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What Are Medial Branch Blocks?

What Are Medial Branch Blocks?
Medial branch blocks are a minimally invasive pain management option that can help diagnose and relieve chronic back or neck pain. By targeting the medial branch nerves, these injections can provide significant pain relief. Here’s how they work.
Mar 12th, 2025
4 Ways to Get More Restful Sleep

4 Ways to Get More Restful Sleep
Are you often tired because you spend so much of your nights tossing and turning instead of sleeping? Learn more about the importance of restful sleep and how to improve your chances of getting it consistently.
Mar 12th, 2025
Infusion Therapy: Which Option Should You Choose?

Infusion Therapy: Which Option Should You Choose?

Infusion therapy is a powerful way to manage chronic and inflammatory conditions. It delivers medications directly into your bloodstream for maximum effectiveness — and it’s a personalized method that could help you regain control of your health.
Feb 11th, 2025
The Link Between Depression and Physical Symptoms

The Link Between Depression and Physical Symptoms
Depression can affect more than just your mood. In fact, some of the most common symptoms are physical — from chronic pain to fatigue — and understanding this mind-body connection is the first step toward finding effective treatments.
Jan 17th, 2025
Is TMS Right for Me?

Is TMS Right for Me?
When traditional depression treatments haven’t provided enough relief, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) could be a solution. This innovative, noninvasive therapy targets brain activity to help improve symptoms and restore emotional balance.
Dec 13th, 2024
How Botox Can Help You Manage Your Spasticity

How Botox Can Help You Manage Your Spasticity
If you’re limited by the stiff, rigid muscles of spasticity, it’s time to consider the benefits of minimally invasive Botox® therapy. Learn what causes spasticity and how Botox can ease the worst of your symptoms.
Dec 10th, 2024
5 Signs It's Time to See a Neurologist

5 Signs It's Time to See a Neurologist
With symptoms like chronic pain, headaches, and difficulty with movement, neurological issues can seriously impact your daily life. Knowing when to see a neurologist can help you address these concerns early and improve your well-being.
Nov 13th, 2024
Living With Epilepsy: What You Need to Know

Living With Epilepsy: What You Need to Know
Epilepsy is a neurological condition that causes recurring seizures that can significantly impact your daily life. Understanding epilepsy and your epilepsy management options is the first step to successfully navigating the condition. Start here.
Oct 3rd, 2024
Neurological Disorders That Cause Dizziness

Neurological Disorders That Cause Dizziness
Recurrent episodes of dizziness can be a warning sign of nerve damage or another neurological disorder. Learn more about potential causes of dizziness and when to seek a neurological assessment.
Oct 3rd, 2024

What Is Post-Concussion Syndrome?
Experiencing lingering symptoms after a concussion? It can be frustrating and concerning — and it could be post-concussion syndrome (PCS). PCS is a condition in which symptoms persist for months or even longer, and it requires careful management.
Sep 18th, 2024
Plagued by Chronic Migraines? We Have Effective Treatments

Plagued by Chronic Migraines? We Have Effective Treatments
If chronic migraines are keeping you from your favorite activities, know that you don’t have to live this way any longer. Learn more about the effective treatments available to address existing pain and prevent migraines from occurring.
Sep 2nd, 2024
Blood Draw

A new blood test to monitor multiple sclerosis
Currently, many neurologists do yearly MRIs to monitor multiple sclerosis disease activity. There is a new blood test that may monitor multiple sclerosis disease activity better in clinically stable patients.
Jun 11th, 2020
Heart Attack

Silent Heart Attacks
The heart is a delicate thing for us. Emotionally, it is our soul and passion. Physically, it is the powerhouse that keeps us going. In both senses, it is vitally important. That’s why it’s dangerous when things go wrong.
Feb 28th, 2020

Traumatic Brain Injury Dangers in the Winter
Winter sports are a fun and exhilarating way to enjoy the cold, snowy months. Gliding on ice, speeding down a hill, balancing on a board—it’s all quite exciting. But, high speeds and hard grounds can pose extra risks.
Jan 31st, 2020

Snowy Shoveling and Back Pain
A pleasant winter wonderland with a blanket of snow fluttering down is a scene from many of our dreams. Unfortunately, winter may not be all cozy times. For almost 30,000 people, it’s when they end up in the emergency room from shoveling related injuries..
Dec 17th, 2019

Postpartum Back Pain: How To Get Relief
Chronic back pain can be caused by a number of things, such as painful discs, sacroiliac joint pain, or facet joint arthrosis. Other common causes of chronic back pain are the physical changes that occur during pregnancy.
Nov 27th, 2019

Holiday Survival for the Sugar Conscious
The holidays are an exciting time filled with cookies, cakes, pies, and cheer. But an increasing number of people are becoming sugar conscious and understanding of the real weight of these sweet treats. From 1990 to 2010, the rate of diabetes in...
Nov 19th, 2019

5 Spooky Sleep Disorders
Sometimes the things that go bump in the night are more than just a child’s imagination. As the world becomes chronically tired, more effort has been invested to understand sleep. Many are becoming familiar with common sleep disorders like sleep apnea...
Oct 30th, 2019

Pain Awareness
Pain is one of those inevitable fates many of us have accepted as being fact. The level of pain everyone lives with is different but we can all sympathize; pain is no fun. Our body is covered in receptor nerve cells, from the tips of our fingers and...
Sep 19th, 2019
Psoriasis

Psoriasis Awareness Month
Psoriasis is one of the most common autoimmune diseases in the world affecting 125 million people globally.
Aug 12th, 2019
Juvenile Arthritis

Juvenile Arthritis in the Summer
It’s hard to imagine a young child having a condition often associated with our beloved elders but arthritis is a very real problem for 300,000 children with juvenile arthritis (JA).
Jul 25th, 2019
Aphasia

Aphasia, Bet You Never Heard of It
Aphasia, sometimes called dysphasia, is an acquired language disorder that affects 2 million people in the United States but most people have never heard of it.
Jun 25th, 2019
Strong Bones

Keeping Bones Strong!
Literally meaning “porous bone”, osteoporosis is a very common bone disease causing bones to be weak and brittle.
May 18th, 2019
epilepsy

Epilepsy – A Growing Condition
Epilepsy is a broad-term neurological condition that causes seizures. It affects people of all ages, genders, races, and status.
Nov 3rd, 2018
Alzheimers

Alzheimer’s Disease Facts
This September is the 7th World Alzheimer’s Month, a campaign created every September to raise international awareness.
Sep 2nd, 2018
psoriatic Arthritis

Don’t Wait To Treat Psoriatic Arthritis
Psoriasis is a skin condition that forms red patchy scales that are itchy and can be painful. The lifecycle of kin cells is sped up causing them to build up rapidly on the surface. This is a chronic disease with no cure that can come and go.
Aug 2nd, 2018
Julie

Julie- Best of Luck!
We had the honor and privilege of having Julie work with us for two weeks for her neurology rotation. We wish her the best of luck in her pursuit of higher education and know that she will be an amazing doctor.
Jun 15th, 2018
study

FLUENT Study Enrollment Closing — Act Now!
The FLUENT study will be closing enrollment at the end of the month, on June 30, 2018! Those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) who are interested in trying Gilenya (fingolimod) for the first time may be eligible to participate. The study simply asks f
Jun 15th, 2018
safety

Safety Awareness
Every year National Safety Awareness is observed in June to minimize injury and death on the road, at home, and at work.
Jun 5th, 2018
stroke

Stroke—You Have To Act FAST
Learning the signs and symptoms of a stroke and knowing how to act FAST can be life-saving. This month is marked by National Stroke Awareness month.
May 3rd, 2018
Sleep Apnea

Sleep Apnea – Do You Have It?
Sleep apnea, spelled ‘apnoea’ by our friends across the pond, is one of the most common sleep disorders in the United States.
Mar 2nd, 2018

Connecting Your Heart With Your Brain
You know what they say, ‘what’s good for the heart is good for the brain’. Ok, it might not actually be a saying but maybe it should be. There is increasing information that steps to prevent heart disease may also prevent or slow dementia.
Feb 2nd, 2018
Hygge

Hygge: Find Your Coziness
Think about the last time you were wrapped in a blanket drinking a cup of hot cocoa as a snowstorm rages on outside.
Jan 16th, 2018
happy new year

New Website Launch
It’s a new year and we thought we’d start it off with a new site. We are proud to announce the launch of our new website. It has all the same great information as our old one; click around to learn more about our services.
Jan 1st, 2018