Gallbladder Woes
One Sunday night several years ago I was sitting alone in my home in Atlanta studying for a portion of my National Board of Chiropractic Examiners’ exam and had an excruciating pain under my rib cage on the right side. I literally doubled over the back of the loveseat as I was trying to get […]
Fibromyalgia
Last week one of the members of our practice expressed appreciation for my writing a column about anxiety, mentioned the fact that a friend of hers has been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and asked if I would write on the subject. In doing research for this week’s column, I decided to present the side of the […]
Exchange In Abundance
I cannot count the number of times people have asked me why it is that members of our office staff are always so happy. “It’s just not normal for so many people in one place to love their jobs as much as the people who work here act like they do.” “Y’all must threaten them […]
Epidural Steroid Injections
There is not much worse pain in the world than lower back pain in my estimation. It stops you in your tracks and makes life completely miserable. You can’t lie down comfortably, stand up without pain, bend over without screaming in pain, or cough without thinking the world is coming to an end. Forget sneezing. […]
Environmental Toxins
In dealing daily with people’s bodies and answering questions about health in general, I get to delve deeply into different subjects in order to offer the most complete responses possible to various health concerns. The answers to many different questions point to the subject of this column. The facts are harsh, but we are exposed […]
Elbow Woes
A gentleman who has been under care for a lower back issue for a couple of weeks asked me one day last week if I would take a look at his elbow. He has been having pain in his elbow and his wife told him she thought chiropractors worked on all joints and that he […]