Here’s a thought most people don’t like to hear: Pain is important. It is one of the many mechanisms by which our body senses and communicates damage, dysfunction or disease. While we need pain to let us know when to stop moving, start moving, or move differently to facilitate our body’s healing, chronic pain is…
Childhood is a time many of us associate with play, learning, and seemingly endless energy. While for some of us those days seem miles away, the relationship between the health of our nervous system and our adaptability is constant in all stages of life. In the recent release of the ASRF case report project, published…
Comparisons between traditional medical care and chiropractic care are often problematic, in that our methodologies are completely different. One is a treatment modality geared at recovery from illness, often involving drugs or surgery. One is a care modality geared at nervous system care which then allows the body to express health. While certainly, the latter…
It may seem like a lifetime ago that we first started hearing whispers of a bat, a wet market and a rapidly spreading virus. During this time, one issue has remained top of mind for many in the chiropractic community – can chiropractic care boost immunity? In fact, methods for boosting immunity have come from…
We know this one is a contentious subject – chiropractic care and ADHD. Currently, there is a little hesitancy to make any major claims about what chiropractic may or may not be able to offer ADHD sufferers in terms of relief or management. While this remains the case, there is one thing we can say:…
In recent years, subluxation-based chiropractic care seems to have successfully moved away from the old “bone out of place pressing on a nerve” narrative that kept us locked into the realm of neck, back and musculoskeletal pain. This is truly a good thing, as research continues to explore the non-musculoskeletal presentations that may benefit from…
Most of us have heard it all our lives; ‘sit up straight and don’t slouch’. Ergonomics has been a buzz word within workplaces for years; lumbar support in your desk chair, having your computer screen at eye-level, correctly adjusted chair height. But with the arrival of mobile phones and laptops, we find ourselves looking down…
The world clock has just ticked past two years since the COVID-19 pandemic started. And while news has focused largely on prevention and acute care, with many a business or livelihood thrown into the balance due to prolonged lockdowns, a lesser discussed issue has been waiting to surface. That is the issue of long-covid and…
It’s no secret that low back pain is a significant contributor to the burden of disease worldwide, or that the condition has a significant impact on quality of life. While large sections of the developed world grapple with the issue of prescription drug dependency, its a good time to talk about spinal manipulation compares with…
It has often been colloquially said that the aim of chiropractic is to add years to life and life to years. While we can never tell how many years one might add to a lifespan by nurturing the nervous system, we can measure the ways in which we might add life to years. Individual case…
Headache and neck pain are common ailments. What isn’t so common is the types of headaches that do not resolve with normal treatment, and reach the point where activities of daily life are routinely interrupted. Add that to the complication of an issue of neurofibromatosis and you have an interesting case indeed. Neurofibromatosis is a…
What is good research? That’s a multibillion-dollar question, and while a litany of keyboard warriors across the world can argue “science” on social media platforms, the truth is that it is complicated, nuanced, and based in scepticism. That is, good science asks if something is relevant, reliable, repeatable, and ethical among other things. It builds…
In chiropractic circles, it is commonly said that subluxations are caused by trauma, toxins and stress. In turn, these subluxations, which ASRF defines as ”a diminished state of being, comprising a state of reduced coherence, altered biomechanical function, altered neurological function and altered adaptability” can manifest increased inflammation. Why? A system that cannot adapt to…
The advancement of chiropractic-specific stroke research is truly a cause for celebration, as those with a little bit of historical memory will attest. Not only has research found no evidence for causation when it comes to chiropractic care and cervical artery dissection, but a new stream of research is revealing the potential for chiropractic to…
Previously, when you popped “Chiropractic care and lupus” into a search engine, it was a rather bleak scenario that popped up in your search results. Lupus is an autoimmune condition where the immune system attacks its own tissue. It is complex, chronic, and its etiology is yet to be explained entirely. Once a diagnosis of…
Every child is unique. They learn and grow at their own pace, they can race ahead in some areas while playing developmental catch up in others. The parameters of ‘normal’ can take on many different forms in a healthy child. Broadly speaking, child development can be divided into four major areas; motor, speech andlanguage, social/emotional,…
Try as we might to move the conversation away from back pain, for which there is evidence aplenty, a new study has taken aim at the management of spine-related disorders in the primary care environment. It’s an interesting take on a complex issue, as management of spine-related disorders (SRDs), including back pain, remains the largest…
University education is often a time of life synonymous with stress, sleep deprivation, and tears (along with all the youthful upsides). While this can be true for many disciplines in the world of tertiary education, our budding health professionals seem are known to have some of the most difficult courses to undertake in their careers.…
