Atlanta Medical Clinic: Medical Blog
Diabetics: Make Healthier Choices Today
Living with diabetes means that you must learn how to make choices with your medical condition in mind. While many people think that they have to make major changes, but even the smaller ones add up when you want to live a healthier lifestyle. If you have diabetes or...
Making Atlanta Better: The AMC Way
Great medical care can be hard to come by. At Atlanta Medical Clinic, we have a passion for helping the members of our community reach their healthiest selves. We focus on three aspects of care: accurate diagnosis, balanced medical interventions and effective...
Safe, Non-Surgical Solutions for Treating Knee Pain
If you’re suffering from knee pain, you’re certainly not alone. From osteoarthritis to injury to wear-and-tear, it affects millions of people every day. In fact, the prevalence of knee pain is an estimated 19% of the population. And as you get older, you’re more...
Can Varicose Veins Go Away on Their Own?
Varicose veins are a condition most common in older adults, where the pressure of standing and walking upright causes veins in the legs to twist and become enlarged. For some people, the swollen, dark-bluish to purplish veins are just a cosmetic concern, but for...
Is It Painful to Have Spider Veins Removed?
While the small, damaged capillaries called spider veins can show up on any skin surface at any age, you’re more likely to find them on adults over age 50, and typically on the face or legs. Spider veins are usually harmless and don’t cause any discomfort, but for...
Knee Pain, Neuropathy, Vein Treatments: Innovative Therapies at Atlanta Medical Clinic
The knee is the largest and one of the most complex joints in the body, and with a number of bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and other soft tissues in play, a variety of conditions can develop that can lead to sensitivity, pain, and even loss of function. When it...
Managing Your Lower Back Pain
Back pain can be a debilitating condition that affects every aspect of your life. Because it involves the spine, which is the central axis of the body, everything from head to toe can be affected when pain, inflammation and stiffness radiate outward from the joints in...
How Diabetes Impacts Vein Health
Diabetes rates are on the rise, and aside from the initial effects of the condition, those with the disease need to be concerned about lesser-known complications that develop over time. High blood sugar levels begin to have an impact on the vessels of the circulatory...
5 Things Diabetic Patients Need to Know About Wound Care
A quick bump, scratch or scrape is a normal part of life – even well after our playground and tree-climbing days are behind us. But for a diabetic, these small wounds can take days, months or even years to finally heal due to damage to the circulatory and nervous...
The Dangers of Ignoring a Diabetic Wound
Diabetes diagnoses are rising at epidemic rates, nearly doubling to almost 10% of the American population since the 1980s. Still another 85 million are living with pre-diabetic conditions, which can lead to the disease within 5 years. While many of us know about...