It’s estimated that 70 million American adults suffer from some kind of sleep disorder. This is troubling because humans need sleep to survive. In fact, almost all animals do. In a 1989 University of Chicago study, rats that were fed […]
Migraine headaches can be torture. Efforts to stop them once they’ve started don’t a have great track record. Once people begin experiencing a migraine, they mostly just want to retreat to a dark, quiet place. Given that 12 percent of […]
Are you suffering from issues in your TM joints, the joints that connect your upper and lower jaw on each side of your head? Are you afflicted with pain in your face and neck, headaches, snoring, sleep breathing disorder, and/or […]
What is a migraine? Is it just a bad headache? If you answered yes, you’ve already discovered the first migraine myth! Migraines are different from ordinary headaches both in their disposition and origin. Migraines appear to be neurological disturbances caused […]
If you’ve ever suffered the soul-emptying pain of a migraine, we sympathize. The throbbing pain on one side of your head, the nausea, and the light and sound sensitivity – it makes you wish the world would just go away. […]
We all get headaches. Some are just a pain in the, well, head. Others are debilitating. They may be accompanied by other symptoms, like nausea and neck pain, and hurt so deep it feels like someone is playing the bass […]
I learned early in my career, from my mentor Dr. Steven Olmos, that “in a chronic pain situation, the site of the pain and the symptom is rarely, if ever, the origin of the problem.” Millions of Americans suffer from […]
Apnea is the Greek word for “breathless,” which describes people with sleep apnea when they are sleeping. In sleep apnea, a person’s — (in the whole animal kingdom, only English bulldogs, pugs, and humans can experience sleep apnea) – sleeping […]
Physical fitness is like saving for retirement: we all know the basic outline of what we should do, but we want a shortcut. We know it’s a lifelong process that can’t be accomplished all at once or with some silver […]