Health Matters

Tristan Medical Primary Care Centers

ryanwelter — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 13:39:08 +0000

Tristan Medical Taunton Massachusetts

Tristan Medical Primary Care is committed to treating every patient with dignity and courtesy as we strive to provide the best medical services possible. At Tristan Medical, we understand there is a lot more to staying healthy than just getting a regular checkup every year.

Wellness requires keeping up with follow-up exams and physicals, but also requires a well-informed patient. Our system wide electronic health care system assures your data is where it is needed, whether at one our Primary Care sites or available electronically should you need it for a specialist visit or during a hospital stay.

We also know it’s a lot easier to get all the medical care you need under one roof. Tristan Medical Primary Care Centers provide care for every member of your family at every age. From well visits to sick visits, our staff is ready to serve you. And you can rest easy knowing that Tristan Medical doctors and staff are some of the best providers in New England.

Primary Care for a Healthier Life

ryanwelter — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:16:40 +0000

Primary Care Massachusetts. The role of primary care physicians is to focus on preventive medicine.

Unlike much of the health care in the United States, which focuses on curing disease, the role of primary care physicians is to focus on preventive medicine, on preventing the disease from developing in the first place. They do this by monitoring the health of their patients, educating them about dietary and exercise habits, and referring them to specialty care when necessary. The difference? Primary care physicians, trained in a number of different medical disciplines, practice preventive medicine, not crisis medicine.

Seeing the same patients and their families for much of their lives allows primary care physicians to develop a rapport with their patients and be especially familiar with the physical, psychological and lifestyle factors important to their health. It is therefore crucial that primary care physicians are given accurate information about the lives of their patients, ranging from emotional states and lifestyle choices, to marital status and dietary habits.

Armed with this information, primary care physicians seek to improve their patients’ health by recommending certain steps to be taken and educating them on why these steps are important. They can also refer you to a specialist when necessary, when they are not able to treat various conditions. When you are referred to a specialist, your primary care physicians is kept abreast of the care and treatment you receive. For this reason, many people refer to the primary care physicians as the patient’s gatekeeper.

Urgent Care When You Need It

ryanwelter — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:17:57 +0000

Urgent Care Massachusetts

Urgent Care provides the highest quality immediate care for acute, episodic illnesses and injuries. Urgent Care is available in all locations and Saturdays in Raynham, please check with each office for available times. Urgent Care is just another way Tristan Primary Care Centers work to keep you healthy and away from long waits at an emergency room full of sick people. Avoiding the ER is just another wellness tip Tristan Medical provides to you and your family.

Our locally-owned practice is operated by board-certified physicians, and supported by specially trained and certified staff members. This staff includes experienced clinicians with extensive medical training in the diagnosis and treatment of urgent care problems.

We are committed to providing the highest quality immediate care for your acute, episodic illness, or injury. For serious, life-threatening emergencies, you need to get to your local emergency room or call 911.

Urgent Care does not provide ongoing management of chronic health problems such as diabetes or high blood pressure. Disorders requiring long-term management should be treated by our primary care physician.

However, if you need immediate care for a problem that arises due to those conditions, we can help you. We will then provide your primary care physician with information about your condition, our evaluation, treatment and recommendations for follow-up care. If you need help finding a primary care physician or specialist to help you manage your condition, we can help you find the care you need.

Center for Medical Weight Loss

ryanwelter — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:29:59 +0000

Medically Supervised Weight Loss in Massachusetts

Medically Supervised Weight Loss

A personal and effective program for long term weight loss.

Our weight loss program starts with an initial consultation to evaluate your current health. This consultation includes a comprehensive evaluation for blood pressure, weight and body fat index, muscle and water content and how fast your metabolism works. You receive individualized consultation with a member of our Wellness Team to assess your weight loss goals. After your initial consultation, our team of medical professionals will meet with you on a weekly basis to help you reach your goal weight as quickly and as safely as possible.

Many patients come to the clinic with undiagnosed diabetes, high cholesterol, thyroid disorders or abnormal liver tests. Several blood tests are often drawn.

Overall, the Physician management of obesity includes:

Behavior modification
Diet
Exercise
Pharmacotherapy

Medical Weight Loss Staring At Only $20.00
Our weight loss program consult is only $20.00 for 1/2 hour initial evaluation with a physician or registered nurse. You will receive a 4 page health, weight and body type evaluation.

Make an appointment today and start a whole way to look at yourself.

Pain Management

ryanwelter — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:39:29 +0000

Pain Management Tristan Medical, Massachusetts

Your pain and discomfort can be managed.

Our goal is to diagnose and reduce the patient’s pain as much as possible through various techniques and treatments. Once the patient is stabilized, we refer them back their Primary Care Provider with our recommendations.

Our advanced diagnostic and therapeutic treatments help patients achieve improved function and the possibility of facing a pain-free future. The genius of Advanced Pain Management is a single referral for pain to our facility is the only step you need to take for patients. Pain has become too complicated to treat without utilizing all of the available resources. We do the complicated part for you.

Primary Care for Pain
Pain management has become a complicated subspecialty with dozens of new approaches to solving chronic pain problems introduced in the past decade. Even so, many existing pain centers treat pain with singular techniques that often fail to provide long lasting relief.

The first step is a detailed intake by our medical team. Then a treatment plan is developed utilizing any one or all of our resources. This may include narcotic substance monitoring by our physiatrist, or physical therapy and behavioral psychology consults with our staff, or injections if needed and medication adjustments as required.

Our Services:
We treat most types of pain including:

Back Pain
Neck Pain
Sciatica
Headache
Arthritis
Cancer-related pain
Nerve injury and spinal cord injury
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
Post surgical and scar pain
Phantom limb pain
Peripheral vascular disease related to poor circulation
Pelvic pain
Myofascial pain and Fibromyalgia

We treat all types of chronic pain, including conditions affecting these areas:

Back Pain
Spine (cervical, thoracic and lumber)
Radicular Pain
Neuropathic
Muscle
Skeletal
Carpal Tunnel
Phantom
Headaches

Treatments we use:

At Advanced Pain Management, we diagnose your pain and its underlying causes, then we prescribe the best course of treatment(s) to alleviate your symptoms. These modalities may include the following in various combinations:

Blocks of all types
Medications (oral and topical)
Physical therapy
Supports and braces
Holistic Therapy
Psychologic
Referral to other specialists when indicated