• posted: Nov. 08, 2010

Recent research on healthy aging shows that poor habits such as smoking, drinking too much alcohol, inactivity and poor diet, can age you by 12 extra years.  Recent research on healthy Read More

• posted: Oct. 06, 2010

So what is vestibular rehabilitation therapy, a.k.a.VRT? Think about it like this. Suppose you just had shoulder surgery. Would you be all better, or would you now need to do Read More

• posted: Sep. 21, 2010

Dizziness and vertigo are among the most common symptoms causing patients to visit a physician (as common as back pain and headaches). The overall incidence of dizziness, vertigo, and imbalance Read More

• posted: Aug. 18, 2010

The only thing worse than someone who suffers with fall risk and not doing anything about it, is someone who does do something about it but waits too long and Read More

• posted: Jun. 28, 2010

So why is it that one can go to ten different specialists, get no diagnosis or effective treatment , and that same individual can then come to see me and Read More

• posted: Jun. 27, 2010

Diabetes is becoming more common and more of a medical problem than ever before. I am specifically referring to type 2 diabetes, which is invariably brought on entirely by ones Read More

• posted: Jun. 20, 2010

High blood pressure affects about 1 in 4 American adults and is one of the most common worldwide diseases afflicting humans. It increases the risk of heart disease and stroke Read More

• posted: May 04, 2010

As a rule, the main types of disturbances that we feel as humans that present to the clinician as one form of dizzy feeling or another, are vertigo: a sense Read More

• posted: Apr. 27, 2010

Over the past several months, we have been discussing imbalance, dizziness, vertigo, disequilibrium, etc., how to find out if you are at risk, etc. We know that as part of Read More

• posted: Apr. 05, 2010

Falls actually occur for many reasons. Falls occur simply out of shear accident. You slide on something slippery, you are knocked over by something, etc. When you fall because you Read More

• posted: Mar. 02, 2010

Obviously, the answer is one that is successful at treating patients with balance and dizziness type disorders. Our office has been sub-specialized in seeing patients with balance problems and fall Read More

• posted: Jan. 20, 2010

Pretty much everyone knows at least one person who has fallen. The fall may have been purely accidental, such as a slip and fall, or the fall may have been Read More

• posted: Jan. 08, 2010

A simple thing like tripping on a carpet or slipping on a wet floor can change your life in a heartbeat. Like the thousands of people who fall each year, Read More

• posted: Dec. 21, 2009

A new guideline was published in the May 27 issue of Neurology, stating that the “Best Treatment for Vertigo Is Easiest One”. The Guideline urges immediate therapy with a simple Read More

• posted: Dec. 02, 2009

A recent study suggests that after age 40, dizziness makes you 12 times more likely to suffer serious injury from a fall. About 69 million Americans over age 40 have Read More