If you ignore a back problem, it will likely not go away on its own. Sometimes you can get through an episode when it’s early in the condition with some over the counter medications and rest. So you’d think. If the underlying problem is never addressed, the back pain problem is there to resurface again [...]

Uh oh, it’s happened again. You can feel the initial “twinge.” That is, you can feel the early warning sign that you low back pain problem is about to come back again. You knew you should have been keeping up with your chiropractic visits and the exercises your doctor gave you, but you just haven’t [...]

You sit down at your computer, ready to put in a full day’s work and make some serious headway on your projects. You know you’ll easily be spending 8 to 10 hours sitting in front of the computer.
You’ve set up your computer workstation as effectively as you can figure. Your keyboard is appropriately placed in [...]

Once you see someone doing it, it’s hard to avoid it any longer. You’ve seen it, you may have even done it. You stand on one leg. I’m not talking about standing on one leg like a flamingo, but rather standing where you are putting all of your weight on one side of your body.
Eventually, [...]

There are problems that have just started, lurking beneath the surface where you have not yet felt their pain. You may go years, occasionally feeling some soreness and stiffness, just to have it go away on its own. Maybe you feel a twinge, take a pill, and it all seems like it’s going to be [...]

My practice is in an area that is filled with people that sit at their computer all day. They don’t have the best posture in the world, and they don’t always have the best ergonomic set up for their desks. They are also under a lot of stress. However, usually bad posture, stress, and poor [...]

Over and over again you get the same headache. You know exactly what’s coming when you get a certain feeling. “Uh oh” is your first thought. “By the end of the day, I know I’ll be laying on the couch hoping the medications work this time.”
To me, headaches are the worst problem to have. I’ve [...]

Here’s a common theme that presents itself for many new patients coming into my office, “I’ve been to a chiropractor before. I go whenever I need it, whenever my pain gets so bad that I can’t take it any more.”
Waiting until the symptoms are unbearable is the most common strategy I hear, and it’s the [...]

There’s information available that I am now realizing a lot of people don’t have. The symptom is not always where the problem is located. What do I mean? I’ll give you two common examples: headaches and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Headaches are so often coming from a problem in the neck that there is a name for [...]

Sciatica is very similar to low back pain, but with one extra symptom; pain shooting down one or both of the backs of your legs.