In the past year of COVID-19, health care teams around the world have provided care to many patients in various stages of the disease. But what is the role of a physical therapist in this health care crisis? Here, I …
A friend of mine asked me how the “other” vaccines work (the ones not from Pfizer/Moderna) and I’m glad he did because, to be quite honest, it’s been a while since I wrote one of these. Also, I was rereading …
So wait, hold up. What’s happening?? A coronavirus VARIANT? Now? When people are starting to get (appallingly slowly) vaccinated? Now that we have the vaccine the virus flips the script and switches up to a different version of itself? More …
COVID-19 Variants: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same Read More
Sleep is just as important for your overall health as going to the gym, eating the right foods and taking care of your mental and emotional needs. In fact, your quality of sleep is a key factor in healthy aging. …
Back when I was at the University of Northern Iowa, my friend Chad Baumler decided that we could pay for our fraternity’s formal if everybody donated plasma twice and threw the money into a fund. It sort of worked…about half …
Let’s talk about the new mRNA vaccines which may very well be employed to usher us out of the disaster that is known as 2020. If you find this useful, please don’t think twice about sharing. And I will say that …
You have to read all the way to the end for the gin and tonic part and, as always, share away. If you’ve read some of the other posts, you’ve read my view that hydroxychloroquine isn’t the magic bullet that …
Alright, buckle up because this is too long and as an added bonus is uninteresting. Still though, let’s take a crack at COVID-19 and your hemoglobin. COVID-19, biology and hematology I’m sorry for being blunt, but this new virus is …
So, there’s been a lot of talk about COVID-19 being airborne and I thought it would be important to detail a few aspects of something being airborne, not airborne, and what exactly that means. If you watched the movie “Outbreak”, you …
COVID-19: “Airborne” (transmission–not the nutrition supplement that won’t work here) Read More