Does what you eat after surgery matter? Yes, because a well-nourished body will heal better than eating food that comes with fries. A surgeon can do the work of fixing your bones, but how well you heal is completely up to the effort you want to…
There is and up and coming technology in the medical field that is set to do things only imagined, and it is coming at us rapidly. Crispr is a novel gene-editing technology, changing the DNA of genes inside the body, potentially curing disease,…
Today is the last day in the clinic most people in Southern Oregon have known as Paragon’s home for the last decade and a half! If you have been in the Ramsey Avenue building over the past week, you will have noticed the bare-bones appearance as…
It’s hard to believe there was only one birthday in our clinic for the whole month of December. Carl got the spotlight, but not all the cake! Please wish him the best for his birthday month when you’re at Paragon!
Despite the drenching rains, the crowds came out to celebrate the Christmas season on Saturday. Paragon Orthopedics arrived early with a spot at the beginning of the parade and you could not miss the ginormous skeleton coming down 6th Street.…
There are few people who would deny dogs are fun animals, but did you know there are actual health benefits from owning one? The Mayo Clinic has an article that details how they:
get you movinghelp your weightpromote socializationhelp manage…We missed a snapshot of the October birthdays (Sorry Dr. Bents, Amanda, Lisa, Tammy, Nena, and Sherri!), but we caught our November birthday peeps for a pic before anyone touched their triple layer Oreo cake! Happy birthday month to Amie, Grecia…
If you read the recent post about oral phenylephrine, then you know how the advisers at the FDA found that it plain doesn’t do anything to relieve cold symptoms. What should you take? Again, the Wall Street Journal dove into this with some…
Phenylephrine is found in over the counter cold medicines to help with nasal congestion. After the FDA advisory committee declared that oral phenylephrine is not effective at relieving nasal congestion as consumers expect, CVS voluntarily removed…
Have you noticed the number of movies and sit-coms that consistently portray men as oafs or barely useful for anything significant? The Barbie movie hammered home the latter. You might think it odd to post about fathering on the Paragon…