by Dr. Brad Weiss | Nov 3, 2017 | Children, Health, Newsletter
Your child’s backpack should never weigh more than 15% of their body weight. Every years we give a series of Backpack Safety Workshops at a local Middle School. A random sampling of the student’s backpacks found the majority were 25-30% of their body weight. Only one...
by Dr. Brad Weiss | Mar 4, 2017 | Children, Exercise, Sports Medicine
The numbers are staggering. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC): High school athletes account for an estimated 2 million injuries and 500,000 doctor visits and 30,000 hospitalizations each year. More than 3.5 million kids under age 14 receive medical...
by Dr. Victoria VanNederynen | Sep 30, 2016 | Children, Health
So…some of you may or may not know that September 21, 2016, was National Backpack Safety Day. I didn’t even know until it popped up on my news feed the night before. I did however know that a few weeks prior to this that Dr. Ball and I were going to be giving...
by Dr. Victoria VanNederynen | Jan 3, 2016 | Children, Health, Newsletter
I will be taking the time in the next news letter or two to write about headaches, partially because I deal with migraines, and partially because I have been seeing more patients in my office including children, not just adults, that have been dealing with headaches...
by PBA | Aug 2, 2012 | Children, Inspirational Story
The Matt W. Story Matt Inspired An Entire School. Do YOU Have These Kinds Of Guts? Who knows what his real, full name is. “Matt W.” was all that was given and that’s all that is needed, because Matt W.’s actions speak louder than words ever could. Here is why: Matt...
by PBA | Aug 2, 2012 | Children, Newsletter
In a presentation at the American Urological Association Annual Meeting, physicians from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital showed more evidence that second-hand...
