Guess what? Your neck curve is related to neck pain. I can show you a number of papers to support this but today I want to focus on one paper that was just published in the journal Aerospace Medicine and…
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Neck Curve is Related to Neck Pain
Tagged with: cervical lordosis, chiropractor, Geneva Chiropractor, neck curve, neck pain, Sagittal Balance, Spine Care
Posted in Neck Pain
Posted in Neck Pain
Tylenol for Low Back Pain
The evidence does not favor using Tylenol for low back pain. Tylenol for Low Back Pain? Not so fast according to a recent paper published in the British Medical Journal. Tylenol or acetaminophen, called paracetamol in Europe, has been used…
Tagged with: acetaminophen, Alternative Medicine, Back Pain, back pain Geneva IL, Chiropractic, chiropractor, chronic back pain, Geneva Chiropractic, Geneva Chiropractor, Low Back Pain, neck pain, paracetamol, tylenol
Posted in Back Pain, Neck Pain
Posted in Back Pain, Neck Pain
Chronic Low Back Pain contributes to Disability
We know that chronic low back pain contributes to disability, but what has been unclear is by how much. The Global Burden of Disease study published in the journal The Lancent in 2012 found that chronic low back pain is…
Tagged with: Back Pain, back pain Geneva IL, chronic back pain, Low Back Pain, neck pain, Spine Care, Staker Chiropractic
Posted in Back Pain, Healthcare Policy and Politics, Neck Pain
Posted in Back Pain, Healthcare Policy and Politics, Neck Pain
Tylenol May Not Be As Safe As Previously Thought
According to a new study; Tylenol may not be as safe as previously thought. This study published in the March 2 2015 Annals of Rheumatic Diseases examined observational studies which reported mortality, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal or renal adverse events in the…
Chiropractic care may have an effect on brain function
It has been well understood that chiropractic spinal manipulations have an effect on body functioning including neurological function. The question has been how exactly does this happen. There are studies that have found response in nerve tissue to spinal manipulations…
Whiplash Injury
Some older stats report that 3.8 people per 1000 suffer a whiplash injury each year. A whiplash injury is something that does not have to follow a motor vehicle crash (MVC) but can occur with a number of similar mechanisms…
Smartphone Use Tied to Poor Posture
It really has been wild how fast the use of smartphones have grown. While there were other attempts at adding a phone to the PDA’s of yesteryear it was the first IPhone in 2007 that was the first successful smartphone…
Tagged with: back pain Geneva IL, Chiropractic, chiropractic biophysics, chiropractor, chronic back pain, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Geneva Chiropractic, Geneva Chiropractor, Low Back Pain, neck pain, Poor posture, Posture, Smartphone Use, Spine Care, Staker Chiropractic
Posted in Back Pain, Exercise and Fitness, Neck Pain, Wellness
Posted in Back Pain, Exercise and Fitness, Neck Pain, Wellness
Maker of Oxycontin Sued by Kentucky
Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, settled litigation with the federal government in 2007 for “misbranding” OxyContin as less addictive than other narcotics and paid $637 million in fines. “Purdue Pharma accepted full responsibility for the actions some of its…
Recent Studies Call Into Question the Use of Pain Medications
If you follow us on Facebook you have seen several posts recently on pain medications, if you missed it that might be due to you not following us on Facebook which you should do. Several recent studies call into question…
Tagged with: acetaminophen, back pain Geneva IL, Chiropractic, Chiropractic better than drug therapy, chronic back pain, Geneva Chiropractic, ibuprofen, Low Back Pain, neck pain, NSAID use, Opioid Use, Oxycontin, Staker Chiropractic, tylenol, Tylenol not effective for back pain
Posted in Back Pain, Healthcare Policy and Politics, Neck Pain
Posted in Back Pain, Healthcare Policy and Politics, Neck Pain
Joint Cracking, Popping, or Grinding
We commonly get questions in our office about all manners of joint noise such as joint cracking, popping, or grinding. Most commonly people ask about joint popping during an adjustment or about people who “crack” their own joints and what…
Tagged with: Chiropractic, chiropractor, chronic back pain, Geneva Chiropractic, Geneva Chiropractor, healthy joint movement, joint cracking, joint grinding, Joint noise, joint popping, neck pain, painful joint movement, Unhealthy joint movement
Posted in Back Pain, Injury Prevention, Neck Pain, Wellness
Posted in Back Pain, Injury Prevention, Neck Pain, Wellness