December 30, 2011 | Posted by Dr. Michael Weir
Back pain relief is just one component of chiropractic care, but it is often a patient’s first introduction. Back pain is horribly debilitating affecting all aspects of work and personal life. If you are suffering from back pain, you are not alone. Here are a few facts about back pain that may (or may not) surprise you.
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August 22, 2011 | Posted by Dr. Michael Weir
More and more you are seeing professional golfers use chiropractic care to stay at the top of their games. Lori West, how is a professional golfer says that the reason she is still playing golf today is because of chiropractic care. Almost 2 decades ago she visited the chiropractor for the first time and says that it immediately improved her golf game.
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April 8, 2011 | Posted by Dr. Michael Weir
One question that I hear all the time from my patients is “how does my wife or husband know if they should be seeing a chiropractor?” There are multiple ways to know if you should be seeing a chiropractor and not all of them have to do with pain and discomfort. I have developed a test for the neck to determine if you are a candidate for chiropractic care called the “head turn test”.
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April 8, 2011 | Posted by Dr. Michael Weir
Its almost that time of year again! Time for the sunshine to come out and for the flowers to start to bloom. This means getting out into the garden, and with that comes gardening injuries. Digging, bending, twisting, and pulling are all vigorous physical activities and they are all a huge part of gardening, and yet we rarly consider gardening a physical activity. “Many people think gardening as an innocuous activity, but it puts the body in positions it hasn’t been in for months-bending, sitting on the ground, stooping, working on all fours,” says Dr. Hancock, DC of Chicago.
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March 17, 2011 | Posted by Dr. Michael Weir
Low back pain is a very common problem affecting 80-90% of all of us at some point in our lifetime. Why is that you ask? There are many reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that we are 2-legged animals carrying 2/3rds of our weight above our waist. Studies have shown deterioration or arthritis occurs much sooner in us vs. our 4-legged animal counterparts. A 180 lbs man carries roughly 120 lbs above the waist. This means, every time he bends over, in order to stand upright, he needs to lift 120 lbs PLUS whatever he is lifting. Hence, the argument of, “but I only bent over to lift a pencil and my back went out,” seems on the surface as impossible but in reality, the man in our example is lifting the pencil plus 120 lbs.
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March 15, 2011 | Posted by Dr. Michael Weir
There comes that time of year, every single year, where we have to do physical activities that we may not necessarily want to do, but really have no choice. Even as I speak right now the snow was falling in Bellevue, and with snow comes shoveling of that snow. This is a seasonal activity that I categorize as “have to” activities as opposed to “want to” activities. Being that the snow is falling now let’s talk about the seasonal activity of shoveling snow. The neat thing about this talk is that even if snow is not an issue where you live, this information can also be used in your gardening, digging, or any other yard related activities.
Categories: Back Pain | Tags: back injuries, Back Pain, Bellevue Chiropractic, Bellevue Chiropractor, health, low back pain, Prevention, shoveling injury, snow injury, wellness | No Comments »
March 10, 2011 | Posted by Dr. Michael Weir
Are you currently searching for a Bellevue chiropractor? Its not always easy. You will find that there are a ton of choices to choose from in Bellevue. The question is how do you find the right one for you? The way that I find a good fit for anything is to ask the people that I know what they have done. This is not always possible so I wanted to put together a few testimonials of your peers, as they found a bellevue chiropractor.
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March 9, 2011 | Posted by Dr. Michael Weir
In my experience as a Bellevue chiropractor roughly 60-70% of people with low back pain have a problem in their feet and/or ankles that is either causing the pain in the back or at the very least contributing to it. Most of my patients have no idea that they even had a foot problem, they just know that their backs hurt. A thorough foot evaluation is an important part of every low back examination in my office to see if there is a complicating issue in the foot.
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January 19, 2011 | Posted by Dr. Michael Weir
Life is stressful. If you live, work and play in Bellevue Washington as I do you especially know this to be true. I was just driving in downtown Bellevue yesterday and the traffic made me tense and irritated. In our modern world stress comes in many forms, from job stress to family stress. All this stress is starting to takes its toll on our bodies and I see the signs of this every day in my chiropractic office. One problem that has a cause of stress is TMJ.
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October 6, 2010 | Posted by Dr. Michael Weir
If you know someone who suffers with headaches (or if you deal with headaches) you know what a horrible thing they are. Did you know that the Center fro Disease Control estimates that 45 million Americans suffer with severe headaches? You are not alone!
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