I had the opportunity yesterday to perform a functional movement screen on a few youngsters that are a part of the Youth Golf Programme that is conducted at the Laguna National Golf & Country Club. They all scored very well as one would expect from group of youngsters, but what could others benefit from performing [...]
This video illustrates a model of the spine that can realistically demonstrate what happens when a injured disc is loaded. I bought this model to my clinic a year ago to help my lower back pain patients understand how the lumbar discs behave when they are compressed. This makes it very easy for them to [...]
I had a patient yesterday undergoing a MRI. It shows a large part of his disc has bulged out and is irritating his nerve. The medical doctor in explained about a new procedure to remove the bulge called plasma nucleoplasty. This is successfully used in cases with lower back pain and sciatica caused by disc [...]
People do MRI scans for all kind of different reasons and lower back pain a common one. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a great way to illustrate anatomical structure in the body. It works very well for the brain, arms, legs and the spine. My interest is of course with the imaging of the spine [...]
Chiropractic is a health care approach that focuses on the relationship between the body’s structure – mainly the spine – and its functioning. Chiropractors primarily perform spinal adjustments to the spine goal of correcting alignment and problems relating to it supporting the body’s natural ability to heal itself and deal with the daily stresses that [...]
The video report findings made by a consumer survey and shows that hands on chiropractic care was first choice among lower back pain sufferers. This is of course good news for the chiropractic profession as the survey shows that the public trusts a chiropractor to care for their back problems. 80% of adults do suffer [...]
Lower back pain can have many causes and sometimes there is a intervertebral disc that is at fault. This video illustrates a disc in the lower back and how it degenerates, eventually bulging causing pressure on the spinal nerve. The end result can be lower back pain and leg pain as is mentioned in the [...]
I thought I dwell about the human spine for a while as it is the primary focus of my job. Consisting of 24 movable bones the spine is truly an engineering masterpiece. As it connects the skull to the hips it is anatomically divided into 3 regions. In lay man terms we would call them neck, [...]
