Author: Dr. Rob Sanfilippo
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Soft (and Not-So-Soft)-Tissue Overview
In my opinion, quality chiropractic care begins with combining soft-tissue techniques with joint manipulation and rehabilitation exercise. Muscles move bones. If you are not addressing the dysfunction in the muscles, your adjusting is much less likely to have long-term success. This article, the first in a series on soft-tissue techniques, reviews some of soft-tissue methods…
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To ease back pain, don’t sit up straight
The strain of sitting upright for long hours is a perpetrator of chronic back problems The longstanding advice to “sit up straight” has been turned on its head by a new study that suggests leaning back is a much better posture. Researchers analyzed different postures and concluded that the strain of sitting upright for long…
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Warning Repetitive Stress Injuries
I imagine it was intended to say something like… use of a keyboard or mouse may be linked to serious injuries or disorders. It’s no wonder people are still suffering from Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSI), which are primarily caused by overuse of computer keyboards, computer mice, and other electronic gadgetry. Sadly, I don’t see the…
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New treatment for muscle pain
Olympian Jeff Pain swears by active release therapy to get sore or injured muscles moving again, and to generally improve his athletic performance. “There’s no better therapy out there,” says Pain, as chiropractor Conrad Tang uses his thumbs to work the quadriceps muscle of the 2006 silver medallist in skeleton. So-called “manual release therapies” such…
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Laptops are crippling millions with back problems
Girls as young as 12 are being diagnosed with nerve damage caused by slouching over screens Booming sales of laptops have led to a surge in the number of computer users with back and muscle problems, experts have warned. Girls as young as 12 are being diagnosed with nerve damage caused by slouching over screens,…
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Is There a Chiropractor in the House?
Daniel David Palmer: world’s first chiropractor 1895: The first chiropractic adjustment is performed, and a new field of medicine is born, along with a healthy number of skeptics. It was the age of the talented dilettante, and the world’s first chiropractor certainly qualified on that score. Daniel David Palmer, variously a beekeeper, school teacher and…