Month: December 2007

Visit To Michigan Head Pain and Neurological Institute

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I just was in Ann Arbor at the Michigan Head Pain and Neurological Institute. I saw Dr. Todd Rozen. For anyone who is suffering from a headache that won’t go away or is really interferring with your life I strongly recommend you go to MHNI.  While I was there, I recieved extension testing ranging from bloodwork to EEG and EKG. Dr Rozen showed me a possible nasal contact that was occuring in my nose. No one thus far out of all the doctors I have seen and have reviewed my films suggestede this. He recommened I try a diagnostic liodacaine test with an ear nose and throat doctor. Dr. Rozen was also concerned by my consistently high blood pressure and tremor that occurs in my upper body. He was concerned that possibly I came in contact with a heavy metal … Read more

Costen’s Syndrome

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I found some useful information on Costen’s Syndrome. Manifests with several symptoms that can be divided into auricular, articular and cranial. The joint is sensitive to palpation, with pain and crepitation. Hearing is poorer with buzzing in the earsdizziness and headache around the eyes, the crown and the back of the head. Today it is considered that only arthritic changes and neuralgia are realistic, and possibly certain auricular symptoms. One explanation for this condition is that these changes are preceded by loss of posterior or all teeth, during which the bite drops and the mandibula moves distally, pressing the joint (glavicom) discus articularis and posterior part of the joint chamber. The pressure causes the disk to deform and shift, so that it no longer protects the arch and posterior part of the joint chamber from nerve pressure. This causes irritation … Read more

Eagle’s Syndrome

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This is a rare syndrome that often mimics many other problems such as TMJ. Eagle’s syndrome: A group of symptoms caused by calcification of the stylohyoid ligament and an abnormally long styloid process. The styloid process is a bone at the base of the skull which is attached to muscles and ligaments connected to the throat and tongue. If this bone is too long then actions such as swallowing and turning the head can cause pain and discomfort. The cause of the condition is unknown but trauma and inflammation may be the cause in some cases.

Doctor Showing Me the Door

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So today I received a letter in the mail with a letter from the headache specialist I have been seeing in the area for over the past year. The letter explained how he no longer could continue to treat me after February. He listed many other doctors in the area as well a more known doctor, Todd Rozen, and Michigan Head and Neck Institute. I’m not quite sure why he decided to send the letter. Likely due to me not being as compliant as he would like and having negative side effects to nearly every  medication given. On another note, I recently received the book Acute and Chronic Headache : A Guide for the Primary Physician and the Headache Specialist written by James H. Francis, M.D. I just starting reading the book and it seems to have a lot of … Read more

A word of Caution for neuragia-inducing cavitational osteonecrosis (NICO)

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I came across an interesting discussiong on a syndrome known as neuragia-inducing cavitational osteonecrosis (NICO). One such doctor who advocates the syndrome has recently lost his dental license. In 2007, Wesley R. Shankland, II, D.D.S., who operates the Central Ohio Center for Facial Pain in Columbus, Ohio, settled charges against him by entering into a consent under which (a) his dental license will be suspended for six months; (b) he must complete 300 hours of continuing dental education that includes at least 40 hours in ethics, (c) he must not utilize any “alternative” dental or medical treatment without informing the patient that the procedure is nonstandard, (d) his ability to prescribe narcotics and psychiatric drugs will be restricted during 2008, and (e) his records must be available for review and monitoring by a physician or dentist who is experienced in the … Read more