If you are like me, you love to set goals, spend hours on action plans to achieve those goals, and ponder on the impact and improvements you can make to yourself, your company, your family, your health, and everything else around you.
Sciatica Pain Relief Part 4: Treatment & Rehabilitation
As we gather to close out this series on Sciatica, talking this time on what care looks like in our office when someone presents with Sciatic Nerve pain, you will recognize some similarities from the previous Sciatica-related articles. That is because rehabilitation for Sciatica is similar to the self-care and prevention exercises we shared previously. So…if you haven’t taken a look at our Sciatica Pain Relief series parts 1-3, click the links below and check them out. Our goal is to have you work through those modules before seeking care. You will often find that spending a week on the exercises we shared, might relieve your pain, and if maintained with some frequency, may prevent future occurrences. Nevertheless, if you are here, are located in Salt Lake City and the surrounding area, we are here to help.
New Year - New Goals: Running To Better Health
Improved health tops nearly every new year's resolution list ever made, 2019 will be no different. From this, running comes to the forefront of our ‘get in shape’ plan because of its ease (almost everyone can shuffle one foot in front of the other, not saying it is easy) and relatively low cost (a decent pair of shoes and some running gear is all you need). While this plan seems fool-proof, there is a reason 60%+ of the people we see in our clinic are runners, new and old.
Resolve Low Back Issues Part 7: What Happens When You Need To Seek Care?
Resolve Low Back Issues Part 6: Self-Care - What You Can Do For Low Back Pain
Over the last 5 weeks, we have discussed everything from what low back pain is, most common causes, some of the most common myths associated with low back pain, and when to consider imaging studies (x-ray, MRI, CT) due to red flags that lead us to something more severe being the cause. We even covered a few tips to help when you find yourself traveling for work or vacation.
We have been building up toward the actual care of low back pain but wanted to fully educate on how common low back pain is, what we know about low back pain at this time, and help you focus on life outside of back pain.
Resolve Low Back Issues Part 4: Most Common Myths Of Low Back Pain
Few musculoskeletal conditions have a cult-like following of myths as Low Back Pain, many of which have been said by various healthcare providers across all specialties. To help clear the air, let's take a look at the 5 most common misunderstandings and myths that we encounter in our chiropractic clinic that could actually make your low back pain worse.
Resolve Low Back Issues Part 3: Most Common Cause Of Low Back Pain & What You Can Do About It.
In part one of our ‘Fix Your Low Back’ series, we discussed the 3 categories of back pain; Functional, Structural, and Pathological. As we learn about low back pain, we find that these groups interact with each other frequently. Essentially, these are medical definitions used to categorize your low back pain, but let’s step back and take a look at how your everyday actions could be the primary cause of your discomfort.
As an example, let’s say you sit at a desk for 8 hours each day. From here, you head to the gym where you like to lift weights and improve your cardio. It has been shown that repeatedly lifting heavy objects with a rounded spike (functional), can lead to disc bulges (structural). For many, we just hit the nail on the head as to where your back pain is coming from, for others, we are going to dive into the most common’s and discuss how a simple change in activity can make all the difference.
Injury Prevention For Runners: Tips To Support Your Training
As runners, we really only have 2 goals...
Run faster/farther than we ever have before.
Remain injury free.
For the last 4 years, it has been our goal at Revive Sport & Spine to be the leading sports chiropractic clinic serving the greater Salt Lake City area when it comes to running-related injuries and prevention. Having aimed for the same goals mentioned above through my own running the last 20+ years, there are few endurance sport related injuries that I have not encountered either personally or clinically.
While we field questions about running form, injury prevention, running shoes, pre-race meals, training plans, strength training, etc., some questions are better answered by those who work in that arena day in and day out.
Over that last few months, we were able to sit down with a few local specialists in sports nutrition, mental skills training, strength training, and running shoes. Our goal was to find out how each component can aid runners with injury prevention.
Current Status: Low Back Pain Care
Hamstring: Proximal Strain & Tendinopathy
Hamstring injuries can be a beast; they drag you down mentally and physically as treatment tends to draw out and disrupt your training plans and goals. They present with pain and tenderness near the gluteal fold and over the posterior thigh, making it sometimes difficult to run, ride, walk and even sit. What I would like to do here today is briefly (as a longer post is to come later) give you some basic suggestions based on research findings, what patients have responded positively to, as well as what to do about your training and overall fitness.