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University Students Learn to Use Puppetry for Occupational Therapy by KRISTEN GUEVARA “Everyone loves puppets!” exclaims Angela Sampson. She should know. Sampson uses them not only in her job as a pediatric occupational therapist but also as she and other professors equip the next generation of occupational therapy assistants at AdventHealth University in Orlando. Each…
Danger in Disguise

Heart Attack Symptoms Can Be Vastly Different for Women by TERESA SCHIFFER When you think of a heart attack, you undoubtedly think of intense chest pain. After all, that is one of the most common and recognizable symptoms. But what happens when a heart attack’s symptoms don’t fit the classic profile? For women, that’s a…
Embracing a Multidisciplinary approach to heart disease

by TERESA SCHIFFER Sponsored by Central Florida Health Care The motto of Central Florida Health Care is “Health Care With a Heart,” and February is American Heart Health Month, making it the perfect time to consider what we can all do to help protect our heart health. This is especially important when we consider the…

A Closer Look at Cryptogenic Stroke

A cryptogenic stroke (CS) is defined as cerebral ischemia of obscure or unknown origin. The cause of CS remains undetermined because the event is transitory or reversible, investigations did not look for all possible causes, or because some causes truly remain unknown. One third of the ischemic strokes are cryptogenic. Cryptogenic stroke is a diagnosis…
HOW DID I GET THIS STYE?

Medically a stye is called a hordeolum. If we look at the eyelid’s anatomy, particularly the lid margin, you will find the lashes, and beside the lashes is the opening of our Meibomian glands. The Meibomian glands are the hard embedded plates that you can feel in both the upper and lower lids. The Meibomian…
Types of Strokes

A stroke is when blood flow to a part of your brain is stopped either by a blockage or the rupture of a blood vessel. The medical term for this is Cerebrovascular accident. As the definition states, it can be caused by one of two problems. Either by blockage of flow to an artery in the brain…