by Dr Robbins | Jan 15, 2016 | Sports Injury
Heading a soccer ball is not as innocuous as once was thought. Headers sometimes result in a concussion. Thousands of headers over a career may lead to permanent brain damage. A growing body of evidence points to the adverse effects of multiple headers. One...
by Dr Robbins | Nov 3, 2013 | Headache Drugs
Zohydro will be a long-acting(lasting 6 to 12 hours, versus 3 to 4 for short-acting) hydrocodone tablet, with NO acetaminophen. That is crucial; many people with chronic pain find that one of the only pain meds that they can tolerate is...
by Dr Robbins | Oct 12, 2013 | Headache Drugs
A major new article,soon to be published in Headache,casts doubt on the results of the main articles on migraine surgery. The results that I have seen thus far are fairly unimpressive…poor actually. So, I will not recommend migraine surgery until we have better...
by Dr Robbins | Oct 6, 2013 | Headache Drugs
My how things have changed since the dinasaur days when I was a resident(early 80’s)….there are new rules on hours a resident may work, and with electronic medical records, many hours are spent in front of the computer: half of the residents day, in fact....
by Dr Robbins | Oct 6, 2013 | Headache Drugs
Many of our patients do not have insurance, or are in and out of insurance(often expensve Cobra). The new law will allow people to have insurance even with pre-existing headaches(or anything else). Many patients have not been able to obtain insurance due to their...
