What Does a Subluxation Feel Like?

First let’s define a subluxation.  A subluxation is a misalignment of a bone.  This misalignment in the spine can put pressure on your spinal nerve roots and can result in pain, inflammation and limited range of motion.  A subluxation can also occur in your...

MRI Shows Effects of Chiropractic Adjustment

This video gets a little technical but it is an amazing example of how the central nervous system changes with just one chiropractic adjustment.  Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) is a clear fluid that runs through the brain and spinal cord and supplies nutrients and...

Pain Injections Show Short Term Improvement

A new article from The Annals of Internal Medicine showing the efficacy of epidural injections to treat pain and radiculopathy.  In case you don’t know, radiculopathy is arm or leg pain, numbness, tingling.  Sometimes called sciatica too. The good news is the...

Sitting and Low Back Pain

I’m sure by this point you have heard somebody say that sitting is bad for your back and health.  Our culture has shifted into being primarily office based jobs.  If you compare our current jobs to the average job of Americans over the past 100 years you will...

Chiropractic Helps Fight off Head Colds

I know that chiropractors often get bad reputations for thinking they can “cure” everything.  Not all of us are into vitamin and supplement crazes or diet fads that have nothing to do with nutrition.  Chiropractic adjustments help your body in a lengthy...

If I Feel Better Do I Have to Come Back?

I just had a patient ask me this question.  I think a better way to pose the question is “If I feel better should I come back?”  This is often a big issue with people.  Once you go to a chiropractor you are always going to have to go back.  Or some people...