Back Pain Advice
Your Back and Core Fitness – What Is It and What Is It Good For?
Core training is a no-longer-new catchphrase on the fitness landscape. The concept of core fitness, by now, has been promoted by every Pilates school, yoga center, and chain of fitness clubs around the world. Many doctors, including chiropractors, physiatrists, orthopedists, and even cardiologists, emphasize the importance of core training with their patients. Practically every physical [...]
Low Back Pain: Where Is My Pain Coming From?
Low back pain can emanate from many anatomical locations (as well as a combination of locations), which always makes it interesting when a patient asks, “…doc, where in my back is my pain coming from?” In context of an office visit, we take an accurate history and perform our physical exam to try to reproduce [...]
No Movement and Your Back Pain
After 6 months of seminars and travel I feel I am now able to get back to blogging. I’m excited to share with you some thought and ideas that I’ve had over the months… and I think you’ll find these interesting as well. Today I’d like to share with you some interesting findings in some [...]
Back Exercises
If you have chronic back pain, chances are that your doctor has told you that you need to exercise your back and/or your “core”. I hear this often. I also hear that while doctors say this, they don’t ever really show you how to do it, and simply give you an exercise sheet. Unfortunately, I’ve [...]
When Do You Need to Consider Spinal Decompression
I’ve had my chiropractic practice in Rancho Cucamonga for 10 years now. I’ve been blessed to help many people with chiropractic care. 5 years into practice, I realized that there were certain limitations to what chiropractic can do for patients with severe disk issues. I was tired of seeing patients get only 70% to 90% [...]
Insurance Companies and Spinal Decompression
I’ve been helping patients with herniated disc, degenerative disc disease, and leg pain using Spinal Decompression for like 5 years now and still Insurance Companies consider it “experimental”! As a person who pays to have insurance for myself and my family it is quite irritating that my insurance does not pay for things that I [...]
Can Spinal Decompression Be Used For Patients That Have Had Spinal Surgery?
Short answer: Yes, but it always depends on the patient. In many cases spinal decompression treatment is appropriate for use in patients who have had spinal surgery. In fact many patients have found success with spinal decompression after a failed back surgery or a “successful” one that after time becomes a problem again. However, not [...]
Top 3 Problems with Surgery – Part 2
Continued from last week. #2 – Once you go under the knife, you can’t undo what’s been done. Once a surgery has taken place, the surgery cannot be undone. Once bone has been removed (as was the case with Dr. Don’s mother) it can not be put back. Plus, once the surgeon goes in, the [...]
Top 3 Problems with Surgery
When Dr. Ian Porterfield and I consult with patients about alternatives to surgery, like chiropractic or spinal decompression, I’m surprised to find out how little they even know about surgery – the very thing that they are afraid of and the very thing that people tell them that they need. So, here are some interesting [...]
Weak Doctors Recommend Bed Rest
Why is it that when research and experience tells a doctor that something doesn’t help, they still recommend that useless procedure to the patient? Well… many ignorant doctors are still recommending bed rest! And if you follow their advice for your severe back and leg problem your condition could very well get worse like it [...]