Even though pain may be felt in the arm or leg, it often originates in the spine. All of the nerves that travel to your arms and legs originate below the skull. When you irritate a nerve in your neck or low back, it often sends a signal down...
Most often an automobile accident will not cause a bone to break but rather soft tissue injuries. The muscles, ligaments, tendons, discs: these can be injured in a car accident. Chiropractic can treat the swelling and muscle spasms while...
Carpal tunnel syndrome, as well as any number of other local entrapment of a nerve, is a type of a condition that chiropractic can treat very effectively. This problem can be complicated because it often results from multiple causes, rarely...
A hernia is normally a further development of a previously existing disc "protrusion", a condition in which the outermost layers of the disc ring are still intact, but can bulge when the disc is under pressure. While a hernia is a...
A significant amount of headaches are caused by tension in the muscles in and around the spine and underneath the skull. If, for example, a patient spends a lot of time in front of a computer, their neck muscles develop a chronic tightening and...
According to the article “Global Burden of Disease” in the medical magazine “The Lancet” low back pain is the single leading cause of disability worldwide. Lower back pain can come from many different sources, but it is...
Neck pain is typically a mechanical problem of the muscles and joints. Chiropractic can help keep the body functioning normally, the way it should. This in turn eliminates neck pain. Improving the movement decreases the pain as well as...
Sciatica is due to compression of the largest nerve in the body, the sciatic nerve. The symptoms can be very painful and even cause numbness, tingling, weakness, a burning or stabbing pain which travels down the leg or the thigh. Treating the...
Sports Chiropractic is a specialty area within chiropractic. To practice as a Sports Chiropractor requires the chiropractor to undertake additional post-graduate qualifications in sports injury management. The additional study allows the Sports...
