What’s the best type of chair to sit on?
What’s the best type of chair to sit on? We get asked this question a lot from clients especially over the last two years with more people having their desks set up at home. There are several options for sitting. The first one being for office work, the second one for relaxation. If we start […]
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 […]
Should I Have Massage & Chiropractic Together?
Should I Have Massage & Chiropractic Together? Why do massage and chiropractic work so well together? A common conversation in the clinic between the team and our clients is around dual therapy care. Massage goes hand in hand with chiropractic due to the nature and the effect that they both have on the human body. […]
How Many Chiropractic Treatments Do I Need?
How many adjustments do Chiropractors Do? A common question asked by many of our clients and I wish I had the answer for every single one of them. Unfortunately, there is not a one size fits all when it comes to solving back pain or sciatica. The reason is people have had their issues […]
4 Top Mistakes When It Comes To Correcting Back Pain
How long does it take to correct chronic low back pain? The process can be sped up by avoiding these four simple things.”We often start the diagnosis process with asking a series of questions tailored to our individual clients depending on their background, what they do day to day, in terms of being physical or […]