Post-Surgical Rehabilitation: Recovering Strength and Function After Surgery Surgery is often only one step in the recovery process, the far more challenging and often underestimated part of your recovery is you rehabilitation. Whether it is a hip replacement, knee replacement, rotator cuff repair or spinal surgery, the procedure addresses...
Exercise as Medicine One of my professors at university had a great analogy for how exercise can be used as medicine: “If I were to put my hands around your throat and squeeze, within a few seconds, you will quickly realise that air is essential for life. If I...
When your hips don’t lie (but they do ache). In my clinical experience, a lot of people I have met over the years do not fully understand osteoarthritis of the hip joint. Well, many don’t understand osteoarthritis itself, often confusing it with rheumatoid arthritis. In this blog post, my...
Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilisation Techniques I know what you are thinking, why is a Chiropractor talking about soft tissue therapy? I know a lot of people think all Chiropractors do is “crack backs” and call it a day, right? Well, this is where Spriggs Chiropractic is different to...
What is Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH). Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis or DISH, also known as Forestier’s disease, is a condition characterised by the gradual stiffening and hardening of ligaments and tendons in the spine and other areas of the body. The process of ligament hardening is called calcification and...
What Are Trigger Points? In my daily clinical practice, the vast majority of patients have tight and achy muscles that cause pain and restrict the movement of their joints. Muscles are complex structures within the human body that play a fundamental role in movement, stability, and support. They work...
What is pain? On the surface, this seems like a strange question and one with a simple answer. Pain is the noxious and unpleasant sensation experienced as a result of trauma. Whilst this is true for acute pain, or an acute (recent) trauma, we must also consider the more...
What is a Chiropractor? The question “What is a chiropractor?” has come up several times recently in the clinic. I have been asked this question throughout my career by patients, friends, family and other healthcare professionals, and it is a good question to ask. I have addressed questions regarding...
Leg length inequality, scoliosis, and back pain… what a title, and where shall we begin? It is common for chiropractors and other manual therapists to tell their patients that they have one leg shorter than the other, but what is the impact of a shorter leg on the spine?...
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