Vol. 9 No. 5 (2017): September/October 2017

A review article related to the everyday non-pharmacologic management of diabetes is included this month. This is a common challenge to most osteopathic family physicians. When patients with diabetes are diagnosed, present for their annual visit, or have evidence that further changes are required...

Family Medicine is the “gateway” to health care in America, with the goal to ensure that all consumers have access to primary care services and understand the components of the “medical neighborhood.” Our patients should think of Family Medicine first, the guardians of well-care. The place where...

Family physicians are on the front line of diabetes care. This year, the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) Standards of Medical Care features a more robust section on lifestyle management, which is always a critical component of diabetes management. In addition, the ADA recently publ...

Menopausal-related symptoms, which include hot flushes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, difficulty sleeping, sexual dysfunction, and depression/anxiety, among others, are experienced by roughly 80% of women and are therefore a common complaint in the primary care setting. Systemic high-do...

The potential causes of shoulder pain are numerous, ranging from trauma, to disease, to hereditary issues. Here we report on a rare, but emerging potential culprit. Parsonage-Turner Syndrome (PTS) is a neurologic disorder affecting peripheral nerves, usually the upper trunk of the brachi...

Non-organic or functional, abdominal pain is pain that exists free of a pathologic state. This is the most common type of chronic abdominal pain in children. It interrupts a child’s normal daily activities and causes stress and anxiety amongst families. In the past, it has been poorly tr...

A 21-year-old white female presented to the emergency department with intermittent right lower quadrant pain associated with a palpable nodularity that has waxed and waned in size and tenderness over the past year. The lesion seems to be more prominent around the time of her menses. Her ...