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,

Well, summer is definitely here! Everyone has planned their summer vacation and most people will have the time of their life, enjoying family and friends. Sadly, there has been a consistent influx of clients that have been experiencing back pain. The type of back pain that just doesn’t let up and unfortunately it’s not allowing them to enjoy all the local activities that they love to do… It doesn’t matter if it’s a man or a woman or what their interests are because they just don’t feel comfortable doing them and it tends to put a strain on the relationships with their spouses,

  Why do we have this problem? Are we inherently predisposed to these problems and if so, is there actually anything we can do about it? This all starts with the issue of life being a sitting sport; we sit to drive, we sit to study, we sit to work, we sit for movies, we sit for dinner etc….. We sit doing just about everything and obviously since we can walk, stand and run, we weren’t meant to spend our time sitting with our knees curled up and our backs rolled forward. With low back pain, most of the