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Acupuncture for Osgood-Schlatter Disease

If you have an active growing child with knee pain, he/she/they has probably been diagnosed with Osgood-Schlatter disease, which is actually an overuse injury, not a disease. In addition to common treatments such as, resting, icing, and stretching,

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From Race Cars to Wildebeests

The Samburu Project is again coordinating a Walk for Water, and is supported by many members of our Woodside community including Bob and Martha Falkenberg and Matt and Doretta Bonner. Please come join us for a Saturday morning

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Spring 2018 Community Events

One of our many delights at The Village Doctor is that spring brings not only flowers, birdsong, and warmer weather (facilitating the best medicine ever, exercise), but also many of the local community events which we take such

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SkinCeuticals Orders

The Village Doctor is scaling back the number of SkinCeuticals products we have on hand to the most popular products, CE Ferulic and Phloretin CF. We are maintaining our account and will be happy to order any SkinCeuticals

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Marching Along

March? Certainly things are marching right along at TVD. Read our Manager’s update on our new phone system – the installation has kept us busy and our hope is that you hardly notice. Let me draw your attention

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The Importance of Self-care

Part of my profession is to teach, actually preach, about the benefits of self-care: “To take good… better care of your children, parents, husband, wife, one has to take care of oneself.” It’s wisdom and common sense all

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Six Tips for Teaching Children Gratitude – Part 2

By: Kathleen Berchelmann, MD, FAAP  (Adapted from healthychildren.org) (Part 2 of 2, click here for Part 1) Tired of bickering, jealousy, and selfishness? Kids are naturally materialistic and self-serving – but the good news is that gratitude can be

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New Shingles Vaccine is Available

Approved by the FDA in October 2017, the new shingles vaccine, Shingrix, has shown remarkable protection rates in every age group over 50. Whereas the prior vaccine, Zostavax, prevented only about half of shingles cases in those over

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Marching Along

March? Certainly things are marching right along at TVD. Read our Manager’s update on our new phone system – the

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