I’m only 35 and I have an active job working outside so why does my back hurt every day?? Just last week I had a client, James, that wanted to know why he was having so much back pain when he isn’t older and his job keeps him relatively active outside? He also was a bit disgruntled by the fact that he has a friend that is not fit, doesn’t exercise, sits all day but never has any pain and he is in disbelief that his friend’s back is somehow healthier than his?? Understandably, this doesn’t make a lot of

The way our lives are structured now it’s no surprise that back pain is affecting so many people that lead a “normal”, American life. Most of us have heard the phrase that, “sitting is the new smoking” and it may or may not be true in regards to killing us slowly but it definitely is contributing to chronic back and neck pain. The fact is that we are sitting longer. Most jobs are making us sit, eating has us sitting at the dinner table, Netflix puts us on the couch, commuting or travelling leaves us in a seat for extended periods of

Have you been told that you need surgery on your back? Have you been told that there is no other option?? Two months ago, I had a patient come to me asking if he should go ahead with a suggested surgery. They wanted to take out a disk and fuse the joint where the disk had been. We went through a full assessment and one of the biggest things that stuck out to me is that he didn’t have any of the usual weakness problems that would elicit a surgical option, he had no numbness anywhere in the legs

80+% of the population deal with back pain at some point in their life and most of them will deal with recurring episodes of back pain, hopefully not for too long but some suffer chronic problems and never get any relief! Sadly, a large number of people (400,000 Americans) resort to surgery before they ever have a good idea what the real problem is and after that their back will never be the same. Each segment of your back has a specific motion and job, once that is modified then the other segments must pick up the slack. In my work,