On-line booking now up and running!
You can now book appointments on-line! Yay! Super-computer programmer Andrew Rowe has managed to cut and paste the link from our on-line diary and put it onto the website. (Only took 2yrs to to it as well). Simply go to the home page and find the ‘Book Appointment\’ button. You\’ll need to input your email […]
Do you get more back pain as you get older?
It’s a commonly held belief that we tend to get more back pain as we get older. But is this true? Some Scandinavian researchers had a look at this belief. They studied 12 research papers that looked at sub-groups of patients where there was a significant proportion of older patients. Interestingly, they found that there was […]
Do computers cause neck and shoulder pain?
A Chinese study has suggested that high levels of psychological stress are a significant factor in the cause of shoulder and upper back complaints in computer workers. Participants who had high levels of workload were more likely to develop lower back pain than upper back pain. The 203 participants in the study were computer users […]
Is low back pain harder to fix if there is a trapped nerve as well??
A recent article in JMPT investigating outcomes of acute and chronic low back pain, found that patients with nerve problems (radiculopathy) recovered equally well with chiropractic treatment as patients without radiculopathy. The article, by Peterson et al, was investigating whether there were any positive predictive factors to suggest which patients would respond best to chiropractic […]
Causes of back pain
A recent article in Spine journal (July 01 2012) by Matsudeira and colleagues highlights an issue that chiropractors come across regularly in practice: that monotonous tasks and interpersonal stress at work are significant factors in the prediction of LBP at work. Other factors include previous episodes of low back pain and frequent lifting.