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Recovery Time

One of the thoughts every new patient has when they come for their first visit is “how long will it take to heal my injury so my pain will go away?”  I know that is the first thing on my mind.  This newsletter will try to answer that question. First things first – pain means […]

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Concussion

I took a neurology seminar via Zoom last week because it looked interesting and I could get 6 relicensing hour credits without having to go to some hotel in the Bay Area like I used to have to do.  The class turned out to be even more interesting than I thought because most of the […]

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Meditation

Meditation is a powerful technique that we can use to benefit our health.  However, there is a lot of well-meaning but misguided fluff attached to the whole subject.  I thought it would be useful to separate the fluff from the substance with this subject to help you decide whether meditation is right or useful to […]

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Scared to death

I read a fascinating article this morning about autonomic dysregulation as a consequence of wearing masks during this Covid 19 lockdown.  What does that mean?  Our autonomic nervous system controls 98% of everything that goes on in our body – just about everything except conscious movement and speech.  It handles everything so we don’t have […]