Can a Chiropractor Help with Pelvic Pain in Women? Sometimes, it feels like there’s a sharp boulder nudging up against the walls of your pelvis and uterine area. Other times, it’s more like a dull pressure that weighs you down. It’s hard to sit, impossible to poop, and there’s a constant disruption...
5 Totally Unexpected Symptoms of a Slipped Disc A slipped disc is when the soft cushion sitting between the backbones slips out from the stack and pushes on surrounding nerves, muscles, and joints. A disc herniation [r1] can affect the entire body, leading to some unusual symptoms you wouldn’t immediately associate with the slipped...
Treating Sciatica Pain and Hunchback the Gonstead Way Sciatica pain is generally confined to the lower back; however, it affects the entire spine. Many vertebrae in the upper and mid-back will move out of place, turn around, or swell because of low back pain that causes you to hunch your shoulders and...
Balance Problems? How a Gonstead Chiropractor Can Help Do you get the sense the world is spinning around you? Balance problems are common in a chiropractor’s clinic because they’re usually associated with pelvic or spinal misalignment. Poor alignment can disrupt the messages your brain receives from the eyes, inner ears, joints, and...
Golfer’s & Tennis Elbow Pain: What Comes Next? In Norwalk, we love our sports. Golf and tennis are time-honored pastimes enjoyed by thousands of people who live and visit here every year. But it’s not only golf and tennis that can lead to this kind of tendonitis (inflammation of the tendons). Symptoms...
Should Your Chiropractor Be Treating Headaches? A Gonstead chiropractor can treat various conditions, including chronic headaches, migraines, fibromyalgia, and other chronic pain syndromes. When treating headaches, a Gonstead chiropractic care provider can pinpoint areas in your spine likely contributing to or causing the problem. They’re a tremendous asset to your headache...
Should You Get A Standing Desk for Back Pain? We do it all the time. We do it while driving, working, eating, watching TV, waiting for appointments, and even while going to the bathroom. We sit constantly, and because of too much sitting, symptoms of neck and back pain worsen. Back pain...
7 Uncomfortable Questions For and From Your Chiropractor When you’re looking for a new chiropractor, you’ll have to be ready to face some uncomfortable questions. Sometimes, you’ll have to discuss your sexual health. It’s usually awkward for a few moments, but the information is valuable in helping your chiropractor develop...
Lower Back and Gut Pain: Are They Related? You have a second brain. If that's not the coolest thing you've read today, you should take a nap and wake up to reread it. Not many people realize they can see a chiropractor for back and gut pain. They are related systems, and...
Had an Accident? What Type of Doctor do you Need? For accident injuries, the type of doctor you see will depend on the extent of your injuries. One of three things will happen after an accident: You walk away without any injuries, You sustain mild-to-moderate injuries that require a visit to urgent care or a trip to your primary care doctor’s office,...