Why do you have ongoing pain for years after an car accident? Car accidents cause a lot of injuries to so many different parts of the body ranging from whiplash (a generic term often referring to injuries causing neck pain, headaches, and more) to concussions, shoulder injuries, back injuries, and injuries to various extremities. Every […]
What age should your child start football?
An interesting and frightening paper about youth football. We have seen in prior studies, the longer someone plays football, the greater their risk of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). A recent study looks at another factor, age the the player started playing football. It appears in this relatively small study of 211 autopsied brains with 84 […]
Insight Into Improving Autoimmunity Symptoms
Are Frustrated With An Autoimmune Condition? This is the beginning of several posts to help people understand why they still have so many symptoms and problems even though you’re being treated for an autoimmune condition. I recently took a great course in functional medicine with Dr. Kharrazian on the latest research into improving autoimmunity which […]
Your Neck’s Major Impact On Balance, Movement, and Brain Function
A study published in Experimental Brain Research looked at the neck’s influence on brain’s balance and knowing where we are in space. Researchers found that neck movement had a major impact on our brain’s ability to maintain these systems (the vestibular system). This is very important for people with losses of neck motion, neck pain, […]
Why Do So Many People Get Concussions?
Concussions Are Much More Common Than You Think… From Sports, Falls, Car Accidents, and More Our brains are especially susceptible to injury because of so many factors including it’s soft composition, it’s extreme wiring complexity, the hard skull in which it’s enclosed, the skull’s position on the relatively long and less stable neck, and our […]
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