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As someone with diabetes, Theresa Falcicchio knew to track her blood sugar, take her medication, and check her feet for sores. However, it didn’t take long for a seemingly minor blister to snowball into a serious condition that threatened to take her leg. On a warm fall day at her grandson’s football game, Theresa, 66, ...
Joe Holden isn’t a quitter. After six spine surgeries and countless hours of traditional physical therapy in eight years, the Manalapan resident still needed a wheelchair to get around. For Joe, that wasn’t living. Joe suffers from spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal canal that puts pressure on the spinal cord and the nerves ...
The Greater Freehold community now has a convenient new option for receiving coordinated, family-centered health care with the opening of the Freehold Family Health Center at 597 Park Avenue in Freehold. This state-of-the-art center now houses the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) Family Medicine Residency Program at CentraState—which trains the physicians of the ...
Life can be stressful at times. However, if not alleviated, stress can impact women both short term and over time, according to Nancy Peters, MD, of Family Practice of CentraState in Colts Neck. By learning effective ways to cope with stress, you can protect your body from its detrimental effects. In the short-term, stress kicks ...
For most cancer patients, learning that they had a rare genetic mutation would be an unsettling moment. For Tim Kousoulides, a 66-year-old resident of Freehold, it was welcome news that provided a new weapon to treat his aggressive cancer. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a protein on the surface of cells that helps cells ...
Julia Schleuss was a trailblazer when she joined the boys’ wrestling team at Wall Township High School. However, when she broke her collarbone during a match this winter, she was concerned that she might never wrestle again. Julia, 16, decided in eighth grade that she wanted to join the boys’ wrestling team because of the ...
While Tony Yodice isn’t from Philadelphia, he feels like Rocky Balboa twice a week. The 79-year-old Monroe resident is fighting the effects of Parkinson’s disease through boxing—and he’s winning. Tony was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease five years ago after noticing tremors in his hand. Parkinson’s disease is an incurable disorder of the central nervous system ...
As sisters, Neysa Coy and Nayda Coy-Sabosik have a lot in common: a love of reading, an infectious laugh, and a positive mindset. Unfortunately, they also share a history of breast health issues. Neysa, 43, had a precautionary mammogram two decades ago because she was concerned about her family’s history of cancer. The mammogram found ...
There’s good news for the more than 54 million Americans diagnosed with some form of arthritis: a new class of medications is providing quick, safe relief from pain and swelling. Types of Arthritis There are more than 100 types of arthritic conditions. Symptoms include inflammation and swelling of the joints, which causes pain, discomfort, and ...
The number of people diagnosed with autism has grown in the 20 years that I’ve been a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and so has my understanding of the disorder. I first learned about autism in my Growth and Development Course when I was a medical student 20 years ago. The classic presentation of the disorder ...
