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 [...]

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 [...]

I saw a long-time patient of mine today who is giving birth to her first child on Saturday.  Yay!  She’s been with us from the very start.  You know chiropractic is great for pregnant women too, don’t you?
In my Los Angeles, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills chiropractic clinic I see and treat many pregnant women [...]

So the lady with the broken neck went in for her MRI, but as it turned out, she got claustrophobic in the MRI chamber and had to be pulled out.  We ended up having to get a CT scan.  The CT came back negative for spinal cord compression or disk herniation.
So what to do?  First, [...]