Each joint in your body, from your ankle to the bones in your neck, are designed to have a particular range of motion, specific to the joint. Your elbow for example: it can flex, extend, and rotate. Your low back can flex from side to side as you bend. When the joints are working properly, we have what we call “full range of motion.” Sometimes, these joints become stuck or…
The Joint Dysfunction Old-school chiropractic philosophy was very simple. A joint dysfunction, also called a subluxation, is a BOOP (Bone Out Of Place). The general idea is that a vertebra or extremity bone rotates out of position and physically puts pressure on the nerve that runs right alongside of it. I don’t criticize that old school oversimplification because they didn’t have the complex testing and diagnostic equipment we have today.…
This topic, as many of you already know, is very close to my heart right now. My wife is pregnant. Very soon we get to find out the sex, and we can stop calling it “it”. It’ll start to feel so much more real when I can say he or she. I honestly don’t care if its a boy or a girl, as long as it has the right number of fingers,…
Patients with knee pain are one of the fastest growing demographics in our offices. I think it’s because Dr. Karen and myself, and all the other chiropractic physicians out there, have started doing a much better job educating the public that we are much more than “back doctors”. I describe chiropractors as Musculoskeletal specialists; that means wherever you have muscles and joints, we can treat that area. Sounds like pretty much…
July’s topic of the month is Leg Pain. So let’s, for a moment, investigate what I believe to be the leading cause of musculoskeletal leg pain: a fallen arch. A fallen arch is shown on the left as a flat arch. With a normal arch, shown in the middle, there is about an inch of distance between the ground and the top of the arch on the inside of your…
There is a reason why all professional sports teams (NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.) have chiropractic physicians on staff. Because chiropractors help each person be all they can be. Sounds like an ad for the army doesn’t it? To professional athletes, who are expected to perform at such high standards all the time, even the tiniest of ailments can throw off their game greatly. They are so highly tuned for what…
Shoulders are an intensely complicated joint. The shoulder complex is actually made up of 3 different bones forming 4 distinct joints. Over 15 muscles surround the shoulder. There’s even a bursa, a fluid filled sac, inside the main shoulder joint to aid in movement. They are also one of the most flexible joints. From a doctor’s perspective, that can be very bad. Flexibility = instability, and instability means its very…
It has many names: arthritis, degeneration, spurs, etc. But I think we can all agree on one name for it: the ugly enemy. We can all agree that it is bad, painful, and can haunt you for the rest of your life. And we all assume it’s just a disease for the elderly and maybe we’ll get it one day, but that day is far off. Wrong! Trust me when…
