Archive for October 2023

There are plenty of frights to go around on Halloween, but a hand injury probably isn’t one you’d expect. “Interestingly, it’s the fourth busiest holiday for hand injuries,” says Dr. Sanj Kakar, a Mayo Clinic orthopedic hand and wrist surgeon. Dr. Kakar says almost one-third of those Halloween hand injuries are among kids 10 to…

More than 5% of the US population, 18.1 million people, are cancer (https://www.webmd.com/cancer/understanding-cancer-basics) survivors. Over the next decade, the number of people who have lived 5 or more years after their cancer diagnosis (https://www.webmd.com/cancer/understanding-cancer-treatment#:~:text=Some%20types%20of%20cancer%20%2D%2D,or%20when%20other%20symptoms%20develop.) is projected to increase by approximately 30%. How do we define cancer survivorship? What does cancer rehabilitation look like? And what…