Welcome to our spine and joint archived articles and posts category of CSC bog. Our Joint & Sports injury category is where you can find information on joint and sports injuries. We provide an overview of the condition along with the best therapy options and home exercises. We hope they help you towards a speedy recovery.
Spine & joint treatments at CSC are through the combined efforts of our award-winning clinical teams of chiropractors & physiotherapists. CSC offers targeted holistic care for muscles, ligaments, tendons, bones, and joints through non-invasive measures for lasting relief.
Chiropractic care first is an argument about sequence rather than superiority. Conservative options are reversible; injections and surgery are not. Where both paths are reasonable, beginning with the one that can be undone costs little and can save a great deal, which is why most back pain guidelines place conservative care ahead of invasive steps.
Frozen shoulder, or adhesive capsulitis, is a thickening and contraction of the capsule surrounding the shoulder joint. It passes through three recognized stages: a painful stage, when pain dominates and sleep is worst affected; a stiff stage, when pain eases but movement is genuinely lost; and a thawing stage, when movement gradually returns.
A carpal tunnel test is part of a clinical examination for possible compression of the median nerve at the wrist. Common bedside tests include Phalen's maneuver, which holds the wrist in flexion, and Tinel's sign, which taps over the nerve. The symptom pattern matters. Neck, elbow and other wrist conditions can also mimic hand tingling or weakness.
What will your life be like when you retire is usually answered in financial terms, and the other half of the answer is physical capacity. Walking a few kilometers, carrying a bag, and getting down to the floor and back up again are the capacities that decide whether later decades are spent doing things or avoiding them.
Subluxation is a term used differently by two professions, which may be the source of most of the confusion around it. In medicine it denotes a partial dislocation of a joint, visible on imaging. In chiropractic it has traditionally described a spinal segment that is not moving in the way its neighbors do.
Knee pain treatment depends on which structure is involved, and that is established by examination rather than by imaging alone. Cartilage surfaces, the meniscus, the ligaments, the tendons and the tracking of the kneecap all produce knee pain, and each responds to something different. Treating a knee generically is what produces circular courses of care.
A physiotherapist assesses function first: how far a joint moves, where strength falls away, which movement reproduces symptoms, and which daily tasks have become difficult. Treatment is then aimed at those specific findings, which is why two people carrying the same diagnosis frequently receive quite different programs.
