More to Stretching than Just Warming-up.
The New York Times printed an article called Stretching: The Truth, which claimed that static stretching was no good for you. It quoted experts claiming that stretching was useless and might even be bad for athletes. Unfortunately, the article didn’t provide the whole truth. Not that it stretched the truth, by any means; it just missed […]
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, […]
A Hopeful Remedy To Treat and Prevent Crippling Low Back Spasms
In twenty-two years of practice, I have to say that some of the hardest pain cases I have had to manage involved, in some way, severe muscle spasms of the low back. Muscle spasms, to some degree, accompany most low back issues involving the spinal joints – what we call subluxation in chiropractic. But spasms […]
Different Leg Lengths Can Cause Pain
Today’s post comes from a question posed by Twitter follower SH, who asked if her hip pain could be coming from having one leg longer than the other. She went on to say that she only develops symptoms on her left side regardless whether it is Achilles tendon pain or whatever. She did not elaborate […]
Lingering Low Back Pain – A “POP” Away From Relief
One of the most hindering feelings one can have is the restriction of persistent low back pain. Often felt as a stiff, almost locked-in place hip, which really isn’t the hip at all but the sacroiliac joint (SIJ) of the pelvis, the feeling that one just needs to “pop” things into place and they will […]
