Medical Update August 2024

Medical Guide, August 2024— 3 Sound Therapy Sound is one way of expanding life. Sound can be soothing, comforting or distracting. Sound therapy can even assist to ease the mental coping of daily, lifelong pain. If one cannot shrink the pain, then a consideration is expanding life with pleasant sound therapy. Sound therapy is also occasionally used by dentists to reduce anxiety and ease pain. Better hearing may not mitigate pain, but rather is an example of how healthy hearing could possibly help reduce the negative impact of chronic pain and then improve quality of life. Hearing aids alone set appropriately for hearing loss can ease in the frustration of communication and pain. In addition, hearing aids often have the ability to produce soothing soft sounds that only the wearer hears such as ocean noise, rain, and streamed sounds. Ask the audiologist for ways in which sound therapy could bene À t you. www.thigpenaudiology.com Dr. Patti Thigpen, Au.D., CCC-A, Doctor of Audiology VTHH and VIP Stuff the Bus V anderbilt Tullahoma – Harton Hospital (VTHH) and the Van- derbilt Integrated Provider Tulla- homa Clinics (VIP) jumped in to as- sist the United Way of Highway 55 and this year’s Stuff the Bus event. Each of the VIP Tullahoma clin- ics raised their hand to participate in this year’s event. Special thanks go to Wes Hendrix, Certified Epic Clinical Informaticist for the VIP clinics, for delivering the bins to the adult clinics and to Allie Ham- blin, RN, BSN, Assistant Manager of Patient Care Services, Vanderbilt Integrated Pediatrics, Tullahoma, for getting the bin for their clinic. All the VTHH Departments ei- ther took it on for themselves to gather supplies or partnered with another department to do the same. As always, when the call goes out to help and support our community, the VTHH and VIP teams are all in! About Vanderbilt Tullahoma – Harton Hospital Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital is part of the Vanderbilt Health community of hospitals and clinics. Accredited by The Joint Commission, our 135-bed facility offers a wide range of inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services, including an accredited Chest Pain Center, a 14-bed critical care unit, imaging services including nuclear medicine, 3D mammography and 3D biopsy, labor and delivery with a Level 2 NICU nursery, sleep medicine, orthopedic surgery, rehabilitation and more. Visit va nderbilttullahomahartonhospital. com. Pictured: Various pics of the collections and teams. See mOre Stuff the BuS piCS On paGeS 6 and 7