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Scoliosis is a curvature of the spine that gives it either a "C" or an "S" shape when looking at the person from behind....
11/16/2025

Scoliosis is a curvature of the spine that gives it either a "C" or an "S" shape when looking at the person from behind. I’m sure you’ve noticed when you’re at a beach, at a swimming pool, or walking in an airport, some people have a high shoulder, walk with a bit of a limp if one leg is short, or may have a shoulder blade that sticks out more than the other. Scoliosis often develops for unknown reasons (hence the term, "idiopathic") around ages ten or eleven years and can progress, not change, or (less often) improve up to age 16 to 18. During these 4-6 years, the time when the adolescent is rapidly growing, the curve often worsens without any intervention but few studies have looked at what types of treatment or combinations of treatment work the best, especially non-surgical methods.
https://drmichaelpoundonline.com/802/low-back-pain-adolescent-idiopathic-scoliosis/

The phrase, "…the power of positive thinking" has also been around a long time. Again, studies have shown that when a pa...
11/16/2025

The phrase, "…the power of positive thinking" has also been around a long time. Again, studies have shown that when a patient’s treatment plan is presented in a detailed fashion with a "positive spin" compared to when the healthcare provider seems skeptical that it might help, the results favor the positive presentation. Call it what you will – the power of positive thinking, faith, hope - it does appear to be an important part of the formula to obtain a positive outcome from treatment, any treatment.
https://drmichaelpoundonline.com/831/neck-pain-headaches-the-power-of-placebo/

Whiplash can result from a number of causes, not just from motor vehicle accidents. A fall on the ice or a slippery floo...
11/16/2025

Whiplash can result from a number of causes, not just from motor vehicle accidents. A fall on the ice or a slippery floor, a sports-related injury, or even one of those rides that throws you around at the county fair can result in the same type of injury. Whiplash occurs when the head is literally "whipped" either forwards and backwards or from side to side. It can include hitting the head but often does not. Symptoms vary considerably and therefore the term "whiplash associated disorders" or WAD has been adopted, based on the clinical presentation of the patient and on the specific tissues injured. Common symptoms include neck pain, loss of motion, headache, and sometimes arm pain or numbness resulting in difficulty driving, working, sleeping, and concentrating.
https://drmichaelpoundonline.com/821/the-whiplash-syndrome-posture-and-exercise/

Because carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is technically a tendonitis that happens to be near a nerve (the median nerve), one...
11/15/2025

Because carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is technically a tendonitis that happens to be near a nerve (the median nerve), one treatment option for CTS is to manage the tendonitis and by doing so, the pressure on the median nerve will resolve. Also, because the movement of the hand and wrist are controlled by opposite functioning muscles (that is, when we flex the wrist and fingers, the palm side tendons are doing the job and when we extend the wrist/fingers, the back of the forearm and hand tendons are doing the work), these opposite functioning actions need to be balanced. Moreover, if the muscles on one side of the forearm are tight and inflamed, the muscles on the opposite side usually are as well.
https://drmichaelpoundonline.com/828/carpal-tunnel-syndrome-3-great-exercises/

The term "whiplash" usually brings to mind neck pain, headaches, and/or a stiff neck. However, there are other symptoms ...
11/15/2025

The term "whiplash" usually brings to mind neck pain, headaches, and/or a stiff neck. However, there are other symptoms associated with whiplash that we don’t usually think of, such as ringing in the ears or tinnitus. In the absence of whiplash, there are many people who experience an occasional ringing or sound of some sort in their ears. The ringing may seem to keep time with their heartbeat or in cadence with their breathing and is more common over the age of 40 and among men. The sound can be a buzzing, ringing, roaring, hissing, or high pitched noise that usually lasts only seconds or minutes at the most. So, think of those times when you’ve noticed tinnitus and ask yourself, "…how would that affect me if that noise never stopped or lasted for hours?"
https://drmichaelpoundonline.com/806/the-whiplash-syndrome-ringing-in-the-ears/

Research clearly shows that chiropractic manipulation outperforms other forms of treatment for acute, subacute and chron...
11/15/2025

Research clearly shows that chiropractic manipulation outperforms other forms of treatment for acute, subacute and chronic low back pain. But, the question remains, can "maintenance chiropractic" PREVENT problems down the road? In August of 2011, two medical doctors published an article in a leading medical journal (SPINE) entitled, "Does maintained spinal manipulation therapy for chronic nonspecific low back pain result in better long-term outcome?"
https://drmichaelpoundonline.com/834/maintenance-chiropractic-for-chronic-low-back-pain/

People who spend a lot of time performing activities that require a high level of force or repetition, or use vibrating ...
11/14/2025

People who spend a lot of time performing activities that require a high level of force or repetition, or use vibrating tools are at risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Other activities such as driving, playing musical instruments, knitting, using a sander, screw drivers, air wrenches, waitress work, or assembling small parts are also associated with increased CTS risk. The good news is that there are ways we can reduce the risk of developing CTS. Some of these include the following:
https://drmichaelpoundonline.com/812/carpal-tunnel-syndrome-prevention/

The neck gives rise to the nerves that innervate the head (C1-3 nerve roots), the shoulders (C4-5), and the arms (C5-T2)...
11/14/2025

The neck gives rise to the nerves that innervate the head (C1-3 nerve roots), the shoulders (C4-5), and the arms (C5-T2). Hence, there are 8 sets of nerves in the neck, 12 sets in the thoracic (middle back region), 6 sets in the lumbar or low back region, and 5 sets in the sacrum, all of which travel to a specific destination allowing us to move our muscles and to feel hot, cold, sharp, vibration, and position sense. When these nerves get pinched or irritated, they lose their function and the ability to feel, making it challenging to button a shirt, thread a needle, or pick up small objects. It can also make it difficult to unscrew jars, squeeze a spray bottle, or lift a milk container from the refrigerator. Hence, the nerves arising from the neck, when pinched, can have a dramatic effect on our ability to carry out our desired activities in which shoulder, arm, and hand use is required.
https://drmichaelpoundonline.com/815/the-neck--shoulder-pain-relationship/

For many years, Chiropractic has been at the forefront of treating low back pain (LBP) with both greater patient satisfa...
11/14/2025

For many years, Chiropractic has been at the forefront of treating low back pain (LBP) with both greater patient satisfaction and less lost time at work when compared with other non-surgical treatment approaches. There have been many explanations as to why chiropractic manipulation therapy (CMT) works but many of these studies include other treatment modalities or methods and the benefits are, therefore, not clearly derived only from CMT. A 2011 study attempted to clear this up and the results were very interesting!

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is caused by the pinching of the median nerve as it passed through the carpal tunnel in the...
11/13/2025

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is caused by the pinching of the median nerve as it passed through the carpal tunnel in the wrist and can result in numbness, tingling, and sometimes pain into the hand affecting the index, 3rd, and thumb-side of the 4th finger. Grip strength weakness may occur (usually later in the process), making dropping of items and fine motor activities, like buttoning shirts, challenging. There are many approaches to the treatment of CTS, of which surgical release of the transverse carpal ligament is the most common and usually recommended by most primary care physicians when tests support the presence of the condition. But, there are more conservative treatment approaches that should be utilized first because they require less recovery time and a common post-surgical complaint is grip weakness.
https://drmichaelpoundonline.com/845/carpal-tunnel-syndrome-and-chiropractic-management/

Because many different treatment approaches are available for neck pain, it can be very difficult for those suffering fr...
11/13/2025

Because many different treatment approaches are available for neck pain, it can be very difficult for those suffering from neck pain to know which treatment approach(es) to choose. Research on this topic has revealed some very interesting information that places chiropractic and spinal manipulation in a VERY STRONG POSITION—in fact, at the TOP OF THE HEAP!
One such study looked at benefits of spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) in patients with acute and subacute neck pain. This study compared three study groups: 1. SMT only; 2. medication only; and 3. home exercise and advice (HEA). This study randomized 272 neck pain patients suffering from neck pain for 2 to 12 weeks into a twelve-week treatment period using 1 of the 3 treatment approaches tracking the results with the participant-rated pain as the primary treatment outcome measure. Secondary outcome data was obtained from other approaches. The results showed that the group treated with SMT, "…had a statistically significant advantage over medication after 8, 12, 26 and 52 weeks.
https://drmichaelpoundonline.com/848/neck-pain-manipulation-vs-other-treatments/

Patient education is a very important aspect of caring for patients. In fact, it can be one of the most important aspect...
11/13/2025

Patient education is a very important aspect of caring for patients. In fact, it can be one of the most important aspects of care. For example, when patients present with a brand new injury and pain levels are off the map, it’s quite common for that acute suffering patient to inappropriately think that, "I’m going to die… this hurts so much!" Hence, one of the very first things we do as chiropractors is to determine what structures are generating the pain so we can tell you!
https://drmichaelpoundonline.com/787/low-back-pain-patient-education/

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