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Understand the symptoms of bipolar disorder if you know someone who might need your help

Gossip magazines especially enjoy speculating which celebrity might have symptoms of bipolar disorder. Britney Spears shaves her head, and immediately the magazine’s psychologists go into town and speculate on what they think she might have. Every time something happens to a celebrity, they all jump into action. They do this because the general public likes […]

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I threw my neck shoveling!

Yes, you read it correctly. It is not a back injury, but a neck injury. The mechanism is the same, but I wanted to address neck pain in this article. The fact is, you can strain any muscle or joint by doing just about any activity. In this example, a patient of ours was shoveling […]

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Say it with roses: the importance of color

In Western culture, there is no flower more full of romance than the rose. There are a thousand romantic quotes related to this flower. Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, all felt compelled to put into words humanity’s relationship with the rose. I think my personal favorite is John Boyle O’Reilly “The red rose whispers […]