Archive for August, 2023
#48 Fact: No One Knows What Causes Meniere’s Disease
What’s Meniere’s disease you ask? Approximately 615,000 people in the United States have Meniere’s Disease. The condition is named after the French physician Prosper Menière, who in an 1861 article described the main symptoms and was the first to suggest a single disorder for all of the symptoms, in the combined organ of balance and hearing […]
#47 Fact: No One Knows What Causes Migraine Headaches
Does the title of this article sound strange and unlikely or even impossible. Doctors have been treating migraine headaches for decades with a whole assortment of drugs. They couldn’t possibly be prescribing all these drugs for migraine headaches, each connected to a long list of undesirable side effects, without knowing the actual cause, could they? […]
#46 TMD/TMJ Can Greatly Disrupt Your Emotional Health
Last Tuesday I walked into a consultation room to meet a new patient. As I walked through the door the emotion of anger was palpable. There were two people in the room, a young man about 30 sitting in the dental chair and a young woman sitting in the corner. As I introduced myself, I […]