John Muir Chiropractic Center

Neck Pain Treatment Options Neck pain is a very common problem. In fact, 2/3rds of the population will have neck pain at some point in life. It can arise from s...tress, lack of sleep, prolonged postures (such as reading or driving), sports injuries, whiplash injuries, arthritis, referred pain from upper back problems, or even from sinusitis! Rarely, it can be caused from dangerous problems including referred pain during a heart attack, carotid or vertebral artery injuries, or head or neck cancer, but these, as previously stated, are very uncommon. However, since you don’t know why your neck hurts To continue reading this article, click below...

Whiplash Diagnosis Whiplash is, by definition, the rapid acceleration followed by deceleration of the head causing the neck to crack like a whip forwards and ...backwards at a rate so fast that the muscles cannot react quickly enough to control the motion. As reported last month, if a collision occurs in an automobile and the head rests are too low and/or seat backs too reclined and the head moves beyond the allowable tissue boundaries, then whiplash injury occurs. When gathering information from the patient, this portion of the history is called mechanism of injury and it is VERY IMPORTANT, as it helps us piece together what happened at the time of impact. For example... To continue reading this article, click below...

Do Chiropractors Help Patients With Headaches? This seems like an easy question to answer, doesn’t it? The answer of course being, YES!!! However, there are man...y people who suffer with headaches who have never been to a chiropractor or have not even ever considered it as a good option. So, rather than having me reassure you that chiropractic works GREAT for headache management, let’s look at the scientific literature to see if they (the scientific community) agree or not. To continue reading this article, click below...

Chiropractic Manipulation Influences on Work Performance Health, Productivity, Absenteeism, Injury Prevention... To continue reading this article, click below...