Archive for April, 2009

Sciatic Pain Disability

Posted by Nicolas on April 24th, 2009 under Chiropractor, Los Angeles Experts Tags: , , ,  •  No Comments

I have been treating a young man in my office for sciatica.  He came into my office limping–unable to step down onto his right leg.  Walking hurt, sitting hurt, and moving from one side to another while lying down sent pain shocks down into his leg making it spasm.  The only relieving position for the [...]

Dizziness

Posted by Nicolas on April 3rd, 2009 under Los Angeles Experts, chiropractic Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,  •  No Comments

One of the most common conditions that people come into chiropractic offices with is dizziness.  Dizziness can have any number of causes including mechanical and vestibular ones among others.
Mechanical causes of dizziness include subluxation of the neck’s spinal joints, occipital (skull) subluxation, and spasms and/or hypertonicity (tightness) of the neck and upper back muscles.  These [...]