Stretching for Pain Relief and Prevention: A Guide to a Total Body Stretch Workout

As a chiropractor, pain is something I see in my Palm Desert and West Hollywood chiropractic practices every day. There is no shortage of people in pain—low back pain, neck pain, headaches, TMJ or jaw pain, shoulder pain, knee pain, and a whole slew of other painful conditions. With chiropractic care, my clients experience incredible relief from their pain […]

Tennis Elbow: Pain Year Round for Some – Treating and Preventing Lateral Epicondylitis

In a perpetually sunny town like Los Angeles, people can play tennis year round. Many clients in my Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and West Hollywood chiropractic office do just that—they are rarely stopped by rain. But they can be stopped short in their enjoyment of tennis by a condition called tennis elbow. Tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis, […]

How to Drain a Pus-Filled Finger

So here’s a new one for me: I woke up yesterday morning with a very sore ring fingernail on my left hand. I felt it as I staggered to the bathroom still ninety percent asleep. I bumped my hand against the wall, “Ow!” What the heck? I rubbed the edge of the nail a few […]

Shoulder Pain First Thing In Morning

Shoulder pain first thing in the morning, difficulty putting on shirts and jackets, and pain lifting the arm above the shoulder are all symptoms of a common yet debilitating condition called shoulder impingement syndrome. They are also common symptoms of a condition called rotator cuff syndrome. Unfortunately, those symptoms are one of the few things […]