It is common to associate Tennis Elbow to an injury in tennis or racquet. Typically, however, tennis players or racquet sport players are rarely patients with this injury. Instead, many of our patients at Custom Chiropractor with this condition are office employees in the Santa Clara-San Jose region who spend numerous hours at their jobs…
Pregnancy and Chiropractic Care
What causes pregnancy related low back pain? Did you know that less than half of women with pregnancy related low back pain seek medical care? After a predominately frontal weight gain moves their center of gravity forward, the lumbar lordosis becomes increased. The spines capacity to absorb the forces it undergoes in everyday life is…
Chiropractic Research that Rocks!
Why chiropractic research? One of the main reasons chiropractors are seen is for low back pain. An estimated 10% of the world’s population suffers from low back pain! This fact makes it a highly important topic in today’s medical research. Recently chiropractic researchers have been asking: what is the outcome of adding chiropractic care along…
Stretching – How important is it?
Injuries can arise from not stretching before performing activities, including those that are part of a daily routine. For example, think of a rubber band. Trying to bend, elongate, or twist a rubber band, is not a difficult task at room temperature. However, if you take a hard, frozen rubber band and try to perform…
What is preventative care?
A quick background… In short preventative care is the care a patient receives to prevent a disease or illness. In research, commonly referred to as “maintenance care”. It is frequently studied to see which conditions and populations it helps the most. For example, low back pain as a chronic condition and the elderly as a…