on Christmas trees inside, and outside on buildings, trees, and other things — are celebrated today. They were invented in the early 1880s by Edward H. Johnson, an associate of Thomas Edison. On Dec. 22, 1882, he lit his Christmas tree with 80 incandescent light bulbs, at his home in New York City. Prior to this time, candles were the only way to illuminate trees, and it still took many years before electric lights became the main way trees were lit, and before outside Christmas lights became popular. Lights originally were put on trees by Christians, and they symbolized Christ as being the light of the world" On December 1st every year is a national day. I was reading on the internet (what's above). I never know that people would put candles in their christmas tree. To me that's a little scary. I wonder how many house were lost in that time. It still nice to learn something new. I love christmas lights the...

 Snake plant is one of the most popular and hardy of houseplants. With sword-like leaves it can grow anywhere from six inches to eight feet tall. Snake plants can come in different colors, many have green-banded leaves with yellow border. These plants are easy to grow. You can put them in any part of your home and they will live, with very bright light or in a dark corner. Snake plants will grow slowly in indoor light , but when its exposure to light it will boost growth. With that being said if you want a smaller plant keep it farther away from the sun light.  Snake plant is an ideal choice for beginners that don't have a green thumb. Its difficult to kill. The plant prefers indirect, steady light. They can adapt to full sun. The soil needs to be loose, sandier soil is best. For watering let the soil dry between watering. During the winter, reduce watering to monthly. Temperature should be at 70 to 90 degrees its ok if it drops low just make sure it never gets below 50 degree...

 Happy thanksgiving bloggers. We are here to wish everyone a  safe and healthy holiday weekend. Have fun with your loved ones. We should all spent as much time as we can with our loved ones. We never know how much time we will have with them. Tomorrow is never for sure all we have is today.  Im thankful for my family, job, and what i do have now. My health is not the best every day, with that being said I'm still grateful for being here everyday. My kids are my life.  What are you thankful for?  

 Winter is hard on the skin. Soothe your dry, itchy skin with DIY oatmeal bath. An oatmeal bath is simple. It hydrates dry skin and offers relief from eczema. We recommend an oatmeal bath for skin condition. You can make your own at home for less than a dollar. All you need is quick or instant oats, just make sure they are unflavored. For a full bath all you need is 1 cup full of oatmeal. blend up the oats into powder. Then pour the oatmeal into a tub of running warm water and stir the water with your hands several times to ensure even distribution. Soak in the tube for 15 to 20 minutes. Remember this bath is not to clean your skin but to moisturize and soothe the skin, so avoid using soaps.  Skin conditions soothed by oatmeal baths: Acne, rash, dry skin, eczema, insect bites, poison ivy, oak, sumac, shingles, sunburn, and windburn.  I understand some people don't have a bath tube. I don't have a bath tube, I put the oats in a old sock and rub that all over my skin with w...

       With healthcare inflammation cost now a days I ask myself why do we bow down and say yes sir. That not what we americans fought for. We stand up and speak up. Nowadays everyone is to scared to do that, Why? Everyone is scared of the  government but I ask again why? This is the land of the free. We can chose not to use there high cost health insurance and see a DPC provider. You don't have to have the best of the best health insurance you can get the high deductible plan, low monthly out of pocket plan. It will save you money. I believe that DPC providers can keep you healthy and out of the hospital. If something big does happen then you will have to pay that big deductible but that's a big IF. Thats where they try to scare you in to buying the big monthly out of pocket because IF you are hospitalised you won't have a big bill. Really does that make any sense. I have never been in the hospital longer than a day i'm hitting 40,...

    I still think this meme is great. We will see patients everyday if they need it. For a low monthly amount. I think it's crazy for an office to never have any appointments available for sick visits or medication refills. Ether you wait a month to get in or they tell you to go to the hospital, which cost an arm and a leg every time you walk in the door at the hospital. You should be able to see or call your own doctor when you need them. That's how we work at West Branch DPC. Any time or day, morning or night, even holidays, and weekends. That is why the office is only open six hours a day so if we have to come in and help the patients. Let us know if you need a late appointment or weekend appointment we are here to help.  

Simple Math: When you take the health insurance out, it becomes so clear that it's just you and your doctor. That's the nice thing about DPC, we are and always will be balanced. We will listen to you, hear you, and take care of you. We will not do what the health insurance says. It's you and your doctor that have the first and last opinion. That’s the way it was before and that's how we want it to be again. We might just be simple practice but simple and easy is what everyone needs.  Common core Math: The insurance companies want you to be confused, So then you do what they want you to do. Why if a Doctor with a medical degree says this treatment will help, the insurance said no try this because it is cheaper. Cheaper isn't better, it will not work the same way.  They never went to medical school to understand medications or treatments.  When looking for health insurance for 2023 please think carefully. Also look into a DPC doctor. If you talk to most of them they g...