Articles

August 16, 2021

Chiropractic Care for Chronic Ankle Instability

Ankle sprains are one of the most common injuries experienced by athletes. Sprains can occur when the ligaments in the ...
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August 2, 2021

The Effect of Obesity on Back Pain

            Back pain constitutes one of the most common non-emergent medical complaints: for example, it is estimated that around 80 ...
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July 6, 2021

Thermotherapy in Chiropractic Care

Thermotherapy is a form of heat-based treatment that has long been used in sports medicine and injury rehabilitation [1]. The ...
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June 21, 2021

Migraine: Risk Factors and Management

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) Study estimates that over one billion people had a migraine ...
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June 7, 2021

Physiological Roles of Cholesterol

While much of the attention surrounding cholesterol relates to its negative association with heart disease, the molecule plays a number ...
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May 18, 2021

The Link Between the Digestive and Nervous Systems

The link between the digestive and nervous systems, often termed the gut-brain axis (GBA) [1-4,6,7], consists of three parts—the enteric ...
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May 3, 2021

Inflammation: Carbohydrates and Chiropractic Care

Inflammation contributes to many common chronic diseases, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, and various cancers [1, 2, ...
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April 20, 2021

Flexion Distraction Manipulation for Disk Pain

The human spine is composed of bones (vertebrae) that are stacked on top of each other and cushioned by rubbery ...
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April 5, 2021

Use of Gait Analysis to Assess Biomechanical Abnormalities

Walking is a motion that requires accurate coordination of a number of different musculoskeletal groups. For this reason, abnormalities in a patient’s gait can ...
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