Fascial Adhesions Lead to Chronic Pain: Solutions to a Cheerleading Accident

Cheerleader Injures Neck Fascia

Although Cassie’s case was extremely common as far as what was wrong with her (FASCIAL ADHESIONS caused by SEVERE TRAUMA had caused unbearable neck pain, back pain, shoulder pain, and headaches), the mechanism of her injury was anything but. At age 11, she had been invited to be part of an elite cheer-squad, made up […]

years of post-surgical neck pain solved in a single visit

POST-SURGICAL CHRONIC NECK PAINSOLVED IN A SINGLE VISIT!   Imagine a life of CHRONIC UNRELENTING PAIN.  Imagine a life lived from a PILL BOTTLE.  Imagine a life of being unable to do the things you’ve always loved, including taking care of your family.  Now imagine that this is what you can look forward to for […]

chronic neck pain, headaches, and whiplash: what does the latest research say?

Headache, Whiplash and Neck Pain Research

WHAT DOES THE LATEST RESEARCH ON NECK PAIN, HEADACHES, AND WHIPLASH REVEAL? “Neck pain is the most common musculoskeletal pathology second only to low back pain. It is the fourth largest contributor to global disability with its prevalence ranging between 30 to 71% of the general population. Two thirds of adults are affected by neck […]

woman drives from colorado for relief of chronic neck pain / tos

COLORADO CHRONIC NECK PAIN RELIEFIN MOUNTAIN VIEW, MISSOURI   To look at Kim the first time you meet her, not only would you not think there was anything wrong with her, but in the fourth decade of life she looks like the picture of health. She hides her pain well.  Almost thirteen years ago Kim […]

relief from chronic neck and upper back pain

CHRONIC PAIN RELIEFUPPER BACK AND NECK   It was nearly ten years ago that I first saw Anthony, who had come to me after he could no longer put up with the pain in the right side of his mid and upper back.  To give you an idea of how bad things had gotten for […]

chronic pain from falling out of a barn solved with tissue remodeling

ADOLESCENT HAS CHRONIC NECK PAIN & HEADACHES FROM FALLING OUT OF A BARN LOFT ONTO HIS FACE…SOLVED IN ONE TREATMENT!   I first met Tyler when he was a little kid and I was the AWANA game guy.  He was a fun kid with a streak of orneriness.  About four years ago his mom told […]

the latest on chronic neck pain, chronic headaches, and whiplash

 Back in June a team of Swedish researchers put together a study for the Journal of Pain Research titled Exploring Patients’ Experiences of the Whiplash Injury-Recovery Process.   Knowing what we already know about recovery from whiplash injuries (OVER 50% OF THOSE INJURED — MOSTLY WOMEN — WILL DEAL WITH CHRONIC SYMPTOMS FOR THE REST OF […]

chronic pain after logger is crushed by a tree

logging accident

CHRONIC NECK PAIN FROM INJURED FASCIATISSUE REMODELING DRAMATICALLY IMPROVESTHE LIFE OF A LOCAL LOGGING ACCIDENT SURVIVOR In many ways TR has lived the life of a Hollywood stuntman.  Case in point, he had just finished doing the video below and was at the front desk taking care of his visit (his third — the first […]

fascia research: the temporoparietal fascia

The Temporoparietal Fascia, Neck Pain, and Headaches

The Temporoparietal Fascia and Your Neck Pain and Headaches StatPearls describes itself as providing “peer-reviewed and PubMed-indexed review articles” created for the express purpose of helping healthcare professionals “identify knowledge deficits and quickly review to acquire or refresh medical knowledge…. to provide health professionals with the educational tools needed to identify weaknesses and stay current.”  They […]

low back pain and the differences between muscle and fascia in nociception

Muscle or Fascia Which is Responsible for Your Pain? When we look at the THREE TYPES OF PAIN, Type I (simple nociception) is not only the most common, but is also the type that people have the best chance of recovering from (see link).  Not to be confused with PROPRIOCEPTION (extremely important in fascia, and […]

simple self-test for adhesed fascia in the cervical spine

CHRONIC NECK PAIN?A SIMPLE SELF-TEST FOR HELPING DETERMINEWHETHER CERVICAL FASCIA MIGHT BE THE CULPRIT After describing the “paucity of soft tissue education” in our nation’s chiropractic colleges, the profession’s leading authority on connective tissues, Dr. Warren Hammer (he’s been in practice for over sixty years), stated in the new issue of Dynamic Chiropractic (Soft Tissue […]

potential solutions for those of you struggling with chronic neck pain

chronic neck pain

CHRONIC NECK PAIN SOLUTIONS: ADDRESSING THE CHEMICAL, MECHANICAL, AND STRUCTURAL CAUSES OF PAIN   When it comes to CHRONIC NECK PAIN there are three chief underlying sources of that pain…… CHEMICAL:  Inflammation is the name given to a group of chemical mediators that help cells and tissues communicate with each other (HERE).  While needed for […]

maintenance… really?

According to Webster’s, the definition of ‘Maintenance’ is “The act of maintaining: the state of being maintained: support.  The upkeep of property or equipment.”  Wikipedia put it this way….. “Maintenance involves operational and functional checks, servicing, repairing or replacing of necessary devices, equipment, machinery, building infrastructure, and supporting utilities in industrial, business, governmental, and residential […]