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...
Nov 24, 2016 | Clinical Reasoning, Diet/Nutrition, Exercise, Injury Prevention, Posture, Uncategorized
A review of Movement Matters, author Katy Bowman. Often, we read something and think, “that was pretty good,” and we take away a few pearls that may or may not make much of a difference in our life, overall. This isn’t that kind of a book. This is a paradigm...
Jul 10, 2013 | Back pain, Clinical Reasoning, Neck pain
Why I stopped using short leg checks and a better way! Are you being treated or have you been treated for a short leg that is potentially a factor in your low back or hip pain? If you haven’t, that’s most likely a good thing. Leg checks are performed with the...
Jun 4, 2013 | Back pain, Clinical Reasoning, Exercise, Injury Prevention, Neck pain, Posture
10 Ways to Know Who’s Good and Who’s Not. Every profession has those who are good, those who are not, and then everybody in-between. I’m sure you can likely think of how this is true in your own profession. For outsiders, it can be...
Feb 25, 2013 | Active Release Technique, Back pain, Clinical Reasoning, Diet/Nutrition, Exercise, Graston, Injury Prevention, Motor Control, Neck pain, Performance, Posture, Rotator Cuff, Running, Shoulder
The difficult thing about putting a list like this together is that I will inevitably look back at this in the future and realize its shortcomings or errors. This seems to happen as you go through life and keep learning. Nonetheless, I think it’s a good thing...
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...