By Dr. Rusty Lavender Forward Head Posture: Pick up your phone. Look down at the screen. Do it the way you actually do it — not the way an ergonomics poster would tell you to. That single posture, repeated thousands...

By Dr. Rusty Lavender and Dr. Jacob Temple Bell’s palsy in Sarasota: Few conditions are as frightening as waking up one morning, looking in the mirror, and realizing half of your face won’t move. The corner of your mouth droops....

Meniere’s Disease: If you’ve been diagnosed with Meniere’s disease, you already know how disabling it can be. The vertigo attacks that come without warning. The roaring tinnitus. The slow, fluctuating hearing loss in one ear. The crushing, deep pressure of aural...

Ear Fullness: You were rear-ended on University Parkway. Or a driver ran a stop sign at the corner of Whitfield. Or someone hit you while you were merging onto I-75. The bumper damage was minor. You felt sore for a...

Tinnitus: If you’ve been told your tinnitus is “just something you have to live with,” there’s something your ENT may not have explained: a significant subset of tinnitus has nothing to do with damage inside your ear. It comes from...

Eustachian tube dysfunction: If you’ve been living with ear fullness, constant popping, muffled hearing, or that “underwater” feeling that just won’t clear — and your ENT has told you everything looks fine — you’re not imagining it. You’re not exaggerating....