Chronic pain is a debilitating condition affecting the quality of life of many of your patients. When patients experience chronic pain they feel physical symptoms that prevent them from leading a happy and healthy life. These painful patterns can affect your patients physically for months and even years. Many patients will also experience depressive mental…
Posture Therapy: Why You are the Solution to a Serious Health Crisis
There are serious consequences of poor posture, and patients are suffering more now than ever before. Poor posture can be associated with musculoskeletal disorders and physiologic dysfunction of the body. These problems are not only causing pain, but they are a burden to the patient and to society. Did You Know? 80% of Americans report…
Pain Is In The Brain
Pain is a conscious experience, crucial for survival. Pain is perceived in the brain, not in your body. Understanding that the perception of pain in the brain and segmental dysfunction are not necessarily related, is an important clinical distinction. Pain is perceived in the brain, not your body. “We have traveled a long way from…
3 Desk Exercises to Prevent Neck Pain
Poor health consequences such as neck pain, headaches, shoulder tightness, restriction of breathing, migraines, and jaw pain are associated with faulty neck posture. To save your neck, you need to be proactive of maintaining proper posture throughout the day. Forward Head Posture – a Pain in the Neck Forward head posture occurs when the head…
Evidence-Based Guidelines for Patients Suffering from Migraines
Migraines are characterized by enhanced sensitivity of the nervous system, particularly activation of the trigeminal-vascular system. From a public health perspective, migraines are a common disorder, an estimated 18% of women and 6% of men experience migraines on a regular basis. Migraine is a chronic condition with recurrent episodic attacks. The following symptoms significantly increased…
Are You Ready for Some Football? Get the Facts of Cervical Spine Injuries
Are you or your children susceptible to traumatic sports injuries? If you are, or if you know someone who is, consider the importance of sports injury prevention. What you do off the field contributes greatly to how you perform when the whistle blows. Well more than half of catastrophic injuries in sports are cervical spine…