 I've had several patients come and see me for stomach pains and acid reflux. These are problems often dealt with by medical doctors and managed by medication. But do those medications get to the cause of the problem? In these cases, the answer was definitively "no!"  The problem is where the esophagus meets the stomach. I successfully treated all of these cases with something called Chiropractic Manipulative Reflex Technique (CMRT). It's an advanced part of Sacro Occipital Technic® (SOT®). CMRT involves soft tissue work on the body. Food moves into the stomach through the diaphragmatic sphincter. Like the other sphincter we all know and love, it should properly open and close to function. When it doesn't do that, stomach acid can pass backwards into the esophagus causing the what is called acid reflux. In both of these cases, the diaphragm was under tension and was affecting the diaphragmatic sphincter. Part of fixing the cause was to pull the stomach away, since it was also pushed up under the diaphragm. The psoas muscle also connects at common points with the diaphragm. When the psoas muscle shortens or tightens, it pulls on the diaphragm. The psoas muscle also is involved with low back problems and this is why acid reflux and low back issues can go together. Both these cases also had subluxation of the 5th thoracic vertebra (T5). T5 has connections with the stomach (gastric) reflex, which influences acid production. As part of CMRT, I did reflex work on this area too.  Antacids let bad bacteria grow where they shouldn't. Eww. These cases resolved relatively quickly: an inexpensive fix to what can be a very costly problem.
Antacids lower the pH in your stomach. This can allow for bad bacteria to grow in your digestive tract that aren't supposed to. Yuck! If you are experiencing acid reflux, please give me a call. I can tell you after an initial exam if you have this problem causing your reflux. If not, I can help develop a plan to figure out what other problems could be causing the pain.
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 SOT® blocks allow for gentle and effective management of sciatica symptoms. There are several chiropractic techniques I use to treat sciatica, based on patient needs. Sacro-Occipital Technic® (SOT®) is unique in the usage of wedge-shaped blocks under the pelvis. People with sciatica are in acute pain, and the blocks help guide the body back into balance and stop the pain. Blocks are especially effective at getting rid of the "antalgic lean" or lean to one side that people with sciatica develop.  SOT® also deals with the soft tissue components of sciatica, including the piriformis muscle. As described in my other blog entry on sciatica, the muscle can either be too tight or too loose. Either way it can affect the sciatic nerve leading to pain. Even if the vertebra or disc is causing the sciatica, people with sciatica will usually have some involvement of the piriformis muscle that needs to be addressed to resolve the problem. The psoas muscle is also involved in sciatica. The psoas muscle attaches to the intervertebral discs themselves. Getting the psoas muscle to relax is an important part of sciatica treatment.  The special table in my office that allows me to do Cox Technic® flexion/distraction. The other way I treat sciatica is with Cox Technic®. This is another low force method I use in my office. It helps open up the disc space and increase mobility in the lumbar spine. Research shows that Cox Technic® reduces pressure in the disc, reduces pressure on spinal nerves, and widens the spinal canal foraminal area.
Cox Technic® even works on cases of failed low back surgery! Yes, even if you have had surgery and are still suffering, research shows that Cox Technic® may be able to help. And it helps with problems in the cervical spine (neck). Both SOT® and Cox Technic® are gentle forms of working on the spine. This is in contrast to traditional "popping and cracking" done by more traditional forms of chiropractic. Want to know more or schedule an appointment? Please contact my office 727-509-3760, email thedclcsw@gmail.com or book online.  What is sciatica? Sciatica means you have pain along some part of the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in the body, coming out of the lumbar and sacral parts of the spine. It travels through the buttock and down the back of the leg into the heel and foot (technically it gets some other names down there, but it's all part of the same big bad nerve). What isn't sciatica? Some patients will tell me they have sciatica, but then point to part of there leg that isn't related to the sciatic nerve. Leg pain doesn't necessarily mean sciatica. If the pain is on the side front, or doesn't go below the knee, it might not be the sciatic nerve. Those are often sacroiliac joint issues. What causes sciatica? The sciatic nerve exits out of the lumbar spine. It can get irritated by abnormalities there including
BUT...it can also be aggrevated by the PIRIFORMIS MUSCLE. In layman's terms, that's a muscle in your butt and the sciatic nerve passes right under it (in most people). The piriformis muscle can either become too tight or too loose and that will trap the nerve creating the pain. For a small number of people the nerve passes through the muscle.  A word about discs
When MRI's first came out a lot of low back pain and sciatica was blamed on the disc. There was a study done in the 1990's showing that people without back pain and without sciatica have abnormal discs. In other words, just because you have an abnormal disc doesn't necessarily mean that's what's causing your sciatica. Nor does it mean that you have to have surgery. I have a very high success rate of treating sciatica (or what patients initially thought was sciatica) in my practice. If you do need another type of healthcare provider, I will refer you to someone else. Look for part 2 of my blog on sciatica and the unique ways I treat it.  Patients are often surprised to see wedge-shaped blocks in my office. Even patients who have been to other chiropractors will say "my other chiropractor never used those before."
Patients are often surprised to see wedge-shaped blocks in my office. Even patients who have been to other chiropractors will say "my other chiropractor never used those before." The blocks are part of Sacro-Occipital Technic® (SOT®), which is the primary form of chiropractic I do. People love them because they are gentle. Often patients also say that adjustments work better or seem to "hold" better when I use the blocks. Blocks are placed under your hip bones (pelvis) in various positions. Your body will naturally bring itself back into alignment while laying on the blocks. Patients who don't like the traditional popping and cracking associated with traditional chiropractic are especially fond of the blocks. But other patients ask me how something so simple could do anything? It's a myth that a crunch must be heard for an adjustment to have occurred. In fact, I have conducted and presented research at international conferences showing that laying on the blocks changes brain function. Yes, really! Click here for a portion of that study. Bottom line, the blocks are awesome. Call my office at 727-509-3760 or email thedclcsw@gmail.com to schedule an appointment today to learn how the blocks can help you.  Depression is becoming more and more of an issue. And more and more young people are depressed, according to this article here: https://www.webmd.com/depression/news/20180511/depression-striking-more-young-people-than-ever#1 Some depressed people have been in psychotherapy for years or even decades. The absence of a resolution of the depression symptoms suggests that there may be a brain-based reason for the depression. Younger people may not have been depressed as long, but the same analysis can be used to figure out what are the best treatment options.  Depression and the brain More and more studies and research are showing that particular areas of the brain are involved in depression. These include areas like the frontal lobe, which often shows asymmetry in function when viewed on a qEEG brainmap. Another area is the anterior cingulate. I have the ability to look at these areas of the brain and determine if they may be contributing to your symptoms of depression. When a patient comes and sees me for symptoms of depression, I first take a history of symptoms and what seems to have helped and not helped. If appropriate, we can record the brain to determine if there are dysregulated areas of the brain that can be linked to symptoms of depression.  Brain Dx has a discriminant function aiding in the proper diagnosis of depression. The Depression discriminant I utilize a program called Brain Dx that has in it a multivariate discriminant that essentially calculates the likelihood that a brain is that of a depressed person. It's not a stand alone tool for diagnosing depression. But if I'm trying to figure out if a person has a brain-based depression vs. a depression that would respond better to psychotherapy, the discriminant can really help. The discriminant helps further confirm that the symptoms of depression are brain-based and brain-based interventions are appropriate.  Utilizing a program called BrainAvatar, I use Neurofeedback to retrain areas of the brain linked to the symptoms of depression. Neurofeedback for depression If the brain is found to be abnormal in the areas of the brain related to symptoms of depression, Neurofeedback therapy can be used to re-train those areas of the brain. Let's say we learn that you have an excess of alpha wave activity in a certain area of your brain. We can downtrain (or inhibit) this activity by offering you "feedback" whenever your brainwave moves in the direction we want it to go. "Feedback" can come in the form of a noise (beep or click), music, visual images (i.e., movies) or a combination of any of the above. By reinforcing activity in the direction we want the brainwave to go, brain function changes. Over a series of sessions this change can become permanent and then no more training is needed. Depression and inflammation In Atlanta I had the opportunity to view a lecture given by Andrew Miller, MD, who has done extensive research in the relationship of depression to inflammation. In his studies he was actually able to take non-depressed people and give them inflammation that would make them depressed. He would then give a drug that would combat the inflammation and the person would stop being depressed. For some people, inflammation may be a component of their depression. I can order certain tests to determine if this may be the case.  Sometimes psychotherapy is the appropriate treatment
I had a patient years ago who came to me for Neurofeedback treatment for depression. We ran the brain mapping and his brain was one of the most normal brains I had ever seen! Going over the results, I asked him if anything else might have happened to him that he didn't tell me about in the initial history taking. That was when he told me he witnessed his father commit suicide. For this person, psychotherapy was indicated for treatment. His problem was psychologically based and not neurologically based. How to get help I have 11 years experience working with the brain using Neurofeedback for treatment of a wide variety of conditions including depression. You can schedule an appointment by calling the office at 727-509-3760 or emailing thedclcsw@gmail.com or clicking on the schedule an appointment button above. It all starts with an initial consult to determine what treatment options are the best for you as an individual.  In part 1 of my blog, I previously discussed how instability of the sacroiliac (SI) joint can cause all sorts of problems in the body. That blog entry talked about how the hypermobility of that joint can cause problems such as low back pain, neck pain, headaches, shoulder pain, TMJ problems, elbow pain, wrist pain, hip pain, knee pain, ankle pain… and the list goes on.  The synovial portion of the sacroiliac joint is also known as the "boot" portion because it is shaped like a boot. What if I told you there were actually 2 parts of the SI joint? The part I discussed previously IS NOT supposed to move. The part I am discussing in this blog entry is the part that IS supposed to move. Part of the sacroiliac joint is a synovial joint. Synovial joints have synovial fluid in them, which allows them to move. Your knee, for example, has synovial fluid in it. So does the SI joint. Curiously, it is shaped like a boot and is sometimes called the "boot" portion. Since the 1920's, chiropractors doing what I do, called Sacro-Occipital Technic® have been saying the SI joint moves. Conventional medical wisdom dismissed this, but science has now shown that the joint moves. 1  One of the jobs of cerebrospinal fluid is to remove waste from the brain and spinal cord. If it doesn't circulate, it's like not taking out the garbage! Why does the joint move?
One of the functions of the movement of the "boot" portion of the sacroiliac joint is to circulate cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) throughout the brain and spinal cord. The brain and spinal cord are surrounded by sheath called the dura mater and inside that is the CSF. Conventional wisdom used to teach that the CSF was simply padding for the brain and spinal cord. But recent science has confirmed what chiropractors and osteopaths have been saying for almost a century - that CSF is vital to the health of the nervous system and the rest of the body. CSF brings nourishment to the brain and spinal cord. It also helps remove toxins from the brain and spinal cord. Picture your kitchen with no new fresh food in it and nobody taking out the garbage. Eww! Now it has been shown that it has a relationship with the lymphatic system (which also removes waste from the body). And CSF has been found to have a relationship with the immune system. 2, 3, 4 Restriction of this part of the sacroiliac joint interferes with the ability of CSF to move throughout the body, which can interfere with the processes I just mentioned above. Would you like to have a well nourished brain and spinal cord that removes toxins and interacts with the lymphatic and immune system effectively? Heck yes! That is something that I do for every one of my chiropractic patients. The nervous system exerts a tremendous amount of influence on the rest of the body. Therefore, effects of CSF restriction are thought to be related to a variety of symptoms including:
A chiropractor fully trained in Sacro-Occipital Technic®, AKA SOT Methods®, looks at both parts of the SI joint to make sure they are working properly. This helps the body have the stability it needs to function properly and the motion necessary for CSF to be moved throughout the body. This works to ensure proper functioning of the nervous system to promote health. SOT Methods® takes hundreds of hours of additional training beyond that of a basic chiropractic education required in school. This is a specialty I am proud to offer at my practice. You can schedule an appointment to get your SI joint checked by clicking above or at the Tuttle Health, LLC Facebook page. Or you can call the office at 727-509-3760 or email thedclcsw@gmail.com 1. The Sacroiliac Joint: a Review of Anatomy and Biomechanics with Clinical Implications. Harrison DE, Harrison DH, Troyanovich S. J Manipulative Physio Ther .1997. 2. Reassessing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) hydrodynamics: A literature review presenting a novel hypothesis for CSF physiology. Chikly, B and Quaghebeur, J. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies. 2013. 3. A Paravascular Pathway Facilitates CSF Flow Through the Brain Parenchyma and the Clearance of Interstitial Solutes, Including Amyloid β. Illif et. al. Science Translational Medicine. 2012. 4. Vascular, glial, and lymphatic immune gateways of the central nervous system. Engel B. et al. Acta Neuropatholigica. 2016.  Sleep is really important.
During sleep, there is all sorts of repair that goes on in your body. In layman's terms, the body shuts down from it's daytime activities and can focus on internal housekeeping. Waste and toxins are removed from the brain during sleep. Consolidation of memories occur when you sleep. But what happens when you don't sleep? All of these health promoting processes are interfered with. And that's called insomnia. Insomnia is subdivided into different types.
I have a variety of things I can use to treat people with sleep disorders. Neurofeedback Yes, neurofeedback can have great effects on sleep. And it makes sense, because it is your brainwaves that change when you fall asleep. While every individual is different, often stimulation of the sensory-motor rhythm (SMR) can greatly improve people's sleep. Chiropractic Many people report improvements in sleep patterns after undergoing chiropractic care. I myself find that difficulty sleeping can be an indicator that I need a chiropractic adjustment. Generally speaking, chiropractic increases parasympathetic nervous system activity. As with so much of chiropractic, more research is needed to validate what people have been saying for decades. Biofeedback Not to be confused with neurofeedback, biofeedback measures things that are indicative of a non-relaxed state in the human body. These are things like temperature, heart rate variability, and galvanic skin response. You can learn how to relax your body and increased parasympathetic nervous system activity by doing biofeedback. And that's good for sleeping and health in general. Nutrition Valerian root can be very effective for treating sometimes of insomnia. It is an herb and I used to take it the night before a big test or national boards when I was in school. There are other supplements like melatonin and 5-hydroxytryptophan that can be used as well. However, it is important to not ignore addressing the reasons why a person may not be making enough melatonin or why they are not absorbing the nutrients they need to create the proper neurotransmitters. That is really a topic for another discussion. Psychotherapy Intertwined with all of this is stress. There's insomnia for no reason and then there is insomnia related to stress in life. Psychotherapy can help identify the cognitions that may be contributing to the sleepless state. Insomnia doesn't always exist in a bubble. It can relate to lots of other mental health problems including anxiety, depression and trauma. That's an advantage to working with someone who is a licensed psychotherapist - they can help tease out what is what to determine the most appropriate and effective interventions. As you can see there really are a lot of treatments for insomnia that I can offer people that do not involve taking medicine. If you are suffering from insomnia and looking for help, please contact my office so that we can set up an appointment and discuss treatment options tailored to your individual needs. Image above Copyright: <a href='https://www.123rf.com/profile_bialasiewicz'>bialasiewicz / 123RF Stock Photo</a> This shows brain activity in the right temporal lobe before (to the left) and after (on the right) a chiropractic adjustment using Sacro-Occipital Technique (SOT®) which I practice in my office. The blue color indicates below normal brainwave activity as compared to a normative database and the red indicates above normal brainwave activity as compared to a normative database. Notice the absence of red color before the adjustment and the bursts of red color after the adjustment. Brain imaging is using BrainAvatar, Brainmaster Technologies, Inc. There's a first time for everything. And the neuroimaging above was a first!
The question "does chiropractic change the brain" has been the subject of 5 years of my research. Until my work, nobody had looked at live brain function and chiropractic. This video above shows the FIRST real-time imaging of what a brain looks like before and after a chiropractic adjustment. I had the exciting experiences of presenting this to others at Life University in 2014 and the Association of Chiropractic Collages Research Agenda Conference in 2015 as well as the Sherman college International Research and Phillosophy Symposium in 2015. How does this apply to patients? Let's say a person comes to me seeking help for headaches. We can look at the brain and see if there are areas that are abnormal. We can then see if those areas of the brain match the headache symptoms. We can then try interventions, for example chiropractic, and see if the brain is responding. If the brain is, then that's validation that what we are doing is helping (in addition to a person's report of symptoms, of course). If not, we can change what we are doing with a particular treatment or try something else entirely. Neurofeedback can be used for headaches. Metabolic testing and changes in diet and/or lifestyle may be what is needed to help a person. Or maybe the person is unhappy in their life and needs help in making a change. My job is to help people figure that out so that they can get better. I am excited to bring to my patients ground breaking technology and pioneering interventions. This is another part of what allows me to provide care to my patients unlike any other. This imaging was part of the firs three-armed randomized control study of chiropractic and brain function, which is coming soon to a major peer-reviewed journal near you.  Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a condition that occurs in both children and adults. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition (DSM-V) defines ADHD by a collection of a certain number of symptoms. There are the inattentive symptoms (the attention deficit) and the hyperactivity/impulsivity symptoms (hyperactivity). Some of the more common complaints I hear from parents are that their child does not pay attention, does not seem to listen, is fidgety or is not performing well academically. But it is the consensus of the scientific community that true ADHD is a brain-based disorder. The vast majority of medical doctors, including psychiatrists, do not look at the underlying brain physiology when diagnosing ADHD and then prescribing medicine. To put that in perspective, imagine you had chest pain. Causes of chest pain are numerous. A short list includes myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, myocarditis, pericarditis, pulmonary embolism, pneumothorax (collapsed lung), pleurisy, pneumonia, lung abscess, pulmonary hypertension, GERD (acid reflux), peptic ulcers, gallbladder problems, rib subluxation, shingles...and the list goes on. Imagine going to the medical doctor and having them tell you that they were not going to run any tests to figure out what was causing your chest pain. Instead, they were going to prescribe some medicine and see what happens. It seems ridiculous to even make up such a scenario, yet it is the standard of care with ADHD.  Using quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) I can "look under the hood" with my patients and see what their brain is doing. The fascinating thing is that when that is done there is not one type of brain people with ADHD have. There are actually at least 6 different variants of brain activity that can result in the same symptom! And each variant responds differently to both Neurofeedback interventions and medications. Thus, ADHD is actually not one disorder. It is at least 6 different brain disorders presenting with the same symptom. Remember the chest pain example above?
It is not just me saying this. Published studies have been done on these different sub-types of ADHD and how they respond differently to medications, such as atomoxetine. Daniel Amen, a psychiatrist who is known for doing SPECT scans of people's brains, concurs that there are different types of ADHD brains that present with the same symptoms. He is now recommending Neurofeedback as a treatment for ADHD and other disorders. Patients who come to see me for ADHD will get a qEEG evaluation done to assess brain function. They will also get computerized testing done to confirm that they actually have ADHD and help determine that they do not, in fact, have another disorder that has some of the same symptoms as ADHD. Sometimes, when I run the tests for ADHD, I discover that the person who was being prescribed medication for ADHD does not even have this disorder. People can have other problems that mimic ADHD including Autism Spectrum Disorders, sensory integration problems (often but not always related to autism), auditory and/or visual processing disorders, developmental trauma or Oppositional Defiant Disorder. I also utilize a program called Brain Dx which is a qEEG normative database developed over decades of peer-reviewed, published research at New York University. Brain Dx has a discriminant function that tells the doctor the likelihood that a brain is one of a person having ADHD. Discriminant functions in neuroimaging are not stand alone instruments for diagnosis. However, in conjunction with other testing and assessment measures, they can offer valuable insight into the organic basis of psychological problems. There are also discriminants for things like major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia, autism and traumatic brain injury. I use whichever ones are appropriate when working with patients. I have had excellent success treating ADHD. While working at the Psychological Sciences Institute, I worked with a neuropsychologist and we presented our research on ADHD at the International Pharmaco-EEG conference in New York City. In our sample of 41 people, 100% of subjects had improvement in their attention and impulsivity scores using the IVA+ continuous performance test (objective computerized test) after Neurofeedback treatment. YES, 100%. Here is a link to the poster we presented. ipeg_poster_2012_final-1.pdf. Publication of this material is in development. At the end of this blog is a list of over 100 more studies on Neurofeedback and ADHD. There are a handful of studies on chiropractic and ADHD. Most are case studies and present very limited objective evidence. However, in certain cases I have seen chiropractic be an effective intervention. I am able to provide chiropractic as a stand-alone trial intervention or in conjunction with other therapies should a patient request such. My goal is to help people get better as soon as they can. Another co-factor of ADHD can be metabolic dysfunction. This can often relate to things like gut dysbiosis with associated food sensitivities. Poor diet will facilitate such a condition and perpetuate it. Other more complex metabolic processes and neuro-inflammation can be at play and I can test for these at my office. If you or a loved one struggles with ADHD, or you think they might have ADHD, please contact me to set up a consult and evaluation. It would be an honor to help you. Here is a list of over 100 studies on Neurofeedback and ADHD, cognition and learning disorders: Click here: Over 100 ADHD studies  By OpenStax College [CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Low back pain? Leg pain? Sciatica? Often we have come to think of that as a disc problem. Your spine is made of vertebrae stacked on top of each other. Sandwiched in between the vertebra is the intervertebral disc. Discs are like padding between the vertebra. When a disc ruptures, its jelly-like contents can spill, irritating nerve roots and causing pain. Discs became popular as the culprits of low back pain when MRI's came out and you could really see the discs. But here's the catch: there are a lot of abnormal MRI's with unhappy looking discs and the people have no low back pain at all! . Turns out that discs aren't the cause of a majority of low back pain cases. What has been overlooked for a long time by the medical field is the sacroiliac joint. Chiropractors have been talking about it since the 1920's. And medicine is now catching on. Sacro-who? The sacrum is the bone at the base of the spine. It's the one people call their tailbone, although technically the tailbone is the coccyx which is one segment lower. The sacrum attaches to your hip bone to form the sacroiliac joint and your pelvis.  By Mikael Häggström (File:Gray242.png) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons  By Ldpedersen (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or FAL], via Wikimedia Commons Here's some random trivia: The word sacrum derived from the Latin word Sacer meaning sacred. The sacrum in Latin was os sacrum meaning "holy bone." The holiness of the bone is up for debate, but its importance is not - it's really important!
The sacroiliac joint has had some controversy. Chiropractors said it moved. Medical doctors said it was immobile. And everyone argued over it. It's accepted now that portions of it do move. The sacroiliac joint forms the foundation of the spine. Think of the foundation of your house. A house with a solid foundation will be solid. A house on a cliff with a bad foundation will be in all sorts of trouble. And so will your spine if if it doesn't have a properly functioning sacroiliac joint. The sacroiliac joint has multiple functions. In part 1 of the sacroiliac joint blog, I'm going to talk about the weight bearing part. Weight bearing means joints and those that respond to things like standing. The sacroiliac joint has a weight bearing part. Other weight bearing joints include your hips, knees, your ankles. The weight bearing part of the sacroiliac joint should not move (another part should move - see part 2 of this series). The weight bearing portion of the sacroiliac joint held together by strong ligaments. Problem is, these ligaments can become stretched and the part of the sacroiliac joint that shouldn't be moving starts moving. This creates instability in the pelvis --- and everything resting on top of that pelvis gets disrupted too (remember the house with the bad foundation?). The muscles of the low back and pelvis respond, tightening in an attempt to stabilize things. And there is your low back pain. It's really quite simple in these instances --- if you stabilize the sacroiliac joint, the muscles will quiet down and suddenly there isn't pain anymore. Although if the problem has been there for 10 or 20 years, the muscles will need some work too. But what else is above the pelvis? How about the shoulder. Many shoulder problems are actually reactions to pelvis problems. I had a patient in my office the other day complaining of not being able to raise their arm (frozen shoulder). I corrected the sacroiliac joint and the person was suddenly able to lift their arm. I never even touched their shoulder! What connects to the shoulder? How about the elbows and wrists. And you guessed it, elbow and wrist problems can be the result of a sacroiliac joint problem. Wild, isn't it? It gets even more crazy though. The neck sits on top of the shoulders. Yep, neck pain can be the result of a sacroiliac joint problem. What's on top of the neck? The head, of course. Tempromandibular joint (TMJ) problems or jaw problems can be (and always are related to) sacroiliac joint problems. By now I should have rocked your world. Let me rock it a little more. What about the other weight-bearing structures: remember, the hips, knees and ankles. Well they are also affected by the sacroiliac joint. Knee pain, ankle pain, foot pain, hip pain - they all can be caused by an unstable sacroiliac joint. Similarly, problems in the knees, ankles, hips, and feet can cause sacroiliac problems, but that's for another blog entry. I specialize in sacroiliac joints and love to fix them. And I mean that, I really am passionate about it. I had a patient who had been to 4 other chiropractors, a physical therapist and a pain management clinic for low back pain with minimal results. The problem was they were treating her disc and the problem was, you guessed it, her sacroiliac joint. One adjustment and she was feeling much better. Watch out for part 2 of the series on the sacroiliac joint - the part that is supposed to move. |
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