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Disc Degeneration and Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression Therapy in San Diego: How Decompression Treats Herniated and Degenerative Discs
If you've been told you have a herniated disc, bulging disc, or degenerative disc disease, you're not alone and surgery isn't your only option. Learn how non-surgical spinal decompression therapy targets the root cause of disc degeneration with measurable, research-backed results.
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Dysautonomia and POTS Treatment in San Diego: Understanding Symptoms, Types, and Holistic Management
Dysautonomia can make daily life difficult, perplexing, and occasionally lonely. This complicated autonomic nervous system disorder impacts the autonomic nervous system (ANS), which regulates involuntary body processes like heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, and temperature regulation.
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5 Reasons You Could Be Suffering From Sciatica
Do you find yourself wincing in pain, your lower back sending shooting sensations down your leg? If so, you're not alone. Sciatica, often characterized by a sharp pain that radiates along the sciatic...
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The Mighty Mineral: Exploring the 6 Benefits of Magnesium
Magnesium is a powerhouse among the necessary minerals, having an impact on many different body processes. It's possible that many people are unaware of the variety of advantages that magnesium...
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Revitalize and Renew: 7 Natural Ways to Detox Your Body
In the hustle and bustle of modern life, our bodies can often bear the brunt of exposure, limiting our ability to detox environmental toxins, processed foods, and stress. While the concept of...
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4 Benefits of BrainHQ and How It Can Improve Cognitive Health
BrainHQ has become a cutting-edge resource for those looking to improve their brain clarity in the field of cognitive health. We'll explore the reasons for BrainHQ's popularity in this blog post, as...
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Shoulder Impingement: Complete Home Management for Relief
Introduction In the dynamic environment of San Diego, where sports and active lifestyles are prevalent, shoulder impingement emerges as a common challenge. At Auto-Ness Physical Therapy, a leading...
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Neuropathy Treatment: 4 Electrifying Benefits of Nerve Spa Therapy
New methods for neuropathy treatment are constantly coming out. A novel approach that is getting amazing results is an electrical stimulation unit called the Nerve Spa Therapy. We'll dive into the...
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Solving the Mystery: Identifying the Signs of Spinal Arthritis
Spinal arthritis is a condition that is frequently linked to aging and can cause different symptoms all over the body. A distinct set of difficulties may arise if it settles in the spine. We'll...
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Concussion Recovery at Home: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction: It can be difficult and upsetting to endure a concussion. A concussion requires time, patience, and the right care to recover from, whether it was sustained in an accident, during...
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Stress & Vertigo: Is There A Connection?
Vertigo, a disorder characterized by a spinning sensation, is frequently connected with inner ear or vestibular system abnormalities. There is, however, a lesser-known link between stress and...
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Are There Hereditary Risks for Spinal Stenosis? The Genetic Connection: Decoding
Introduction Millions of people worldwide are afflicted by the prevalent medical ailment known as spinal stenosis. The spinal canal constriction that characterizes it can cause a number of symptoms,...
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What You Need to Know About Concussion Symptoms in the Eyes
Introduction Concussion symptoms are frequently brought on by mishaps or sports-related activity. Concussions can also cause symptoms in the eyes, despite the fact that most people only identify them...
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Will Stenosis Heal On Its Own? Understanding the Potential of Your Body
What is stenosis? For many people, stenosis—a medical term for the narrowing of a passage within the body—can be a source of discomfort and worry. This blog post seeks to clarify the situation,...
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Can Concussion Symptoms Come and Go?
Introduction Concussions, also known as mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI), have received more attention recently as people have become more aware of the potentially significant effects associated...
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Concussion Testing at Home: A Comprehensive Guide
Concussions are a type of traumatic brain injury that can result from a blow, jolt, or bump to the head, and being able to do testing at home can be key in recovery. They are common in sports,...
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Relieve Sciatica and Disc Pain with these 3 Low Back Stretches!
Dealing with sciatica and disc pain can be incredibly debilitating, affecting your daily life and overall well-being. Finding effective ways to alleviate the discomfort and promote healing is...
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Understanding Spinal Stenosis Symptoms
Intro Imagine your spine as a delicate, intricate highway for signals that connect your brain to every part of your body. Now, picture this highway slowly narrowing, compressing those vital signals....
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Migraine Headache Treatment San Diego
Not all migraines are the same and are classified as these subtypes: Migraine Without Aura. Migraine With Aura. Migraine Aura Without Headache. Vestibular Migraine. Basilar Migraine. Hemiplegic...
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How Does Traumatic Brain Injury Affect Learning?
About 5.3 million people are living with permanent brain injury (TBI) related disabilities in the United States currently. About 5% of the population will also experience a head injury and about 15%...
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How to tell if you have a Traumatic Brain Injury
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be tricky to identify. Typically if you are even having to ask yourself whether or not you may or may not have had a TBI you should first go seek out a doctor to...
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What are the Long Term Effects of a Traumatic Brain Injury?
With a traumatic brain injury whatever part of the brain gets injured will typically dictate what types of symptoms you might experience. These symptoms typically resolve within a month. If the...
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What is Considered Traumatic Brain Injury?
A traumatic brain injury or a TBI, is any time there is damage to the brain such as bruising, shearing, tearing, or blunt trauma. A concussion is considered a mild traumatic brain injury or a mTBI....
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How is Stroke Treated?
The point of this blog is to educate on some of the options that exist for stroke victims after they have already gone through their acute triage work at the hospital. Treatment Rehab This is going...
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How long does concussion recovery take?
5.3 million people in the US live with permanent TBI-related disabilities with about 1.3 million people suffering from TBIs every year. Concussion recovery can last from a few weeks to years if...
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How Stroke is Diagnosed
DIAGNOSIS First thing your physician will assess is your history. They will typically look for red flags Was it recent Did it start suddenly Are you experiencing focal (one particular part of the...
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What are the Symptoms of a Stroke?
Over 9 million people have survived a stroke globally with about 45% of them being functionally dependent on others one-year post-stroke. Knowing the symptoms of a stroke can be life or death for...
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What Kind of Therapy Helps with Dizziness?
Dizziness – that feeling that happens when you stand up too fast and the room starts spinning around you. You grasp for the nearest chair, wall, or other sturdy fixture to steady yourself until the...
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How to Tell Which Ear is Causing Vertigo
You stand up too fast and suddenly the world around you is spinning and you feel completely off-balance. It isn’t a fun feeling! Don’t fear, it is a common occurrence for many people and usually...
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What Causes Spinal Stenosis?
What Causes Spinal Stenosis? Your spine runs the length from your neck down to your tailbone. It acts as protection for your spinal cord and spinal nerves. When something obstructs that space where...
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Migraines and Your Period: Steps to Reducing Migraines Related to Your Cycle
PMS symptoms tend to be incredibly painful and debilitating for many people who menstruate. About 60% of people who menstruate will experience menstrual related migraines. 1 Migraines in itself is...
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What is Functional Neurology and how can it help me?
A health care specialty focused on the assessment, quantification, and rehabilitation of the human nervous system, utilizing sensory and cognitive based therapies, to promote neuroplasticity,...
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Spinal Decompression Therapy in San Diego
Chronic neck and low back pain can be a pesky problem that many people suffer from. Neck and low back pain can affect those who are sedentary but also those who have active lifestyles. Especially if...
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An Essential Guide to Managing your Concussion (mTBI) or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Symptoms
Concussions also known as mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) are commonly talked about among the media nowadays with football players and other professional athletes bringing chronic traumatic...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): A Guide to Understanding and Relieving Your Intrusive Thoughts and Compulsions
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common neurological disability that can control your life. Something that’s often made fun of by people and misrepresented with the “clean freak” trope, is a...
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Our Top Allergen Friendly Eateries in San Diego
Hello everyone! We are bringing you a different type of blog here today… Food! Here at SDCN a lot of our patients (and doctors) are on pretty restrictive diets so we thought we’d compile a list of...
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Vertigo & Head Injuries: An Essential Guide to Maneuvering Dizziness after a Concussion or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Concussions also known as mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) are commonly talked about among the media nowadays with football players and other professional athletes bringing chronic traumatic...
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Home Remedies for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
What is Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) and is it serious? BPPV is a type of vertigo caused by small crystals of calcium moving in your inner ear (semicircular canals). These small...
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Numb Depression Short Stories
As I’ve talked about previously. This is something that hits close to home with me. After being on tons of different medications over a decade I was left with severe apathy and numbness to everything...
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What is the Best Medicine for Depression and Anxiety?
Being someone that approaches healthcare from a more conservative holistic approach it is hard not to be biased on this subject. To give you a little more background as to why this subject hits close...
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San Diego Concussion Doctors
“Gold Standard” Testing for concussion looks something like this: “Looks like you might have a concussion” “Maybe sit out for a couple of weeks then you should be good” In some rare cases...
Read morePost Concussive Syndrome Relief
Recovering from Post Concussive Syndrome can seem like an endless, frustrating, and depressing journey especially in the conventional medical model. The unfortunate reality is that those that suffer...
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Dizziness Treatment San Diego
Not all types of dizziness are made equal. Not everybody can cure their dizziness with a medication, Epley maneuver, or some variation on the theme. Dizziness can come from many different things:...
Read moreConcussion Symptoms San Diego
It is not uncommon for people to end up with a sore neck and maybe feel a little disoriented following a concussion. Standard recovery from this ranges around the 2-3 week mark. If you experience...
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Traumatic Brain Injury, Dizziness, Headaches Dr. Kamran Jahangiri
“Some patient’s have no chance of healing or recovering in the standard health model. The art of actually examining a patient and caring about what is actually going on is dissolving. People are...
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Post Concussion, Vertigo, Migraine Dr. Kamran Jahangiri
Post Concussion, Vertigo, Migraine Dr. Kamran Jahangiri. “I am lucky to have fallen into this profession by chance. I went through a lot growing up with my own neurological issues. I was put on a...
Read moreFunctional Chiropractic Neurology Doctor San Diego
This is a video we made to help give people a better idea of what it is we do in our clinic. We utilize a multidimensional approach to the evaluation and treatment of all types of complex...
Read moreVertigo Treatment San Diego
John’s story of how SDCN helped him get his life on track. John had been suffering from debilitating vertigo for a long time. He was able to take control of his life again following his treatment at...
Read moreMigraine Treatment San Diego
How Cassi finally found a way to treat her severe chronic migraines. When Cassi would experience a migraine she would get Loss of speech Light sensitivity Sound sensitivity Extreme stabbing,...
Read moreConcussion Treatment San Diego
Here is a clip of one of our favorite patient’s Mak. She has experienced multiple concussions throughout her athletic career in school. She was struggling to heal fully from her last one. So she was...
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