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Does this sound familiar? It’s a fictional but a rather typical scenario affecting thousands of American drivers:
"Last week, I was waiting at a red light and a car came up from behind and ran into the back end of my car. It was a low-speed collision without a lot of damage to either of [..]
How Safe Are Chiropractic Adjustments?
In recent years the safety and efficacy of Chiropractic adjustments / manipulation have come into question. And simultaneously the accusations against spinal manipulation / Chiropractic adjustments have come under equal fire. It is the hope of this months issue to alleviate the questions surrounding this clinical approach and it’s utilization [..]
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a very common problem and one of the leading causes of work-related injuries. This is partially due to the advancement in technology coupled with the dramatic increase in the pace of work performance in recent decades (1). The carpal tunnel is a small space in the wrist made up of [..]
Fibromyalgia (FM) affects at least 6 million
Americans (1) and is the third most prevalent rheumatologic disorder
(after osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis) representing 5% of
family practice office visits and 20% of rheumatology visits.
Approximately 90% of FM patients are women between the ages of 40 and 60
years, with an average age of 49. [..]
Headaches are one of the more common conditions that enter the offices of primary care doctors, including chiropractors. The standard medical treatment revolves around the use of medications and/or injections. The standard chiropractic treatment approach includes manual therapies that may include spinal manipulation or adjustments, manual or mechanical cervical traction, mobilization techniques, trigger point therapy, [..]
If you have low back pain (LBP), you are certainly not alone. Almost everyone at some point has back pain that interferes with their work, daily activities, and/or recreation. Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on LBP-related treatments and it is the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading contributor to [..]
Is the speed of a car crash directly proportional to amount of injury sustained by the occupants? One would expect more injury to occur when the speed of the collision is faster and sometimes, this is the case – especially when car accidents occur at highway speeds.
But what about patients who end up in [..]
Understanding that cervical spine problems can cause headache is not a new understanding, yet is still all too often overlooked. In 1956, Emil Seletz, MD… a noted Beverly Hills, CA, neurosurgeon. He was member of the esteemed faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles, medical school, and had treated more than 20,000 injury patients [..]
A study published in 2008 has results that will make you wonder whether back surgery is always necessary .
In the study, researchers followed 102 patients with disk herniations
confirmed by MRI and sciatic/leg pain while they waited to see a spinal
surgeon. The patients had also previously tried four weeks of
medications (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory [..]
Research has shown certain work practices and risk factors, such as being overweight, can elevate your risk for developing carpal tunnel symptoms.A
doctor of chiropractic will often look to the spine when a patient has
nerve pain. Many people with carpal tunnel syndrome have a history of a
whiplash injury or other neck trauma. But [..]
It seems a month doesn't go by when yet another scientific study is published proving the benefits of exercise for fibromyalgia
patients. For example, a 2008 study by Finnish researchers looked at 26
women who were postmenopausal with fibromyalgia symptoms such as
widespread pain and fatigue. In the study, the participants either
completed a supervised [..]
A 2007 study (1) compared alternative treatments for patients
suffering from cervicogenic headaches, or headaches related to/caused by
dysfunction in the neck. Patients with such headaches will typically
experience neck pain and limited cervical mobility. They may also be a
history of a neck injury, such as a whiplash or head trauma. The study
involved [..]