People can hurt their upper back area from wrong position like watching TV or during sleep; from poor posture habits at their work station or from performing excessive fitness or sports activities. Injuries area a common cause of neck pain: vehicular injuries, sports injuries, and some work injuries. If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it! Follow…
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A symptom is something that indicates the presence of something else. In neck pain the soft tissues that are damaged are responsible for the pain. These tissues are mainly nerves, ligaments, cartilage, muscle, tendons and connective tissues; occasionally from intervertebral discs, lymph nodes, blood vessels and bone. So when the correct tissues are identified the solution becomes much clearer. Looking at the different tissues they are injured or irritated by several things: If you liked this post, say thanks by…
Chiropractic Spinal Health Wellness, general
Chiropractic Focus – Why Chiropractic maintenenace care makes sense
Posted on 12/09/2013Mary just saw her chiropractor for her regular maintenance visit and was having a lunch with her friend, Stella. She explained that she had been doing this for years following her initial course of spinal correction, going about 4 to 5 times a year some years and then 10 to 12 times other years, depending on how life goes. So her friend asked her: “Why do you undergo Chiropractic maintenance? Didn’t the doctor fix you the first time?” A simple…
Chiropractic Spinal Health Wellness, general
Wellness focus – Introducing the Stress Massage
Posted on 12/02/2013I treated myself to a new massage experience at Mabuhay Chiropractic Clinics, located in Las Pinas / Alabang, offering an advanced “stress massage” in their SM Southmall clinic, to help people reduce their stress and to introduce the connection between spine and nerves, between posture and general health. It only took 30 minutes for the therapist to focus on massaging the back and neck, apparently stimulating nerves at their spinal root; then focusing on the hands and feet, the next nerve…
Chiropractic Spinal Health Wellness, general
Health Focus – Doc! Fix me I am Broken
Posted on 11/25/2013
Christian Welling, an accomplished high school athlete, has encountered an acute hip injury after stumbling on the last few steps going down the stairs. The pain is excruciating! Mary his mother wall called by the school and she immediately took him to the hospital emergency room. Fortunately there was nothing broken so she next took him to the family chiropractor because she knows that a physical problem needs a physical solution. If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing…
Chiropractic Fitness Health Spinal Health Wellness, general
Chiropractic Focus – Lordosis and Kyphosis explained
Posted on 11/22/2013The word scoliosis is a word we have all heard before; it is the lateral bending of the spine mostly observed to the left and right and back again to form the letter ‘S’. Two other terms that you may have heard somewhere are Lordosis and Kyphosis, and these are forward bending of the spine and backward bending of the spine, respectively. At the time of birth we all have a spine shaped in a ‘C’ or in the fetal…
Does cracking your joints hurt your joints? The answer is YES, inappropriate repetitive cracking of the joins hurts them… not because of the “crack” but because of ligament and cartilage damage. If you repeatedly crack your joints they become somewhat unstable by producing laxity in the ligaments that hold the joint together so the joint loses its stability. Stressful micro-movements of the joint make it arthritic with the cartilage deteriorating. What is that sound in the first place you ask?…
Fitness Health Nutritional Health Spinal Health Wellness, general
Osteoporosis (D3 & Exercise VS Calcium and Hormones)
Posted on 05/30/2013
Mary is approaching her mid 40’s and is concerned about early menopause and its related osteoporosis so she fully expects that her MD will put her on hormone replacement therapy. That’s what conventional thinking tells us right? When a woman gets above 45 she will suffer osteoporosis from menopause. What if that is not true? What if osteoporosis has mostly nothing to do with the lowered estrogen levels that causes menopause? Long-term studies show that women who were athletic as teenage girls…
When there is difficult or laborious breathing and it is not caused by an advanced lung disease such as TB or lung cancer, the most common diagnosis is Asthma, where the bronchial tubes (air pipes) close down and make normal breathing difficult. This is commonly seen in children but it can persist long into adult lives. Why do the air pipes close down? The family or ENT doctor will usually prescribe an inhaler that sends a steroid mist into the…
Did you know that people have the same number of neck bones as a Giraffe? Yes it’s true. There are seven bones. In a previous blog I mentioned how the upper part of the neck is known as the “headache zone” and today we will discuss the other common problems related to misalignments of the seven bones in the neck. Pain in the neck comes from actual damage being reported to the brain in any of the tissues or structures of the…