A sharp and sometimes electric nerve pain coming from the back of the head that can radiate over the top of the skull or into the eyes.The pain from occipital neuralgia can be severe, and is often misdiagnosed as a #migraine.While occipital neuralgia is common after a head injury like #concussion, it can come out of nowhere […]
This post hits close to home, but it’s so important that lay people understand the signs and risk factors for stroke. As a chiropractor trained heavily in neurology, I’ve spent years understanding and training to recognize when someone may be having a stroke. Despite my training, my wife suffered multiple strokes over the course of […]
Is Your Neck Muscle Connected to Your Heart Muscle? A 2015 study suggests that it might be the case. At least in rats. Neck muscle afferents influence oromotor and cardiorespiratory brainstem neural circuits The authors of the study were evaluating the anatomic mechanisms for how whiplash disorders and dystonia could cause problems with facial, oral, […]
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. […]
