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 Sue Robbins | Dec 31, 2015 | Migraine
Helene Stapinski describes a time when her daughter had a headache, and she realized she had experienced the same condition when she was a young girl. Here is a part of her story…. A few months ago, my 10-year old daughter, Paulina was suffering from a bad...
by Sue Robbins | Nov 16, 2015 | Wellness
Everyone has had the experience of “catching” someone else’s stress – whether from a family member who got up on the wrong side of the bed, or a driver in the grocery store parking lot. Researchers are just beginning to study such secondhand...
by Sue Robbins | Nov 4, 2015 | Wellness
Early life contact with dogs helps to prevent asthma, concludes a new study that adds to the growing body of research that pet ownership can offer health benefits to humans. “Earlier studies have shown that growing up on a farm reduces a child’s risk of...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 27, 2015 | Adolescents and Children, Wellness
A rigorous new study has found that obese children who cut back on their sugar intake see improvements in their blood pressure, cholesterol readings and other markers of health after just 10 days. The new research may help shed light on a question scientists have long...
