Small-Fiber Neuropathy Explained: Burning, Tingling, and Normal EMGs
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By Dr. Rusty Lavender — Lavender Family Chiropractic, Sarasota, FL You have burning feet, prickling hands, and electric jolts that come out of nowhere — and every test came back “normal.” Here is what almost no one tells patients from...
Occipital Neuralgia and Pain Behind the Eye: Why Back-of-Head Pain Refers to the Front
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By Dr. Rusty Lavender — Lavender Family Chiropractic, Sarasota, FL A patient points to the back of their head to show me where the trouble starts, then drags a finger up over the scalp and lands on the eyebrow. “But...
The Greater Occipital Nerve and C2: The Anatomy Behind Occipital Neuralgia
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By Dr. Rusty Lavender — Lavender Family Chiropractic, Sarasota, FL If a sharp, electric, or burning pain fires from the base of your skull up over the back of your head — sometimes reaching behind the eye — there is...
Occipital Neuralgia vs Cervicogenic Headache: Two Upper-Neck Headaches Compared
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By Dr. Rusty Lavender — Lavender Family Chiropractic, Sarasota, FL Here is the fact that should reframe your entire search for answers: both of the headaches most often confused for each other — occipital neuralgia and cervicogenic headache — are...
Occipital Neuralgia vs. Migraine vs. Tension Headache: How to Tell Them Apart
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By Dr. Rusty Lavender — Lavender Family Chiropractic, Sarasota, FL If a sharp, electric jolt fires from the base of your skull up the back of your head, you have almost certainly been handed a label — “migraine,” “tension headache,”...
TMJ and Forward Head Posture: The Neck–Jaw Connection
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By Dr. Rusty Lavender — Lavender Family Chiropractic, Sarasota, FL If you live with jaw pain, clicking, headaches, or that maddening tightness around your temples and ears, you have probably spent a lot of time thinking about your jaw —...