Types of Headaches
Oct 03, 2009
Types of HeadachesAt my chiropractic office in San Diego, one of the most common complaints that new patients present with is headaches. To many of us who don’t suffer from chronic or severe headaches, this condition may seem a minor health problem. However, they have major implications on the affected patient and on society as a...
Repetitive Stress Trauma
Sep 30, 2009
Repetitive Stress Trauma: An Introduction Repetitive Stress Trauma or RST is described entirely by the words that make up the phrase. Repetition implies that the injury is the result of more than one exposure. Typical RSTs result from weeks, months or years of performance of a repetitive task with a specific body part. Stress is...
Work Station and Reaching
Sep 30, 2009
Work Station and Reaching:Have you ever noticed how tight your neck, upper back and shoulders are after a long day of sitting at the computer?There are a number of factors that contribute to this tightness. Simply the stress of deadlines, an overbearing boss or an annoying co-worker can make your shoulders rise up and your head push...
Chronic Pain vs Acute Pain, Whats the Difference
Sep 23, 2009
Chronic pain is defined as pain that persists longer than 90 days beyond the course of the natural expected healing time. As a chiropractor in San Diego, I get calls from both new and established patients on a regular basis who complain of back pain, neck pain, etc. One of the factors that comes into play when planning a chiropractic...
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome What to do about CTS?
Sep 19, 2009
What to do about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?Initially, treatment involves resting the affected hand and wrist and avoiding the activities that caused or may worsen symptoms. Night time immobilization of the wrist in a splint to avoid further damage from twisting or bending is often helpful. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs,...
Sep 16, 2009
How Does Ergonomics Affect You?Those of you have read my blog posts both here and at www.jonespainrelief.com/blog1 know that ergonomics is the study of how we can manipulate our work environment to both improve work performance and reduce injury-causing fatigue. Obviously, the cost of injury drives the study of ergonomics. This is a good...
Back Pain & Sitting
Sep 16, 2009
Sitting Postures and Back PainSitting is a pain in the @#$%&! Or at least a pain in the back.Our spines do not like sitting as a rule. If you remain seated in the same position for a long enough period of time you will experience some level of discomfort. Although there are many reasons that sitting eventually causes discomfort, one of...
Prognosis & Fees Personal Injuries Personal Injury Case
Sep 15, 2009
Prognosis Personal Injury Case: The need for future care and the amount of settlement for that care is based on an accurate prognosis. Due to overuse, the term "guarded" has lost most of it's meaning in the medical/legal world. We contend a more accurate system will benefit the patient, insurance carrier, representing attorney, treating doctor,...
End Points of Care Personal Injury Case
Sep 15, 2009
End Points of Care for a Personal Injury CaseIn our experience, this is often the most debated aspect of the personal injury case. The attorney is again forced to justify the length of his client's care, and thereby support the amount billed as well. The care rendered should be reasonable and fall within reasonable guidelines for treatment...
Narrative Reports for Soft Tissue Injuries personal Injury Cases
Sep 15, 2009
Narrative Reports for Soft Tissue Injuries personal Injury CasesIn our experience, this is far and away the greatest downfall in the well managed soft tissue case. We, as a profession, have become dependent on the computer generated narrative report. In our opinion, and that of the legal community as well, these types of reports often do not...
Special Tests for Soft Tissue Injuries
Sep 15, 2009
Special Tests for Soft Tissue Injuries The use of special imaging and diagnostic procedures are becoming more popular in the clinical management of patients. Attorneys will be placed in the position of justifying the expense and use of these tests to the claims adjustor or judge. The doctor should consider the following questions before ordering...
Orthopedic Supports for Soft Tissue injuries
Sep 15, 2009
Read first Well Managed Chiropractic Soft Tissue Injury Managing Soft Tissue Injury with Chiropractic Soft Tissue Treatments Personal Injury Case Frequency of Care for a Soft Tissue Injury Treatment Times for a Soft Tissue InjuryOrthopedic SupportsThe use of orthopedic supports, such as a cervical collar, during the acute...
Repetitive Stress, Treatment and One Specific Ergonomic Improvement 2
Sep 14, 2009
Repetitive Stress, Treatment and One Specific Ergonomic Improvement 1First Read http://work-injury-workplace-safety.blogspot.com/2009/09/repetitive-stress-treatment-and-one.htmlContinued.....There are several benefits to this type of design. First of all, a mouse platform that attaches to the armrest of the chair is natural and...
Repetitive Stress, Treatment and One Specific Ergonomic Improvement 1
Sep 14, 2009
Repetitive Stress, Treatment and One Specific Ergonomic ImprovementDr. Steve Jones practices in San Diego, California. This article will relate his struggles to find appropriate and effective treatment for repetitive stress injuries (such as carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, and symptoms including hand pain, wrist pain, neck pain, shoulder...
Stretching and Chiropractic
Sep 13, 2009
Stretching and Chiropractic - Try to be More Flexible in 09-10The headline of this article could be interpreted in a variety of different ways. For the purposes of this blog post it will address our physical flexibility. Flexibility is an important measure of our physical fitness. Flexibility is just as important to our overall...
Causes of Back and Neck Pain
Sep 13, 2009
The Causes of Back and Neck Pain and Chiropractic TreatmentMy Chiropractic Office in San Diego California is like many across the United States. While chiropractic care helps many different conditions, it is often viewed as treatment for back pain and neck pain. Determining the specific causes of neck pain and back pain for each...
Ergonomic Basics Defining Your Workspace
Sep 12, 2009
Defining Your Workspace: Ergonomic BasicsSetting up your office space correctly definitely requires some expert input. That being said, many aspects of setting up your office space are based on common sense.We all have specific items at work that we handle more frequently than others. In my work environment for instance, I use the mouse and...
Computers do they harm Students
Sep 12, 2009
Do Computers Help or Harm Our StudentsComputers speed our daily tasks in ways that we could not have imagined ten years ago. That being said, most every improvement in our lives is a double edged sword (pardon the cheesy analogy).Computer work gives me a pain in the neck! It probably gives you a pain in the neck too.I graduated college...
Better Ergonomics
Sep 12, 2009
Ergonomics, ergonomics, ergonomics – it is all that we hear. For good reason too! Today’s workers spend more and more time sitting at computer terminals. We try to find comfortable positions at our home and work office stations but these positions are deceitful. Regardless of my chiropractic education, without the help of a few...
Posture and Back Pain
Aug 30, 2009
Posture and Back PainHave you ever hurt your back and scratched your head wondering – how did this happen when my back has felt fine until now?Patients present to my San Diego Chiropractic clinic on a regular basis with neck pain, back pain and other related symptoms that not only lack a history of pain in that area but have no recent injury or...
Repetitive Stress Trauma San Diego
Aug 16, 2009
Figuring out what is the root cause of a Repetitive Stress Trauma is of the utmost importance. Once you have figured out what the source of that stress is, you have figure out a solution. I provide treatment for many people who simply don’t see the importance in controlling the stress that they impose upon themselves. Many of...
Picking up On Repetitive Stress Trauma:
Aug 09, 2009
Picking up On Repetitive Stress Trauma:I ended my last post with discussing the contributing factors of work duties with the development of Repetitive Stress Trauma. The reason that work is such a heavy contributor to these types of injuries is the frequency and consistency of the exposure to the aggravating activity. Most of us work...
Pinched Nerves Treatment in San Diego
Aug 07, 2009
Pinched Nerves in San DiegoYou are on my last nerve!When I was a kid my mom probably said that to me a hundred times. Now my patients in my San Diego chiropractic office complain of other types of nerve issues. Sometimes, pinched nerves accompany neck pain, back pain and headaches.Pinched nerves always result in pain traveling...
