Quick Interventions to Help Relieve Sciatica Sciatica is a common and painful condition of the lower back, buttocks, or legs. Sciatica is caused by compression of the sciatic nerve in the buttocks or lower lumbar spine. This compression can be caused by bone spurs or degeneration. It can also be caused by muscle strain due to repetitive movements. There are various methods of treating this debilitating condition. At Live Aligned chiropractic center, we treat sciatica with a blend of hands-on adjustments and physical therapy techniques that target points along your spinal cord to relieve press ..read more

4 Techniques for Chiropractic Treatment of Vertigo Vertigo is the sensation of spinning or spinning-like movement. The most common vertigo symptom is experiencing dizziness, usually accompanied by visual disturbances such as flashing lights or wavy lines. In mild cases, vertigo can go away on its own. But sometimes, these symptoms don’t go away even after waiting for weeks or months. In this case, you will need to consider an efficient treatment option like chiropractic care. At Live Aligned Chiropractic care clinic, we will help you deal with vertigo symptoms. We utilize various chiropractic ..read more

Is Chiropractic Just a Placebo? Unless you have experience with chiropractic care, you may wonder, “Is chiropractic just a placebo?” The nature of a placebo is that a cure relies more on the patient believing they have been made well than on any measurable healing effect. A good example is when a child runs to their mother after scraping their knee. Their mother will kiss the ‘boo-boo’, and it will magically make the pain go away. Except it doesn’t. Although it has no tangible effect on the child, they still believe it has healing properties. So the question is – does chiropractic care affect ..read more

Can Whiplash Cause Nausea? If you’ve been in a recent auto accident, you may be wondering to yourself, “Can whiplash cause nausea”? Especially if you’ve been experiencing some unexplained symptoms like that yourself. The answer is a definite yes. You may also experience other whiplash symptoms, such as dizziness and headaches. When the body comes to a sudden, wrenching stop, it can strain neck muscles and even throw vertebrae out of alignment. That can lead to any or all of the symptoms mentioned above. Whiplash symptoms can be so severe that they completely dominate your life and throw everyt ..read more

What Scoliosis Feels Like You might be surprised to learn that scoliosis is not particularly painful. The pain will also depend on scoliosis‘ severity and the type, and the patient’s age. Pain is not typically a symptom for children and adolescents, and that’s one of the things that makes it very difficult to diagnose. Adults are far more likely to experience pain associated with scoliosis. Fortunately, there are some treatment options available that can reduce or eliminate that discomfort. The most common form of scoliosis is adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, so that is the form that we will a ..read more

How Good Posture Can Prevent Back Pain At any given time in the US, about 31 million Americans are suffering from some kind of back pain. For many of those people, the cause of that back pain is something totally unsuspected – poor posture. You might be surprised to learn what an impact poor posture can have on your life, and how it can contribute seriously to back pains that may stay with you for your entire adult life. There is no question that having good posture can prevent back pain and save you a great deal of grief, so it will be to your advantage to work on developing better posture. W ..read more

The Long Term Effects of Chronic Stress Your body’s response to the effects of chronic stress can be less than optimal, especially after having undergone that stress for a long period of time. When you’re under stress consistently, and for a long period of time, your body becomes less able to adapt to the circumstances associated with that stress. During a stressful period, your breathing becomes shallower, your heart rate increases, digestion slows down, and your muscles tense up, so as to be ready to spring into action. All these are natural responses which over the millennia, have allowed h ..read more

Can I See a Chiropractic Doctor for Sports Injuries? Elite athletes are constantly pushing themselves to achieve greater things in their respective endeavors, and that means they’re generally pushing their bodies to the limit of their capabilities. Training regimens can be exhausting all by themselves, and competition can push athletes right to the very edge. Even if you’re not an elite athlete, you may be striving to achieve the utmost possible within your sport, and in all these cases, that kind of intense exertion can lead to musculoskeletal injuries. Whenever you suffer these kinds of inju ..read more

Athletes and Posture: How does it Affect Performance? You might not think there’s a connection between good posture and elite athletic performance, but there definitely is a relationship. Everyone should be concerned about having good posture, whether you have elite strength and agility like a world-class athlete, or whether you’re just an ordinary person who participates in recreational activities. Anyone who is involved with any kind of athletics will be affected by the impact on resting body position, and that in turn impacts the way you look and feel, as well as your overall spinal health ..read more

Tips for Picking the Right Chiropractor Many people think that all chiropractors are basically the same, and that you will get pretty much the same type of care no matter which one you visit. In fact, some chiropractors specialize in certain types of bodily injuries, and are highly skilled in securing favorable outcomes when treating those types of injuries. In order to find out whether a specific chiropractor is right for you, you’ll need to establish some criteria for evaluation, such as those points described below. Criteria for choosing your ideal chiropractor If you continue to believe th ..read more