Americans spend a lot of money to find relief from back and neck pain problems. With expenditures rising annually, people should be experiencing more relief, but that does not seem to be the case according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A recent study conducted at the University of Washington, [...]

Vol. 3 Issue 45 Some recent studies have revealed that school-aged children who wear backpacks are experiencing back pain as well as mild to serious spinal deformities. Backpacks worn over one shoulder (the preferred fashion for many students) promote lateral spinal bending and shoulder elevation. Backpack-carrying student surveyed at Auburn University found that 67.2% complained [...]

Causes of Sciatica Sciatica is often characterized by intense to mild pain in the right or left leg and back. The compression of the sciatic nerves can make you experience sharp pain from the buttock, down to the leg; burning or cramping sensation in the thigh or tingling sensation in thighs or legs. At times, [...]

Two years ago, the excruciating pain of sciatica sent a woman in Olympia, WA, to a hospital emergency ward — not once, but twice. With no relief forthcoming she reconsidered her doubts about Chiropractic care, and has been thrilled ever since she did so. “I needed a Chiropractor, and needed one badly,” she wrote in [...]

One way to check for scoliosis is to have your child stand straight and then bend forward from the waist. If the back muscles on one side of the spine bunch up, you should definitely have their back examined by a chiropractor. Home Test: Have the child strip to the waist and observe his/her posture [...]

Volume 11 Issue 37 Chiropractic adjustments provide help and relief to thousands upon thousands of people daily. To get the most long-term benefit from their initial benefits received, patients would be well-advised to continue Chiropractic “maintenance adjustments” on a regular basis. A study recently conducted and reported in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics [...]

Volume 12 Issue 27 The growing statistics on the number of autistic children in our society today are quite alarming. Some reports have it that autism is now occurring in an estimated 1 in 150 births in the United States. At the same time, more and more cases where children diagnosed with autism who are [...]

Vol. 8 Issue 64 Chiropractic can be described as the branch of alternative medicine that focuses on the prevention and restoration of health by detecting and correcting misalignments of vertebrae of the spinal column. The spinal column offers structural support but also protects the spinal cord — which is responsible for relaying messages to and [...]

Vol. 6 Issue 17 A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health showed that the psychological stress a person is subjected to early in life can cause low back pain a decade later. Researchers investigated 600 people in Britain who first suffered back pain between the ages of 32-33, then compared them [...]

Vol. 5 Issue 113 Children suffer from back pain at an earlier age than previous generations, and according to the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) the use of overweight backpacks are a contributing factor. Statistics from the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission show more than 6,000 injuries resulted in 1999 from the use of book bags [...]