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...
What causes back pain and how can we fix it?
July 26, 2023
Lower back pain can be caused by many factors. Therefore, a comprehensive model that combines chiropractic, physical therapy, and neurology can often restore healthy function by addressing all components of pain, including inflammation, joint, muscle, disc, nerve, and brain involvement.
Addressing all structures involved in pain is essential for...
Is Your Back, Neck, Hip and Pelvic Pain Not Getting Better? Remapping the Brain and its Connections to the Body Through Chiropractic Neurology Can Help
July 22, 2023
Chiropractic neurology is extremely effective for treating pain conditions of the body, whether its lower back, neck, rib, pelvic, or hip involvement. Are you experiencing pain that started in one area, but then seemed to spread out to other regions? Are you now experiencing headaches, pain, numbness, or tingling down a leg or arm? Tightness and pain 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...
Are Posture and Biomechanical issues causing your pain?
June 4, 2020
Is shoveling really what’s causing your injuries? Or are there other underlying mechanisms that may be contributing to your discomfort? Why is it that some people end up in crippling pain from a night of shoveling and some walk away with a little muscle soreness from the great workout they got?
Underlying postural and biomechanical issues can cause...
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...
Engage your core this winter!!
February 16, 2017
Many of us spend most of our time with our core disengaged, that's just the nature of the 21st century I'm sorry to say. A Physical Therapy friend and colleague of mine, Brandon Freeman at Portland Physical Therapy, and I had a recent discussion on core, lumbar disc and lower back injury. Yes, I know what you're thinking, do these guys actually talk about...
When we experience a concussion our nerve axons (connections) are stretched!
February 16, 2017
If you connected all of our neurons, they would stretch around the earth four times. That's 100 billion neurons that make up our brain, all connected to create a framework that allows for incredible function, allowing us to love, create, think, imagine, dream, move, plan, focus, speak and the list goes on. However, our brains are so miraculous, not based...
The importance of treatment frequency and following your doctor's plan: Neuroplasticity
April 8, 2016
Many of our new patients are seen 3-5x times per week for a duration of time in order to maximize results. Why is it important to follow a treatment plan so rigorous? In simple terms, the nervous system responds to repetition. Much like learning something new requires time and effort to sink in, so does the required changes occurring within our body and...