Nothing quite compares to the pain caused by a subluxated coccyx–nothing.  The coccyx is the very end point of the spine–it’s the rudimentary tail of human beings.  As the human mammal evolved, its tail shortened to the length of the tiny coccyx.  The coccyx, a spinal bone, has a joint between itself and the sacrum [...]

A young man–about 29–walked into my office this week with acute mid-back pain.  The pain was localzed to his left shoulder blade, just beneath it, and just next to the spine.  He was feeling it more diffusely though, and it felt as if it was his entire left mid and low back that was “on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]