As a chiropractor, I encounter a lot of patients with a variety of pain issues. In school, we learned to recognize a lot of the skeletal changes that can happen in a patient with #rheumatoidarthritis and #ankylosingspondylitis so we had some training with autoimmune disease. However, it wasn’t until my wife was diagnosed with lupus where I really […]
Concussions and Helmets A lot of time and resources have gone into methods to reduce concussion in sports. There’s a lot of speculative stuff out there, but most of it has yet to be proven in a meaningful way. The biggest myth is that newer generation helmets can protect against concussion in football. The […]
This region of the brainstem and upper spinal cord is really important for our perception of our head, neck, and face. This is especially true in terms of pain. Pain experienced in the head/neck/face have strong and fast connections to areas of the brain associated with autonomic and limbic consequences. That means that pain […]
A lot of people have gotten into the stock market in the past year. In many ways, investing and trading can be similar to the healing process. We all wish that our healing and recovery would just go up in a straight line, but unfortunately it doesn’t work like that most of the […]
This month we have had a couple of dizzy patients who have been getting vestibular rehabilitation for a few months, but have continued to struggle with a sense of imbalance and dysequilibrium. They initially had a pretty bad vertigo attack from a likely viral infection, but they haven’t felt vertigo since their initial attack. […]
What if what we always knew about chronic pain was wrong? 🤔 We are conditioned to think about pain as a direct product of injury. Because of this, we have strong, but incorrect assumption that the severity of pain correlates with the severity of injury. These beliefs may be true for acute pain or […]
Keystone Brain Bytes Episode 4 – The Vestibular System in Memory and Cognition On this episode of Keystone Brain Bytes, Dr. Chung talks about the impact that the vestibular system has on memory and cognition. Did you know? Scientists used to destroy the vestibular nerve in rats, and rats struggled to get through mazes. […]
There’s some confusion about the functions of the two sides of the brain, so let’s talk about some myths and facts about brain hemisphericity. We know that the the brain is organized into right and left hemispheres, but do these hemispheres have unique functions? One of the most common beliefs is that personality […]
Adapted with links from an article written for The Brain Health Magazine Sleep is arguably the most powerful and least expensive treatment that we have in our arsenal that can help support brain health. We all know this intrinsically, and most of us really do want to get more sleep. For most of us, getting […]
Keystone Brain Bytes Episode 3 – Our Approach to Dysautonomia Dysautonomia is becoming a more common complaint in our office and one that we have had a good amount of success in treating. It will likely become a more prevalent issue in the coming years. In this episode of Brain Bytes, Dr. Chung explains our […]
