Thumb sprain Repetitively picking your little one up can sprain your thumbs. What’s a sprain? Sprains occur when we overstretch our ligaments, since ligaments are noncontactile tissue, they don’t have extensibility. If you put excessive stress on them, some of the fibers will start tearing. That’s what we call a sprain. Once you sustain a…
Category: Neck/Back/Spine
Importance of rehabilitation during pregnancy
Besides many, one of the most common complaints that you can hear from a pregnant women is “my back hurts.” Some factors that can create back pain during pregnancy are losing muscle mass, postural changes, developing baby and hormones. Even though, soon-to-be-mom cannot do much about losing muscle mass, and certainly cannot control hormonal surges and…
My sports bra: Causing my neck tightness and pain?
We all prefer sports bras during our workouts due to extensive support (less jumping, no spilling and shifting), you can sweat in your sports bra and it allows more motion than your daily bra since it doe not have wires and a tight strap passing behind your back. As many females may think a workout…
Decision making for surgery has been made a bit easier..
Most of the time, we do not get to speak to our doctors enough to obtain adequate information about a condition, diagnosis or whether having or not having surgery is a good option. What do we do? We search online, we ask others who underwent similar surgery, and try to make a decision. There is…
Is my bag causing my back pain?
Make up kit, planner, keys, hand lotion and sanitizer, sunglasses, perfume, business cards, hair brush are some of the items that can cause your purse to get very heavy. If you are one of those people, who carries a big purse to work everyday then I have news for you! Did you know improper walking…
Pilates for Low Back Pain?
This week we are going to talk about a research article: Effectiveness of Mat Pilates or Equipment-Based Pilates Exercises in Patients with Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial published by Mauricio Antonio da Luz Jr, Leonardo Oliviera Pena Costa, Fernanda Ferreira Fuhro, Ana Carolina Taccolini Manzoni, Naiane Teixeira Bastos Oliveira, Cristina Maria Nunes…
Can driving contribute to your back pain?
Correcting sitting posture and establishing good ergonomics in work place has been a hot topic for the past years. As we sit upright at our desks, we forget to apply this principle and habit to other settings such as driving. Many of us drive minimum of 1-2 hours a day. Once you observe other drivers…
Why do we all suffer from back and neck pain?
Couple reasons to why many of us suffer from low back pain are trauma, poor posture, poor lifting biomechanics, prolonged positions that pushes our body to its limits such as sitting 8 hours a day at work. Low back pain can also be unilateral meaning one-sided. Our pelvis is made up of three bones. Each…
High Velocity Low Amplitude Thrust (HVLAT)
Spinal manipulation or High Velocity Low Amplitude Thrust (HVLAT) is commonly used by Chiropractors, PTs and some MDs. HVLAT is shown to produce therapeutic benefits that are biomechanical, muscular reflexogenic, and neurophysiological in nature1. Biomechanical effects of HVLAT are gapping in facet joints2. Distraction in the joint causes cavitation, which increases joint space. Therefore, it…
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