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Relieving Joint Pain: Options to Help You Move Forward

Relieving Joint Pain: Options to Help You Move Forward Every time you walk, run, lift or bend, you have your joints to thank. However, gratitude can give way to frustration when a painful...

June 28, 2022 – 3 min read

The Women’s Imaging Scans You Need

It’s a fact: One in eight women in the U.S. will get breast cancer during her lifetime. Preventive screenings like mammograms can help detect cancer early while it is more easily treatable, but...

May 11, 2022 – 3 min read

How Imaging Can Help Relieve Aches and Pains

When you have aches and pains in your back or another part of your body, it can affect your daily life and prevent you from doing activities you enjoy. Imaging, such as MRI...

May 11, 2022 – 2 min read
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Tech Neck Woes

Whether you’ve heard of tech neck (sometimes called text neck) or not, the neck pain caused by staring down at devices like smartphones is on the rise. A 2019 study found that around...

April 26, 2022 – 3 min read
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Why Get Diagnostic Imaging at American Health Imaging?

When you need diagnostic imaging, such as an MRI or CT scan, you might think that you have to go to a hospital for your care. But the fact is that you can...

April 26, 2022 – 3 min read
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Severe Back Pain: Can Imaging Help?

It’s been days, weeks or months. Day after day, it just won’t stop. It’s severe back pain. It takes root in your lower back, upper back or the base of your spine. It...

April 26, 2022 – 3 min read

Chest CT Scan for Your Heart: Who Benefits the Most?

A CT scan uses X-rays to take multiple cross-sectional images of the body. A computer then combines those images to create a clear, 3D view of the internal organs. CT scans can help...

March 23, 2022 – 2 min read

Cardiac Calcium Scoring: An Affordable Heart Snapshot

Every day, your heart pushes blood throughout your body, and you rarely pay attention to it. But you should. Because if your heart is at risk due to blockages, so is your life....

March 23, 2022 – 2 min read

What a Chest CT Scan Can Reveal About Your Lungs

November 9, 2021 – 0 min read