Meniere’s Disease (MD) is a debilitating illness with a lot of unknowns about it’s true nature. This misunderstanding has led to a lot of MD patients getting ineffective or excessively damaging treatments on patients that are desperate for relief. It’s also an illness that tends to be misdiagnosed by a lot of clinicians unless you […]
Patients with persistent motion sickness represent a subset of patients commonly associated with dizziness and imbalance. While many patients with motion sickness have it in relationship with a condition like migraine, vestibular migraine, or BPPV, there are many patients who just struggle with it on it’s own without a complaint of dizziness. Motion sickness isn’t […]
On our last post, we got familiar with a lot of the players of the immune system. If you missed that post and want to catch up with some of the main cells involved with immunity, you can check it out here: A Brief Tour of Your Immune System At the end of the article, […]
For the past 10 years, I’ve spent my free time and creative energy learning and teaching about neuroscience and the human nervous system. It’s why our office has evolved to integrate neuroplasticity in our clinical practice. However, there was a time where I was a major in Microbiology/Molecular Biology, and I was enamored with the […]
Most everyone knows about or has heard of the placebo effect; the seemingly magical ability for our bodies to feel better or overcome illness from a belief in a treatment that has no effect. It’s one of the things in medicine that we are always wary of, especially when selecting treatments associated with alternative medicine. […]
I’ve been into weight lifting for about 20 years now. I started when I was a teenager in high school mainly because my high school baseball coach and the school’s weight lifting coach were the same person. Getting fitter and stronger was a necessary part of just getting better. I grew to really love working […]
Cervical vertigo is a controversial entity in the world of balance and vestibular disorders. It has generally been a diagnosis of exclusion when a patient is feeling dizzy but has no diagnosable pathology in the inner ear or brain. The reality is that problems in the cervical spine are commonly linked to feelings of imbalance […]
Migraine headaches remain the most common neurological disorder in the world. While there are a number of drugs that can target a stop a migraine attack in its tracks, there are many patients who have been resistant to current medications and have to endure several migraine days or more each month. In the last 2 […]
How do we organize such a diverse array of functions for the brain? When someone has a #concussion, it’s rarely just one part of the brain that gets injured. The interconnectedness of the brain means that damage to one part means multiple functions will deteriorate. So when someone comes in and they are feeling dizzy, their […]
Smooth pursuit eye movements are the ones we use to follow a moving object without moving our heads. We take it for granted how simple this is, but this eye movement requires the coordination of several brain regions including the parietal lobe, temporal lobe, cerebellum, and multiple brain stem nuclei. It requires us to: Predict […]
