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Back Disease Disguised
Picture this, you emerge, slowly from your car, bracing any nearby point of contact. It’s evident that you can’t balance and walk as you normally would due to a bad back. As you slowly enter your office, a coworker stops to offer help. After that you may hear any...
Cervicogenic Headaches Are A Pain In The Neck
The Back Pain Clinic Belleville has dedicated this month to information about the range of spinal cord diseases and disorders, so that you can recognize when it’s time to see chiropractic help. Today’s topic is all too common - by headache standards - and starts when...
Disease A to Z: Ankylosing Spondylitis
We promised to cover back diseases from A to Z, so let’s start with one that’s rare, complicated and hard to pronounce. Ankylosing Spondylitis is present in only 1% of those examined; the arthritic disease can occur at any age and is usually more common in men. As...
Professional Care on the Field
Do you remember the last time you were watching your child play a sport and someone got hurt? Depending on the sport, the child and the extent of the injury, results can vary. A quick clip in a soccer game can send a grade schooler to the Emergency Room with a...
BACK to School Tip#3: P.E.
Kids are either in one camp, or the other. I’m not talking about summer camp or sports camp, but more like a “faction.” Ask any kid around the country this simple question prepare for a polarizing answer: “What’s your favorite class?” Most reply with recess; and...
BACK to School Tip#2: Training & Tryouts
Before we know it, high schools across the country are into full swing of fall sports tryouts, workouts, and practices. Although the lazy days of summer are past, students need energy to ramp up quickly to ready themselves for competitive match-ups and rivalries in...
BACK to School Tip #1: Seek Alternatives
There are a growing number of parents who are seeking alternative and natural forms of health care for their family, but there is a lot of information out there to navigate through. In the wake of this “Back to School” season, there’s just one more thing to add to...
“Got Water?” Jump into a Great Workout!
Living near water gives access to unique opportunities for a great workout. However, many aren’t so lucky. Water workouts give you the aerobic workouts of high-impact sports but relief on joints and muscles. Chiropractic care aims to keep your spine healthy - from...
For Vast Chiropractic Skills, Visit Dr. Fast
Relaxed. Mindful. Cured? These are just a few things that come to mind when we say massage therapy. The art of healing touch has been practiced for centuries. But the modern take on an ancient practice, has been combined with other therapies for purposes within the...
Spinal Manipulation: Is It All It’s Cracked Up To Be?
Does anyone remember cracking each others back at a sleepover or just before a basketball game? Your taller friend would approach you from behind, grab you in a big bear hug and lift you up in a backwards manner. Or maybe what started out as a friendly back rub turns...
Building Towards Progress – One Way or Another
So you might say the Back Pain Clinic Belleville is “under construction” or going through the remodeling process. At the heart of holistic healing, lies the idea that when we come together for a common goal, we produce a combined effect greater than the sum of...
Top 10 Reasons to Visit the Back Pain Clinic Belleville
June marks the official start to summer and the unofficial anniversary to the Back Pain Clinic Belleville, under the direction of Dr. Rob Fast. If you’ve only heard of us, but haven’t made a visit yet, check out this detailed list of reasons to call now! Top 10...
Teaching Family Fitness: What’s Your Grade?
In 1990, George Bush appointed Arnold Schwarzenegger as Chairman of the President’s Council on physical Fitness and Sports, in an effort to “ raise the consciousness of all Americans on the importance of good health through physical fitness.” The president went on...
Visit Dr. Fast for More Than Chiropractic
Have you ever sought out advice from an “expert” and had a sneaking suspicion they were wrong? Not that they were intentionally misleading, but that the advice given didn’t come from a place of expertise, but rather from a Facebook post. Ok, so maybe this practice...
Back, Neck and Heart?
Mind, heart and soul. Sound body and mind. Back, neck and heart? Not exactly a common combination, but nonetheless, they are connected. In this month that focuses on heart health – particularly the symptoms and prevention of heart disease – we offer the examination...
Cancer Patients Manage Pain with Chiropractic
Cancer patients often experience a number of side effects, caused by either the cancer or the treatment used to fight it—sometimes both. Research has shown that, in many cases, supportive therapies, like chiropractic care, may help patients manage those side effects...
Fast Relief for your Child’s Allergies
If you’re a fan of The Back Pain Clinic blog, then you know how we feel about the children undergoing chiropractic care. The news is out – more and more children are receiving chiropractic treatments, according to www.sciencebasedmedicine.org. When four-year-old...
