Low Back Pain: Spondylolisthesis
Low back pain can arise from many conditions, one of which is a mouthful: spondylolisthesis. The term was coined in 1854 from the Greek words, “spondylo” for vertebrae and “olisthesis” for slip. These “slips” most commonly occur in the low back, 90% at L5 and 9% at L4. According to www.spinehealth.com and others, the most [...]
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 [...]
Low Back Pain and Spinal Fusions
In my Rancho Cucamonga and Pasadena office, it is not uncommon for me to have a conversation with a patient regarding surgery and their desire to avoid it. I’ve been blessed to have used nonsurgical spinal decompression and chiropractic to achieve that goal with many patients. So, I figured today we would discuss in this [...]
Flexibility and Your Back
Patients often ask me that why I am so concerned that they are stretching their back on a regular basis. I then explain to them that if the leg muscles are overly tight, that those muscles will cause the pelvis to be tilted in such a way that will negatively affect the back stability. So [...]
Mental Health For Back Healing – Part 3
This will conclude the series on how to have the right mind set for healing your back condition. Part 1 – Part 2 Explore All Options You have to live knowing that you have tried everything. If you have not explored some of the things discussed on this website or in our book, those are [...]
Testimonials
Often is the case that what someone says about you is more powerful than what you say about yourself. Dr. Ian Porterfield and I would rather have someone else toot our horn, than we toot our own horn. So our staff compiled some video testimonials of patients and doctors and through them together. It warmed [...]
Mental Health For Back Healing – Part 2
Part 1 – Part 3 Be Hopeful, Be of Good Cheer If hope is lost, the battle is lost. If you are sad and depressed and if you feel the victim, then you behave as such. Defeated. And no one likes to hang out with sad and depressed people. Not your friends. Not your family. [...]
Mental State for Back Healing – Part 1
Starting with the end in mind Your severe back pain has been with you probably for some time – years may be. It has been our experience (and the observations of clinicians world wide) that patients with chronic low back pain change. How so? Well, recall your story. Let us share with you the mental [...]
Can Spinal Decompression Help Degenerative Disc Disease?
Short answer – YES! Long answer – read on. Degenerative disc disease is a common condition usually involving an initial injury to a disc and the progressive degenerative changes that follow. Discs are complex and very specialized pads of cartilage that separate the bones (vertebrae) in your spine. Each disk consists of a ring of [...]