“Why Your Sore Neck Could Be Affecting Your Overall Health,” Manassas Chiropractor Explains Written by thedoc on August 19, 2010 in Chiropractic Most commonly, a chronic sore neck is a sign a postural distortion.   When a person’s spinal curves weaken, the muscles in your neck become distorted causing your head to shift forward on your shoulders.  It is a common distortion called Forward Head Syndrome which has many serious and adverse affects on your overall health

Manassas Chiropractor discusses: “Lies that Diet Products Want You to Fall For” Written by thedoc on June 4, 2010 in Chiropractic Did you know?….Splenda has now taken over aspartame (Sweet and Low) as the most used artificial sugar. Splenda is found in over 7000 products from diet soda to salad dressing

  Avoid Herniated Disc Surgery through Decompression Persistent lower back pain, tight muscles, and shooting pain from disc injuries can be debilitating.  More than 65 million Americans suffer from low back pain every year.  For some, activity, stress, or a structural problem in their spine causes one of their discs to bulge.  Discs are located between your vertebral bones and act as shock absorbers that protect your spinal cord and bones.  When injured, the discs can bulge and press on a nerve root, causing pain and irritation.  The disc will bulge and become misshapen just as a jelly donut might with pressure on it.  This pressure causes nerve irritation and pain in the lower back,  pain and muscle weakness in the legs, and even numbness. Living with this pain is excruciating and unnecessary.  It is of UTMOST importance to understand your options to relieve your pain.  Surgery can be avoided.  Agreeing to being cut open and having your spine altered could cause permanent changes in your health and body functioning.  Surgery is one of the riskiest treatments for any back pain and offers some of the worst results when compared to less invasive therapies.  Do yourself a favor and do some background research on Failed Back Surgery Syndrome.  Millions still experience back pain after surgery. So what do I recommend?  I suggest finding an non-invasive therapy to get you out of pain and examine precisely the SOURCE of the nerve irritation, then provide individualized NON-INVASIVE treatment to rehabilitate the injury.   Spinal Decompression is a technique which is widely effective in treating disc injuries and low back pain.  It is non-invasive and it is far less expensive than back surgery.  At Manassas Chiropractic and Rehab, LLC, we offer sessions on a spinal decompression table to relieve pressure on the spinal discs.  This helps the “jelly” in the donut, (the flexibility and cushion of your discs), to become soft and gel-like again.

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“Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful, And since we’ve no place to go, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” Let it Snow…..until you have to shovel, that is!  As Virginians, we all know the pleasures of shoveling after a fresh snow fall.  Dealing with wet, heavy snow; blowing snow, snow drifts, slippery sidewalks, & filled in driveways have become a part of our daily routine during the winter season. When the amount of snow fall continues to rise, so do the incidents in snow shoveling injuries