Anyone who knows me, knows that exercise has always been an important part of my life. From my days as a competitive swimmer to my time doing Ironman, sport has…
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Dr. Ziv Peled recently presented Grand Rounds at Yale University’s Division of Plastic Surgery on the over 20-year evolution of headache surgery. Take a look at the first part of…
This picture is the first of it’s kind to my knowledge. It is from a recent sensation preserving mastectomy case. The mastectomy has been completed and the sizer is in place to gauge how…
I always knew it was just a matter of time and it finally happened. I was speaking with a patient of mine who was a bit more than one year…
Simple question, somewhat nuanced answer. Basically, nerve blocks are injections of local anesthetic aimed at temporarily and chemically inactivating a nerve – pure and simple. Where things get a bit…
I was recently asked why some people require more than one operation to obtain optimal relief. A great question and one with a multi-part answer. Let me try to break it down…
I have been asked recently to write a little something about so-called “rebound headaches”. This topic can be quite confusing, and as you will read, is not very well understood….
Over the years, I seem to have had this question come up on a fairly consistent basis and the answer is actually relatively straightforward. Let’s take as an example, an…
This query is one of the great ones – a $64,000 question that continues to be raised both in my office as well as online. What is the difference…
This question is one of the most common articulated in my office and I believe represents an underappreciated component of our everyday lives that can certainly impact many facets of…
