September is Chronic Pain Month If you look up chronic pain in the dictionary or on Google, you will find a variation of the following definition: ‘Chronic pain is defined as persistent pain in one or more regions of the body that lasts longer than the typical period of time expected for healing, usually three …
Hot to Relieve Office Chair Pain Consider your typical day, is most of your day spent sitting? Research has shown that we spend most of our day being sedentary. Sitting on the couch, sitting at work, sitting in your car going to and from places are just a few examples. It is important to note that injury doesn’t always occur during …
Understanding what degenerative disc disease is Early degenerative disc disease, lumbar osteoarthritis, bone spurs, “your back is breaking down”, thinned discs; these are all very scary terms that may be given as a diagnosis to our patients. Many times, these findings come after an X-ray or an MRI for back pain. The goal of this post is …
How to Get the Best sleeps Many women experience back pain during their pregnancy. Here are five tips to help minimize your back pain so you can get back to day to day life. 1. Exercise – Low impact cardiovascular activities like swimming, walking or stationary cycling can help relieve pain and maintain fitness. Be sure to …
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“We’re gunna start your massage with some cold therapy…” because my hands are icicles. So sorry. An ongoing joke with our massage therapists in office right now. Especially first thing in the morning, it’s hard to keep our hands warm! Mittens just aren’t cutting it in this cold snap. And don’t even get me started …
How to choose the right shoes for you: 1) Go shopping at the end of the day. As the day goes on your feet expand. With more steps and time on your feet gravity takes a toll on the bones and ligaments of your feet; they flatten, widen, and get longer. If you can’t go …
A diagnosis of IBS can often be quite unhelpful from a practical standpoint. It does not identify a cause for symptoms and often there are minimal treatment interventions available.
Tension headaches can be related to an increase of muscle tightness in the neck and restricted joint motion in the spine. Lifestyle changes and treatment by a chiropractor, can be the best method to help reduce the symptoms of tension headaches.
