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 [...]
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 [...]
What is Sciatica? And What It Is NOT…
I’m sure you or someone you know thought they experienced something called SCIATICA (sy-atic-a). It is something I treat quite a bit… well, sort of… let me explain what I mean. You have pain that is in your back and in your butt or leg. You go to your medical doctor and they tell you [...]
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 [...]