Meniere’s Disease was first described by Prosper Meniere in 1861. Dr. Meniere was a French physician who focused on diseases of the ear after securing the position of physician-in-chief at the Institute for Deaf-Mutes in Paris. Dr. Meniere died in 1862 at the age of 63. Meniere’s disease is a disease of the inner ear, […]
Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction
Perhaps the best reference book pertaining to the jaw is the 1991 text by Andrew Kaplan, DMD and Leon Assael, DMD, titled Temporomandibular Disorders, Diagnosis and Treatment (1). This book has 31 distinguished contributing authors, 35 chapters, and 754 pages. Dr. Kaplan’s credentials include: Director, Temporomandibular Disorder/Facial Pain Clinic, The Mount Sinai HospitalAssistant Clinical Professor, […]
Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs, Side Effects, and Two Alternatives
In 1935, Swedish physiologist Ulf von Euler isolated a biologically active compound from seminal fluid. He named the compound “prostaglandin” because he believed it was derived from the prostate gland. It is now known that prostaglandins are made in tissues throughout the body. [As an interesting side-note, von Euler (and colleagues) was awarded the Nobel […]
Discussions on Contemporary Trends in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain
In February 2008, Brook Martin, MPH, and colleagues published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled Expenditures and Health Status Among Adults With Back and Neck Problems This article evaluated the inpatient, outpatient, emergency department, and pharmacy expenditures related to back and neck problems in the United States from 1997 through […]
The Cervical Spine’s Role in Back Pain
One of the best reference books pertaining to the spine is appropriately titled: The Spine The editors of The Spine are Richard Rothman, MD, PhD, and Frederick Simeone, MD. When the second edition of their book was published in 1982, Dr. Rothman was a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, […]
Spinal Segmental Spondylosis
In 1921, physician Henry Winsor, MD, from the University of Pennsylvania, performed meticulous necropsies on 50 cadavers, and published the results in the journal Medical Times. A unique interest of Dr. Winsor was the stages of spinal dysfunction and spinal degenerative disease. Dr. Winsor discovered that 49 of the 50 cadavers displayed minor curvatures of […]
Musculoskeletal Function & Children
In 2003, Donald E Ingber, MD, PhD, published an article in the journal Annals of Medicine (1) titled: Mechanobiology and Diseases of Mechanotransduction Dr. Ingber is from the Vascular Biology Program, Departments of Surgery and Pathology, Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In this article, Dr. Ingber emphasizes the importance of mechanics and physical forces […]
Chiropractic And Safety
How Safe Are Chiropractic Adjustments? In recent years the safety and efficacy of Chiropractic adjustments / manipulation have come into question. And simultaneously the accusations against spinal manipulation / Chiropractic adjustments have come under equal fire. It is the hope of this months issue to alleviate the questions surrounding this clinical approach and it’s utilization […]
Headache Symptoms & The Commonly Overlooked Connection To The Cervical Spine
Understanding that cervical spine problems can cause headache is not a new understanding, yet is still all too often overlooked. In 1956, Emil Seletz, MD… a noted Beverly Hills, CA, neurosurgeon. He was member of the esteemed faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles, medical school, and had treated more than 20,000 injury patients […]
The Meniscoid Block, Acute Neck / Back Pain & Two German Physicians…
Perhaps the most authoritative book written pertaining to the spine is Schmorl’s and Junghanns’ The Human Spine in Health and Disease. Georg Schmorl (1861-1932) was a German physician and pathologist. Herbert Junghanns (1902-1986) was the Chief of the Occupational Accident Hospital, Surgical Clinic, and Head of the Institute for Spinal Column Research, in Frankfurt, Germany. […]
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