In 1934, William Jason Mixter, MD and Joseph S Barr, MD, published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine (1) establishing that the rupture of the intervertebral disc could result in pressure on the related nerves, causing back and leg pain. In this study, Drs. Mixter and Barr also suggested that the lumbar […]
Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Fibromyalgia Syndrome is the third most commonly diagnosed rheumatologic disorder, following osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Fibromyalgia is characterized by widespread pain and tenderness, fatigue, morning stiffness, and sleep disturbance. Fibromyalgia is often disabling. Fibromyalgia is often treatment resistant. Fibromyalgia can be triggered by trauma (Greenfield, Waylonis, Buskila, Neumann). Studies report that between 25% and 50% […]
Chiropractic and Cholesterol?
Because chiropractic care is about restoring overall general health and well-being, and since the body cannot be segregated into only one system (like only the neuromusculoskeletal), the rest of the body including the cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrine, nervous, and the rest of the “systems” sometimes have to be addressed in order to improve the patient’s […]
Fibromyalgia in Men?
Fibromyalgia (FM) can’t occur in men because it’s a women’s disease, right? In fact, if a man claims to have FM, then he is simply lying (probably just trying to get out of working and/or on disability), right? Unfortunately, that’s what MANY people (and even some doctors) believe! Though it is true that FM primarily […]
The Many Faces of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) was first reported in the late 1800s and the first surgery to treat the condition was performed in 1933. In the beginning, CTS surgery was rarely performed, reportedly because the nerve pinch was present somewhere before the median nerve reached the wrist or carpal tunnel. In brief, possible compression sites include […]
The “Aging” Lower Back – Part 1
This article is part 1 of a 2 part series. For Part 2, click here. Low back pain (LBP) can arise from many causes. Nearly everyone has or will suffer from LBP at some point in time, though it is most common in the 30-year-old to 50-year-old group and it affects men and women equally. […]
Whiplash Injury, Cervical Kyphosis, and Cervical Spine Arthritis
Soccer’s World Cup, 2010, has just finished. Having watched many of the games, I constantly observed players “head” the ball, and often the ball had traveled more than half the length of the playing field prior to contacting the head while “on the fly.” In 2004, researchers from Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, published an article […]
Managing Whiplash Injuries
What is a Whiplash Injury? Whiplash injuries have been extensively studied and researched. There are literally thousands of medical and scientific studies, and hundreds of books describing every aspect of whiplash injury. It has been firmly established for nearly two decades that the primary whiplash injury is an inertial injury to the soft tissues (ligaments […]
Tissue Healing and Low Level Laser Therapy
The 2010 Olympic gold-medal downhill skier Lindsey Vonn was recently (March 8, 2010) interviewed in the magazine Time. Lindsey Vonn was the first American woman to win gold in an Olympic downhill, and she did so while being injured. One of the questions posed to her was: “How did you find the strength to ski with […]
Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain
The headlines in the lay press are troubling and disturbing. A front section full-page in the newspaper Wall Street Journal showing a person clenching their back while proclaiming (1): “More Than 100 Million American Adults Live with Chronic Pain” Another cover study in the Wall Street Journal quantifying the anatomical regions for American’s chronic pain […]
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