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Delaying Knee Replacement
It’s estimated that nearly 800,000 knee replacements are currently performed in the United States each year. Due to the combination of ageing and poor lifestyle choices, researchers expect the number...
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Managing Cervicogenic Headaches
Cervicogenic is a term derived from the Latin cervix, meaning neck, and the Greek genes, meaning produced by or originating from. In essence, cervicogenic means originating from the neck, and a...
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Healthier Ageing and Independence
Activities of daily living (ADL) are defined as essential tasks a person would need to perform to maintain their own health and wellbeing. This encompasses both fundamental self-care tasks (like...
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Neck-Specific Exercises for Managing Whiplash
Individuals suffering from chronic whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) may experience ongoing symptoms beyond neck pain such as dizziness, impaired balance, and difficulty with fine motor control of...
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Understanding Cauda Equina Syndrome
Safety, Concerns, Chiropractic Care A primary care provider (PCP) is a health care provider who provides the first contact for a person with a new health concern. Historically, the primary care...
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Exercise for Heart Patients
It’s well established that cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of disability and death worldwide, of which coronary artery disease and heart failure are the most common. Even though there has...
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The Three Phases of Whiplash
It’s estimated that as many as one million Americans experience a whiplash injury each year with many occurring as the result of rear-end collisions. While many whiplash patients do recover, a large...
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Neck Exercises for Managing Headaches
Headaches are an all-too-common and disabling condition that are often accompanied by neck pain and stiffness, leading patients to try chiropractic care to see if a neck adjustment can help. The good...
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Improving Shoulder Stability
The shoulder complex is comprised of four joints—glenohumeral, acromioclavicular, sternoclavicular, and scapulothoracic—that coordinate with one another so that we can perform numerous activities with...
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Osteoarthritis and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Osteoarthritis is a form of arthritis characterized by the gradual wearing down of the cartilage tissue in joints. The condition is the most common cause of arthritis and will affect everyone who makes...
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Low Back Pain in Teen Tennis Players
From its origins in northern France in the Middle Ages, tennis has grown into one of the most popular sports in the world and is commonly found in high school and college athletic programs. As with all...
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Spinal Manipulation and Low Back Pain
The Importance of Convergent Validity The primary reason (63%) patients go to chiropractors is for the management of low back pain (1). The objective of this publication is to assess the efficacy of...
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Manual Therapy and Parkinson’s Disease
The term gait refers to the human steady state of walking. Although most of us don’t have to concentrate on walking from one room to another, this task is actually very complex for our balance control...
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Glute Weakness and Low Back Pain
While we traditionally view low back pain as the result of a problem localized to the low back itself, several studies have found that issues in adjacent parts of the body can play a role in the...
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Halting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) occurs when the mobility of the median nerve is restricted as it passes through the wrist on its way to the hand. The condition typically comes on gradually and...
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Managing Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome
Musculoskeletal conditions, including hip-related pain, are a leading cause of pain and disability and represent the second-largest global contributor to years lived with disability. Among hip-related...
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A Multi-Pronged Treatment Approach for Neck Pain
Non-specific mechanical neck pain is a common condition that affects up to 70% of the population at some point during their lifetime, and between 15-20% may have some degree neck pain at any given...
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The Whiplash Chiropractic Patient Experience
Whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) is the term that properly describes the injuries sustained as a result of the sudden acceleration-deceleration of the head and neck, most commonly during a motor...
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Cervical Angina and Chiropractic Care
Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. It may also be referred to as coronary artery disease and/or atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. The most up-to-date epidemiological...
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Low Back Pain and The Importance of Sleep
Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and it’s estimated 619 million people suffer an episode each year. By 2050, it’s expected this total will jump to 843 million! In addition to...
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