Are you missing an important component of healing? Eliminate Back, Hip, Neck, and Headache Pain through Chiropractic Neurology
August 2, 2023
Healthy movement of our muscles and joints provides important messages about our body to the brain. If we lose joint motion or muscles tighten and spasm due to injury, inactivity, poor posture, whiplash, or disc herniation, we lose the movement signal to our brain, which is quickly replaced by pain signals. We now experience a misfiring of signals that...
Center of Pressure: What this means to posture, joint and spinal pain
June 4, 2020
If I drew a line right down the center of you, it should land in between your ankles. If I looked at you from the side, I should be able to draw a line from your ear and connect it straight down to your shoulder, then hip and finally your ankle. This is perfect center of pressure.
Now, if you think about this from an engineering perspective, it allows...
Bilateral Arm Tingling: The Upper Thoracic Component
June 4, 2020
We see a tremendous amount of patients who have upper extremity tingling, pain or numbness. This may originate from a cervical root impingement related to disc herniation or bulge, hypertonicity or spasming of muscles in the scapular (shoulder blade)/rotator cuff region with associated costovertebral (rib/spine articulation) joint fixation. These are all...
A simple way to understand how mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy heals injured tissue
June 3, 2020
Under Hyperbaric Therapy (HBO2), Oxygen, which is a much smaller molecule than a Red Blood Cell (RBC), is pulled from the larger RBC, which is carrying the oxygen molecules to tissues via hemoglobin. RBC's are the vehicle transport for all oxygen within our body. After extraction, it is now concentrated within the surrounding plasma. This allows the smaller...
Plantar Fasciitis: What a Pain in the Foot!
January 22, 2019
In our office, we see patients for a variety of musculoskeletal issues, not just neck and low back pain, though we do treat a lot of people with those problems successfully. One of the more common complaints patients come in with is foot pain. This is often caused by plantar fasciitis, or inflammation of the soft tissue in the arch of the...
Maintenance for your Spine equals Maintenance for your Brain
March 31, 2016
Once you're experiencing pain, it's too late. By that I don't mean that it's not treatable, but I do mean that your system has already been compensating for some time. Unless you have recently injured yourself, your issue has most likely developed over time from chronic strain due to posture, sleeping positions, habits, work ergonomics, weekend activities...
Knee pain is not the end: It could be originating from your Pelvis, Hip or Lumbar Spine
March 21, 2016
If your Hip, Pelvis and Lumbar spine are not working properly, it is impossible for your knee to function normally and absorb pressure during gait. This is because when we step, our foot transmits forces into our knee, which then transmits into our hip, pelvis, lumbar spine and so forth. This is known as shock absorption, and functions by redistributing...
Massage
March 17, 2015
Massage is much more than just a relaxing experience. Massage is a great tool to use in rehabilitation of injuries of many types. Some massage techniques include myofascial, deep tissue, and stretching.
Myofascial works with fascia, which is the stuff that covers nearly everything in our bodies; muscles, muscle bundles and muscle fibers. It can become...