Do Chiropractors Treat Disc Herniations?

Yes! Chiropractic is a great non-surgical, non-drug treatment option for disc herniations and the associated symptoms including low back pain, sciatica, radicular pain, stenosis, and radiculopathy. What is a disc herniation? A disc herniation is displacement of discal material outside the vertebral margins. Discs are the gel-like shock absorbers of your spine made of a nucleus pulposus in the middle surround by an annular fiber exterior. Think of the gel like structure of the disc…

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Is Bending Bad for your Back?

I got a recent comment on my YouTube channel that read, “I just want to ask one question…is forward bending good for your lower back?”I often Google questions I get from patients and subscribers to find out what type of information they have likely received. It serves as inspiration for blog posts and videos. This has been particularly effective for the article I wrote 5 Chiropractic Scam Strategies, unfortunately people search chiropractic + scam a…

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Sciatica: Referred or Radicular Pain?

Pain can be very confusing. One of my most important jobs is to answer the question “What is causing my pain?”. This may seem straightforward but it is very common that the site of pain is not actually the cause of pain. Sciatica and “pinched nerves” help illustrate this concept. To better answer the question “What is causing my pain?” I want to highlight the difference between referred pain and radicular pain. Both types of…

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