Don’t Let Housework Be a Pain in Your Back
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Don’t Let Housework Be a Pain in Your Back Household chores can be a pain in the sacroiliac. Unless you’re careful, routine activities around the home— washing dishes, vacuuming, even talking on the phone— can strain your back, including the sacroiliac area near the tailbone, and result in debilitating pain. But you can protect your back by knowing the right way to go about such activities, according to the American Chiropractic Association (ACA). Consider lifting. It doesn’t matter whether you’re picking up your child or a heavy bucket of water,… >> READ MORE
Pillow and Mattresses Least of your Back Pain Problems
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I’ve been thinking of getting a new mattress or pillow. I get this a lot from my patients. The idea that a new mattress or pillow will solve their pain problems. They’ll say, “we are due for a new mattress/pillow, we’ve had the same one since we got married.” Sometimes I laugh and think socks, underwear and mattresses should be free because those are things we have got to have. Have you priced a new matterss lately? The new fad ones start at $4,000 and go up from there. That… >> READ MORE
Memphis Chiropractor’s Wisdom for Back Pain Care At Home
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Chiropractors have wisdom to offer patients for back pain that they can help themselves with at home. Patients in my office are often encouraged to be doing things at home on their own. Oftentimes I find that they have already started doing so on their own, only to find that they have been doing the wrong things at the wrong time. I have put together some of my most common recommendations for them to take home, and now for you to have here as a guide so that when you… >> READ MORE
Memphis Chiropractor Differentiates Different Types of Pain
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Now let’s get to the heart of the matter. The following list is the most common LOW BACK issues seen in my office. You likely will fall into one of these categories, however, if you do not, please note that I said MOST COMMON. This is by no means an exhaustive list of the possibilities of your LBP (low back pain). Muscle Strain: Research shows that even though this is what we call the pain that is isolated to the LB only and started with that sudden movement, it… >> READ MORE
6 Questions You Must Have Asked Yourself About Your Back Pain
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Your back hurts, now what. Well, we all have a tiny internal dialog that directs us throughout our day. Often these questions are simmering somewhere back there in the furthest recesses of our brain only to jump to the front at the first twinge of pain. I’ll bet I can guess what that voice is asking. Statistically 8 out of every 10 people will experience back pain at some time in their life. I think the remaining 2 out of the 10 are lying! Are you struggling with: · … >> READ MORE
