Top Healthcare Organizations Recommend This For Low Back Pain According to The Lancet, low back pain is the number one source of disability globally. And, if you've dealt with low back pain in the past, you understand how much it can alter your daily life. Even simply standing up straight can feel like an incredibly impossible task. Because of how debilitating it can be, many top healthcare organizations have begun to publish recommendations for the best ways to manage low back pain. Their … [Read more...] about Low Back Pain: It’s Time to Stop the Insanity
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These Low Back Pain Relief Exercises Can Help You Recover Quicker
When back pain strikes, your first instinct might be to sit down or lie down until your discomfort subsides. But get this. Recent studies strongly suggest that medications and rest are actually a couple of the least effective ways to find relief! What’s more, research also tells us that it’s often a lack of daily movement that causes back pain to begin in the first place! And, actually, most of us already know that, don’t we? If there’s one thing just about every patient we work … [Read more...] about These Low Back Pain Relief Exercises Can Help You Recover Quicker
Disc Issues and Chiropractic
Disc Issues and Chiropractic Disc herniations, bulges, protrusions, and extrusions (oh my!) are some of the most common reasons people visit a chiropractor. In fact, most people see a chiropractor not just because they have lower back disc issues but because such conditions have caused a significant impact on their quality of life. The good news? You can get natural, non-invasive treatment for a herniated disc in Seattle. The research doesn't lie and backs up what we’ve witnessed … [Read more...] about Disc Issues and Chiropractic
Facet Joints: Gliding Your Way to Better Health
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
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
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