by Bruce Brown | April 8, 2021 | Health
“You need to exercise more and eat healthier food.” It’s pretty easy for family and friends, colleagues at work, and medical professionals to give that advice. For the recipient, however, the message can be a slow one-two punch. The first blow...
by Bruce Brown | August 12, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Imagine having the equivalents of a gatekeeper, a multilingual translator, an air traffic controller, and a bouncer in your nervous system. Now imagine that this team can modulate and redirect signals from the brain and the rest of your nervous system to other systems...
by Bruce Brown | March 21, 2016 | General News, Health
Have you ever tried to tie lace-up shoes with one hand? In the past few years, I had that experience three times following rotator cuff surgery on each shoulder and a trigger finger release on my left hand. In each case I lived through just a few days of awkwardness,...
by Alfred Poor | May 14, 2015 | Medical
When your body senses injury or disease, it activates its defense systems. This can be helpful as it increases blood supply to affected areas and sends out specialized cells to attack invaders. This response can be a problem, however, when you have a chronic disease,...