Discover how consistent chiropractic care over time is essential for achieving and maintaining optimal health results, much like the gradual progress seen in regular physical fitness routines.
Staying on Track During the Winter Months
Bend With Your Knees or With Your Hips? Protecting your low back while lifting
You have definitely heard the saying “bend with your knee, not your back”. In theory, this is to keep a “flat back” which is a protected back. But practically speaking only bending with your knees may put you at a disadvantage.
You probably know someone who has “thrown out their back” while lifting something, doing a half bend, or picking something up off the floor. I can tell you that as a chiropractor I know many of these people.
How to Prevent Hunchback - Only 5 Minutes a day
No one ever said when I grow up I want to stare at my shoes all day.
But for many of us, the path we are going down ends up here.
With many of repetitive daily postures in a forward seated hunched position, it forces your spine into a strained position that can cause long term tension and stretch to the ligaments of the spine.
Slipped Disc?
You have probably heard the term “slipped disc”, often it is often used very loosely.
A true slipped disc is referring to a disc bulge or disc herniation. This can happen throughout the spine but most often in the neck and low back.
Your intervertebral discs are filled in the centre with a material that can shift if the back is injured in a certain way….
Are You a "Self Crack" Addict?
During my undergrad at Wilfrid Laurier, I would study in the quiet floor of the library. It was dead quiet up there even though there were hundreds of students cramming for midterms and finals.
The only sounds I would hear was someone opening a drink, clearing their throat and cracking their own necks and back.