We have a problem with medications in this country. Medications can be very helpful, but many doctors rely on them too heavily. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the opioid crisis. Opioids are powerful drugs that can relieve pain, but they can also be addictive and deadly. Overdoses on legal [...]
If you’ve been involved in some kind of accident, you may develop headaches that are known as post-traumatic headaches. The common assumption is that these headaches are caused by traumatic brain injury (TBI) related to your accident, but it’s also possible that these could be caused by TMJ. What Is Post-Traumatic [...]
According to new research released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), even short courses of opioid medication are likely to lead to long-term use. With just a 10-day prescription for opioid pain medication, one in five people become users for a year or more. Chronic Pain and the Opioid Cycle Opioid medications are a [...]
One of the biggest problems in getting good headache treatment is finding the true cause of your headaches. If you don’t know what’s causing your headaches, you won’t know how best to treat them. Headaches have so many potential causes, that it’s easy to mistake one for another. This is true for TMJ [...]
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