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Chiropractic was founded in 1895 after a spinal adjustment to the upper region of the spine reportedly restored a man’s hearing. Since that time, the profession has continued to study why spinal adjustments work and how posture, alignment, and spinal curves may affect overall health. Researchers have studied many different responses to spinal manipulation, including [..]

For years, chiropractors have treated back pain patients as well as, if not superior to, other healthcare professions. In fact, all of the guidelines published around the world have recommended manipulative care as an initial or first step for the treatment of low back pain and, more recently, neck pain. So why are there still [..]

The headline to this article may seem strange to you. After all, what does the news have to do with your back? According to Johns Hopkins Health Alerts, quite a bit. A report called "Back Pain and Osteoporosis Special Report: The Mind-Body Connection" stated that a growing number of studies show that the mind-body connection [..]

Here's something interesting. In 1987, American Airlines saved $40,000 simply by removing one olive from every first-class salad they served. That may not sound like much, but small things add up over time. The same is true with your health. It is estimated that many people do not drink enough water. Even mild dehydration can [..]

A Mechanical Model Involving the Spinal Dura Mater and the Suboccipital MusclesFor more than half a century respected authors, clinicians, and journals have claimed that various problems of the cervical spine can cause headaches. As an example, in 1958, Beverly Hills neurosurgeon Emil Seletz, MD, authors an article titled Headache of Extracranial Origin, published in the [..]

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a condition that (typically) evolves slowly over time and often occurs for no apparent reason. The diagnosis is usually made by excluding other conditions leaving you with a diagnosis that in the absence of anything else, "….must be fibromyalgia." Of course, the problem with that approach is that we all want to [..]

Whiplash is most commonly studied when it is a result of a rear collision where the occupant of the vehicle is injured from a flexion (forwards) and extension (backwards) whip-like mechanism of injury, but what happens when a T-bone type of impact occurs?The answer to this question is quite similar to many of the factors [..]

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a condition in which a nerve in the wrist gets pinched resulting in numbness, tingling, and sometimes grip strength loss. One of the first symptoms of CTS involves waking up at night due to the numb, tingly sensations. This initially occurs once in a while but eventually becomes more frequent, [..]

The relationship between neck pain and our pillow is more important than most of us realize! Though we all may have at one time or another slept on a variety of surfaces, and used any number of pillows (flat, medium, bulky) made of different materials (foam, feather, air, water, or memory foam), it’s usually not [..]

Losing weight can dramatically reduce Low back pain (LBP). For the next two articles, we will look at easy ways to lose weight without the need for fancy, hard to follow diets. As the saying goes, this is a "no-brainer." Time your meals. Set a timer for 20 minutes and "pace yourself" so that you [..]

Can receiving spinal adjustments make a person healthier? If so, how would you measure it?Treating patients with chronic, long-term disabling back pain is truly a challenge. A commonly utilized medical approach to treating these patients (after the initial less invasive course of treatment has failed) is the use of opioid pain relievers (OPR). Opioid pain [..]

The public press and indexed journals have claimed that chiropractic adjustments to the cervical spine can injure the vertebral artery. Students in Chiropractic College are also taught about the vertebral artery injury risk. Specifically, in college, chiropractic students are taught about:The anatomy of the cervical spine and of the vertebral artery.The manipulative maneuvers that theoretically [..]