My Wrists Hurt, Can A Bellevue Chiropractor Help Me?

“My name is Bill, and I work in the marketing department for Microsoft. Over the past three months I’ve been noticing that my day-to-day activities such as buttoning my shirt, opening the milk jug, and caring my briefcase are becoming increasingly difficult due to the pain that they cause.it seems as though the pain in my wrist and hand his worst when I’m at work, working on the computer. The pain is becoming so bad, that I am now worried that I will not be able to continue my job duties if it does not go away.what should I do?”

Dr. Michael Weir Gives You A Step By Step Guide How To Use Facebook To Stay Or Get Healthy

Over the past 5 years the popularity of social sites like facebook, and twitter has exploded. Did you know that in October of 2007 the active users on facebook (which means that they “logged on” to their facebook page regularly) was 12 million, and today the active users is up to 500 million! Most every one has one of these pages to connect with family, friends and classmates. As a doctor I wanted a way to connect with my patients to share tips on how to stay healthy and keep their spines in tip top shape, so I created a facebook page for my practice (you can visit it by searching for Back in Action Chiropractic on your facebook). I also want to share with you in 3 easy steps how you can utilize facebook to help you stay as healthy as possible.

How Can I Tell If My Feet Are Involved In My Low Back Pain?

As a Bellevue Chiropractor I have found that 60-70% of the people that suffer with low back pain also have some sort of dysfunction in their feet. This dysfunction, over time, can create and be the very cause of the pain in their back. The vast majority of my patients who present this way have no idea that there is anything wrong in their feet, they just know that they have back pain! In my office I use a digital foot scanner, and biomechanical testing to evaluate every low back pain patient for this problem, and complication

Can A Bellevue Chiropractor Help With Fibromyalgia?

Do you wake up feeling tired, washed out, and dragged down? Do you have generalized pain throughout your body that doesn’t seem to respond to anything you’ve tried? Do you wake up multiple times a night and fight getting back to sleep? These are classic symptoms of fibromyalgia (FM). However, when caught early and treated appropriately, FM can resolve or at least be controlled. As a Bellevue chiropractor I have found that chiropractic care and management of fibromyalgia is very effective and is becoming increasingly popular among FM sufferers. The goal of managing FM is to return you to a productive, enjoyable lifestyle allowing you to function and perform all of your desired activities.

Advances in Technology and Chiropractic

If 40 years ago I had told you that one day you would be able to go to the dentist and have no pain, you probably would have laughed at me. The thought of a doctor performing a surgery by watching a TV and moving computerized arms was unheard of not all that long ago. But, here we are 2010, and all these things are here! The same is true for how technology has influenced the field of chiropractic today.

Is Your Chiropractor a Mechanic?

Gravity is a constant force on the body if we like it or not. Every day that you get out of bed, the pull of gravity is acting as a stressor on your body. It pulls on the joints, the ligaments, the muscles, tendons, organs…every part of your body. As we get a little older this stress starts to take its toll on the body, especially the joints. One name that we put on the consequences of this stress is arthritis.

Bellevue’s Car Accident Chiropractor

Driving on the highways in my home town in Bellevue WA, car accidents on the side of the road are a normal occurrence. What most people do not know is how hard a car accident can be on the body. Listen to this quote from the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology from 2001, “Whiplash injuries not only increase the incidence of chronic neck and shoulder pain, it also significantly increases the incidence of other systemic ill health effects. In other words,whiplash injuries cause more than neck pain and headache, it hurts the health of the entire body.”

Back Injury’s In Bellevue.

There comes that time of year, every single year, where we have to do physical activities that we may not necessarily want to do, but really have no choice. Even as I speak right now the snow was falling in Bellevue, and with snow comes shoveling of that snow. This is a seasonal activity that I categorize as “have to” activities as opposed to “want to” activities. Being that the snow is falling now let’s talk about the seasonal activity of shoveling snow. The neat thing about this talk is that even if snow is not an issue where you live, this information can also be used in your gardening, digging, or any other yard related activities.

Did You Know That Your Computer Can Give You A Pain in the Neck?

Being a Bellevue chiropractor, and after seeing thousands of patients over the years, I have begun to see certain patterns in certain groups of patients. For instance, woman who wear high heels for many years have a VERY high likely hood they will have low back pain. Another one is people who have computer jobs all have very similar neck and back problems, and their necks all have a certain look to them. This has become so common in the city that I practice, Bellevue WA, because of the many computer jobs, that I have coined the term “Bellevue Neck”.