What is Dry Needling? How can it be part of Chiropractic Care? Learn this and more in this in-depth conversation with Park Falls Chiropractor Claire Tomashek. Dr. Tomashek uses it to help treat patients for a variety of conditions and explains how it integrates with the other methods she uses in her practice.

The second week of August is National Health Center Week, so in this episode we will talk to NorthLakes CEO Reba Rice about Federally Qualified Health Centers, some NorthLakes history, and how and why we and other health centers do what they do.

It’s a great hour of conversation with one of the driving forces of how NorthLakes started in an old coffee shop in a small town to a center that has a coverage area over 20,000 square miles.

https://nlccwi.org/careers/current-openings/

Social Anxiety in Children is this month's topic and for it we talked with Behavioral Health Therapist Paul Workman. Paul works with kids of all ages in the Hayward and Minong schools and people of all ages in our Minong clinic. From that experience he provides insight on what Social Anxiety is, how to treat it, and the short and long term effects it can have.

Learn more about NorthLakes Behavioral Health Services here:

https://nlccwi.org/care-and-services/behavioral-health/

Massage therapy is a newer service here at NorthLakes so we wanted to learn more about it.

Luckily Massage Therapist Tracy Davis was willing to talk.

Here’s our conversation:

Do you think that you know everything about Lyme Disease? So did we until we sat down with Physician Associate Tom Nigbor. He shares everything that someone who lives or visits an area with a lot of ticks should know. Along that way he may tell you a couple of things that you may have wrong about this common disease, how to spot it, and how it is treated.

What is NorthLakes Sliding Fee Scale? How does it help people access care? Director of Patient Financial Services, Tricia Krym answers these questions and explains how people can find out if they may qualify.

The end of the Public Health Emergency (PHE), means there are some changes to some peoples Medicaid (AKA BadgerCare) coverage.

What do you need to know? Get the lowdown on the latest edition of the NorthLakes Podcast where we talk to Access Coordinator, Medicaid expert, Patty Turner.

This episode has information specific to the Spring of 2023. If you need the most up to date information about BadgerCare, Medicaid, or anything insurance related, call us at: 888.834.4551

Two links mentioned in this episode:

Marketplace: https://www.healthcare.gov/

Medicaid/BadgerCare: https://dhs.wisconsin.gov/badgercareplus/index.htm

Rebecca Crumb-Johnson is a Registered Dietitian as well as a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist at NorthLakes. In this episode she shares what she knows about sugar and why we crave it, what it does to us and why that may not be good.

In the episode she talks about the World Health Organization's recommendations on consumption. Here is a link to that: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241549028

Occupational therapist, Angie Schoeppach works with patients every day that have a challenge keeping their emotions in check. She brings her insight to this episode of the NorthLakes Podcast. The conversation goes from why regulating your emotion is important to how she works with patients find the emotional, "just right zone".

Your host also shares a moment of needing to regulate his own emotions right before Angie arrived.

What is a community health worker? They are a key component in breaking down barriers to wellness at NorthLakes Community Clinic. In this episode with talk with two of them, Brenda Spurlock and Xristobal Ramirez Romero about what they do and how they collaborate with the providers at NorthLakes.