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Having a tracheostomy can affect your ability to talk and communicate with others. A speech therapist (a person trained to help people who have problems speaking) will work with you to address these problems. If you can't talk, you can learn other ways to express your thoughts and feelings to others.

With a tracheostomy, your healthcare provider makes a small hole (stoma) in your windpipe (trachea) through your neck. A tracheostomy tube (trach tube) is then placed into the stoma. Air goes into and out of your lungs through the tube. Here are answers to some common questions that people often ask about tracheostomy.

Liposuction is a type of cosmetic surgery to remove excess fat from specific body areas.

There’s no doubt that life with newborn twins is double the challenge. But the joys are also twice as great.

Dry needling is like acupuncture. A healthcare provider puts needles into painful parts of the body and touches, taps, or pricks tissues to ease pain.

Subcutaneous mastectomy and chest contouring is done to give a person a more male-looking chest.

Male-to-female breast augmentation is done to give a person a more female-looking chest. A plastic surgeon increases breast size, often with implants.

Depression is a mood disorder that affects the way you think and feel. The most common symptom is a feeling of deep sadness. This feeling does not go away or get better on its own. But most types of depression can be helped with therapy and antidepressant medicines.

A sitz bath is a type of therapy done by sitting in warm, shallow water. Learn why and how a sitz bath is done.