It should come as no surprise to you that chiropractic care is viewed as being one of the best treatments for back and neck pain. However, as we will see in the study below, chiropractic care is still under utilized in our country. Chiropractors have a very...
The kids are officially back to school. There is a change in the stress and strain that our children undergo as they return to school carrying all those books home in their heavy backpacks. There are three essential key factors: Backpacks should be 10% of the...
We all have a friend or family member that has had this happen to them. So what is going on in there and what type of treatment should you seek? The best immediate relief is doing something to decrease the inflammation. Ice and anti-inflammatory medications like...
This will be a fun anatomy lesson for all you kids out there. Your spine is made up of 24 movable segments, or vertebra. This does not include your hips and tailbone (ilium and sacrum are the correct anatomical terms). Each of these bones can become subluxated or...
A couple of times a year the Michigan Association of Chiropractors includes recent studies showing the efficacy of chiropractic care. This is an important part of our profession because up until about 10 years ago there were no studies being performed on chiropractic...
Let’s cut right to the chase on this topic. There is no such thing as “normal” back pain. Pain is a symptom, a warning light of sorts, that tells you something is wrong. Do you have normal eye pain, normal pain with urination, normal ringing in...
