What is Functional Medicine? Functional Medicine takes a personalized, holistic approach to restoring normal function and health by engaging the patient in healthy behaviors rather than merely treating symptoms. It also looks for underlying causes of disease and tries to bring about positive change in measurable function(s). Functional Medicine can still be a touchy subject. Functionality, after all, implies that ...

About Foot Pain Until foot pain strikes, we all take our feet for granted. Whether it’s the broken bone pain in those first few steps of the morning, or that deep ache after hours on your feet… Even worse, the burning, stabbing pain of neuropathy with the added terror of not feeling what you step on. Or just the occasional ...

A neck injury can include the head and neck, neck joints, muscles, nerves, blood vessels and shoulders. Causes of neck injuries are anything that either compresses or forces movement beyond what is normal for the neck. Whiplash is the common term used to describe neck sprain-strain it is a soft tissue injury involving damage to ligaments and other structures in ...

There are some problems that are difficult to do on your own. Having a friend or family member to give you regular massages, encourage you through your daily exercises, and just be there for you can be very helpful in getting through rehabilitation with minimal pain and discomfort. Back injury rehabilitation is no exception. If you’re struggling with back pain ...

Vertigo can cause feelings of unsteadiness that can lead to vomiting. The sensations of movement without motion tend to increase when you move your head. Or changing positions sometime just standing up makes you feel sick. Looking down or turning the head quickly can also trigger a vertigo attack. If vertigo attacks come back more than once or twice, it ...

Ever feel that dieting was like that Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day? One of my favorite movies of all time. Where a Pittsburgh TV weatherman has to cover Groundhog Day. And somehow gets stuck repeating the same day over and over again. Until he gets it right. And even though I know better than most people, my weight can still ...

By Dr. Thomas Polucki People with arm pain should take a break from work and increase the amount of zinc they eat. Good sources of zinc include: spinach, lentils, pistachios…They can put ice on their arms to reduce swelling. Heat will be more effective if the person has muscle spasms that are due to injury or soreness. If arm pain ...

By Dr. Thomas Polucki What is sciatica? Sciatica, also known as sciatic neuritis, is a medical condition in which pain is felt along the sciatic nerve or its branches. The term sciatica describes different symptoms that may be completely unrelated. The sciatic nerve runs from the lower spine through the hips and buttocks into each leg, ending in the feet. ...

By Dr. Thomas Polucki New Hope For Old Knees A new study from McMaster University suggests knee osteoarthritis sufferers may find relief with exercise, instead of knee surgery or taking medications. “Surgery for knee osteoarthritis usually involves removing part of a damaged meniscus – the rubbery knee discs that act as shock absorbers between the bones – but our study ...

By Dr. Thomas Polucki Are you a busy professional who is having problems eating, yawning, or sleeping? Because even with the bite guard, or even after surgery you still have TMJ? Dr. Polucki has been helping people with TMJ for over 30 years and he’s seen it all. He understands the unique challenges of his clients, and his holistic approach ...