Lack of movement and poor posture over time lead to spinal stiffness and dysfunction. Vertebral joints get locked up and motion at that level becomes restricted and sets the spine up for injury. We need movement in all the spinal joints to be healthy to have the lowest risk of back or neck injury. I […]
If I can summarize one thing about taking care of patients in 2020 and 2021, it would be that everybody is pretty stressed out. How can I tell? Well, besides the global pandemic, the economic recovery, the recent heat wave, and generally anything on the news, many of you are now coming in with complaints […]
I often come in the room to adjust a patient and they say it hurts right here – pointing to the buttock, at a spot between the tail bone and the outer hip bone. This is often the location of where the sciatic nerve comes running down the back of the leg from the lower […]
So I get asked a lot about being stiff and tight through the mid back area of the spine. This area is pretty commonly restricted due to poor posture. The muscles and ligaments in your back have to work hard to keep you balanced when you slouch (how many of you are hearing your mother […]