Can we prevent stress related disorders?
This issue has concerned me for years. I have treated thousands of patients for stress-related health conditions. TMS/PPD is the most...
Fear of Movement Revealed as Arousal of the Nervous System
I've long noticed that people with chronic pain/TMS often exhibit limitation of motion not only from pain, but from FEAR OF MOVEMENT. A...
Stress, IBS, and Unclean Water
Researchers in Belgium found that that certain psychological factors were associated with infections in the gut after inadvertent...
The Pain Whisperer
The term, "horse whisperer" or "dog whisperer" is used to refer to a person who is especially attuned to these animals and can...
Managing Headache: Too Many tests not enough counseling
Recently MEDSCAPE published an article entitled: Managing Headache: Too Many Tests, Not Enough Counseling? Specifically, the authors...
Patients with "Fibromyalgia" have higher incidence of Irritable bowel Syndrome
Taiwanese researchers reviewed a nationwide database and found that indivudals diagnosed with fibromyalgia-- muscle pain, myofascial...
Spinal Stenosis, Imaging, Pain
A colleague shared an interesting article by Kuittinen, et al out of Finland. The authors looked at visually measured spinal stenosis...
Guest Blog:Visualization Changes Neural Pathways, Repeated Failure leads to Failure
I received an interesting email from an independent research colleague, Arthur Klurstein, that relates to the work that I do. ...
Case of the Month
(Note: Stock photo above, not a patient, of course) This month's most amazing story was a woman who came in recently with thirty-five...
Therapy vs. Medication for Depression, what do we learn from brain imaging?
Richard Friedman MD reviewed in the New York Times an article by Helen Mayberg, MD from JAMA Psychiatry . Dr. Mayberg started with the...
