Category: Pain Management

If you live anywhere north of the Mason Dixon line, chances are your habitat is chock full of the white stuff. Most people think of sledding, snowmen, skiing, snowball fights, and school cancellations. I think of slips, trips, and falls on slick surfaces that can trigger (or re-aggravate) spinal problems, causing neck pain, back pain, and headaches.

according to a recent study, steroid injections may pose an increased risk of vertebral fracture in older adults. In other words, a broken back.

Have you ever gotten out of a car after several straight hours of driving and felt like your back was as stiff as a board?  Now imagine if you already have an underlying spinal issue.  This magnifies this effect greatly.  Let’s face it: the human spine was not designed to sit hunched over a steering […]

The term for muscle pain caused by statin use is called “statin myopathy.” Myopathy is the medical term for “muscle disease.” Symptoms typically include weakness in the hips and legs as well as back pain and leg pain, but it can affect the whole body, as well.

Unfortunately, while most people are arguing about WHO pays for it, we should be trying to figure out how to decrease our need for medical care, which is the only real way to decrease the associated costs.

In my chiropractic practice, I see prolonged sitting as a constant cause of back pain, neck pain, and headaches in my patients who are chained to a desk all day.