There are plenty of people today struggling with weight loss on a regular basis, notably too much weight around the middle. However, the necessity to lose weight is, quite frequently, more than a simple cosmetic issue. The fact of the matter is, if people are carrying around additional weight in their stomach area, their back is going to be adversely [...]
Low Back Pain
Low back pain is second in commonality only to the common cold. It affects more than 80% of human being. Although most of us are aware that the common cold is due to a viral infection, back pain is often puzzling to its sufferers. Your Orlando Chiropractor is an expert at solving [...]
Introduction
Arthritis is more often than not confusing to most patients.Often the word, “arthritis,” produces fear of a future that includes crippled and twisted joints. But, many conditions from benign to severe are filed under the term, arthritis. For our purposes we will limit this discussion to the most common forms of arthritis.
Osteoarthritis [...]
Introduction
The complexity of the shoulder joint allows it to achieve many different motions and activities. Anatomically, the shoulder involves three unique bones – the scapula, the clavicle, and the humerus – many attaching ligaments, and approximately 20 different muscles. The primary articulation, the glenohumeral joint, is joined by ligaments and a group of muscles [...]
A normal spine looks straight, without much deviation from one side to the other, when the body is viewed from behind. Therefore, if the spine is viewed to have a lateral, or side-to-side, curvature, the individual might have a condition called scoliosis.The disorder shouldn’t be confused with bad posture, even though it oftentimes gives the [...]
Chiropractors, also called doctors of chiropractic, treat patients who are suffering from musculoskeletal and nervous system problems. Chiropractic treatments provide relief for people having problems of the spine.
Chiropractic education is very similar to medical and dental education that requires… three to four years of undergraduate studies and an additional 4 years of post-graduate education. Chiropractic [...]
In the past, sports injuries were mostly limited to professional athletes, young people participating in school sports programs, and men participating in weekend activities such as rugby. However more and more people of all ages and both sexes are doing regular sports and fitness activities. There are even women now doing traditional men’s sports such [...]
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is the most common nerve entrapment disorder. As the term “nerve entrapment” implies, these disorders happen when a nerve is trapped or compressed between body tissues creating inflammation and impairment of the nerve.
Anatomy
The carpal tunnel is situated in the underside of the wrist and is a passageway in which the median nerve [...]
Earache is the most common reason for office visits to pediatricians. By the age of three years, more than 70 percent of children will have had at least one episode of earache and about a third will have had more than three episodes. It is not surprising, therefore, that earache is also the most common [...]
Tennis elbow is the common name given to pain originating on the outside or lateral side of the elbow. This condition arises from an irritation or inflammation of the tendons of one or several forearm muscles at their attachment to the bony protuberance close to the elbow joint, known as the lateral epicondyle. Therefore the [...]