Aug 10, 2018 | Back pain, Chiropractic, Clinical Reasoning, Neck pain, Posture, Uncategorized
What’s the deal with spinal curvature? Can a Chiropractor correct it? Does it matter? Is correcting it a meaningful correction? These are some of the questions that we have to consider. Here’s the idea: The idea is that we see a process of...
Sep 12, 2012 | Chiropractic, Exercise, Injury Prevention, Motor Control, Performance, Posture, Rotator Cuff, Shoulder
I’ve been dealing with my own shoulder impingement issues lately as well as working with a couple of patients which has motivated me to learn more about shoulder pain and shoulder health. And since shoulder pain is so common… “Shoulder pain is highly...
Aug 1, 2012 | Chiropractic, Clinical Reasoning
Do you really need those X-Rays? Evidence suggests NOT. There are many differences between how clinicians approach spinal treatment and/or pain. Some approach generally from a structural model, pointing out misalignments on x-rays and indicating that these...
Jul 2, 2012 | Chiropractic, Exercise, Injury Prevention, Motor Control, Performance
Movement is a full body endeavor. Somewhere along the way, most of us lose our ability to move well much too soon. Our current state of general thinking on exercise however, likes to break movement into individual parts. We go to the gym to work our legs, our...
Jun 18, 2012 | Back pain, Chiropractic
It’s true. Chiropractic is most notoriously associated with low back pain. Many chiropractors somewhat resent this stereotype because we can treat so much more. Low back disc surgery is the third most common surgery in America. LBP is the second most common ailment...
Jun 4, 2012 | Back pain, Chiropractic
Treating pain, in my opinion, is a high calling. Not that it makes for a better profession, I just think it is an important undertaking. I specify this notion because sometimes chiropractors downplay pain and act like they are called to something higher. It’s true...