Health and Wellness Library

Here are some helpful resources on topics of interest to InterMed patients.

Antibiotics

1. Antibiotic Facts

Back Pain

General

1. Back care and injury prevention
2. Back pain – Emergency or urgent symptoms
3. How to have a healthy back
4. Relief for back pain
5. Care instructions: Back pain
6. Care instructions: Flank pain

Lower Back

1. Learning about low back pain
2. Care Instructions: Getting back to normal after low back pain
3. Care Instructions: Return to work plan for people with low back pain
4. Exercises: Acute low back pain
5. Exercises: Low back pain
6. Deciding about MRI for low back pain
7. Deciding about spinal manipulation for low back pain

More

1. Exercises: Back stretches
2. Exercises: Therapeutic ball
3. Exercises: Upper back
4. Learning about medial branch block and neurotomy
5. Medial branch neurotomy: Before your procedure
6. Medial branch neurotomy: What to expect at home
7. Back pain during pregnancy
8. Back pain and sex
9. Lumbar epidural steroid injections
10. The Keele STarT Back Screening Tool

Common Cold

1. Learning about the safe use of antibiotics
2. Learning about COPD and upper respiratory infections
3. Saline nasal washes: Care instructions
4. Saline nasal washes for children: Care instructions
5. Upper respiratory infection: Care instructions
6. Viral respiratory infection: Care instructions
7. Frequent infections in children: Care instructions
8. Cold in children 0 to 3 months: Care instructions
9. Cold in children 3 months to 1 year: Care instructions
10. Cold in children 1 to 3 years: Care instructions
11. Cold in children 3 to 6 years: Care instructions
12. Cold in children 6 years and older: Care instructions

Cough

1. Cough: Care instructions
2. Cough in children

Diabetes

1. Glucagon/GlucaGen Emergency Kit
2. Ketone Guidelines
3. Rule of 15: Treatment for low blood glucose (hypoglycemia)
4. Diabetes and Nutrition

Ears

1. Ear infection in children 0-2 years: Care instructions
2. Ear infections in children: Care instructions
3. Swimmer’s ear in children

Eyes

1. Allergic conjunctivitis in children: Care instructions
2. Learning about bacterial conjunctivitis in newborns
3. Pinkeye from bacteria in children: Care instructions
4. Pinkeye from virus in children: Care instructions

Flu

1. Flu in children: Care instructions
2. Learning about COVID-19 and flu symptoms
3. Frequent infections in children: Care instructions

General health and safety

1. Frequent infections in children: Care instructions
2. Learning about water safety for children
3. Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medications
4. Yardwork Safety

Healthy living

1. A healthy lifestyle for your child: Care instructions
2. Considering more physical activity for your child
3. Healthy eating: How to make healthy changes in your child’s diet
4. Healthy eating for toddlers: Care instructions
5. Body Mass Index in children: Care instructions
6. Frequent infections in children: Care instructions

Heart Health

1. TargetBP - Resource Library
2. AHA Blood Pressure ToolKit
3. YouTube - Blood Pressure Monitor Tutorial
4. YouTube - The Right Way To Check Your Blood Pressure
   
5. YouTube - Your Blood Pressure Explained
6. Home Blood Pressure Devices

Insect stings and bites

1. Insect stings and bites: Care instructions
2. Tick bites: Care instructions

Pediatric health and wellness

1. Frequent infections in children: Care instructions
2. Newborn Handout
3. Teen Packet

Antibiotics (Children)

1. Antibiotic Facts – Pediatric Patients

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

1. Child Mind Institute: Parents Guide to ADHD
2. KidsHealth: ADHD
3. National Institute of Mental Health: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): The Basics
4. ADHD Parents Medication Guide (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and American Psychiatric Association)

Rash

1. Care instructions: Rash

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

1. RSV in children: Care instructions

Sinus Pain

1. Bruised nose: Care instructions
2. Nasal abscess: Care instructions
3. Nasal endoscopy: What to expect at home
4. Nasal polyps: Care instructions

Sore Throat

1. Sore throat: Care instructions
2. Uvulitis: Care instructions

Urinary

1. Care instructions: Painful Urination (Dysuria)