For a lot of us, 100 million American office workers, our working environment involves sitting at a desk for 8-10 hours a day. Unfortunately, these prolonged bouts of sitting are proving to be devastating to our health and wellness. While health care costs continue to...
At Brentwood Spine and Sport, we’re always trying to find new ways to help get our patients pain-free faster so they can get back to doing whatever activity they enjoy as soon as possible. Several years ago, I added a new “tool” to my...
NSAID’s (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) are the most widely used pain relievers in the world. In the United States there are more than 70 million prescriptions written each year, and if you include over-the-counter NSAID’s like aspirin and...
Our bodies have an incredible ability to communicate with us when there’s a problem, the challenge becomes slowing down long enough to interpret its signals. The most obvious signal is pain. Pain is the body’s way of saying “stop.” The...
Carpal tunnel, dubbed by some “tennis elbow of the wrist,” accounts for the highest number of work days lost among all work-related injuries. Almost half of the cases reported account for 31 days or more of work loss. With some 850,000 new cases diagnosed in 1994, the...
If you suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, your doctor of chiropractic can help you plan an individualized exercise program that will: Help you restore the lost range of motion to your joints. Improve your flexibility and endurance. Increase your muscle tone and...
