Although doctors of chiropractic treat more than just back pain, a large percentage of chiropractic patients visit their doctor looking for relief from this pervasive condition. In fact, 70 to 85 percent of all people have back pain at some time in their life. A few interesting facts regarding back pain: Low back pain is the fifth most common reason for all physician visits in the United States.1,2 Back pain [...]

Recently, researchers at Warwick University (UK) found that one session just offering advice to back pain sufferers achieved the same results as six weeks of physiotherapy! Every week you can read a least one research study that claims a popular, conventional treatment is ineffective. Even the most established treatments such as physical therapy do not escape the headlines. Back pain treatment is a hotly debated topic! Of course, conducting such [...]

Are You The Cause Of Your Lower Back Pain? Although eighty percent of adults will suffer at some stage with lower back pain it still remains very much a mystery to the medical world. Are we missing something? Is the answer a little closer to home? If you have had a medical examination for your lower back pain and no specific cause has been diagnosed what can you do? You [...]

Back Pain While Losing Weight In society, we are surrounded by small, medium, and large bone structures. The structure of the muscles and bones play a part in how the body is framed as it matures. Weight factors are considered by bone structure also. For instance, a medium-bone woman at the height of 5.2 can weigh up to 135 without being overweight. A larger bone structured woman can weigh a [...]

This centuries-old tradition can help relieve chronic back pain with little investment of time or money. Yoga History – It is estimated yoga began in India in prehistoric times, more than 5,000 years ago. Although Yoga probably arrived in the United States in the early 1900s, it did not become popular with it’s use of various yoga accessories to aid the practice until the 1960s. Millions of Americans have turned [...]

Learning About Back Pain Symptoms Gives Diagnosis For A Healthier Back Backaches have become the second most common ailment after the common cold. You may come across people complaining of backache but are not aware of their back pain diagnosis and symptoms. Generally speaking, back pain is the result of sudden force or injury to the muscles and ligaments in the upper or lower back of the body. The pain [...]

Proper Lumbar Support for Lower Back Pain Relief Around 80% of people will suffer from pain in their lower back area at some point in their lives. It’s a problem that affects an equal number of men and women, mostly from age 30 upwards, and it’s responsible for more missed work days than any other medical complaint. The lower back, or lumbar area, is the part of the spine between [...]

Yoga Miracle Man: Back Pain Beaten By Yoga Poses After breaking his back, Professor John Aplin was told he might never walk again. He proved doctors wrong by devising his own regime. Copyright Article by Nick Flemming in The Mail On Sunday http://www. dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1191261/The-yoga-miracle-man.html It was a spur-of-the-moment mistake and one that nearly cost Professor John Aplin his life. While out hill-walking in the Peak District in 1996, his two [...]