This man saved my life….
July 1996, it’s a hot day and I’m entering the golf club at Hadden Hill. Two older men are there. One of them, seeing me, says to his friend, while pointing at me: ‘This man saved my life’! I then realise that it’s Norman, who I had seen the previous year in the clinic. I […]
Why does this lady get Recurrent back pain?
This lady has been getting back pain on and off for a long time! Her low back is tender to touch and she also gets pain in other joints, including her hands and fingers. When she has manual therapy she finds it uncomfortable and she does not get as much relief from treatment has some […]
An uncommon cause of low back pain in an older man
I had to scan one of the family guinea-pigs (Jill) the other day (my girlfriend is a vet). This poor little pig was weeing a lot, and there was blood in her urine. It seems that she was in pain too, as she didn\’t like to be handled too much. My girlfriend suspected that Jill […]
Low back pain in an older man
It\’s pumpkin season! This got me thinking about a patient, an older man, who I was treating, a while back, for his low back pain. On examining him I found some swelling in his lower abdomen. What was it? Find out in this short video! If you would like to read more about pumpkin seeds […]
Low back pain and urinary infections
Chiropractors see lots of patients with low back pain (LBP). There are lots of causes of LBP, including urinary tract infection (UTI). We usually send patients who have a UTI back to their GP for antibiotics. But are antibiotics really necessary? A recent article in the British Medical Journal addressed this very issue. Have a […]
Spinal manipulative treatment helps acute low back pain
There was an interesting article published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was a research study into the effectiveness of spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) for acute low back pain. The outcome of the study was very positive. What was really great (from our point of view) was the editorial encouraging […]
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 […]