Fibromyalgia is a condition with no known medical cure. It is characterized by chronic and debilitating pain all over the body, and heightened pain under pressure. Its symptoms can cause patients to suffer from widespread pain, poor sleep, chronic tiredness and even depression. The causes of fibromyalgia are unknown. Some theories cite that the patient’s…
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Common Causes of Back Pain
Understanding the cause of your back pain is the key to proper treatment. There are many different underlying conditions that cause back pain. The more common causes of back pain that we are treat in my Chiropractic office in Springfield, VA are listed below. Don’t try to make your own diagnosis. A trained chiropractor that…
Low Back Pain: Where Is My Pain Coming From?
Low back pain can emanate from many anatomical locations (as well as a combination of locations), which always makes it interesting when a patient asks, “…doc, where in my back is my pain coming from?” In context of an office visit, we take an accurate history and perform our physical exam to try to reproduce…
Neck Pain – Where Does it Come From?
Neck pain is a very common problem that we treat at my chiropractic office in Springfield, VA. It can come from, well, a lot of places. It can come from laying crooked while watching TV, it can come from sleeping in a draft, it can come as a response to a cold or flu, it…
Spondylolisthesis – What Is That?
Abigail was competing in a gymnastics tournament last year and during one of her floor routines, noticed a sharp pain in her low back after performing a series of back hand springs. She said she landed crooked on the last of four back hand springs which resulted in immediate pain in the middle of the…