Columbia Advanced Chiropractic Blog, Body at Work

So, Why Do People Still Do Sit-ups and Like Exercises?

Low back pain is quite prevalent in our society and still, to this day, I see people doing sit-up exercises in the gym.  Be they old or young or male or female, it doesn’t matter.  For some odd reason, people still like to lock their ankles into a decline bench and then bend their bodies all the way.  Many times, they’ll hold onto a weight for an extra effect…(I have no idea why they do this)….other times, they’ll have someone throw a medicine ball back and forth with them.

So, this begs the question…do these people really know what they are doing?  What muscles do they think they are training?  What muscles are they actually training?  Are the exercises dangerous?  For that matter, are the exercises beneficial in any way?

Topic is open for dicussion…

Spondylolisthesis…What Is It??

I have been asked by a LOT of my patients who have this condition to write a blog about it…so, here we go…hope it’s informative!

Spondylolisthesis, generally considered to be an anterior slippage of parts of our vertebrae following a pars interarticularis (the region between the two facet joints) fracture or due to degenerative changes can be a very serious condition. In most all cases of the fracture type, it does not heal, and it can be a source of pain. I remember learning about this condition in school and thinking to myself, well, I’ll likely never see any of these…hopefully. I mean, how common is it to see spinal fractures? Certainly, these are are more-so orthopedic concerns than chiropractic ones, right? Read More »

The Low Back and Core Stabilization

Low back pain affects 80% of our population at one time or another.  There are many reasons why people suffer from low back pain and luckily, there are conservative means to help people with such pain.  When someone suffers from low back pain and dysfunction, my job as a sports chiropractor is two-fold.

First, I have to get the person out of pain.  Joint, ligament, disc, and muscle pain is generally caused by aberrant spinal mechanics.  This means that the joints are not working right due to a physical cause (such as an accident or bad posture), chemical cause, mental cause, or any combination of the aforementioned.  Although many people think that disc injuries are the primary cause of pain in the low back, it has been shown in the literature that this is not always the case.  Many times, low back pain can be due to joint dysfunction (facet and disc) and the subsequent ligamentous and muscular compensation.  Regardless of the cause of the pain, the job of the sports chiropractor is to restore normal mechanics to help reduce the pain in the area in question. Read More »

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