Should You Get A Standing Desk?
Should You Get A Standing Desk? There has been a huge emergence of standing desks in the past two years as more people are working from home. We know now that sitting even in the best position is not ideal for our spines and our posture. It compresses the discs especially in the low back. […]
What Is The Best Treatment For Spinal Stenosis?
What Is The Best Treatment For Spinal Stenosis? Spinal stenosis is causing quite a stir here at West Chiropractic since the most recent blog post that we posted describing what it is. It turns out we have a lot of clients struggling with it or have had a diagnosis of it recently. So just a […]
How To Understand Stress?
How To Understand Stress? There are three types of stress. When somebody says stress to you, you think, “Oh, I’ve had a really busy week. The kids are playing up. Nothing has gone my way. I’ve got loads on. I’m really busy and stress is high.” This is an emotional stress but there are two […]
What Does Chiropractic Cure?
I just finished as a keynote speaker event at the Surrey Parkinson’s Group AGM and we got talking about Chiropractic and what does Chiropractic help with. My automatic answer is always we treat back pain, neck pain, sciatica and headaches. I think I’ve been conditioned to this over the years and that’s generally what we […]
The Best Exercise To Get Rid Of A Back Spasm
The best exercise to do when your back goes into spasm We often see clients coming in with back spasms where they are bent over to one side or flexed forward at 90 degrees because the back is locked up. This can often be severely debilitating and can happen in any age range, in people […]
What Is A Pain Threshold?
?What Is Pain? Why is it that some people feel more pain than others and what is a pain threshold and how does that differ between each individual person? As Chiropractors, we see people in pain a lot of the time when they come to visit us. Our job is to get them out of […]
What Is Spinal Stenosis?
What is Spinal Stenosis? This is a condition of the spine where the holes which the nerves run through are beginning to narrow. There are many reasons in which they narrow, which we will go through later in the blog. Let’s first start by describing some of the spinal anatomy. The spine houses the spinal […]
What Are Orthotics?
?What are orthotics? We are starting to roll out orthotics in the clinic as we continue to notice that the foot is such an important part of the way people function. Many complicated conditions can actually stem from the feet, and we believe that having the right support can provide relief for a lot of […]
What Is A Bursitis?
This is a great question that I was asked by a family friend recently. “I’ve been diagnosed with hip bursitis and a glute strain on the left side of my body.” She then told me she had seen a physiotherapist for 8 sessions who had done soft tissue work plus ultrasound and the problem still […]
What Supplements Should I Be Taking?
What is the best supplement to take for back pain? Thank goodness we can finally stop saying “Happy New Year!? at the 16th of January. Hope you all have had a good start to the new year and your resolutions are still in place. We get a lot of questions from clients wanting nutrition advice […]