Running giving you Back Pain? – 4 Common Causes

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Runners get more than their fare share of Back Pain. The following are four Causes that I see often working as a Chiropractor in Madrid.

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Cervical Disc Hernia

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

Cervical Disc Protrusions or Herniated Cervical Discs are an increasingly common problem – especially C6. In my Madrid Chiropractic Clinic I am seeing more and more patients with this problem. The increase is due in a large part to using computers and “text neck”. The more traditional causes such as sleeping with pillows bad for your neck, whiplash and holding a phone between your had and neck are still just as common.

Cervical Herniated Disc – What should you do?

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7 Biggest Back Pain Myths

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

I get to hear some strange things about Low Back Pain as a Chiropractor. These are the 7 most common I hear.

Doing Sit-ups Will HelpLow Back Pain

There is a whole industry around core strength and its benefits but we still have back pain. It’s important to know why you have back pain to know if improving psoas/stomach/core strength will help or in some cases make it worse. For some people with herniated lumbar discs, doing sit-ups (especially without the best technique) will actually end up putting more stress on their discs/lower back.
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L5 S1 Disc Hernia or Disc Bulge

Posted on December 3, 2011 by

L5-S1 Disc HerniaA L5 or S1 Herniated Disc or Disc Bulge can be an incredibly debilitating problem. It  is one of the most common problems I see as a Chiropractor in Madrid. For most of my patients, they can get relief and return to their normal life with treatments that don’t involve surgery or drugs.
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Neck Pain and Numb Fingers

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

I have been seeing a patient who whenever her head is in a specific position the numbness in her fingers temporarily disappears. If like her you have a sore neck and some tingling or numbness in your hand or fingers then the following information might help you. You’ll discover how the two problems are connected and more importantly the best way to get them both resolved Continue reading →

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Weak Muscles

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

Causes of Muscle Weakness Include:

  • Stress or tension in the nervous system e.g. a stroke or an injury to the spinal cord. In the clinic it is an extremely common finding that when people have irritated nerves in their necks they have weaknesses in particular muscles in their arms or with irritation of nerves in their lower back that they have certain muscle weaknesses in their legs. Continue reading →
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Could Not Enough Sun Explain Your Back Pain

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

In a place as sunny as Madrid, and in summertime it’s surprising that lately I have been seeing some people with back pain or neck pain related to low Vitamin D levels. It’s a bit like working in the sahara desert and encountering patients with snow-blindness. Vitamin D is produced from exposing your skin to the sun, from drinking milk with added Vitamin d, from eating small oily fish (who needs another reason to eat the delicious bocarones available here in most tapas bars).

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Psoas and Low Back Pain

Posted on August 9, 2011 by

If you come into my Madrid Chiropractic Clinic hunched over in back pain then there is a very good chance that your psoas muscle is involved somehow. The psoas muscle is a little known muscle that is involved in bending at the hip (moving your thigh up to your chest). If the muscle is tight or in spasm then you naturally bend forward to take the pressure off it.

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Neck Treatment with Live x-rays showing before, during and after a Chiropractic treatment

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

I came across this video of another Chiropractor using an Arthrostim Chiropractic adjusting tool and wanted to share it. On the video you can see someone who has a restricted neck with little movement between some vertebra’s. After watching the tool actually free up the movement its possible to see the joints between the vertebra free up and the neck move with much more freedom.

At JL Quiropractico we use an Arthrostim on patients with certain conditions but what you’ve seen on the video can also be achieved with other tools and by hand.

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Tinnitus and Chiropractic

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Persistent Tinnitus affects about 15% of the population. Tinnitus is your brain processing sensory input from your ears and interpreting this as the ringing,crackling, popping noises that you might be hearing. The word derives from the Latin word tinnire, meaning to ring.

Chiropractic has been associated with our sense of hearing right from day one. The very first Chiropractic treatment in 1895 was performed on a patient who had been deaf for 17 years. After the Chiropractic treatment of his upper neck he instantly recovered his hearing. The explanation is that the bones at the top of his neck were breaking the connection of the nerves between his ear and his brain and that after the adjustment there was no longer a break in the connection and his hearing was restored.

Medical research has progressed a lot since then and now we know there are definite strong connections between the muscles, bones, blood supply and nerves of the neck and our sense of hearing and of course Tinnitus.

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