Last week I gave a talk to a group about the role of your immune system in pain and inflammation. It’s easy to forget that the immune system that is responsible for fighting germs and illness is the same immune system that produces the inflammation that heals sprained joints or causes arthritic joint pain. It’s […]
Vestibular migraine (VM) is a condition in which dizziness and vertigo can occur from central brain changes that occur similar to migraine headaches. Although VM has #migraine in its name, it can happen with or without the feeling of a migraine headache. Some patients have just #vestibular symptoms like #vertigo. Others will have both #headache and vertigo along with other neurological manifestations. […]
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 […]
