Hands On Health

Over 45 million Americans suffer with headaches on a regular basis. In this episode of Hands On Health, Dr. Susan Frain shares her personal struggle with headaches and how a chance encounter helped find and eliminate the cause. 

Drs. Frain review the three most common types of headaches, including migraines, stress headaches and cluster headaches. They also dive into some of the most common causes of headaches, such as str...

Choosing the right supplement can mean the difference between improving your health or not making any difference whatsoever. Did you ever wonder why you can walk into a store and pay one price for a bottle of vitamins, but the same vitamin at a health food store is twice the cost? It has nothing to do with big box stores selling a larger quantity giving them the ability to charge a lower fee, and everything to do with the quality o...

This episode of Hands on Health, is all about sleep. With over 70 million Americans suffering from some form of sleep disorder, Drs. Susan and Patrick Frain dive into some of the most common reasons we have trouble falling or staying asleep, and what to do about it. 

Some of the most common sleep disorders include insomnia, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, narcolepsy, and circadian rhythm disorder. In this episode, we w...

 With 26 bones in each foot, approximately 25% of the bones in our entire body, are located in our socks and shoes. In this episode of Hands on Health, Drs. Frain explore the top 10 most common injuries in runners, many of which can happen in non-runners as well. 

The 26 bones of each foot, form three arches; the medial (inner) arch, lateral (outer) arch, and transverse arch. These arches distribute the weight of our body ...

In this episode of Hands On Health, Drs. Frain discuss the most common types of chronic pain, as well as solutions from a medical perspective and alternative healthcare perspective. 

According to the CDC, over 50 million adults suffer with chronic pain. Roughly 80% of those adults also suffer with depression. Chronic pain is the leading cause of disability in the United States, with the nation spending over $635 billion pe...

In this episode of Hands on Health, Drs. Frain discuss the Eat, Play, Adapt approach to keeping your family healthy. 

EAT - One of the best ways to help your kids develop healthy habits, is have them begin helping with family meal preparation as soon as possible. Young kids can begin by putting fruit in a colander and washing it off. As they get older, helping prepare their own lunch for school, and even putting them in ch...

In this episode of Hands on Health, Drs. Susan and Patrick Frain explore the ins-and-outs of a healthy gut. In this inaugural podcast, they dive into the importance of gut health and how things we eat, drink, or take every day, can cause our gut to become imbalanced.
 
 They discuss the 4 R's of rebuilding your gut health, including removing inflammatory triggers that are associated with an increase in gut permeabilit...