Posts Tagged ‘subluxation’

Pain in the tail…

Posted by Nicolas on May 22nd, 2009 under Chiropractor, Los Angeles Experts, chiropractic Tags: , , , , ,  •  2 Comments

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 [...]

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 [...]