This is your definitive guide to how to royally screw up your back. Far too often we share all sorts of tips and strategies to avoiding and fixing pain but today we aren't going to do that. I figured we would shake things up a bit and give you a list of things you can […]

  Recently there was a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on NSAID use during pregnancy being linked to increased incidents of ADHD and other behavioral problems in children. Its not the purpose of this article to go into a big debate about this but instead offer 3 very simple, proven, […]

If you haven't heard of foam rollers before, check this quick video out on how you can use a foam roller to help release upper back and neck tension.  This is great for all those of us who have desk jobs and wind up with a lot of the common upper back and neck pain […]

  ​ For over a year or so I have been studying and practicing meditation.  I know that for better or for worse there are a lot of preconceived ideas about meditation.  Frequently people envision Buddhist monks with shaved heads humming softly in unison, hippies beating on drums, incense and candles or some similar type of […]

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One of the most common types of questions that I get from patients each and every day is "should I do procedure xyz, or take supplement xyz for condition abc?" or some other variation of this type of question.  Anymore these […]

​ So I have been reading a new book "Body By Science" by Dr. Doug McGuff and John Little and it is incredible.  It is extremely well researched and in many ways makes some huge departures from conventional thinking when it comes to health and fitness.  But one of the more controversial claims that is […]

The new year is just around the corner and with that comes all the different weight loss resolutions.  It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that there are a lot of different ideas about losing weight.  I mean A LOT!  Sometimes much of the information is confusing, contradicting and outright crazy!  I want to […]

"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine."-Marcia […]

​ If you have back pain like the rest of the 80%, then you understand it can be a pretty big nusance at best, and downright debilitating at its worst.  What I want to share with you here are 5 of the very best tricks & strategies that I have used in my clinic to […]

  "Insanity:  Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results" -Albert Einstein If you haven't heard, the U.S. has released "New Heart Guidelines" in an effort to help with the epidemics of heart disease and obesity that have destroyed our nations health. If you're like me, your first impression might be […]