Tag: chronic pain

Chronic pain is more common than diabetes or depression according to a new study. Is it any surprise that more people are considering chiropractic first?

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Chronic pain is more common than diabetes or depression according to a new study. Is it any surprise that more people are considering chiropractic first? Segmented care one size fits all care for conditions such as back pain, neck pain, or knee pain may well be a disease affecting the healthcare professions. While most people are used to hearing about diseases, the truth is that this type of care leads to overtesting, dogmatic procedures designed to relieve a symptom but fails to ever cure, manage or even relieve a problem in a cost-effective way. Recently, a patient experiencing leg, knee, Read More »

The link between sleep and chronic pain according to a recent animal based study.

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The link between sleep and chronic pain according to a recent animal-based study. In 1990, when a committee reviewed all the chronic pain cases that resulted in the disease eventually called fibromyalgia, the link to sleep was notable. After many years of treating chronic pain, and polymyalgia cases, very few fibromyalgia-diagnosed cases were a good fit for the diagnosis. However, in most of the cases, sleep was affected. Perhaps this is why Lyrica became a central part of the medical treatment of this now-created disease.  Lyrica was a prescription sleep aid used in Europe and apparently, it helped somewhat with Read More »

Chronic lower back, shoulder and neck pain and reciprocal twins.

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Chronic lower back, shoulder, and neck pain and reciprocal twins. What is a reciprocal twin?    A reciprocal twin is when you develop a problem in a hip capsule and it affects the opposite shoulder on the other side due to mechanical and neurological adaptations, the most common being shoulder impingement, rib pain, or a frozen shoulder.   You can also develop these problems on the same side as well where the hip affects the shoulder.   Conversely, a chronic shoulder problem can affect the hips, in the same way, altering the way you walk and resulting in lower back pain. A Read More »

The frozen shoulder that wasn’t and how to get the right care for you.

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The frozen shoulder that wasn’t and how to get the right care for you. Patients are often diagnosed with all sorts of shoulder conditions based on their symptoms rather than the functional reason for the pain.   It seems that they are often inevitably sent to an orthopedic who inevitably after taking some x-rays and injecting the shoulder refers them to someone else who follows a prescription for therapy to the area of complaint. This one size fits all approach often fails to resolve the problem since it works on the symptom while improperly diagnosing why your shoulder hurts. Typical one Read More »

Stop chasing pain! Do this instead to avoid surgery and disabilities later in life.

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Stop chasing pain! Do this instead to avoid surgery and disabilities later in life. After 36+ years of healthcare practice, it is amazing to me that people are still being directed to treat their pains instead of finding and resolving the reason people hurt. Most high utilizes for painful conditions in the healthcare system have little to show from the doctor’s visits, medications, and rehabilitation regimens other than the poor quality of life they now have. Often, it is not exactly their fault as doctors would medicate and test in the absence of a thorough musculoskeletal evaluation and take history Read More »