What Doctors Don't Tell YouNeck pain is a common problem, and one that tends to affect more women than men. But how are you going to treat it? The three most popular options are: your family doctor (a ‘wait-and-see’ approach with advice on ergonomics, possibly...
In reply to the bit about physiotherapy and its ineffectiveness as put forth by the BMJ study (WDDTY vol 15 no 10, page 6), as a chiropractor, I am aware of these studies that say people get the same results with one treatment or exercises alone...
Tension headaches result when the musdes of your scalp or the nerves supplying them release lactate, serotonin, bradykinin and prostaglandins, any of which significantly lower the pain threshold.
If you have low back pain, instead of rushing to your own doctor, first try the most conservative management you can. Dr William Kirkaldy-Willis, retired emeritus professor of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Saskatchewan...
A surprising one in seven people have a hearing loss - that’s about 8.7 million in the UK alone. Age-related hearing loss usually begins at 50 and, according to the Royal National Institute for Deaf People,
A range of alternative treatments can effectively ease pain and speed recovery in active individuals who sustain sprains, strains and even more serious injuries.
* Exercise As 60 per cent of PLIDs cure themselves (usually within four months), the simplest solution is to work with the natural healing process. The true experts in musculoskeletal problems are, of course, osteopaths and chiropractors, and they...
Daniel Redwood DCWe have now seen a wealth of studies demonstrating that spinal manipulation is effective, but it is quite another matter to fully understand how and why. The search for an explanation has absorbed the attention of chiropractors since D.D. Palmer...
Spinal manual therapy, of which chiropractors are the primary providers, has now been shown by reputable researchers to be the most demonstrably effective healing method for the most common kinds of lower back pain. Each year brings the publication...
