Sports Injury Chiropractor in Westerville OH: Getting You Back to the Thing You Love
Two patients came in within the same month with the same specific fear: that the window they had been working toward was about to close. One was a professional tennis player. Six weeks into the early-career tournament season, ranked, with a specific US event that...
Chiropractic for Shoulder Pain: More Than Adjusting Your Spine
When people think about chiropractic care for shoulder pain, they often picture an adjustment to the cervical spine and call it a day. The reality is more comprehensive than that, and for many of the shoulder presentations I see, the cervical spine is only part of the...
Shockwave for Shoulder Tendinopathy: The Conservative Path That Works
You have been dealing with this shoulder for months. It gets better with rest. It comes back the moment you start using it again. Anti-inflammatories take the edge off for a while and then stop working. If you had a cortisone injection, it helped the first time and...
Shockwave Therapy vs. Cortisone Injection: When the Shot Stops Working
She thought she had found the answer after the first injection. She was a physical therapy assistant, someone who understood musculoskeletal care better than most patients walk in with. The cortisone injection to her wrist worked. The pain reduced, she could do her...
Bulging
You got an MRI. The report says "bulging disc" or "herniated disc," possibly with additional language like "protrusion," "nerve root impingement," or "mild to moderate stenosis." And now you are trying to figure out whether those words mean surgery is in your future....
Low Back Pain vs. Sciatica: How to Tell the Difference and Why It Matters
People use the word "sciatica" to mean a lot of things. Some use it correctly, to describe radiating leg pain originating from nerve root irritation in the lumbar spine. Others use it interchangeably with low back pain. Others have been told by a provider, a family...