Common Types of Knee Injuries
Did you fall down or hear a sudden pop in your knee while jumping? Are you experiencing a great deal of pain and stiffness in your knee? Is it swollen and can’t be bent fully? It seems you have injured your knee or you need post knee injury rehabilitation. Not surprisingly, knee injuries are very common among both athletes and nonathletes. Although knee injuries are highly likely to happen during collisions, accidents, and falls, people with weakened [...]
Breast Cancer and Lymphedema: Post operation care
People with a history of cancer (Breast, Testicular, Cervical, Pancreatic, Colorectal, Liver, Prostrate, or Uterine), chemotherapy treatments, surgery, and are overweight are likely to develop Lymphedema. It is associated with peripheral swelling of arms and legs due to lymphatic blockage. This is caused due to damage, removal or blockage of lymph nodes during surgery incision or while giving chemotherapy treatment. The blockage restricts lymph fluid from circulating through that area and the buildup causes swelling of an [...]
Accommodation Options for Medical Travellers in Singapore
It's estimated that thousands of people travel abroad for medical care each year to Singapore. Singapore is Asia’s leading medical hub, offering a complete, world-class and internationally accredited healthcare ecosystem. The patient can choose any restructured or private healthcare provider, such as a hospital, clinic or other medical establishment. Accommodation plays a crucial role in the travel decision-making process as some treatment option is a long term or the patient needs to wait for the surgery. Furthermore, [...]
How to choose Health Screening Package
In this contemporary society when more people are concerned about own and their family health, many hospitals and health screening centres offer various health screening packages based on lifestyle, age, gender. Therefore, it can be hard to compare the packages, especially if you are not familiar with medical terminologies for imaging investigations and blood tests. The following is a proposed guide to aid in your selection of health screening package. Step 1 It is important to know [...]
Health screening –Stay Healthy, Live Happy
Today, the increasingly rapid pace of life, stress in the workplace, and overload of family responsibilities can adverse impact on your health by predisposing you to silent killers such as heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and cancers. Therefore, health screening plays a vital role to identify diseases and addresses potential health risks before it is too late as some disease do not produce early warning signs. Many chronic illnesses do not appear overnight but as a result of [...]