Michael Miao MD - Desert Orthopaedic Center

08/28/2025

I'm guessing a nudibranch of some sort but this is about a foot long. very mobile.

08/28/2025

any ideas of this one's name?

Someone said it’s a sea cucumber.

08/28/2025

what was supposed to be a manta dive at night turned out as a bust. instead we went cruising in the dark and found some surprising activities. first time witnessing a moray eel actively hunting and striking out at prey.

08/28/2025

Kahalu'u. This spring they had a coral bloom which shut this area down for a period of time to prevent people from interfering. The result is a nice patch of healthy coral. It's in a super shallow area so even at high tide it's only about a 2 feet clearance to kick over. Heavy current so you have to have good equipment (fins) and the ability to pass through without touching anyting. Not easy.

08/27/2025

Kaloko and Turtle Heaven (which is misleading when we didn't see any) were the dive sites today. The coral isn't looking as healthy as I remember but the variety of species I got to see was not lacking.

08/26/2025

Honaunau is a popular snorkeling spot. Rather than hanging around everyone else in the reef, I like to swim across to the other side and swim up the coast a little. The middle is so deep that the light can't reach the bottom so it looks like I'm swimming through a light show. This time there were a gazillion baby jellies that I swam through. I think they were stinging me, but it wasn't much more than a mild tingling sensation. No redness or swelling. Thankfully.

08/20/2025

Even though I'm a biologist by education, I'm more an ethologist at heart. That being said, I find distasteful when I see people exerting the homo sapien authority over other species when they say "they need more attention." We would do better to have less impact and interference in their world in all aspects.

"There is an urgent need for further research."

08/17/2025

Hardly invisible. Given this is an outdoor event, as with many societal assumptions, it should mean that the air is clean and free to breathe. Just like having smoking areas outside of buildings which prevent nonsmokers from enjoying the "clean air" outdoors, we have set ups in our life that are presumed necessary arrangements. To have prize money, and a lot of it, you need sponsors and media advertisement as a source. You won't get that money if there aren't photographers and videographers recording and broadcasting all the intimate facial grimaces, heavy breathing, glistening sweat and muscular pumping for all of the viewers who will also be viewing sponsorship ads and, subsequently, purchasing their products. Perhaps in this day and age all the vehicles on the route could be electric....

Lead vehicle emissions can have lasting effects for marathon participants.

08/15/2025

This one is real. Think about the exorbitant amount of time we spend hunched over our phones/pads and computers with our head downward. The net result is excessive time with our neck and shoulder muscles on stretch (tension) which leads to muscle weakness, pain, spasm (knots). I'm frequently chasing my "adult" children who mention neck pain to straighten up. I have a lot of patients who come in for shoulder pain and it's a very simple postural and strengthening (Physical therapy if needed) fix to resolve. Many feel it must be something more dramatically wrong to have their pain, but it should be simple fixes for simple problems. It is a simple fix.

Health reporter Kim Schewitz felt deeply uncool doing exercises to fix her posture as a teen. Then, she realized it was becoming a "glow up" hack.

08/12/2025

Historically and currently a lot of the very best internationally has trained in the USA. A lot of full ride scholarships are given to foreign swimmers. Overtime, we have also trained a lot of coaches as well that have become international coaches. That brings up the level of talent in home countries without having to come to the US to train. Also, knowledge is shared and learned across the board for those interested enough to learn and adapt.

The end result is obvious with the gap of USA swimming dominance over other countries becoming more a balanced competition.

Michael Phelps is not happy with the state of USA Swimming. The iconic gold medalist, who won 28 medals over the course of his Summer Olympics career, is calling out Team USA on social media following their performance at the World Aquatics Championships. While Team USA still won the most swimming ....