Posted tagged ‘chiropractic’
April 13, 2009
[originally published in KCN, November 1998]
It is not uncommon for low back pain sufferers to be told by their medical doctors not to worry, the pain will go away on its own. Unfortunately, words like these bear little comfort to someone down for the count with lumbago. Like it or not, it’s a common “truth” in the medical arena. An article published in the medical journal Spine, just over ten years ago, stated, “80-90% of attacks of low back pain recover in about six weeks, irrespective of administration or type of treatment.” More recently, back pain guidelines published out of Australia touted similar verbiage: back pain patients should be “given the assurance that they will recover naturally.” In a way, I guess this line of thinking sort of fits with our human nature and is somewhat comforting. It’s much easier to ignore the gigantic gray elephant sitting in your living room, than to face the fact that something might actually be wrong. “Maybe it will just ‘go away.’”
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Categories: low back pain
Tags: AHCPR, Anchor Chiropractic, back pain, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, low back pain, lower back pain, medical myths
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April 6, 2009
[originally published in KCN, October 1998]
It’s been tagged as the surgery of the decade. Its prevalence has nearly doubled in the past ten years. Its gained recognition as the most common peripheral nerve entrapment neuropathy in the United States. And more and more workers’ compensation claims are being filed for it.
I’m talking about a condition that is well known to many people — carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Categories: carpal tunnel syndrome, extremities
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, carpal tunnel, carpal tunnel syndrome, chiropractic, chiropractor, CTS, Dr. Thomas Lamar, extremities, health, Kingston, Kitsap, repetative stress injuries, RSI
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March 27, 2009
[originally published in KCN, April 2009]
I recently posed the following question to my patients: Suppose, for a moment, that you had to catch a cold. Now, obviously, no one in their right mind really sets out to do such a thing, but, for the sake of argument, let’s just say that your goal was to actually catch a cold. How would you go about doing it? (more…)
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Categories: adjustment, germs, healthy living, maintenance care, nutrition, smoking, whole body health
Tags: adjustment, alcohol, Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractor, diet, Dr. Thomas Lamar, drinking, exercise, germ theory, germs, health, immune system, immunity, junk food, Kingston, Kitsap, Louis Pasteur, nerve, nervous system, neuroimunology, sleep, smoking, stress, sugar
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March 23, 2009
[originally published in KCN, September 1998]
Now while it’s true that we doctors still have a lot to learn — that’s why we’re always practicing — you would think that we would have our anatomy down pat. Right? Well not exactly.
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Categories: headache
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, cervicogenic headache, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, headache, health, Kingston, Kitsap, neck pain
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March 16, 2009
[originally published in KCN, August 1998]
Our neighbors to the north have recently been shown a way to save millions, if not billions, of dollars each year on their health care, thanks to a comprehensive report presented earlier this year by Canadian health economist Pran Manga, PhD.
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Categories: chiropractic 101, cost effectiveness, finances
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, Canadian health care costs, chiropractic, chiropractic cost effectiveness, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, health care costs, Kingston, Kitsap
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March 9, 2009
[originally published in KCN, July 1998]
As my daughter, Paige, enters into her eighth month of life, it’s not uncommon for people to make a joking remark, here and there, that she has “wonderful posture” and “appears to be well adjusted” — of course that’s what you’d expect from a chiropractor’s child, right? Then the same people will ask with a concerned look on their face, “You don’t really adjust her spine do you?”
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Categories: children, chiropractic 101, subluxation
Tags: ADHD, allergies, Anchor Chiropractic, asthma, bed wetting, children, chiropractic, chiropractor, colic, Dr. Thomas Lamar, ear infections, headaches, health, kids, Kingston, Kitsap, learning disorders, subluxation, vertebral subluxation complex
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February 28, 2009
[originally published in KCN, March 2009]
Don’t worry, we aren’t suffering from an aspirin inventory crisis. No, my title for this article really has nothing to do with that. Instead, its about a concept that is so basic — so logical — that it alludes many in our population. (more…)
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Categories: chiropractic 101, subluxation, whole body health
Tags: adjustment, Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, medication, nervous system, OTC medication, over the counter medication, spinal adjustment, subluxation, symptoms, vertebral subluxation complex
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February 23, 2009
[originally published in KCN, April 1998]
No, I’m not referring to your spouse, your parent, your unruly child, or anyone else that comes to your mind. What I’m really referring to is taxes!… Seriously, what I am talking about is a condition known as coccygodynia — simply put in layman’s terms: tailbone pain. We doctors refer to the tailbone as the coccyx. This name originates from the Greek word meaning “cuckoo” because of its resemblance to the bird’s bill. The coccyx is formed by 3 to 5 fused caudal (tail) vertebrae at the very end of the spinal column and forms a joint with the triangular sacrum bone above. While most other animal tails are considerably longer than humans (the cat has about 20 caudal vertebrae) and have obvious functions such as offering locomotion (whale), maintaining balance (kangaroo), or expressing emotion (dog) — the human “tail” is nothing but a small cuckoo bill that serves only for the attachment of certain nearby muscles and ligaments.
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Categories: subluxation, tailbone pain
Tags: chiropractic, chiropractor, coccydynia, coccygodynia, coccyx, health, Kingston, Kitsap, subluxation, tailbone pain, vertebral subluxation complex
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