Facet Joints: Gliding Your Way to Better Health If you've had neck or back pain that you could pinpoint with your finger or felt a sharp pain in your back when moving, the cause may have been some sort of dysfunction with one or more of the facet joints (often the lumbar facet joints) of your spine. So, what are the facet joints? Think of these joints as the “knuckles” of your spine that glide, slide, and stabilize. They both add flexibility to your spine so you’re able to bend and … [Read more...] about Facet Joints: Gliding Your Way to Better Health
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The Link between Stress and Headaches
The Link Between Stress and Headaches Are you feeling rushed? Are you dreading a big meeting at work? Take it from the leading provider of natural tension headache treatment in Seattle - these events can all add up to stress and headaches. Often it's not the event itself that results in a headache but your body's reaction to stress. If you deal with stress by clenching your jaw or tensing your muscles, you may be more likely to experience headaches due to these coping behaviors. So, … [Read more...] about The Link between Stress and Headaches
What Type of Headache Do You Have?
What Type of Headache Do You Have? In my last decade of practice I have been able to help numerous people with headache pain. Sometimes people have lived with these headaches for years and just put up with them. Other headaches are episodic and come and go periodically. Headaches cause frequent stress and lower the quality of people's lives. Headaches are experienced a little bit differently by everyone. Patients at our chiropractic headache clinic in Seattle may report feeling tired or … [Read more...] about What Type of Headache Do You Have?
How to Prevent Sciatica Pain
As we discuss how to prevent sciatica pain with our sciatica patients, we often notice that many of them will make the comment that they don't know how they hurt their back when they start receiving treatment. And that's a completely logical statement to make. It's easy to understand how lifting a heavy object at work or sustaining a blow of some kind or simply moving in an awkward fashion could result in an injury to your back. The pain that comes with that injury tells you that you … [Read more...] about How to Prevent Sciatica Pain
What You Need to Know About Sciatica
To understand what sciatica is, it helps to think of sciatica more as a set of symptoms than a condition. When you hear someone say they "have sciatica," what they have is pain, numbness, or tingling that starts in their low back or buttocks and extends through the lower extremity on one side of their body. And wow, can it hurt! It can also become chronic. That’s why it’s a smart idea to seek out a chiropractor specializing in sciatica treatment in Seattle. Here’s what you need to … [Read more...] about What You Need to Know About Sciatica
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