by Tejasvit Kour | Apr 6, 2016 | Advanced
Two Viable, Overlapping Models Anecdote Sports Team Doctor Calls the ShotsPortola Valley Physician Aims for Zero Pain San Francisco ChronicleOctober 7, 2000 Friends of Dr. Mark Sontag of Portola Valley, CA, like to joke that he’s “a man for all seasons.” A specialist...
by Tejasvit Kour | Apr 5, 2016 | Advanced
Spinal Manipulation for Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Syndrome with Radiculopathy For thirty years (since 1985), it has been acknowledged that spinal manipulation is successful in the treatment of the majority of patients with low back pain, and that “there is a...
by Tejasvit Kour | Mar 1, 2016 | Advanced
Chronic pain in the United States is an overwhelming, epidemic, problem. Of the 238 million adults in the US, 116 million suffer from chronic pain (1, 2). Quantifying the anatomical regions for American’s chronic pain shows that the fourth most common region of the...
by Tejasvit Kour | Dec 7, 2015 | Advanced
The understanding of whiplash biomechanics was forever changed in 1997. Researchers from Yale University School of Medicine performed a series of rear-end collisions on human cadavers while imaging their biomechanics with cineradiography (1). The results established...
by Tejasvit Kour | Sep 2, 2015 | Advanced
Relevant Clinical Background A literature search of the United States National Library of Medicine using PubMed (www.pubmed.gov) with the words “Arnold Chiari Malformation” locates 2,995 citations (August 14, 1015). Chiropractic clinical practice involves the...
by Tejasvit Kour | Aug 7, 2015 | Advanced
The June 2015 issue of the journal Scientific American has an article by primary care physician Wajahat Z. Mehal, MD, from the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Connecticut, and Yale University, titled (1): Cells on Fire In this article, Dr. Mehal notes...
