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...
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...
Chronic Neck and Back Pain Generated from Faulty Eye Movements?
April 26, 2015
Yes, the brain and body are linked, but how could an eye movement change the tone of our neck or lower back muscles? The answer starts with stability and balance, when you move your eyes in a direction, you must stabilize the opposite sided musculature of the spine to brace for the sense of inertia that occurs. For instance, when we perform a saccade, or a...