During the winter, much of the country’s drivers are forced to contend with winter storms, snow, fog, and ice. Add to that the fact that days get shorter and visibility gets poorer and it’s probably safe to assume that most fatal accidents occur during the winter months. Think again. Time of Day Matters Not …
Category: back injury
Causes of Back Pain in Women
As anyone who’s experienced back pain knows, the pain can be severe, it can be chronic, and can greatly reduce your quality of life. Back pain can vary in its severity and can have lots of causes like injury, degeneration, and muscle strain. For women, back pain is not only caused by the same …
Using Cryotherapy to Treat Muscle Spasms
When you hear the word “cryotherapy”, you may have an image of a Dr. Frankenstein-type laboratory with a mad scientist performing questionable medical tests on unsuspecting patients. Cryotherapy is not that. Quite simply, cryotherapy is the use of ice or freezing temperatures to relieve pain. When Cryotherapy Is Used When we get an injury, the …
Auto Accident? Your Chiropractor Can Help.
It makes sense that the faster a car is traveling when it gets into an accident, the more severe the injuries but serious injuries can occur even at slow speeds. Most injuries occur when a vehicle is going under 12 MPH and are often soft tissue injuries. Even if there is no damage to your …
10 Stress Relievers for Difficult Times
Stress and anxiety can come out of nowhere. You can be minding your own business, having a perfectly normal day, and then BAM! You are struck by near-paralyzing anxiety. The truth is, for some people stress and anxiety is a crippling and constant problem but everyone deals with a certain amount of stress, particularly …
Why We Feel Pain
Pain is a good thing. Quite simply, it’s a message from your brain telling you that something is wrong. If your brain wasn’t warning you that you’d been injured, you wouldn’t know it and the injury could get worse. Pain tells you to stop what you’re doing immediately because it’s harming you. It’s also about …
What To Look For in a Chiropractor
Choosing the right chiropractor isn’t an easy decision. Where do you begin? When choosing a chiropractor, you should be taking into consideration the same kinds of factors you did when choosing your primary care provider and deserves the same kind of scrutiny. After all, your chiropractor is part of the team of people working with …
Are Chiropractic Treatments Safe?
For some people, the thought of lying atop a table as a chiropractor performs spinal manipulations is downright terrifying. A “crack” here, a “snap” there, who’s to know what could happen? Are chiropractic treatments truly safe? Beginnings Chiropractic treatments began in 1895 when Daniel David Palmer treated a janitor who had lost his hearing when …
The Right Way to Shovel Snow and Other Winter Tips to Save Your Back
Winter is here, that time when Mother Nature likes to have her fun dropping the white stuff over much of the U.S., testing our will, our ability to deal with the unexpected, and our backs. Whether you get a little snow or a lot, snow is heavy and shoveling it the wrong way can cause …
Winter Sports Injuries
For some people, winter is the time to bundle up by a cozy fire with a mug of hot chocolate and watch the cold weather from the inside. Other people can’t wait for winter to arrive so they can hit the slopes or get out on the ice and have fun. Winter sports mean winter …
