Common Conditions That Can Be Treated at Urgent Care
When a situation comes up, you may not be sure what to do next. This doesn’t just apply to your immediate triage to stop bleeding or take a temperature. It may mean that once you decide you need help, you aren’t sure where to head. Our team at Integrity Urgent Care is well equipped to help you with the common illnesses and injuries you face and the appointments and tests you may need.
First Aid Handbook: Sprains
Your daughter takes a charge in her basketball game and puts her hands out to break the fall. Your son runs to catch the family dog and steps the wrong way on the pavement. You reach just the wrong way for an item and feel stabbing pain in your wrist. These and more are common experiences that can lead to you wondering if a sprain is suspected. Before you come see our team at Integrity Urgent Care, here are a few tips you should know about sprains.
6 Ways to Get Your Kids Excited About Exercise
We all need to move more, and this is just as true about our younger generation. Unfortunately, screens, exhaustion, and our too busy routine take over and keep us from exercising. Integrity Urgent Care wants to challenge you and your kids to get moving more and has tips for how to make it more exciting for you all.
First Aid Handbook: Acid Reflux
We have all had it, whether we recognized it for what it is or not. When it does happen the first time, you may have felt like it was a bigger deal than it turned out to be, that’s how much discomfort you may have. Integrity Urgent Care has some tips and solutions for the next time you get a bout of acid reflux and maybe a few ideas for how to prevent it in the first place.
Essential Nutrients 101
Integrity Urgent Care knows that it may be difficult to wade through all of the health information that is out there and how too much of it may make you want to give up. Instead of throwing in the towel, we have a guide to the essential nutrients your body needs as you try to live a healthier lifestyle overall.
First Aid Handbook: Warts
How can something as small as a wart provide so much shame and embarrassment for the person who has one? Warts seem to be one of those ailments that we whisper about and try to hide from one another as if they signify a larger issue at hand. Warts are fairly common, mostly harmless, and can often be treated fairly easily with our Integrity Urgent Care Clinic’s help, with the right knowledge available.
Healthy Ways to Lower Your Cholesterol
We have all seen the advertisements that feature food items being heart healthy and claims that their products can lower your cholesterol, but how valid and needed are these products to lowering your cholesterol? You may also be wondering if there are other ways you can reduce the negative impact of cholesterol in your life. Our Integrity Urgent Care team is interested in your health and helping you take steps every day to improve it. There are a number of steps you can take to lower your cholesterol today.
First Aid Handbook: Hives
Hives are one of those conditions that can happen for a number of reasons. If you have never had them, you may be wondering when or why someone may start showing hives. It could even be confused for some other skin ailment or concern. Our team at Integrity Urgent Care can easily diagnose hives on our patients and help you understand what the cause may be, working to get you back on track.
What Are the Signs of a Heart Attack
Nobody wants to experience medical emergencies, especially not one as potentially serious as a heart attack. This scary situation can be one that takes a loved one away or can lead to emergency surgery to fix the blockage. While we can work hard to make our heart healthier, it is important we know and understand the symptoms and signs of a heart attack in case it happens to us or those we care about. The Integrity Urgent Care team has the advice you need to keep an eye on your heart.
First Aid Handbook: Stomach Ulcers
In the past, it was thought that stomach ulcers were caused by the food we eat or the stress we feel in our lives. It is now known that stomach ulcers are either caused by the bacteria H. pylori or by long term use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. These cause sores in the stomach lining leaving you in extreme pain and discomfort and in need of help from your Integrity Urgent Care team.
