Vitamin D deficiency is quite common, especially in New York in the winter and unfortunately we are approaching the time of year when it feels like it’s dark outside all the time. Most adults know that Vitamin D is important [...]

Patience is a virtue. This is especially true regarding spine pain and injuries. Very often, when working with athletes, there is a sense of urgency to return to normal training volume, intensity, and load. A lot of athletes believe that [...]

Women more commonly experience hormonal headaches and migraines than men. Women are actually 3 times more likely to experience migraines than men. This is related to the ever changing fluctuation of our monthly hormones. This also explains why young girls, [...]

With a regular work schedule, we are usually given 3 different time options to fit in the movement that makes us happy: morning, lunch hour, or evening. It is certainly difficult to change our routines, but if you’d like to [...]

Plagiocephaly is a flattening of one side of the back of the skull. This usually happens when babies have a side preference. Oftentimes, torticollis can be a cause for this. So how do you know if this is happening to [...]

Two weekends ago, we celebrated my wife’s 32nd birthday. My wife loves her birthday, and we usually celebrate for a few days. This year, her birthday weekend consisted of a night out with friends at a local brewery that we [...]

Whenever I see a patient for jaw pain also known as TMJ (TemporoMandibular Joint) pain, I always ask them if they are prone to grinding and/or clenching. An estimated 60% of adults exhibit some sort of clenching, grinding or shifting [...]

The current approach we have toward treating migraines in the general population can leave us with a number of potential side effects. And the real problem, along with other approaches toward different conditions, is that we are often treating the [...]

Postpartum recovery can be anything and everything but familiar. Sometimes it goes exactly as planned and sometimes it can veer off the rails more than you ever anticipated. This weekend, Iceland's Annie Thorisdottir absolutely dominated the CrossFit Games as a [...]

Have you ever had trouble digesting a meal that was heavy in beans or grains, or even felt fatigued after a few too many nuts? These are just a few symptoms that people experience on a regular basis, and often [...]

When you're looking to manage stress and overall health, start with your morning routine to balance your hormones. If you have read any of my previous blog posts, you know that I place a large focus on stress and hormones. [...]

Our gut is so much more than the organ system in which we excrete waste, it’s ability to function is one of the largest indicators of overall health. The microbiome is made up of flourishing bacteria in our gut, and [...]