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Living with a spine, neck, or back issue is challenging. But healing is possible when you choose Saint Luke's Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute. Our team of specialists will help you get back to the life you love.

Pressure injuries can involve open wounds or discoloration of skin. They can arise over bony prominences (such as the spine, shoulders, skull, elbow, finger, pelvis, hip, ankle, heel, midfoot or toe) or from an outside surface causing pressure such as a medical device or tube, edge of a table, arm of a chair or toilet seat.

Before getting pregnant, you may have added some good health habits to get ready for your baby.

Your health care provider will evaluate your shoulder. This will likely include imaging tests, such as X-rays and often an MRI. You’ll then discuss treatment choices. These can include physical therapy, surgery, or both. After the shoulder is stabilized, proper exercise can help keep it that way.

The surgeons at Saint Luke's Center for Surgical Weight Loss offer gastric bypass surgery, which uses the Roux-en-Y technique.