Physical Fitness and Sports Month: Commonly Asked Questions About Sports Injuries with Dr. Packer
Dr. Jonathan Packer is an orthopaedic surgeon with the University of Maryland Department of Orthopaedics and an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Packer specializes in sports medicine and is a Team Physician with the University of Maryland Terrapins. Below he answers common questions about sports injuries.
What are the most common sports-related injuries you see in your clinic?
The most common sports related injuries are ankle sprains and contusions. The most common knee injuries that I see are meniscus tears and knee ligament injuries, such as the MCL (meniscus...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - May 16, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Doctors Employees & Staff Health Tips Orthopaedics Source Type: blogs
3 Things to Know about Mother-Child Relationships
By Sarah Edwards, DO
Healthy moms = healthy children and families. Healthy moms are essential to building children’s healthy brains and helping everyone in the family grow well and love well. Maternal depression, anxiety and stress can affect how a mother interacts and develops a relationship with her baby. Babies need a safe and stable connection with a caregiver for social, emotional and cognitive development. If this attachment is not strong, it can have lasting effects on a child’s brain, and puts children at risk for behavior and emotional problems.
Family bonding is key to a healthy family. The good news is that...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - May 15, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Children's Health Health Tips Kids Source Type: blogs
Eight research teams working with DARPA to discover best ways to activate neuroplasticity and accelerate learning
DARPA Funds Brain-Stimulation Research to Speed Learning (DoD news):
“The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working with seven U.S. universities and elements of the Air Force and Army on research that seeks to stimulate the brain in a non-invasive way to speed up learning.
DARPA announced the Targeted Neuroplasticity Training, or TNT, program last March, and work now has begun on the effort to discover the safest and most effective ways to activate a natural process called “synaptic plasticity.”
Plasticity is the brain’s ability to strengthen or weaken its neural connections to adapt to changes in the en...
Source: SharpBrains - May 12, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Technology Brain-Plasticity cognitive skills training cognitive-skills Cognitive-Training DARPA neuromodulation neuroplasticity neurostimulation synaptic-plasticity Targeted Neur Source Type: blogs
The Love Blanket Project Spreads Love Around UMCH
Love comes in many shapes and sizes, but for Robin Chiddo it’s square, 44×44 and fuzzy.
Today, Robin from the Love Blanket Project dropped off 33 custom t-shirt blankets that will be given out to children staying at the University of Maryland Children’s Hospital.
The Love Blanket Project started in 2015 when Robin, who recently retired from her position as director of business development at the UMD Alumni Association at College Park, was looking for a heartfelt gift for her sister. In her research, Robin also wanted to find a company that had a clear, mission-driven purpose—then she came across Deaf Initiative...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - May 10, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Kids Child Life children's hospital Love Blanket Project Robin Chiddo UMCH Source Type: blogs
Going Above and Beyond to Ease the Stress of Blood & Marrow Transplant Patients
The facility where the stem cells are stored.
The Blood and Marrow Transplant unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center was presented with a challenge in housing recovering cancer patients at the beginning of March 2017. Usually, UMMC and the BMT unit use The American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge to provide temporary housing for out-of-town BMT patients recovering from stem cell transplants. However, building construction began across the street from the Hope Lodge, making it unsafe for recovering BMT patients to stay there. Recovering from a stem cell transplant can be physically challenging, and construction deb...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - May 9, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Cancer Employees & Staff patient care Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Maternal Mental Health Matters
MAY 3, 2017 IS WORLD MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS DAY
#maternalMHmatters
Today is World Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day, and we’re helping to bring attention to an important health issue and available treatment options.
Worldwide, as many as one in five women experience some type of perinatal mood and anxiety disorder (PMAD). PMADs include postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum obsessive compulsive disorder and others.
“There is still this myth that pregnancy is blissful and if you don’t enjoy pregnancy and having your baby, there’s something wrong with you,” says Patricia Widra, MD, assis...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - May 3, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Women's Health anxiety disorder maternal mental health mood disorder patricia widra PMAD Source Type: blogs
Fertility: 12 things you didn ’t know (and 1 to never ask)
By Katrina Mark, MD
1. Fertility naturally declines as we age
That alone doesn’t mean you should start to worry. The general advice I give a woman is if she has been trying to become pregnant for a full year with no luck, she might consider a fertility evaluation. For a woman over age 35, she might consider it after six months. If a woman is younger and has irregular periods, it’s likely she isn’t regularly ovulating, so she might want to be evaluated sooner.
2. Sometimes there’s a reason for infertility – and sometimes, there’s not
There are some things we know cause infertility. About 20 percent of the time,...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - May 2, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Health Tips Women's Health fertility Katrina Mark obgyn UMMC Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs May Issue: ACA Coverage, Access, Medicaid & More
This study complements other work on this subject, suggesting that Medicaid patients face some additional barriers in the receipt of care.
Weak relationship between physician price and quality
As a rule, consumers expect that “you get what you pay for.” To find out if this adage holds true for health care, Eric Roberts and coauthors from Harvard Medical School examined the association between physician practices’ commercial prices for office visits and the quality of care provided, using national data from the 2013 Medicare Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers Survey (CAHPS) and linked Medicare claims for surv...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Lucy Larner Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Health Affairs journal Source Type: blogs
All About Infant Immunizations: Q & A with Pediatrician Dr. Adam Spanier
Adam Spanier, MD, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a Pediatrician with University of Maryland Medical Center.
What vaccines are recommended for infants and children?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a group of medical and public health experts called the Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices. They develop and regularly review vaccine recommendations. Parents should talk to their pediatrician or family doctor, or reference the CDC or American Academy of Pediatrics. It’s important to know the vaccine schedule is revi...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - April 28, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
40th Annual Health Law Professors Conference
If you teach health law, come to the 40th Annual Health Law Professors Conference, June 8-10, 2017, at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta. Here is the schedule:
Thursday, June 8, 20178:00-12:00 AM Tour of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Separate registration is required. Participants meet in the lobby of Georgia State Law to take a shuttle to the CDC.)
9:45 – 11:15 AM Tour of Grady Health System (Separate registration is required. Participants meet in the lobby of Georgia State Law and will walk over to Grady as a group.)
2:00 – 5:00 PM Conference Registration – Henso...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 27, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Minority Health Month
By Jameson Roth, Communications Intern
Each April marks the beginning of Minority Health Month at UMMC, when we strive to celebrate and acknowledge the initiatives in place to reduce health disparities among minority groups in the greater Baltimore area. UMMC also seeks to honor the service of the individuals who work tirelessly to bring these initiatives to deserving communities across the city.
One of these hardworking individuals is Anne Williams, DNP, RN, whose current role is director of community health improvement at University of Maryland Medical Center.
Williams perfectly sums up her mission at UMMC, “I am commi...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - April 25, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Child Sexual Abuse Conspiracy
BY DAVID INTROCASO
(After this essay was submitted to THCB the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on March 28th titled, “Protecting Young Athletes From Sexual Abuse.” USA Gymnastics refused to appear and provide testimony likely, in part, because USA Gymnastics’ President, Steve Penny, was forced to resign on March 16th. The issue was framed by Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley as a “heinous crime,” no health care or public health expert testified and the hearing and was reported in sports pages of the The New York Times and The Washington Post.)
If you do not read the sports page you ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
High Blood Pressure Has No Minimum
How tall is your child? How much does he or she weigh? Most parents can answer those questions easily. But here’s a tougher question: what is your child’s blood pressure?
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is often considered an adult health problem. But this serious condition is no longer adults-only.
“The number of children with high blood pressure is rising,” says Susan Mendley, MD, head of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology at the University of Maryland Children’s Hospital and an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. “Left unchecked, high blood pressure ca...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - March 22, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Health Law at Mitchell Hamline Rises in Rankings Again
U.S. News & World Report has released its rankings of specialty programs ranked by faculty who teach in the field. Mitchell Hamline rose from 12 to 11 for Health Law.
1. St. Louis University
2. University of Maryland
3. Bos... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 14, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
