If you have back pain, you have probably heard a lot of opinions.One person says to rest.Another says to take medication.Someone else says physical therapy, injections, or even surgery.So what should you do?Researchers followed more than 2,700 patients with low back pain over four years and compared the results of medical treatment versus chiropractic care.The [..]

When people have back pain, they often feel overwhelmed. Friends suggest one thing. Family suggests another. One person says medication. Another says physical therapy. Someone else says surgery. No wonder so many people feel confused. The good news is that most experts agree on one important idea: Start with the least invasive option first. Unless [..]

Many people are surprised to learn how much education chiropractors receive. To become a Doctor of Chiropractic, a person usually completes: four years of college-level pre-med education four to five additional years of chiropractic school hundreds of hours of clinical training national board examinations state licensing requirements In chiropractic school, doctors study subjects such as: [..]

A Mechanical Model Involving the Spinal Dura Mater and the Suboccipital MusclesFor more than half a century respected authors, clinicians, and journals have claimed that various problems of the cervical spine can cause headaches. As an example, in 1958, Beverly Hills neurosurgeon Emil Seletz, MD, authors an article titled Headache of Extracranial Origin, published in the [..]

Whiplash is most commonly studied when it is a result of a rear collision where the occupant of the vehicle is injured from a flexion (forwards) and extension (backwards) whip-like mechanism of injury, but what happens when a T-bone type of impact occurs?The answer to this question is quite similar to many of the factors [..]

Losing weight can dramatically reduce Low back pain (LBP). For the next two articles, we will look at easy ways to lose weight without the need for fancy, hard to follow diets. As the saying goes, this is a "no-brainer." Time your meals. Set a timer for 20 minutes and "pace yourself" so that you [..]

The relationship between neck pain and our pillow is more important than most of us realize! Though we all may have at one time or another slept on a variety of surfaces, and used any number of pillows (flat, medium, bulky) made of different materials (foam, feather, air, water, or memory foam), it’s usually not [..]

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a condition in which a nerve in the wrist gets pinched resulting in numbness, tingling, and sometimes grip strength loss. One of the first symptoms of CTS involves waking up at night due to the numb, tingly sensations. This initially occurs once in a while but eventually becomes more frequent, [..]

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a condition that (typically) evolves slowly over time and often occurs for no apparent reason. The diagnosis is usually made by excluding other conditions leaving you with a diagnosis that in the absence of anything else, "….must be fibromyalgia." Of course, the problem with that approach is that we all want to [..]

Can receiving spinal adjustments make a person healthier? If so, how would you measure it?Treating patients with chronic, long-term disabling back pain is truly a challenge. A commonly utilized medical approach to treating these patients (after the initial less invasive course of treatment has failed) is the use of opioid pain relievers (OPR). Opioid pain [..]