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No More Suffering in Silence

June 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Donna Ison bladder, board-, bowel, bowel movement, Bulkamid®, Centre college 's athletic department, certified urogynecologist, clinicals, course of evaluation, delivery, disorder, dysfunction, empathy, empowerment, FACOG, FDA-approved, field of urogynecology, floor, floor disorder, gel, general GYN service, GYN, GYN rotation, GYN service, gynecological issue, incontinence, Jamie Rhodes, large prolapse, lesser-known specialty, Louisville, Louisville school, Marjorie Pilkinton, mom, Northwell, Northwell health, Norton, Norton medical group, Norton woman, Norton woman 's Care, OB/ GYN, pelvic floor, pelvic floor disorder, photo, physical therapy, Pilkinton, Pilkinton state, prolapse, quality of life, referral, scope of Urogynecology, sexual dysfunction, side of GYN, silence, Sinai west, sphincter, surgery, therapy, university of Louisville school of medicine, UofL, urethra, urethral bulk injection, urinary incontinence, urogynecologist, urogynecology, vagina, wall of the urethra, water-based, water-based gel, woman suffer incontinence, work study program

LOUISVILLE The field of urogynecology is one of the lesser-known specialties—among both medical professionals and the general public—which means many

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Adjusting Sails in Stormy Seas for Better Mental Health

June 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Tim Corkran 40s–60s, adjust sail, behavioral health service, charity child 's peace, deliberate view, effective way, emotional wellness, good chance, good idea, holistic approach, integration, integration of medication, interdisciplinary way, interplay of structure, isolation, kid, knowledge of the biology of mental illness, Kosair, Kosair charity child, Kosair charity child 's peace center, Louisville Stephen Taylor, medical director, medication, mental illness, Multi-Disciplinary, multi-disciplinary perspective, musician 's sensibility, nation 's large private provider, nation 's large private provider of youth inpatient, need of post-pandemic youth, pandemic, peace center, peace center serve child, peace hospital, peace hospital 's kosair, peace hospital 's population, post-pandemic, post-pandemic era, post-pandemic youth, private music teacher, psychoanalytic train, psychoanalytic work, responsive combination, responsive combination of tool, Stephen Taylor, Taylor, Taylor 's attentiveness, Taylor 's patient range, therapy, therapy serve adolescent, understand of the complexity of lived experience, UofL, UofL health, young patient, young people, youth inpatient

LOUISVILLE Stephen Taylor, MD, medical director at UofL Health – Peace Hospital, has a holistic approach to mental and emotional

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Special Section 

When Your Mission Is Healthy Hearts, Failure Is Not an Option

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 Menisa Marshall advanced heart failure center, advanced heart failure program, advanced heart therapy program, advanced therapy, assist device, cardiologist, cardiology, cath lab procedure, clinic, collaboration drive, collaborative teamwork, coordinator, director of the program 's heart, effectiveness of advanced therapy, emerge information, excite prospect, expert work, failure, failure clinic, familial hyper-cholesterolemia, good quality life, hallmark of UofL health, healthy heart, heart disease, heart failure, heart failure center, heart failure hospitalization, heart failure program, heart pump, heart therapy program, human transplant, hyper-cholesterolemia, importance of prompt referral, innovative heart pump, invasive cath lab procedure, lifestyle, lifestyle choice, lot of option, Louisville NASA, Louisville NASA control director, max-imize, medicine, minimal need, mission of UofL health, modified pig heart, Moore, option, pacemaker-like, pacemaker-like device, pharmacist, pig heart, positive outlook, power of a positive outlook, prevention peg heart disease, program 's heart, program 's transplant, prompt referral, pump, quality life, recent news of a human transplant, referral, related department work, Stephanie Moore, therapy, transplant, transplant coordinator, transplant work team, treatment of valve disease, typical transplant work team, UofL, UofL health, Utah, valve disease, ventricular assist device

LOUISVILLE NASA control director Gene Kranz is often credited for saying, “Failure is not an option.” He claims those exact

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Special Section 

Generations of Care

December 1, 2021February 15, 2022 Debra Green affiliation, anesthesiologist, Ballard Wright, ben sloop, bluegrass, care physician, center 's desire, center 's physician, CEO image002, CEO image002 photo, chi, chi saint, chronic pain, clinic, corner of regency road, daughter of Dr. Ballard Wright, Dr. Ballard Wright, expanded care, expert physician, family medicine doctor, generation of Care, heather, Heather Wright, help patient cope, image001 photo, Inc. stone road surgery center, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph health 's network of hospital, Karim Rasheed, Lauren Larson, legacy pain treatment center, legacy pain treatment center of the bluegrass, Lexington, medical director of the pain treatment center of the bluegrass, medicine, Multi-Specialty, new affiliation, new era of collaboration, Olivia Kelley, outpatient, outstand medical care, pain, pain issue, pain management, pain treatment center, pain treatment center of the bluegrass, palliative care physician, Pasadena, Pasadena drive, patient 's pain, photo, physician, practice pain medicine, provider, refer provider, regency, regency road, rehab doctor, sloop, specialist, surgery, therapist, therapy

LEXINGTON For some people, acute or chronic pain is a fact of life, but expert physicians and specialists can help

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Special Section 

“It’s Just Scar Tissue, No Big Deal” Wrong!

August 1, 2021September 9, 2021 Tim Corkran achy jointed weekend warrior, active senior, big deal, bursitis, central Kentucky healthcare ecosystem, comfortable movement, connective tissue, Danesh Mazloomdoost, Dr. Danesh, effect of relieve constriction, elbow, fluid vibration, focused physical therapy, four-to-six, four-to-six week, Gil Dunn, Gil Dunn prior, high-pressure, hip, image001 photo, inter-fiber, inter-fiber scare, invasive procedure, joint pain, Kentucky healthcare ecosystem, length of the tendon, Mazloomdoost, micro-scar, micro-scar tissue, non-arthritic, outpatient, outpatient procedure, pain, patient year, patient year of comfortable movement, percutaneous tenotomy, physical therapist, physical therapy, procedure, reduce tendinitis, regenerative medicine specialist, regenerative treatment, relieve constriction, scar, scar tissue, shoulder, single-treatment, small area of tendon fiber, source of persistent pain, sufficient relief, surgery center, tendon, tendon debridement, tendon fiber, Tenjet, tenotomy, therapist, therapy, tissue, traumatized tendon, treatable area, treatable area of a tendon, ultrasound, use of percutaneous tenotomy, weekend warrior, Wellward, Wellward 's service, Wellward regenerative medicine

LEXINGTON The achy jointed weekend warriors and active seniors of our modern culture often need more than physical therapists and

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OP/ED 

Intersexuality and the Care of the Transgender Child

June 1, 2021September 9, 2021 Cameron S. Schaeffer, MD, FACS, FAAP abdominal testis, activist, adolescent gender-identity, androgen, androgenized, approach superior, arena of adolescent gender-identity, board-certified urologist, body-changing, body-changing steroid, CAH patient, Cameron Schaeffer, care of the Transgender child, chaos reign, child 's inchoate transgenderism, Cincinnati child, Cincinnati child 's hospital, cleft scrotum, clinic, clinic child, clinic phenomenon, clinic phenomenon of physician, clinician, cloacal, cloacal exstrophy, comprehensive female, counseled love, diminutive phallus, dysfunctional androgen receptor, elevated level of fetal androgen, emerge marketplace, emotional subject, exam table, exstrophy, FAAP, female CAH patient, fetal androgen, gender, gender clinic, gender-identity, genitalia, girl 's pantie, image001 Cameron Schaeffer, important sex organ, Intersex patient, judgment, judgment of a single surgeon, judgment of a team of specialist, labium majorae, laundry day, light-hearted remark, majorae, male genital reconstruction, MD-UPDATE, medical good practice, normal anatomy, normal enzyme, Nuremburg trial, path of body-changing steroid, patience, pediatric gender clinic, pediatric urologist, phallus, physician, plastic surgeon urge patience, potential fertility of a patient, pressure of activist, prudence, scrotum, single surgeon, sister 's clothes, solid foundation of data, surgeon, surgeon urge patience, surgery, testosterone receptor, therapy, tomboy, torrent of angst, transgender, Transgender health clinic, Transgender individual, transgenderism, triple board-certified urologist, urologist, virilize, well-adjusted woman, well-intentioned compassion, wokeness, XY, XY cloacal exstrophy patient, XY patient

Editor’s Introduction: Culture, medical best practices, and legislation are colliding in the arena of adolescent gender-identity and sexuality. MD-Update asked

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Mental Wellness 

How to Get to a Breakthrough without Having a Breakdown

June 1, 2021September 9, 2021 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC afloat hold pattern, authentic human connection, autopilot mode, bad boyfriend, boyfriend, brain, brain 's need, breakdown, brief description of rain, client, comfort balm, comfort of the familiar fake, compassion, conflict aspect, conflict aspect of complex situation, counsel session, critic attack, crowd of stranger, curiosity, disorient sense, disorient sense of discomfort, emotional risk-taking, familiar fake, field of awareness, friendly curiosity, good type of guy, human programme, inner adrenaline junkie, inner critic attack, less-functional, less-functional behavior pattern, narcissistic boyfriend, neuroscientist, present moment, present-moment reward, present-moment reward of therapy, rain, reward, reward option, sensation, session, survival-inspired, therapist, therapy, too-bad-to-keep-it, too-good-to-rock-the-boat, unsettle experience, wave of sensation, window of tolerance, wonder change, young adult life

“Why do you keep going back if it’s making you feel worse?” my boyfriend asked. We were talking about one

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Complementary Care 

Demand for Medical Nutrition Therapy Increases During COVID-19

April 1, 2021June 16, 2021 Mary Branham academy of nutrition, appointment, average of four hours more, chi, chi saint, COVID-19, diabetes, dietitian, eastern Kentucky community, follow-up appointment, four hours more, individual stress, individualized nutrition treatment plan, initial appointment, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph Heath, Karen Klefot, Klefot, lifestyle, lifestyle assessment, medical nutrition therapy, medical nutrition therapy increase, nutrition, nutrition plan, nutrition therapy, nutrition therapy process, nutrition treatment plan, OnePoll, OnePoll survey, outpatient, outpatient diabetes educator, pandemic, rd, recent OnePoll survey, referral, registered dietitian, specialized supplement, therapy, use of specialized supplement, wide variety of patient

LEXINGTON While it’s been over a year since COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic, taking a toll on countries worldwide,

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Mental Wellness 

How to Ask for Help If You’re a Perfectionist

February 1, 2021April 14, 2021 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC ability of therapy, actionable change, airline captain, B., big predictor, book coach, book therapist, book-writing, book-writing phobia, bout of profound confusion, Brett Steenbarger, brief psychotherapy, client, client-counselor, client-counselor relationship, confrontational, counsel, divorce, Dr. John Gottman, end of discussion, entrepreneurial mode, environment of hope, ever-expanding morass, exhilarate high, exhilarate high of productivity, expert Dr. John Gottman, exploration of new pattern, face-saving way, favorite face-saving way, focused change effort, good therapist, hand-on-the-doorknob, hand-on-the-doorknob comment, increased empathy, increased expertise, intensive one-on-one therapy, new pattern, old pattern of thought, one-and-done marriage therapy session, one-on-one therapy, ongoing reinforcement, perfectionist, perfectionist tendency, perfectionistic professional, period of absolute clarity, personal counsel experience, personal turn point, plenty personal, powerful emotional experience, pre-marital, pre-marital counsel, professional development, profound confusion, rehearsal of the new pattern, relationship go, science of brief psychotherapy, starter marriage, strength of the client-counselor relationship, stuckness, therapeutic alliance, therapist, therapist 's help, therapy, tortured-reasoning, tricky part, troublesome period, true perfectionist, unhappy couple, use of a supportive relationship, well-meaning adage

I’m writing a book. There, I’ve said it. So almost five years into the process, I guess it’s actually going

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Public Health 

Obesity Prevention and Weight Loss a Community Effort

February 1, 2021April 14, 2021 Brian Boisseau, CHFS, DPH, DPQI activity opportunity, bariatric, barrier, behavior therapy portion of weight loss, CHFS, determinant, diabetes, DPQI, evidence-based, evidence-based program, first-line strategy, Frankfort, FRANKFORT excess weight, harsh picture, harsh picture of the consequence of obesity, image001 Brian Boisseau, impact of obesity, individual medical cost burden, initial weight loss, Kentucky, Kentucky department, Kentucky physical activity, lifestyle, lifestyle change program, line evidence-based weight loss strategy, long-term weight loss success, national diabetes prevention program, NHLBI, NHLBI obesity education initiative, nutrition, nutrition program, nutritious food, obesity, obesity prevention, overall population health, person 's risk of develop type 2 diabetes, person of normal weight, physical activity, physical activity opportunity, population health, public health, public health initiative, quality-of-life outcome, SDOH, social determinant, social determinant of health, strategy, success of initial weight loss, surgery, therapy, type 2, type 2 diabetes, weight loss success, weight loss surgery, weight-loss, wide range of health

FRANKFORT Excess weight and obesity are serious threats to the health and wellbeing of many people. In Kentucky, over 36%

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