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Healthy Living

Health Matters: The mysterious sinus tarsi syndrome

Life is full of hazards, be they emotional or be they physical. Depending on the location, a variety of complications can result from an injury, even one that is seemingly mild. Tweak a knee joint, or twist an ankle, and damage can occur to one of the vital structures composing these complex ...

Healthy fruits and snacks

As we enter into our great Upper Peninsula summer season, we will all soon be blessed with increased availability of healthy fresh fruits. Let me again review for you the nutritional makeup of various fruits so are aware of the amount of sugar and fiber in these fruits. I favor and recommend ...

Many consequences to flatfoot deformity

Genetics are a funny thing, a veritable role of the dice. Who’s jawline will you inherit? How tall will you be? What is your shoe size? These and many other related questions are primarily a function of genetics. How about the important question of what is your foot type? In many ways, this ...

My body is like a car, dents, rust and all

My patients ask me plenty of questions. They are trying to understand their medical circumstances, and I want to offer the best of explanations. Sometimes, in order to simplify my explanations, I call upon an analogy, and to be more specific, I compare my patients to a car. Why a car and not ...

Health Matters: Foot alignment problems can lead to chronic tendonitis

People are all different, unique in some fashion. This fact certainly applies to our bone structure, something which is primarily genetically determined. But your bony architecture, how all the bones line up together, goes a long way to determining what kind of problems you have as an adult. ...

Magic mushrooms: Thousands sign up for Oregon’s novel psilocybin experiment

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. — Psilocybin tea, wind chimes and a tie-dye mattress await those coming to an office suite in Eugene to trip on magic mushrooms. For roughly six hours, adults over 21 can experience what many users describe as vivid geometric shapes, a loss ...