Advantage Healthcare Systems

At  Advantage Healthcare Systems , treatment is a mental, physical, and emotional process of growth and development. Individuals attending individual counseling learn the current medical facts about their condition. They receive an intensive combination of therapy , education, and social conditioning that is concentrically focused on a lifetime of recovery and on creating a brighter and more productive future. During a session of individual counseling, the patient might be asked to discuss a series of topics about himself or herself including, but not limited, to: Stress Inability to cope with life circumstances Depression Anxiety Self-esteem Identity issues {including cultural, religious, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender, and others} Body image Eating disorders Loneliness Difficulty forming or maintaining healthy relationships Physical or emotional abuse (past or present) Cross-cultural issues (including cultural conflicts between parents and children) Difficulty defining problems...

  When Persistent Pain Begins to Take a Mental Toll Everybody hurts at some point and often for good reason. Pain is one of the ways your body tells you that something is wrong, that you need to seek medical attention. In many instances, the cause of your pain is clear and the pain goes away after proper treatment. But that’s not always the case. Your discomfort or pain may persist long after the initial source of the hurt has been effectively addressed. As a general rule, if the same pain stays with you for more than about three months, and the original cause of the pain has been remedied, you have a condition known as “ chronic pain .” In about one of every four cases of people who experience chronic pain, the condition will develop into what is known as chronic pain syndrome, or CPS. With CPS, the consequences are more than physical—they manifest in depression and anxiety as well, wreaking havoc on your daily life. Though medical practitioners don’t know exactly what causes CPS,...

  Biofeedback Therapy Biofeedback is the process of making patients aware of automated bodily functions in order to promote self-control of these functions. Biofeedback can be a cognitive practice that does not require the use of assistive devices or an interactive treatment that uses wearable devices or computers to provide feedback of the body’s various functions. As the patient becomes more aware of certain bodily functions, he or she can generate more cognitive efforts toward increasing control of the functions that may be creating pain, discomfort, or other medical conditions/impairments. In this way, patients can limit the significance of certain impairments or eliminate conditions entirely. At Advantage Healthcare Systems, we have the knowledgeable staff and equipment to guide patients through a series of effective and life-altering biofeedback sessions. If you have not experienced the desired results from traditional treatment methods, consider the unique wellness approach ...

  Diagnosis and Treatment According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), anywhere from  two to four million Americans suffer a traumatic brain injury every year , about one-tenth of them occurring during sports or recreational activities. For athletes under the age of 20, approximately one in every five traumatic brain injuries is sports-related. A traumatic brain injury (TBI) may result from a blunt-force blow to the head, a penetrating injury, or an event in which the head moves violently back and forth (typically referred to as whiplash). A mild TBI, customarily referred to as a concussion, can have symptoms that last for a few days; typically, the person will see full recovery within a week or two. Moderate-to-severe TBI can cause permanent or long-term cognitive dysfunction, loss of motor skills, difficulty with speech, or even death. Diagnosing and Treating a Sports-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Because many sports involve some degree of contact,...