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Better Health & Brighter Days

Are you looking for a health care team to guide you to better health and brighter days?
Dr. Sands and the Hickory Medical Team welcomes the opportunity to provide you with primary care services including high level diagnostics, same day sick visits, wellness and prevention in a holistic approach.

Doors Open:

Mon. - Weds., Fri. 8:30am - 4:30pm

Thurs. 8:30am-12:30

Sat. By Appointment Only

Phone: (615) 333-1490

What You Don't Know Could Hurt You !!!

Men whose parents developed Hypertension before age 55 have a 6.2 higher life time risk of developing Hypertension says investigators at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. (Arch Intern Med 2008).
Excessive weight effects virtually every organ system in the body, increasing the risk of Diabetes, Heart Attack, Stroke, Cancer, and other Chronic Diseases. (Obesity, Lancet 2005).
The Economic down turn can be expected to reduce nutrition quality and physical activity, worsening obesity prevalence when society is least able to bear the finacial burden says Dr. Pollack of the Center for Health Administration Studies, University of Chicago. (Jama, Feb. 4 2009)
According the World Health Organization, more than 1 billion adults worldwide are overweight (BMI > 25) and 300 million are obese (BMI >30). (Jama 2001).
71 percent of the people who had Hypertension and were not on medication, normalized their blood pressure with significant weight loss proven in a study by Dr. Williams in 1995. (Am J of Epidemiology). and so can you.
Tennessee is ranked 6th among the unhealthiest states, you and Hickory Medical Advisors can change this one patient at a time.

Help Our Practice Grow

We appreciate the opportunity to serve you, your friends, family and co-workers. Our office is located at The Shoppes of Edmondson Pike, 3 miles south of Southern Hills Hospital near Nippers Corner and The Brentwood Library.