Low Back Pain & Patient Education
Patient education is a very important aspect of caring for our patients. In fact, it can be one of the most important aspects of care. For example, when patients present with a brand new injury and pain levels are off the map, it’s quite common for that acute suffering patient to inappropriately think that, “I’m [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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% [...]
Low Back Pain and Bone Density
So, what does bone density have to do with low back pain? The relationship between bone density and back pain is quite intimate. In fact, when the degree of bone density declines to the point of fracture, back pain becomes very real. The classic condition and cause of spinal pain associated with the loss of [...]
Medical Doctors and Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression
Dr. Ian Porterfield and I often see a patient after they have seen their medical doctor, seen a physical therapist, and many times have even spoken with a surgeon. After we have started getting results in the patient’s condition, we often get ask the following question… “Why doesn’t my medical doctor (or chiropractor) know about [...]
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 [...]