Harvard Medical School’s (yes, that Harvard) new spinal care guidelines reinforce the importance of chiropractic care as the first line of treatment for low back pain. They’re just the latest to join a long line of mainstream medicine organizations that includes the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO5CsuzfRM&feature=youtu.be Seeing a chiropractor first saves United Health Care millions of dollars in the treatment of back pain. Optum Health has collected data over the past two years regarding the cost of treating back pain at the NASEM (National Academy of Sciences ) titled: “The Role of Nonpharmacological Approaches to Pain Management,” outlining [...]
Chronic stress is a common component to the daily life of most people in the American society. Low-grade chronic stress is a contributing element to all major diseases and current undesirable health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, depression, and others. How does chronic stress affect one’s nervous system and, importantly, can regular chiropractic care [...]
The next popular wellness perk could be offering chiropractic services at on-site medical centers. On-site or near-site clinics typically offer services to employees including first aid, occupational health, condition management, wellness and ancillary services — and increasingly chiropractic care. Employees, healthcare administrators and physicians are recognizing the health and employee satisfaction benefits of integrating chiropractic [...]
This year we thought we would share our favorite product recommendations we make to our patients! Chiroflow Water Pillow is our # 1 recommendation. If you wake up with neck or shoulder pain in the morning you need this! It weighs close to 10 lbs. so it stays put through the night!! *Great for pillow [...]
“This month’s featured exercise will target your hamstrings, buttocks, and lower back. Begin standing with your thumbs on your rib cage and your fingers on the crests of your hip, making sure not to approximate your fingers throughout the exercise. Stand on one leg with your knee bent only slightly. Slowly flex forward from [...]
July 18, 2016—The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP), the voice of the chiropractic profession, highlights the role of doctors of chiropractic (DCs) in the care of amateur and professional athletes, citing the continued leadership of William Moreau, DC, DACBSP as managing director of sports medicine for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and chief medical officer for Team [...]
The June 2016 issue of the Chiropractic Journal of Australia published a case study documenting the case of an elderly woman who had been suffering with pain in her lower back and leg being helped with chiropractic. This case was unique due to the woman having an MRI confirming the presence of a synovial cyst [...]
In the scientific periodical the Journal of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics (JCCP), comes a study that involved the literature review of 10 different papers of the cases of 11 women who were suffering from infertility. The review, published in the bi-yearly JCCP March 2008 issue, reviewed the case studies of 11 women ages 22 to 42 [...]
The above is the headline from an article which appeared on September 6, 2013, on the Toronto Star news website. The article features former NHL hockey player Gary Roberts who explains how chiropractic saved his professional hockey career. When Roberts was 30 years old and a left winger for the Calgary Flames, he suffered a [...]
