Dr. Philip Rosenblum
Family Medicine
Thornton, CO
30 years experience male
Locations
Arbor Family Medicine
Thornton, CO
Phone
Practice website
Insurances accepted
Aetna Life Insurance Company
Anthem BC Life & Health Insurance Company
Cigna
Golden Rule Insurance Company
Great-West Healthcare
Humana Insurance Company
PHP
Rocky Mountain Health Plan
United HealthCare Insurance Company
USAA Insurance
Arbor Family Medicine
Westminster, CO
About
Bio
Over 20 years in private practice
All ages and history
Obstetrics and Well Child care
Accepting Medicare
Electronic health records, Radiology on site
Certified for excellence in Diabetes, Heart disease and stroke
SpecialtiesDoctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Family Medicine
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A 26-year-old male asked:
Dr. Philip Rosenblumanswered
Family Medicine 30 years experience
Dietary intolerance: You may have a food sensitivity causing your symptoms. A withdrawal diet of 1 week off of all forms of a food group might uncover the cause. The fir... Read More
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A 20-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Core strengthening: Most treatment plans for back injuries begin with strengthening core (abdominal and lower back) muscle groups and increasing flexibility, particularly... Read More
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A 24-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
See a doctor: Sounds like somebody needs to have a look at you. This could be strep or h flu, and anything from an ear infection to sinusitis or lymphadenitis. Some... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Eat, hydrate + sleep: 1) get a good, simple meal into you. There are no guidelines except whatever sounds good. 2) drink fluids. Many of your symptoms are due to dehydratio... Read More
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A 20-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
See a doctor: Fractures of the big toe can be a big problem. First, the big toe is very important and you're going to want it working well for the rest your life. S... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Unlikely : Calcium as a mineral causes an increase in muscle tone and in excess can contribute to muscle spasm, headaches, and heartburn. Not a recipe for relaxa... Read More
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A 23-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Maybe x both: Hypothyroidism can cause irregular periods. You may have difficulties getting pregnant because of this. Once corrected you may have an easier time get... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Several possibilitie: Possibilities include:1) persisting stimulation (tell your partner to leave them alone) 2) certain hormones: the mini-pill, progesterone-only birth c... Read More
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A 25-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Get them removed: Wisdom tooth pain is caused when there is no room for last row of teeth to settle into the mouth, and they put a squeeze on the adjacent teeth. You ... Read More
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A 58-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Unlikely: Fish oil is lipophilic, that is, it joins with other fats or oils when it disperses and forms a solution. Oils are absorbed in that form. The fat solu... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Hormones: Birth control pills containing estrogen and Progesterone will give her a regular monthly cycle without ovulation. A "regular" cycle, including ovulati... Read More
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A 29-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Nope: Based on both your last menstrual period and your due date, your approximate date of conception would be september 9. Your question about august 15 i... Read More
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A male asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Water and diet: Exercise is good for you and those burning muscles are one sign that you're pushing yourself and building your fitness level. Be sure to drink fluids ... Read More
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A 32-year-old male asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
No: Board certification for any medical speciality requires a 4 year college degree, a medical degree (which is an md or do), then completion of an accred... Read More
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A 92-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
No. Call the doctor.: You can ask them to substitute a liquid version of the same medication, but don't substitute another medication on your own.
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A 39-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
How much cheating?: "cheating" on a diet doesn't mean that you've gone back to all of your bad habits and are eating the same volume or the same calories as before. You s... Read More
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A 79-year-old male asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Swimming good 4 back: Swimming is a great exercise for back pain. It is one of the few traction exercises; at the same time you are pulling with your arms and strengthening... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Autonomic symptoms: It is common to experience involuntary actions such as excessive salivation, loss of bowel or bladder control during a generalized, or "tonic-clonic" ... Read More
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A male asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
See a doctor: If your little girl has a UTI she needs to be evaluated and treated medically. For prevention you can pick any of a number of approaches to prevent a ... Read More
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A 38-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Go to Emergency Rm: There's no way to know what that staple is going to do, but it needs to be followed. You should go to the er or your doctor for an evaluation. They wi... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Causing a rash?: The simple answer is that we don't know how it works. The combination of mononucleosis and Amoxicillin causes a rash in a significant minority of pati... Read More
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A 20-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Microhematuria : = blood + in urine + seen under a microscope. Can be due to infection, irritation to the urinary tract from a stone or infection even in the past. So... Read More
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Bike training: Bicycling is an excellent way to build your quadriceps and hamstring muscles. You'll want to use a bike or trainer with toe clips and increase the res... Read More
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A 41-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Go have fun: A "cold" is a viral infection, usually acquired by hand to mouth or inhaling droplets, from a cough or sneeze, containing virus or viral spores. A cro... Read More
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A 20-year-old female asked:
Dr. Philip Rosenblumanswered
Family Medicine 30 years experience
Get a new PCP: Many ob/gyn groups in will advise a first visit around 10 weeks from your lmp, so that's quite a way off, if like most women you've tested within days... Read More
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
That's infection : No, cloudy urine with a foul smell is caused by infection until proven otherwise. See a doctor.
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A 42-year-old male asked:
Dr. Philip Rosenblumanswered
Family Medicine 30 years experience
Member of guild. : Board certification in a specialty is much like a trade guild. Examinations are taken regularly, regular class work is required, and a certain ongoing... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Why do you want that: Your question made it sound like you're think about damaging your ankle to have surgery. You don't want that, unless it's absolutely necessary. You ha... Read More
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A female asked:
Dr. Philip Rosenblumanswered
Family Medicine 30 years experience
Yes: The average menstrual period does last about 4-5 days. You are in the normal range.
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A 25-year-old male asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Usually trauma: Sometimes a person who has repetitive trauma to the knee will get pre-patellar bursitis. This is a painless, usually fluid filled swelling over the lo... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Pain: Esophageal spasms are typically painful and prolonged. Palpitations are a skipped heartbeat, usually a mild sensation, and never painful. If you're co... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Live your life: At least part of your eating disorder was related to anxiety. That can return under very stressful conditions. For that reason, and for your general h... Read More
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A 24-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Depends: The pancreas is a gland in the back of the abdomen which produces enzymes to digest proteins, fats, and carbs. In pancreatitis, the enzymes start work... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Possibly : Many people think of tension headache as "just a stress problem.". They can actually be quite severe and cause loss of work time, interfere with famil... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
It's not common: I haven't seen shortness of breath as a common complaint among my cluster patients. It should be evaluated as a separate symptom.
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A 23-year-old member asked:
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Prevention of HIV: The AIDs prevention research project in Africa was a very large research project in Africa, where AIDs is devastating the population, which clearly sh... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Paralysis patients: If i'm understanding the question, that's a treatment for individuals either partially or completely paralyzed below the waist, used to maintain muscl... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Medicine and therapy: A physiatrist, or rehabilitation medicine physician is a doctor who deals with evaluation and treatment of, and recovery from, disability. (s)he can p... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
See a doctor: A bigger question is why do you need to be taking cough drops all the time. Any cough that has been going on long enough to need to ask the first ques... Read More
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A 26-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Not exactly: The brachial plexus is a bundle of nerves that passes through the axilla, or underarm area. True brachial plexus damage is unlikely to cause the sympt... Read More
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A 26-year-old member asked:
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Maybe, but...: Damage to the long thoracic nerve can cause winging of the scapula. This could potentially happen from a scapular or rib fracture, but as the nerve ru... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
No interaction : There is no reason to think that there would be a difference in absorption of either substance if taken together. However, of one of them gives you he... Read More
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A 23-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
10-14 days: Counting the first day of the period as day #1, most women ovulate between day #10 and 14. Maximal sperm production occurs when you are having sex abo... Read More
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Get them done: I will assume you've tried sitz baths, stool softeners, witch hazel, preparation h, etc. See your primary care about some prescription treatment and c... Read More
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A 28-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Pregnancy unlikely: By the 8th day after the missed period, you should be seeing a positive pregnancy test if you are, in fact, pregnant. I'm having trouble understandin... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
I know a few tricks: There are a few tricks to swallowing pills: 1) try to practice with small candies, like m&m's or tic-tacs, 2) always take pills with a drink or water.... Read More
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A 27-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Stress never helps: There is little scientific evidence that stress is actually physically harmful, and i would imagine that it would be difficult to design such a study.... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Lots of things: There are many treatments, both medical and nutritional to help with cluster headache or migraine. Decreasing stress, avoiding stimulants such as caf... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Could be asthma: A young child that is awakening at night because of cough or difficulty breathing should be evaluated for asthma. Associated concerns would include a ... Read More
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A 20-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 30 years experience
Iodine rich foods: There is definitely an association with benign enlargement of the thyroid gland, called a goiter, and a low iodine diet. For this reason, iodine was ... Read More
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Apr 12, 2013
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Dec 19, 2011
Very smart answer and helped me narrow down to very potential diagnosis! Impressive! Would recommend him to friends in CO! toda!
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It's perplexing, fascinating and oh so painful. Facinating because pressure points on neck and shoulders can ease pain as soon as removed, it's excrutiating. Perplexing because it always starts in nec...Read More
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thank you for taking the time. i am 31 and feeling side effects. i workout a lot and the hogh iron & low-t are killing me. i live in northeastern pa if you no and docs. i want keep my youth and feel b...Read More
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I truly was strength training, I thibk the weakness was my diet. Keeping a food diary now. It occurs to me I should have mentioned I'm obese. Anyway, I feel great for it! :) Thanks for the info!
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, NY
Graduated 1993MD
Residency
MAIN LINE HOSPITAL BRYN MAWR CAMPUS
Residency
PENNSYLVANIA HOSP OF THE UNIV OF PA HEALTH SYS
Awards
Attested to Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records
NCQA Certified in Cardiovascular disease and Stroke
Recertified for Excellence in Diabetes Care 2009, 2012
Affiliations
Colorado Academy of Family Medicine
American Academy Family Physicians
American Medical Association
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