By Bailey McMurdie-Parker The expansion and consolidation project at Intermountain Dixie Regional Medical Center is coming to a close and portions of the 400 East campus will be moving over to join the River Road campus well before the Grand Opening on September 12. The tower on the southeast...
By Darren Marchant, PT,MSPT,OCS – CEO, FIT Physical Therapy Pain is a normal part of life. Living in pain however is not! Unfortunately many of our friends, family and neighbors live with chronic pain. Current data indicates over 100 million people in the U.S. suffer from some form of persistent...
By Matt Eschler, LMFT Live your life on purpose! – Matt Eschler We have all wanted more time in our day to accomplish some task or create some new way of enjoying our lives. Time is an impossible resource to manipulate. It flows at the same pace no...
How identifying and overcoming our fears can help us truly come alive By JR Martin Last year, some friends and I huddled together for a final picture before we boarded an aircraft. We planned to take a plunge into the air, thousands of feet above the surface of the earth....
By Dr. Benjamin Carter A few months ago, I diagnosed a patient with skin cancer. The patient was accompanied by a family member who asked me, “How can the sun, which is good for us, cause skin cancer?” The answer to that question is too long to explain in detail...
By Terra Oliphant With the dry, scorching temperatures of St George, you can easily talk yourself out of tackling another workout. Exercising outside during the summer months can be unappealing, not to mention dangerous. Instead of using the heat as an excuse to skip your workout, maybe it’s time to...
By Brad Stapley, PharmD Living in the desert we are faced with sun exposure every day and often times, extended exposure. There are dozens of medications and over-the-counter drugs that can cause sun sensitivity even in the shortest of exposure. Two of the most common sun sensitivities are: Photo-allergy; This...
RVUCOM- SU: Southern Utah’s First Medical School by: Julie Rosenthal, MS; Executive Director of Enrollment Management & External Relations Driving down E Center Street by 200E, in Ivins, a new two-story, modern 104,000 square foot building comes into view. Sitting at the base of the Big Red Mountain, this building...
By Dr. Michael W. Manning, DO – Novatio If you or somebody you know has been living with hip pain, you understand how difficult or even seemingly impossible it can be trying to do even regular everyday things. It’s hard to imagine being able to enjoy walking, hiking, gardening...
By Dr. Ward Wagner, DO Rotary cup? Rotor cuff? Most folks aren’t quite sure what it’s called—or what it does. They only know that when it’s “bad” … life ain’t good. The rotator cuff is actually a group of muscles in your shoulder, four to be exact, that...
