August 9, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
August 9, 2013 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media […]
Tags: Almanac, alzheimer's disease, amyloid PET scans, biochemist, blocked heart arteries, Bloomberg, Cancer, cardiac care, cardiac rehabilitation, circulation, coronary artery bypass grafting, coronary artery bypass surgery
March 7, 2013
Graeme Swann to miss New Zealand Test series with elbow injury
Graeme Swann is to undergo a second operation on his right elbow that he hopes will have him fully fit for the back-to-back Ashes series…”But I’ve got every faith in the surgeon Shawn O’Driscoll at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester because he’s the world leader.” Following the operation, Swann will undergo a course of rehabilitation […]
Tags: CRM machine, Dr. Shawn O'Driscoll, elbow surgery, Graeme Swann, rehabilitation, The Guardian
June 22, 2012
Functional Fitness Workouts Focus On Using Multiple Muscle Groups, Improving Core Strength
Visit any fitness center today and you will see people relying less on weight machines that isolate specific muscles. Instead, often accompanied by a personal trainer, they are doing movements that use their own body weight to work multiple muscle groups at once… Functional fitness is also about large body movements that prepare the body […]
February 26, 2010
Rehabilitation programs take it to heart
The first week after her heart transplant, Eileen Ryan was a wreck. Overcome by weakness, she couldn’t stand or walk. Going home from the hospital, she had to rely on a wheelchair… “I began resuming a normal life,” said this 64-year-old, who lives in Jacksonville, Fla…For three months, three times a week, she practiced […]
Tags: heart transplant, rehabilitation