Gone are the days where you turn to glucosamine and chondroitin supplements to improve the health of your joints.
There are better ways to improve the health of your joints and one of them that is often overlooked is collagen supplementation.
Back Pain While Raking
When the leaves turn their beautiful fall colours you know you will be burdened with the task of doing a fall clean up shortly there after.
Every autumn I have a plethora of new back pain injuries that show up in my chiropractic office.
Ranging from neck pain, to shoulder blade pain and even sciatica, it never ceases to amaze me when these painful conditions present.
Bend With Your Knees or With Your Hips? Protecting your low back while lifting
You have definitely heard the saying “bend with your knee, not your back”. In theory, this is to keep a “flat back” which is a protected back. But practically speaking only bending with your knees may put you at a disadvantage.
You probably know someone who has “thrown out their back” while lifting something, doing a half bend, or picking something up off the floor. I can tell you that as a chiropractor I know many of these people.
How to Prevent Hunchback - Only 5 Minutes a day
No one ever said when I grow up I want to stare at my shoes all day.
But for many of us, the path we are going down ends up here.
With many of repetitive daily postures in a forward seated hunched position, it forces your spine into a strained position that can cause long term tension and stretch to the ligaments of the spine.
How to Sneeze and Protect Your Back
There is no doubt that sneezing comes in many shapes, sizes, and sounds.
I have witnessed forceful sneezes, petite sneezes, chain reaction sneezes, and many more.
The one thing that they all have in common is that sneezing puts immense strain on your spine, which can lead to back injuries and back pain.
That is because sneezing not only increases the force around your spinal cord called intrathecal pressure, but it also creates a quick forceful contraction of your body’s core and spinal muscles.
Wry Neck - What it is & how to fix it.
Nothing is worse than starting your day is a pain in the neck. Even worse sometimes can lock up and leave you with a very limited range of motion.
Sometimes this happens while you sleep and you wake up like this. Other times you just move your head and something lets go in your neck and you instantly feel the pain and stiffness.
