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Prolotherapy Stimulates Tissue Repair

Prolotherapy Stimulates Tissue Repair

Prolotherapy is injection of any substance that promotes growth of normal cells, tissues, or organs. Prolotherapy is performed in all major hospitals but not by the name prolotherapy. An example is injection of red blood cell growth stimulator (erythropoietin) in...

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How I Focus on a New Model of Health Care

After working 10 years in a traditional musculoskeletal practice, Dr. Leonard Kaplan started a venture aimed at preventive medicine and wellness. Kaplan, a nonsurgical spine and sports medicine specialist, left a longtime job at Buffalo Spine & Sports Institute to...

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Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Understand it and Beat it!

Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Understand it and Beat it!

Lumbar spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the necessary spaces that act as tunnels for the nervous tissue of the spine and its blood supply. It’s more common after age 50 but we see it in younger patients as well. Your nervous system is designed to stand up to a good...

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What Exactly is the Practice of Yoga?

What Exactly is the Practice of Yoga?

In my experience teaching, I have found that many people who come to practice yoga are not really sure what yoga is all about or have a misconception that yoga is a form of physical fitness. With all the yoga gear being sold at Wegmans stores and yoga classes popping...

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Concierge Medicine – Charting a Difference Course

Concierge Medicine – Charting a Difference Course

Concierge medicine is a term that has been coming up a lot lately, but that doesn’t really mean it’s new. It is actually quite old, and modeled after what physicians were like years ago, when they came to your home when you were sick, and knew everyone in your family....

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