Sports Injury Focus #1 – Tennis Elbow **Picture credits to Oliver Sjostrom; https://ollivves.com/** Tennis elbow is also known as lateral epicondylitis. Epicondylitis means ‘inflammation of the epicondyle’ – this is essentially what is happening in tennis elbow. The inflammation of the lateral epicondyle (the “outside” side of the elbow) region leads to pain [...]
Cervicogenic headache Headaches can be caused from many variables. One common subtype of headache is known as the cervicogenic headache. Cervicogenic headaches are headaches that are derived from the musculoskeletal systems of our neck. This means that the headache is coming from our neck: whether it be from tight muscles, stiff joints, inflamed intervertebral [...]
Acute low back pain focus #1 - Bulging disc Have you ever felt your low back become extremely sore after a ‘twinge’ while doing something relatively simple? A possible and common cause for this is a bulging disc. Disc problems tend to build up over time without any symptoms – then when they [...]
Chronic low back pain focus #1 – Pars defects (also known as spondylolysis) One of the causes of chronic low back pain is a pars defect, or otherwise known as a spondylolysis (sometimes referred to as “spondy” for short) in our lumbar spine. A pars defect is essentially a defect or stress fracture [...]
Suffering from rib pain? Chiropractic may be the answer for you. Musculoskeletal rib pain Musculoskeletal rib pain refers to injury to the muscles, joints or bones around the ribs. Among other causes, these can include strains across the intercostal muscles, fractures in the ribs, or overloading and injuring the rib joints themselves. Symptoms [...]
Suffering from poor posture or wondering how to prevent poor posture? We're here to help. Text neck With the increase in smartphone and tablet usage, our necks are prone to looking downwards more than ever. This leads to what is known as “anterior head carriage” or “text neck” where our necks jut out [...]
Suffering from nerve pain? We're here to help. Nerve pain can come in many forms. The type of nerve pain we will be focusing on involves the peripheral nerves, which travel out from our spine and into our limbs. Peripheral nerves can be trapped by a large number of structures as they exit [...]
