AMITA HealthCast AMITA Health

With people living longer than ever, there's an increase in disorders affecting the elderly and those older are often afflicted with multiple severe conditions at once. Dr. Ryan Bartkus discusses how to best coordinate comprehensive care for all of an older person's medical issues.

If you're a man and you notice that you're urinating more frequently, It could be a sign that you have low testosterone, an enlarged prostate, or both. Dr. Vibha Sabharwal and Dr. Christopher Boniquit discuss what it means to have low testosterone and what you can do.

It's easy to ignore little aches and pains as the day goes on, but what if that pain starts to extend into days, weeks, or months and what if it increases in severity? Dr. Asghar Rizvi explores pain management and how we can pay better attention to our bodies when they're in pain.

Episode Table of Contents:
00:41: What are the most common types of pain? Who is most at risk?
03:28: How do you help patients put their pain into words?
09:00: How does pain severity or location change your approach to treatment?
10:37: How do you treat the worst and most challenging types of pain?
14:36: What has been the biggest recent breakthrough in treating pain?
19:30: What social or cultural factors keep people from seeking treatment for their pain?
23:35: What is the one thing you wish everyone knew about chronic pain?

Headaches are extremely common and there are a multitude of reasons why we get them. Dr. Merle Diamond discusses the two most common types of headaches, migraines and tension headaches, and some hacks to help relieve headache pain.

There are a number of treatment options when it comes to AFib. Dr. Mehta explains treatment options which can include no-radiation ablation and cryoablation to Micra(r) pacemakers as well as when each modality is indicated.

One of the easier ways to gauge reproductive health is the consistency of menstruation but when you're bleeding outside of your period, that can indicate a more serious issue in some cases. Dr. Assaad Semaan discusses endometrial cancer, risk factors, and what symptoms to look out for.