Risk Factors For Lower Back Pain

“Top 5 Risk Factors For
Lower Back Pain”

Today you are going to learn the top 5 risk factors for developing lower back pain and reason I want to share this with you is because low back pain is becoming an epidemic problem here in Canada.

As many as 80% of Canadians will have a lower back problem at least once in their lifetime and there is a way to prevent this.

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1. Risk factor 1 Poor posture. Remember that the only way you will have poor posture anywhere in your spine is due to spinal misalignments (subluxations) left undetected and uncorrected.
2. Risk factor 2 Infrequent physical activity which is a big problem with most Canadian adults and children.
3. Risk factor 3 These are self-explanatory; being over-weight, obesity and smoking. All of these significantly increase your chance of developing low back pain.
4. Risk factor 4 Jobs that involve frequent sitting, standing, bending, lifting and twisting. These reason why is because these are the exact stresses that cause
   spinal misalignments and pinched nerves in the lower back.
5. Risk factor 5 Family history. If one or both parents have a history of low back pain, their kids are at a significantly higher risk of developing low back pain.

And the reason why is because spinal misalignments and spinal problems tend to run in families.

Here is your most effective solution for preventing lower back pain.

1. Regular chiropractic care to maintain good spinal alignment and good spinal hygiene. Good spinal hygiene means no spinal degenerative arthritis.
2. Participaction! Brisk walking for 40 min 3 times per week and learning how to effectively stretch your body once or twice a week would be sufficient for most adults. You do not need to join a gym.
3. Practicing good health habits. A good diet to keep the extra pounds off. Good nutrition and good food choices to prevent obesity. Cut out the smoking.
4. If you are a parent with a history of lower back pain, get your kids in for a chiropractic lower back examination right away to identify any potential problem.

And if you would like me to help you with this, I would be more than happy to help. All you need to do is call our office to schedule an appointment for your free initial consultation. Remember too that we also offer family appointments where I can check all of your kids at the same time.

Our phone number is 905 335 LIFE (5433).

Life Chiropractic … helping families just like yours build vibrant, healthy, drug-free lives for over 25 years in Burlington.

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Lower Back Pain And Neck Pain

Disability Cases Driven By Lower Back Pain And Neck Pain

There was a huge research study recently conducted by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) along with several other high profile health institutions from around the world regarding the impact of musculoskeletal conditions on the human population.

The findings of this research study revealed that lower back pain is the number one leading cause of disability in the world, and that neck pain is the 4th leading cause of disability in the world.

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Now, I know that a lot of you who visit this web-site suffer from one or both of these conditions and if you are the type who hopes it will just ‘go away’, or you attempt to ‘mask the pain’ with medication, maybe you should re-think things!

There is now indisputable evidence that lower back pain and neck pain are a real serious concern in our society.

So, if you are suffering from one or both of these conditions and you are not under regular chiropractic care, now is the time to start. Lower back pain and neck pain are two of the most common conditions that we treat.

And, it has been proven time and time again that chiropractic care is highly effective and is the treatment of choice for both of these conditions.

But the best thing about it …. there is no medication involved and there is no surgery involved!

All our treatments are totally natural.

And this is not just for adults. Children and teenagers often times suffer from lower back pain and neck pain and we can help them too.

To find  out more about how we can help, all you have to do is call us at 905 335 LIFE ( 5433 ) and schedule an appointment for your free initial consultation. We will also include a computerized posture analysis and feel free to bring your children along.

We can check your whole family at the same time because these types of problems tend to run in families.

Take this to heart when I say that your spine/back will either be your greatest asset as you age or your greatest liability.

And this all depends upon how you take care of it  right now ,today.

Our job is to make sure that it never, ever becomes a liability.

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Back Pain Treatment Becomes Infertility Cure

“How a Weekend of Too Much Needle Point & Some Burlington Chiropractic Care Helped a Patient’s Infertility”

This is an interesting story on how our Burlington chiropractic care helped cure an INFERTILITY problem purely by chance.

About 20 yrs ago, a 28 yr old lady came into our office with a very sore neck. She was looking for some relief for her neck and heard somewhere from someone that chiropractic treatments would help. I found out that she had spent the weekend doing a lot of needle work preparing a quilt for a Christmas present.

When she got up that Monday morning, she was in extreme neck pain — so much so that she sought out a Burlington chiropractor for relief as many people do.

During the consultation, I discovered that she was also a chronic lower back pain sufferer and was also very concerned that she and her husband had been trying to conceive for 18 months with no success.

This was a huge concern for her as she was at the age where she and her husband were planning to start their family. But, she was not in my office for anything but the terrible pain in her neck. She just mentioned the other things because I asked. She was not expecting anything but help with her immediate problem – her neck.

Now, being a chiropractor, I was immediately thinking how her spinal health ( or lack thereof ) may impact her bodies ability to conceive as they were sure that it was not her partner. Examination of her xrays confirmed that there were pinched nerves in her neck that were the cause of her immediate problem but also there was a severely pinched nerve in her lower spine which was accounting for her lower back pain.

It is interesting to note that in a female, the nerves from the lower spine ALSO control the following organs and tissues: lower bowel, ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, and bladder. What most people don’t realize is that lower back problems can also cause problems with these body parts as well, one of them being infertility. What is even worse is that people are told they then need to take medication to fix the problem !

In all my years of practice, I have rarely seen a health problem that was due to a lack of medication. I have read the statistics though — where properly prescribed and administered medication is the leading cause of death in the US and accounts for over 20,000 deaths annually in our country. These numbers are staggering !

Anyway, this lady started an a chiropractic treatment program with me and was soon noticing relief of her neck pain. She also started to notice relief of her lower back pain. The reason is, is when we start correcting a spine, we correct the whole spine. Not just where the immediate problem is.

This patient then discontinued care with me about 3 – 4 months later due to some unforeseen personal circumstances. She then returned to my office 10 yrs later because she was having neck pain – again!

As we re-aquainted with one another, she said she had something to tell me. I said ok – what do you want to tell me ? She said she wanted to thank me for helping her get pregnant and that she was the proud mother of 2 beautiful girls and that she now had the family her and her husband had always wanted.

I congratulated her but asked her why thank me? She was convinced that it was her chiropractic treatments that helped her become fertile because it was just a couple of months after she stopped her treatments that she conceived her first child. And because she had noticed such an improvement in her lower back pain that she knew her temporary inability to get pregnant was due to an unhealthy lower back.

As I reviewed her previous case history it came back to me how I initially suspected her infertility problems could very well be due to the pinched nerve in her lower back and it turned out to be true.

So, this is a story of how life truly works in strange ways – where a weekend of too much needle point, a sore neck and a subsequent visit to a chiropractor helped this person have a family !

If you are reading this and are having issues with infertility and getting pregnant ( or know someone who does ), why don’t you give chiropractic a try ? Please call me at 905 335 LIFE ( 5433 ) to schedule your FREE CONSULTATION . We will get together and discuss what I would be able to do to help.

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Lower Back Pain Story

“How A Lower Back Pain Sufferer Started Golfing Again at 70 Yrs Of Age!”

This is a story of a gentleman who barely walked into our office because he was suffering from extreme lower back pain.

His back had ‘gone out’ & he had been bed-ridden for at least 3 weeks before he made it into the office to see me. When it first happened , he went to see his family doc.His family doc told him he had a problem with his sacro-iliac joint and prescribed him some medication.

And that’s what MD’s do is to recommend / prescribe medication. But believe me, in all my 25 yrs of practice I cannot recall someone having a health problem because they were NOT taking drugs.

Getting back to this story, this patient did not get better. So he was prescribed a different, stronger drug & another & another because nothing was working. He was still in excruciating pain & could not get out of bed even to use the washroom. The family doc then arranged for a nurse to come into his home to inject him with Demerol & this made him so sick & nauseated that he said “forget it!”.

He decided to try something else.

He remembered one of his friends had a bad back & called her to get the name of her chiropractor. He knew that her back got a lot better after visiting a Burlington chiropractor and that’s where I come into this story.

This poor man barely, & I mean barely walked into my office. It took every ounce of his energy to keep a straight face & keep himself from shedding tears of pain. He could not even sit down during the consultation. He needed to stand up & lean against the wall for support.

So I asked him what happened.

He told me he just bent over to put on his socks one morning, something clicked in his lower spine & he could not get up. The pain progressed to the point where he could not move or stand. I asked him what the family doc recommended & he told me he was instructed to take pain-killers & put heat on his back.

YIKES! – I said to myself. Putting heat on something that is already inflamed & painful is the WORST thing you can do!  Heat just caused the inflammation to increase & his pain level went thru the roof !!

I immediately got him down on the exam table & put an ice pack on his back for 30 min. This offered him enough relief that I was able to examine him & his family doc was right . He did have a mis-aligned sacro-iliac joint. But drugs & heat was totally the wrong way to treat this.

The joint needed to be re-aligned. And I told this patient also that it wasn’t bending over to put his socks on that caused the problem. I asked him if he was taking care of his spinal hygiene like he was his dental hygiene. Like most others, he said “no”.

I told  him that it wasn’t his fault that no-one told him that he should be taking care of one of the most important parts of his anatomy & that I would do the best I could to help him.

I gently re-aligned his sacro-iliac joint & told him to go home & lie down with knees bent & apply ice to his back instead of heat. We followed this same procedure several times over the next 2 wks at which time he was able to walk quite comfortably on his own.

He took no more medication & was very thankful for that too because not only did it not work, but it caused him to become severely constipated which did not do his lower spine any favors either. ( the lower back nerves & the lower intestines are directly connected ).

I will never forget the day about 2 months after I first met him when he came bouncing into my office with a huge smile on his face.

I asked him what’s up & he told me he just shot a 91. I said I didn’t realize he was a golfer & he told me he hadn’t golfed for 20 yrs because of his back. But he was feeling so much better that he decided to give it a try and now he was golfing better than ever!

This patient has continued maintenance treatments with me faithfully over the past 15 yrs & still plays golf regularly at 85 yrs of age !

You see, it is an absolute must that you keep a healthy, flexible properly aligned spine for your whole life because as you age, your spine can be you greatest asset or your greatest liability.

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