INTRODUCTION A patient sat down across from me a few weeks ago and told me she had started dreading bedtime. Not because she couldn't fall asleep, but because she knew what the next morning would bring: fifteen minutes...
Introduction A patient handed me her MRI report last week with the specific pages already highlighted in yellow, the ones with words she had looked up online and found frightening. Degenerative changes. Disc protrusion. Ligamentum flavum hypertrophy. She...
Introduction A patient came into my Oshawa clinic last month describing her headaches perfectly: a dull ache that would settle at the base of her skull by mid-afternoon, then spread forward until it felt, in her words, like...
Introduction A patient told me something last week that stopped me for a moment. She said she had been doing everything she thought was right for her spinal stenosis, stretching every day, pushing through the discomfort because she...
Introduction A patient sat in my office last month and told me she had stopped doing almost everything. No walks, no gardening, no lifting her grandchildren. When I asked why, she said she was scared that any wrong...
Introduction A patient described it to me perfectly last month. She said her legs feel like they belong to someone else by the end of a grocery trip, heavy, tingling, and weak, and then an hour later, sitting...
Introduction A patient told me something last week that I hear on a regular basis. He was doing everything I had asked of him. He was seeing me consistently for his spinal stenosis, he was doing his stretches...
Introduction A patient sat across from me last month and told me something I hear often. She had seen another chiropractor for her spinal stenosis, and the visit made her symptoms worse. She was afraid to try chiropractic...
Introduction If the first ten minutes after your alarm goes off bring your worst morning stiffness of the entire day, you are not imagining it, and you are not necessarily getting worse. This is one of the most...
Introduction If leaning on a shopping cart at your local Oshawa grocery store feels better than standing up straight in the checkout line, your spine may be sending you a very specific message.That single detail is one of...
