by Tejasvit Kour | Apr 12, 2016 | Advanced
Why is Chronic Low Back Pain So Prevalent and Often so Treatment Resistant? The Concept of Hyper-innervation, Neoneuralisation, Receptive Field Enlargement Pain, like all perceptions, is a cortical event. Pain is experienced in the brain. Pain perception in the brain...
by Tejasvit Kour | Apr 11, 2016 | Advanced
Introduction Vertigo is defined as “a condition in which somebody feels a sensation of whirling or tilting that causes a loss of balance.” To describe the sensation of vertigo, patients often use words such as dizziness, giddiness, unsteadiness, or lightheadedness....
by Tejasvit Kour | Apr 10, 2016 | Advanced
The escalation in health care spending in the United States has mandated an approach for cost containment. The contemporary approach in this effort is called “Evidenced-Based Medicine.” Proponents of Evidence Based Medicine have become increasingly organized,...
by Tejasvit Kour | Apr 9, 2016 | Advanced
Fibromyalgia is an incredibly complex, widespread, and disabling neuromusculoskeletal disorder. Fibromyalgia affects between 2-8% of the American population, somewhere between 6 million to 25 million individuals (1). A literature search of the National Library of...
by Tejasvit Kour | Apr 8, 2016 | Advanced
When a force is applied to a joint, increased motion and “joint separation” occur. This can be done without causing any injury to the joint tissues (bones, cartilage, ligaments, muscles, tendons, nerves, etc.). This increased motion has a number of proposed benefits,...
by Tejasvit Kour | Apr 7, 2016 | Advanced
America’s Pain Crisis Judy Foreman was educated at Harvard, and has been a Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard’s Medical School. In 2014, she published a book titled (1): A Nation in PainHealing Our Biggest Health Problem Ms. Foreman notes that of the 238 million adults...
