New Leaf PT is excited to announce that starting April 6, 2015, Dr. Stephanie Leaf will be taking Monday appointments in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Â Hope to see you in either borough soon.
Stephanie will be available by appointment 9am to 5pm in her new private treatment room at Ellie Herman Pilates Studio.
509 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY Â 11231
Please email to schedule. Â stephanie@newleafpt.com
Tears to the anterior cruciate ligament sideline more athletes for longer periods of time than almost any other acute injury. Seasons, even careers, end when the A.C.L. tears.
Until recently, however, researchers couldn’t explain why torn A.C.L.’s were so difficult to treat. But studies recently completed at Boston Children’s Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital in Providence help to elucidate why the A.C.L., almost alone among ligaments, doesn’t heal itself. The findings also shed light on how that situation could potentially be changed, and blown knees more easily repaired.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/why-a-c-l-injuries-sideline-so-many-athletes/?ref=health
Most people don’t start thinking about the health of their bones until midlife or later, by which time it can be too late to do very much to protect against serious bone loss and resulting fractures.
Researchers who study bone health say concern about the strength of one’s bones should start in childhood and continue through adolescence, when the body builds most of the bone that must sustain it for the remaining years of life.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/to-ensure-bone-health-start-early/?emc=eta1&_r=0
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/back-pain-remains-overtreated/?_r=0
Well-established guidelines for the treatment of back pain require very conservative management — in most cases, no more than aspirin or acetaminophen (Tylenol) and physical therapy. Advanced imaging procedures, narcotics and referrals to other physicians are recommended only for the most refractory cases or those with serious other symptoms.
Do the virtues of ergonomic gardening tools exist? Â Read more to see what the author discovered.
This one’s for you Johanna!!!
Doctors perform thousands of unnecessary surgeries
http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2435009
EXPENSIVE AND UNSEEN
The costs of unnecessary surgeries touch consumers and taxpayers in ways most never imagine. Medicare, Medicaid and their private insurance counterparts spend billions of dollars on operations that shouldn’t be done, draining health care dollars that could go to far better use.
About 10% of all spinal fusions paid for by Medicare in 2011 were not necessary, either because there was no medical basis for them or because doctors did not follow standards of care by exploring non-surgical treatments, according to a USA TODAY analysis of data from Medicare program audits. That translates to $157 million in improper payments, just for spinal surgeries in a single year.