Through the Neurostorm
This past month I spent the majority of my time reviewing charts of patients who had sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) as part…
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The Yips in Professional Baseball: Is it Task-Specific Dystonia or a Psychogenic Impairment in Coordination?
What is the most feared injury for a baseball player? Is it a torn ulnar collateral ligament, often requiring Tommy John surgery? Or perhaps…
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“The Operating Table is Not Paired with da Vinci”
Leonardo da Vinci is renowned as an artist, scientist, and inventor–a true Renaissance man. Famously known for painting works such as The Mona Lisa…
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Bedside Portable MRI: A New Frontier in the Assessment of Acute Brain Injury?
The first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam of a live patient was performed on July 3, 1977.1 Since then, the MRI has become an…
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Music Tech in Medicine
February: the month when stores explode in various shades of reds and pinks, heart-shaped chocolate boxes and candy hearts litter the shelves, and just…
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Colorectal Cancer Screening Disparities Among People Experiencing Homelessness
Week after week, my peers and I witness the countless inequities that people experiencing homelessness at each of our Street Medicine Phoenix service events…
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Lifting the Veil: Dissecting Lung Cancer Risks Among Asian American Female Nonsmokers
When we hear the words “lung cancer,” our minds immediately ask, “Did/does the patient smoke?” What do you as the physician, or maybe the…
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Can Nanofiber Technology Reduce Re-Herniation Rates after Microdiscectomy? Analyzing a Recent Preclinical Study of Annulus Repair
The treatment of intervertebral disc herniations vary widely, from conservative to invasive modalities. A common surgical procedure that is performed to manage this pathology…
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Getting Left Behind: Modern Technology Usage and the DSM’s Difficult Relationship with Behavioral Addictions
Of all the ways that our world has changed in recent years, perhaps no one aspect of our lives has changed more than our…
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Just Breathe
Picture this: the sun’s early morning rays shining through the windows, bathing wooden floors in a golden glow. Dust dancing in the air around…
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