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Very interesting article which recently appeared in the Harvard  Medical School “Harvard Health Publications” Give it a read and share with friends and family http://www.health.harvard.edu/pain/chiropractic-care-for-pain-relief Chiropractic is a health care system that holds that the structure of the body, particularly the spine, affects the function of every part of the body. Chiropractors try to correct […]

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Here is a fascinating article on Posture and Back Pain. Be sure to share this with your friends and loved ones, it’s one of the more interesting ones I’ve run across lately!   Back pain is a tricky beast. Most Americans will at some point have a problem with their backs. And for an unlucky

As a chiropractic physician specializing in treating patients with chronic and severe lower back and/or leg pain, this is a question I get asked a great deal of the time so I thought it might be helpful to describe some of the conditions that respond well to decompression therapy. One of the most common conditions

As a chiropractic physician specializing in nonsurgical spinal decompression I am constantly amazed at how many patients I talk to who have been told they have a herniated disc in their lumbar spine on their MRI imaging study, and therefore they need to have invasive back surgery. I hope you caught my use of italics

DO YOU HAVE A HERNIATED DISC IN YOUR BACK? This is a pretty frequent inquiry from our patients and can often be easily answered with a few simple questions. Let’s try a few on for size and if your answers point in that direction, it might be a good idea to have us take a

The overuse of opiod medications like oxycontin is rampant throughout the country. Portland is no exception. Thankfully our patient population are interested in “natural” solutions to their pain…hence “Natural Pain Solutions”! Please share this article with your friends and family and if you know someone who is abusing these medications do your best to help

Here’s a very interesting article about a newly developed exercise program for patients suffering from Spinal Stenosis. Dr. Tunick treats many patients with Spinal Stenosis and recommends reading this article and by all means give us a call if Spinal Stenosis is making life difficult for you. http://www.ctvnews.ca/…/exercise-boot-camp-offers-non-surgi… A Toronto-based doctor has created a series

  Like most folks I spend a lot of my day at a desk writing chart notes, reviewing MRI imagining studies, and the myriad of things I need to do during my work day as a chiropractic physician.  So here are some helpful tips about why our backs start to bother us when we sit

Here’s an interesting research article that recommends folks to eat eggs on a regular basis! As my patients know I’ve been supporting and recommending this for a long time so it’s nice to see this appear in the media. Please share this with your friends and family. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11514251/Four-eggs-a-week-can-reduce-risk-of-diabetes.html Eating four eggs a week can reduce