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Clinical/Pain Psychologist Jody Garcia-Fowlkes, Psy.D., discusses the psychological aspects of patients suffering from acute and chronic life-threatening diseases. During the podcast Dr. Garcia-Fowlkes will review the social, psychological and biological factors that contribute to a person’s illness and how she guides her patients by reprogramming their nervous system using a person-centered approach. She also talk about pain neuroscience and how the nervous system produces pain.

This week Family Medicine Physician Ammon Thompson, M.D., joins us on Health Dose to discuss the benefits of deprescribing medications to his patients.

What is spinal cord stimulation? This week, Schuyler Rogg, M.D., M.B.A., who specializes in pain medicine and sees patients as part of the Spine & Pain Program at MyMichigan Health, joins us to talk about spinal cord stimulation.

The winter blues are real, particularly if you live in Michigan, where the weather can be cold and gray well into the start of spring. On today's episode, Kaitlyn Holbeck, L.L.M.S.W., C.C.T.S.I., program therapist at Senior Life Solutions, joins us to discuss how to recognize signs and symptoms of the winter blues, and how to manage them.

Health Dose has returned! In our first episode of 2024, listen as we chat with Michael Rodriguez, M.D., about PRP therapy.

Dr. Rodriguez is a primary care physician with specialized fellowship training in non-surgical sports medicine. He tells us who might be a good candidate for platelet rich plasma, or PRP therapy, and the process behind it.

Learn more about PRP: https://www.mymichigan.org/conditions-treatments/wellsport/advanced-pain-relief-treatments/

Learn more about Dr. Rodriguez: https://www.mymichigan.org/doctors/find-a-doctor-basic-profile/rodriguez-michael/

Learn more about our WellSport program: www.mymichigan.org/wellsport

May is National Stroke Month, and Speech-Language Pathologist Jenna Randolph joins us this week to discuss aphasia.