Somatic Symptom Disorder: The New Hysteria
This may prove to be a rant post that I'll later delete, and I try really hard not to be overly reactive about the gross dysfunction in...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 108 min read
Rheumatoid Arthritis or Osteoarthritic Fingers
My grandmother had big knuckles in her fingers, Herberden's nodes, and when I turned thirty, many years before even finding my first grey...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 257 min read
Pelvic Pain: Are You Being Heard?
Women's health has long been a specialty focus in my practice, largely become I lean into caring for those who aren't heard, who feel...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 238 min read
Acne: Healing Skin from Within
As a teenager, I did get the occasional #pimple, sometimes a few at a time, more often across my forehead or down my nose. It seemed I...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 95 min read
Evening Primrose Oil: Not this Midwife
Evening primrose oil is commonly used as an alternative therapy, popular among women's health providers and midwives, and it is rich in...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 85 min read
Joint Pain in the Mornings: Osteoarthritis
Aging has its privileges, but one of the reasons it isn't always embraced is because we are more inclined to joint pain, and general...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 89 min read
Painful Menses in Our Youth: Dysmenorrhea
My oldest daughter, now 30 years-old, started her menses when she was crazy young. She was prepared though, not real bothered by it, nor...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 1711 min read
Anemia in Children
Worldwide, anemia in children is a significant concern, impacting nearly half of all children younger than five years of age (Wang,...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 156 min read
Gravitational Insecurity in Children: Sensory Processing Dysfunction
When my youngest was very little, she would scream when she rode in the car seat. We had her evaluated by occupational therapy, as most...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 47 min read
Direct Primary Care: What does that mean?
My beginnings in private practice were from having first been a Nurse-Midwife and if you're at all familiar with midwifery, you may know...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Feb 1210 min read
Why I Love Caring for the Little Ones
As most of you know, my career started as a nurse in the Obstetrical Intensive Care Unit, and then I worked for a smidge in the Neonatal...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 233 min read
Can You Check Your Own Blood Pressure at Home?
Healthcare is changing. Clinicians struggle more and more to offer all they know they should to improve health within the five-or-six...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 188 min read
Trauma-Informed Maternity Care
Yesterday I wrote a bit about maternal and child outcomes being pretty catastrophic here in the United States which I relate to the...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 512 min read
Teens & Suicide: Let's Make Safe Space to Talk About It
Suicide rates are increasing across all populations. I talk about this regularly with clients, and in each and every class I teach...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Dec 9, 202313 min read
The Moon & its Effect on Us
The Moon has a powerful and magical influence over many aspects of life here on this amazing planet. We don't like to lean into this much...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Dec 6, 202310 min read
Botanicals & Breast Cancer
It seems to me that many #midwives are impacted personally by breast cancer. I am not sure if its because we tend to become a bit...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Oct 11, 20232 min read
Hot Flashes, Vaginal Dryness, Low Libido
As we age, our ovarian function declines naturally. We produce less estrogen and progesterone, and we stop ovulating. This decline begins...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Oct 9, 20238 min read
Don't Talk About It: What Will the Neighbors Think?
I've shared previously that a few years ago I did a little work with the Mind Body Institute, in which we learned about ancestral cell...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Oct 4, 20232 min read
Trichotillomania
When I was in my family nurse practitioner training, women presenting with #trichotillomania was not an uncommon finding. I can't say...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Sep 12, 20231 min read
Uterine Fibroids
It isn't clear what initiates these growths in our uterus. Maybe they are the superhero uterine cells that simply overwork themselves,...
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