BLOGRelieving the Pressure
You’ve just completed your last dive of the day, and as you’re packing your gear you notice a twinge in your shoulder. Recalling that the...
15 October 2009
Stories
Listen to What Your Body Tells You
My daughter suffers from an occasional migraine. As a precursor to one of these "knock-her-off-her-feet" headaches, she starts to see "black splotches." She knows that...
By Jeff Mayers
15 October 2009
Neurological DCI
The DiverThe diver is a 27-year-old female scuba instructor who has been certified for four years. A technical diver, she has made more than 250...
15 October 2009
A Cause for Concern
After major surgery, you should not resume diving until you can exercise safely. Warm weather is here in the Northern Hemisphere, and many of us...
15 October 2009
Flying After Diving
In 1989, DAN participated in the first flying after diving (FAD) workshop. It was sponsored by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society and reported on...
15 July 2009
Flirting With a Blue-Ringed Octopus (Again)
All divers have a sense of adventure, whether it's deep diving, following an underwater cave system or relishing a close encounter with venomous and yet...
15 July 2009
Hits Happen
Remember Harold Kushner's 1980s bestseller, When Bad Things Happen to Good People? This inspiring book explored why ordinary people - ourselves and people around us...
By Jeff Myers
15 July 2009
Differential Diagnosis
The Diver This is a 51-year-old female who is in good health. In the past year, she had two vertebrae in her neck (cervical vertebrae 5...
15 July 2009
Scuba Diving and Dental Implants
More people are electing to have failing or missing teeth replaced by dental implants. Traditional solutions for missing teeth include these types of implants: bridges,...
15 July 2009
Psychological Trauma and its Treatment
In the field of recreational and technical diving, traumatic situations can happen such as nitrogen narcosis, decompression sickness or assisting people who manifest with various...
15 July 2009
Diabetes and Diving
Diabetes is a disease in which the body is not able to produce or effectively respond to insulin, a hormone that is required to use...
15 July 2009
Fitness and Diving
Fitness and diving; fitness for diving; fitness in diving; fitness to dive. As divers we've heard these expressions in our training classes, in dive publications...
15 April 2009
