Rheumatology in Harmony

 Rheumatology deals with chronic inflammatory diseases with painful, dystrophic, evolutionary attitudes, such as suspected or already diagnosed autoimmune diseases.

Repeated joint and muscle pain, dry skin and mucous membranes, muscle weakness, and easy fatigue can lead to the rheumatologist specialist prescribing specific tests and any targeted therapies.

Rheumatology

The approach of our center is based on listening to the person and on an accurate medical history, with particular attention to the psychological sphere. Doctor Q Khan provides the best nephrology physicians in the USA.  Diseases that fall within the rheumatological specialty are often painful, disabling, and chronic, they can cause anxiety and depression in the patient who sees his habits, independence, and lifestyle upset.

Armonia's team of rheumatological specialists works in synergy to offer a personalized and effective response to the patient's disorder in the case of degenerative pathologies, such as osteoarthritis, polyarthritis, and osteoporosis; and chronic inflammatory diseases, such as connective tissue diseases, polyarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis affecting the sacroiliac joints, and fibromyalgia syndrome.

Early diagnosis is essential to prevent joint damage and the evolution of the disease. With a rheumatological visit, the specialist doctor collects as much information as possible about the patient's lifestyle and previous ailments, ascertain the origin of the disorder, and set the most suitable therapy. If necessary, it can prescribe diagnostic tests using the most recent technologies available in Armonia.

Among the therapies carried out in our center, infiltrations represent a very effective and often decisive technique in treating arthritis, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia.

The assessment of osteoporosis in Harmony

Often asymptomatic, osteoporosis can occur suddenly with a fracture. For this reason, the rheumatologist specialist also evaluates based on risk factors (menopause or advanced age) whether it is recommended to undergo a specific examination to highlight its presence.

In Armonia, it is possible to carry out a rheumatology visit with DXA reading (MOC), bone densitometry, and reference exam to diagnose osteoporosis. It is a highly advanced technology that allows establishing the bone mineral density non-invasive and with external X-rays, making it completely harmless for the patient. The specialist doctor shows the risk of fragility fractures and the most suitable therapy thanks to this simple examination.

Hematology

Hematology deals with diseases of the blood and the organs that make up the blood and lymphatic system, responsible for the production of white blood cells and the body's defense from potentially harmful external agents, including lymph nodes, spleen, liver, and bone marrow.

Blood diseases manifest themselves in many forms and with symptoms usually identified by the patient himself or the general practitioner, who directs the patient to a specialist visit.

Hematology in Harmony

Armonia's team of Hematological Surgeons is highly qualified and uses innovative diagnostic techniques and specific tests to ensure rapid and accurate results for the patient.

·         The Hematology in Harmony service includes:

·         red blood cell disorders (for example, anemia)

·         bone marrow abnormalities

·         blood-related immune system abnormalities

·         hemoglobinopathies such as (for example, thalassemia)

Disorders related to the blood components that protect us from bleeding, i.e., platelet conditions and clotting factors found in plasma.

Digestive endoscopy

Digestive endoscopy is a diagnostic method that allows verifying directly, from the inside, the possible presence of lesions or alterations of some organs. Digestive endoscopy is also a therapeutic technique used to perform minor operations such as biopsies, polyp removal, cauterization, etc. Digestive endoscopy uses specific instruments called endoscopes, which are tiny tubes with optical fibers that are inserted into the body through the oral cavity (for the study of the esophagus, duodenum, and stomach) or the anus (for the study intestine) depending on the area to be treated or monitored.

Today this diagnostic and therapeutic technique is fundamental for the early diagnosis of numerous pathologies of the digestive system and the consequent removal of the identified alterations. Digestive endoscopy exams are performed in Armonia outpatient by Specialist Doctors with proven experience using new generation instruments.

Among the most recent applications of digestive endoscopy, there is also the placement of the intragastric balloon, which offers obese patients the opportunity to lose weight and acquire a healthier lifestyle without surgery.

Our performance

Gastroenterological visit

·         Proctological visit

·         Colonoscopy (with possible biopsy)

·         Colonoscopy + ileoscopy

·         Colonoscopy + polypectomy

·         Rectosigmoidoscopy (with possible biopsy)

·         Rectosigmoidoscopy with polypectomy

·         Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (with possible biopsy)

·         Physiatry Service

Physiatry is the discipline aimed at patients suffering from motor, cognitive, and sphincter difficulties as a consequence of various pathologies, particularly of the nervous system and the musculoskeletal system.

Physiatry in Harmony

Armonia provides its patients with an excellent Physiotherapy service and a team of Physiatrists with proven experience and competence.

The physiatric examination mainly does not focus on the disease-cause, which is the responsibility of other specialists such as neurologists, orthopedists, rheumatologists, neurosurgeons. Still, on the functional consequences of musculoskeletal or nervous diseases, or the difficulties they create for the person's activities and psychological and emotional state.

Among the problems most frequently treated by the Armonia Physiatrists, we find the difficulties associated with pathologies of the musculoskeletal system such as hip or knee prosthetic sequelae, lumbosciatica, outcomes of trauma, arthrosis, and inflammatory joint diseases.

As a rule, even, more challenging is the problems associated with pathologies connected to the nervous system such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, brain tumor or trauma, inflammatory, vascular, neoplastic, or traumatic diseases of the spinal cord. Doctor Q Khan provides the best Clinical Consultation in the USA.  These pathologies can involve speech disorders, swallowing disorders, bladder incontinence.

The Physiatrist, through the collection of the patient's medical history and clinical and diagnostic evidence, and after an accurate visit defines any additional diagnostic services, will develop a rehabilitation protocol that can include both the use of drugs and a series of specific rehabilitation sessions for help the patient in solving or treating the problem.