Video of WHERE Snoring Comes From

A new version of an older video our office has produced has been uploaded that explains where snoring comes from. The info also applies to where obstruction comes from in patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea . This procedure is called " sleep endoscopy " or " sedated endoscopy " and is DIFFERENT from a sleep study which is performed to diagnose whether any sleep disorders are present.

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Acupuncture Helps with Tonsillectomy Pain

Back in 2013, I blogged how acupuncture may help with pain after tonsillectomy in children [ link ]. This was based on a study by Dr. Ochi published in Dec 2013 on 56 children. Another study has been published in April 2015 on 59 children by a different group of researchers which support Dr. Ochi's findings as well as another in 2019 found acupuncture helpful in adults. Although no significant differences in the amount of opioid medications administered or total post-anesthesia care t…

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Acupuncture Helps with Ear Surgery Pain

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital has found that acupuncture may be effective in diminishing both pain and post-anesthesia agitation in children after ear tube placement determined thru a prospective randomized controlled trial . Typically, children are placed under general anesthesia in order to have this procedure performed and upon waking, are often tearful and agitated. In this study, acupuncture needles were placed at LI-4 and HT-7 immediately after anesthesia, but prior to …

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Acupuncture Alleviates Pain After Tonsillectomy in Children

The study showed that acupuncture significantly decreased pain after tonsillectomy in children (2-17 years of age) with reported pain levels before acupuncture of 5.52 (SD=2.28) out of 10 which fell to 1.92 (SD=2.43) after acupuncture. This retrospective research was conducted in 31 patients who underwent a tonsillectomy within a 3 month period of time by Dr. James Ochi , one of only a handful of dual board-certified ENT and medical acupuncture in the United States. No study patients rece…

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Find an ENT Doctor App

If you have an iPhone or Android , get the ENTLink App... You can search for an ENT by current location or by zip code. The search can be narrowed to a specific specialty area (laryngology, neuro-otology, rhinology, etc) as well. Of course, you can search for the same information from the website . Download the app for iPhone and Android .

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Google Flu Shot Finder

The brainy folks at Google has been at it again... Not only did they produce a map showing the flu trends in the US ... but now they have produced a Flu Shot finder based on zip code for both seasonal as well as H1N1 vaccines. The locations are displayed on their Google Maps page. Check it out here !

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