OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony Medical Center was already Rockford’s top choice for stroke care, but now it is also Rockford’s only hospital to be certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center. That means OSF Saint Anthony meets the most stringent certification guidelines that exist for stroke care. It means the best stroke care in the region […]
It’s a known fact that stress isn’t a good thing. It can cause many side effects, like frequent headaches, trouble sleeping or changes in someone’s mood. But did you know it can cause more serious problems, too, like a stroke? Tiffany Hinthorne, of El Paso, Illinois, found that out the hard way when she started […]
When her daughter was diagnosed with a Chiari one malformation, a potentially serious brain condition, Cassie Wilson and her family wanted to know everything they could about the topic. So, they looked it up online. The information they found helped explain a lot of the seemingly random and unrelated symptoms Cassie’s daughter, Cadance, had been […]
It was an aneurysm in a coiled carotid left artery that brought Tim Dorr to OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony Medical Center. “I feel lucky – because the aneurysm was discovered by accident,” says Dorr. “It could have burst and I would have been a goner.” When experiencing symptoms before the aneurysm was discovered – headache […]
In June, 62-year-old East Galesburg resident Mary Knox underwent spine surgery to repair damage caused by scoliosis. Her surgery was at OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center, with Daniel Fassett, MD, of OSF HealthCare Illinois Neurological Institute. “It included surgery on my whole spine,” she said. “The scoliosis had gotten pretty bad, and it had […]