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...
Sep 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
There are more than 150 types of headaches and “migraine” is one of the most common. In addition to moderate to severe headache, the presence of nausea, disability, and photophobia are the most significant predictors for migraine. A self-administered screening...
Jan 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s less than you probably think. The sit and reach test that we all did in school lied to us, or at least deceived us. It has made most of us think that touching your toes is the standard of flexibility, and it missed a great opportunity to help people...
Jan 23, 2015 | Back pain, Neck pain, Posture, Uncategorized
The thing about posture is that it takes effort. No one has good posture accidentally. Naturally, we will all default to hanging “passively” on our joints and ligaments, and this has a strong propensity to lead to pain and discomfort. This also tends to...