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• posted: Mar. 22, 2023
• Chiropractic,  Spinal Decompression
• back pain,  sciatica,  herniated disc,  back surgery,  disc decompression,  surgeons,  harvard research,  medicine,  bulging discs

Unfortunately, more people will get back surgery in the United States today because of one VERY STRANGE CAUSE. Most people will get back surgery because THEY HAVE ALREADY HAD BACK SURGERY!!! Read More

• posted: Mar. 22, 2023
• Chiropractic
• common sense,  common decency,  common courtesy,  disrespect

Something strange and disturbing has started and progressively worsened since the onset of the Covid-19 PLandemic in January 2020. Read More

• posted: Mar. 03, 2023
• Chiropractic
• chiropractic,  health,  your health your responsibility,  chiropractic adjustment,  positive thinking,  health choices

From the moment that we are born until our last breath, health is ultimately our responsibility. Along this journey called life, we have lots of decisions to make in regard to our health and well-being. Today, information is readily available to us via the internet. Some of this information is good and some of it is not. Read More

• posted: Mar. 03, 2023
• Chiropractic
• injections,  drugs,  Pfizer,  Big Pharma,  Billions of Dollars,  drug pusher,  Merck,  Novartis,  GlaxoSmith Kline,  Abbott,  healthcare system,  Pharmaceutical

We live in an incredibly liberal society! And we use pharmaceuticals incredibly liberally. Read More

• posted: Feb. 13, 2023
• Chiropractic
• achilles tendonitis,  achilles tendinitis,  carpal tunnel,  hip bursitis,  shoulder bursitis,  plantar fasciitis,  shock wave therapy,  acousitc wave therapy,  compression wave therapy,  stem cell therapy,  growth hormone

If you have Carpal tunnel syndrome, Achilles Tendonitis, hip or shoulder bursitis, plantar fasciitis, a rotator cuff tear, a hamstring or quadricep strain, knee pain, or an ankle sprain. Find out the benefits of Acoustic Wave Therapy prior to undergoing any surgical intervention for a musculoskeletal condition. Read More

• posted: Jan. 27, 2023
• Chiropractic
• covid-19,  covid,  hypoxia,  oxygen therapy,  long covid,  treatment for long covid,  effects of long covid,  inflammatory cytokine storm,  myospasm,  neurocognitive impairment

The inflammatory cytokine storm that is the hallmark sign of Covid-19 depletes the amount of Nitric Oxide in the bloodstream and therefore allows for myospasm of the small blood vessels with resultant hypoxia (oxygen deprivation). This ends up creating neurocognitive impairment and fatigue in the long term, thus Long Covid. Read More

• posted: Jan. 02, 2023
• Knee Rejuvenation
• knee pain,  arthritis in the knees,  bone on bone,  knee rejuvenation program,  knee pain from arthritis

A statement I hear on almost a daily basis is "my doctor said my knee pain is coming from arthritis". In essence, doctors use this cop-out because they either don't know what causes knee pain or they feel they are too busy to explain it to their patients. Did your doctor ever tell you that you have a headache because you have a headache? Knee pain is an EFFECT. Arthritis is an EFFECT. Did you ever hear of an EFFECT causing an EFFECT? Read More

• posted: Dec. 28, 2022
• Chiropractic,  Spinal Decompression
• lower back pain,  spinal decompression,  chiropractic care,  herniated disc,  low back pain,  back surgery,  bulging disc,  alternative medicine,  holistic medicine,  alternative to back surgery,  muscle spasms in back,  pinched nerve in back,  best chiropractic care,  advanced spinal decompression

So why do some patients not seek the conservative, non-surgical approach to pain and wellness? Why are some patients so quick to have surgery, when alternatives do exist? This is a hard question to answer and one thing that we try to do in our practice is to give our patients all of the data about what is at stake. But with that being said, surgery can not be undone, therefore we believe a conservative approach is the best place to start. Read More

• posted: Dec. 27, 2022
• Chiropractic
• common sense,  lockdowns,  twitter files,  FDA,  Pfizer vaccine,  Moderna vaccine,  US Food and Drug Administration

If you are anything like me, you remember when someone did something seemingly obviously correct, one would say that they were blessed with "common sense". Simple things like using your turn signal when changing lanes to having your children behave appropriately in a restaurant were signs of "common sense". Such is not the case in our society any longer. "Common sense" doesn't seem to be that common. Case in point..... Our Federal Government and their appointed healthcare consultants indicated in 2020-2021 that the Pfizer and Moderna "vaccines" were 95% effective at reducing the transmission and infection rate of Covid-19. Read More

• posted: Dec. 19, 2022
• Chiropractic,  Spinal Decompression
• sciatica,  herniated disc,  spinal surgery,  back surgery,  canal stenosis,  failed back surgery,  back pain surgery,  lumbar fusion,  routine back pain,  trends in back pain management

The rate of diagnostic imaging (MRI) usage, leading to surgical intervention, has increased considerably since 2013. Unfortunately, Allegheny County has the highest density of orthopedics and neurosurgeons in the world. Our surgical clinicians perform more spinal surgeries per capita than anywhere else in the world. Mind you, this is not something we want to be #1 in. Almost as a cruel irony, none of the healthcare systems in Allegheny County are ranked in the Top 20 nationally when it comes to spinal surgery outcomes. Read More

• posted: Dec. 05, 2022
• Chiropractic,  Shockwave Therapy
• plantarfasciitis,  shockwavetherapy,  stemcelltherapy,  carpaltunnelsyndrome,  tenniselbow,  kneepain,  kneepainrelief,  stressfractures,  shinsplints,  newbloddvesselgrowth,  ExtracorporealShockWaveTherapy

Just 4 weeks ago a new patient started one of our treatment protocols for Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT) after a relatively strange recommendation from her orthopedic surgeon. She was under his care for an advanced case of Achilles tendonitis with a heel spur. Read More

• posted: Dec. 05, 2022
• Chiropractic,  Shockwave Therapy
• frozenshoulder,  acousticshockwavetherapy,  relief,  relieffromfrozenshoulder,  steroidinjections,  cortizoneinjections,  caseoffrozenshoulder,  painmedication,  cantmoveshoulder,  inabilitytomoveshoulder,  musclestrengthening,  adhesivecapsulitis

Lately, we have been seeing a lot of cases of frozen shoulder in our office. This is normally a condition that one would associate with someone who had had a lot of injuries to the shoulder or who was older, but the cases we have been seeing are in younger people. Read More

• posted: Dec. 03, 2022
• Chiropractic,  Spinal Decompression
• chiropracticcare,  reliefforlowerbackpain,  brokenarm,  understandingwhatcauseslowerbackpain,  whatcauseslowerbackpain,  arthritisanddegeneration,  decompressionsession,  decompressionisaformoftraction,  anatomyofthelowerback,  effectivereliefforlowerbackpain

There are many reasons for low back pain. They range from disc issues to pinched nerves. The type of treatment that you should get depends on the type of problem that you have. In our office, we have many years of experience dealing with the low back because we have treated many patients with these complaints. Further our office is particularly suited to help you because we have treatment tools, such as decompression tables, class IV lasers, and treatment protocols to get you well and keep you staying well. Read More

• posted: Nov. 30, 2022
• Chiropractic
• mortality,  morbidity,  healthcare,  payingtomuchforprescriptionmedications,  unneccesarysurgeries,  therapeuticefficacy,  hospitalsovertreating,  hospitalsovercharging,  risingcostofhealthcare,  allopathicmedicine,  treatingsymptoms,  suppressingsymptoms

As a country, we spend more than twice as much on healthcare dollars per person as any other wealthy nation in the world. Yet, we are literally dead last in morbidity/mortality (pun intended). Read More

• posted: Oct. 22, 2022
• Weight Loss
• diet,  weight loss,  lifestyle,  Big Pharma,  Big Agriculture,  Type II Diabetes,  Western Medicine,  lose weight,  obesity,  western diet,  metabolic rate,  metabolism,  slow metabolism,  weight loss diet

Why Weight Loss Diets NEVER work!!! Read More

• posted: Sep. 23, 2022
• Chiropractic,  Weight Loss
• halloween,  new years,  holiday stress,  blood serum levels,  cortisol,  spending money,  snacking,  holiday entertaining,  black friday,  cyber monday

BRING ON THE CORTISOL, the stress hormone that leads to weight gain and kicks the crap out of your adrenal glands! Read More