Lakeview Chiropractic & Acupuncture Wellness Centre

Lakeview Chiropractic & Acupuncture Wellness Centre We provide the best and latest in chiropractic technology and treatment options. We emphasize mainta

We are proud of our office, which fully utilizes state of the art equipment. We emphasize maintaining existing healthy muscles and ligaments, while relieving pain whenever possible. Our team emphasizes comprehensive quality care and progressive chiropractic care. Our friendly and competent staff is dedicated to your comfort and quality of care throughout your visits.

The two questions I ask before any nerve planCompressed or sensitized?And where exactly is the bottleneck?Everything els...
10/16/2025

The two questions I ask before any nerve plan

Compressed or sensitized?

And where exactly is the bottleneck?

Everything else flows from those two answers. Patients walk in saying "pinched nerve" but that phrase lumps together two completely different problems that need opposite approaches.

Compression means something's physically squeezing the nerve - bone spur, herniated disc, tight muscle. Sensitization means the nerve is inflamed and firing pain signals even without direct pressure on it.

Treatment paths split immediately.

Compressed nerves respond to creating space... traction, specific adjustments, postural changes. Sensitized nerves need nerve glides, gentle movement, and patience while inflammation calms down.

But the second question matters just as much.

Where's the actual interference happening?

Your hand goes numb, everyone assumes it's your neck. Could be. But if the real bottleneck is at your shoulder or elbow, all that neck work accomplishes nothing.

I've treated patients who spent months on the wrong section of their arm because nobody mapped the actual compression site.

So before building any plan, I test for both answers. Manual tests show compression. Movement patterns reveal sensitization. Nerve tension tests locate the bottleneck.

Once I know compressed vs sensitized AND the exact location... the treatment becomes straightforward. Nerve glides for sensitization, space-creating work for compression, everything targeted at the actual problem site.

Treatment fails when practitioners skip these diagnostic steps and just guess.

Have you dealt with nerve pain that didn't respond to treatment? Comment below - curious what approach was tried.

What consistent improvers did differentlyAcross my caseload with stenosis and disc degeneration, I started noticing some...
10/15/2025

What consistent improvers did differently

Across my caseload with stenosis and disc degeneration, I started noticing something.

Not in their diagnosis or their initial pain levels... but in what they did between appointments.

The people who showed steady improvement over months weren't doing anything dramatic. They shared three specific habits that most of their previous providers never mentioned.

Micro breaks every 30 minutes.

Not elaborate stretching routines. Just standing up, walking ten steps, resetting posture. This single behavior prevents the cumulative spinal load that makes degenerative conditions progressively worse throughout the day, especially if you sit for work.

Hip hinge strength work twice weekly. Most people bend from their lower back when picking things up or leaning over a counter, which compounds disc stress with every repetition. Training the hip hinge movement protects the spine during hundreds of daily tasks that involve bending forward.

And here's the one that really changed outcomes: a walking ceiling they respected, then raised gradually.

They'd track how far they could walk before pain increased. Then they stayed 20% under that number for two weeks while their spine adapted. After that adaptation period, they'd raise the distance by 10%. No heroics or pushing through pain. Just progressive loading their body could actually handle.

None of these patients were told to do all three things by previous providers.

Some were told to rest completely, which led to deconditioning. Others were pushed to "work through the pain," which made things worse. The consistent improvers found this middle path on their own after months of trial and error.

When I started recommending this combination deliberately, the improvement rate changed. Not miraculously, but measurably.

The people who tracked these three habits on a calendar showed better functional outcomes at 90 days than people who only came in for treatment without changing daily patterns.

This isn't about replacing treatment... it's about supporting what your body is trying to do between appointments.

Your spine adapts to what you ask of it repeatedly. If you repeatedly stress it past its current capacity, it breaks down further. If you repeatedly give it manageable load with recovery time, it builds capacity upward.

Most people with chronic back conditions swing between doing too much and doing nothing.

The improvers stayed in the middle zone long enough for their tissues to actually change.

Set a 30-minute timer while you're working. Stand up when it goes off, even if you feel fine. Especially if you feel fine.

Learn the hip hinge movement and practice it twice a week with light resistance. You can find demonstrations online, but the key is feeling the load shift from your lower back to your glutes and hamstrings.

Track your walking distance. Find where your pain starts to increase, then walk 20% less than that for two weeks. Then add 10% and repeat.

No single habit creates the change. The combination does.

I've seen people improve with just treatment and no habit changes, but it takes longer and the results are less stable. I've also seen people plateau in treatment until they added these habits... then suddenly progress.

Your body responds to patterns. Give it one that supports healing instead of fighting it.

Have you noticed specific habits that helped your back condition improve? Drop a comment if you've found something that actually moved the needle.

10/13/2025

Happy
Thanksgiving to everyone!!

From lecture to outcome with one skill shift.I stopped treating evidence like a library chore and turned it into a bedsi...
10/10/2025

From lecture to outcome with one skill shift.

I stopped treating evidence like a library chore and turned it into a bedside habit.

For years, I'd read studies when I had to... when someone questioned my approach, when I was preparing a case, when guilt crept in about not staying current. Evidence lived in journals, care lived at the table, and the two barely spoke to each other.

That changed when I started doing lit triage before my clinical day.

Just 10 minutes scanning abstracts for patterns that matched what I was seeing with patients. Not to overhaul my entire approach or suddenly become a research scholar, just to test one small change per week based on what the current evidence suggested.

I'd tweak an adjustment technique after reading an RCT. Modify my patient education after a systematic review caught my attention. Change how I tracked outcomes based on measurement tools I hadn't considered before.

Small tests of change.

Within a month, my care became cleaner and more consistent. I could explain my clinical reasoning without scrambling for references I half-remembered from school or defaulting to "this is just how I was taught."

The R25 education grants that funded evidence-based curricula at chiropractic institutions back in 2005 laid important groundwork for this shift, and the growing body of RCTs supporting manual therapies gives us more to work with than ever before... but the real transformation happens when you make evidence review a daily practice instead of just a graduation requirement you checked off.

You don't need to memorize every study.

You need the habit of asking: what does current evidence suggest, and how can I test that with my next ten patients?

That's the skill shift. From lecture hall to treatment room, from theory to outcome.

What's one small change you've tested in your practice based on something you read recently? Comment below if you're applying evidence in real time, I'd love to hear what's working.

What brain scans show after an adjustmentResearchers hooked people up to EEG monitors and measured brain activity before...
10/09/2025

What brain scans show after an adjustment

Researchers hooked people up to EEG monitors and measured brain activity before and after a single spinal adjustment.

Haavik and Lelic published what they found.

20% change in prefrontal cortex function. That's attention, coordination, and how your brain processes movement signals from your body.

And it happened within minutes of the adjustment.

I'm bringing this up because most people think chiropractic care stops at back pain, but the peer-reviewed literature tells a completely different story about what's measurable in brain function.

Your spine contains over 100 joints that constantly send signals to your brain... when those joints lock up or stop moving the way they should, that stream of information drops off and your brain has to compensate by working harder to maintain the same level of function.

Studies documented improvements in migraines, balance (especially in older adults), and even that specific spinning-room dizziness called BPPV.

One research paper tracked medical costs and found people receiving chiropractic care spent 40% less on healthcare overall.

Not because chiropractic replaces medical care.

Because restoring proper nervous system function through spinal adjustments seems to reduce how often people need intervention for other issues.

I spend time reading this research and translating it because there's a massive gap between what's documented in studies and what most people know is even possible with conservative care.

Like or comment if you've experienced something health-related improve after starting chiropractic care that surprised you... I'm curious what shows up most often in real life versus what the studies focus on.

A six week posture plan that sticksHere's what most people get wrong.They try to fix their posture by pulling their shou...
10/08/2025

A six week posture plan that sticks

Here's what most people get wrong.

They try to fix their posture by pulling their shoulders back and sitting up straighter, but that lasts about 14 minutes before their body says "nope" and slouches right back down.

Because posture isn't really about position. It's about capacity.

Week 1-2 → Breathing and scapular awareness
If you're taking shallow chest breaths all day, your ribcage is locked up and your neck muscles are doing work they shouldn't. Before you can hold better alignment, you need to restore the foundation that allows it.

Week 3-4 → Hip hinge quality and extension
Most forward head posture starts below the neck. When your hips can't extend properly or you've lost the ability to hinge well, your spine starts compensating upward and your head drifts forward to balance the whole system.

Week 5-6 → Load tolerance and walking patterns
This phase makes everything stick. You're not just practicing positions anymore, you're moving through space with weight and real-world variables.

Chiropractic care speeds things up during weeks 2 and 4, specifically when joints get stuck and block your nervous system from learning new patterns.

If pain doesn't improve by week 3, or if numbness shows up, that's when medical imaging makes sense.

The six week timeline matters because your nervous system needs repetition over time to rewire default patterns. Rush it and you'll default back within a week.

Like this if you're done guessing and ready to follow something that respects how your body actually adapts.

Manual therapy now has growing RCT support.And that's changed how I build treatment plans.For years the research lagged ...
10/07/2025

Manual therapy now has growing RCT support.

And that's changed how I build treatment plans.

For years the research lagged behind what we did clinically. Now we've got randomized controlled trials backing several manual approaches for specific conditions, with decent safety signals across multiple studies.

Not everything has solid evidence yet. But enough does that I can have real conversations with patients about what works and what we're still figuring out.

What I use regularly:

Spinal manipulation for acute low back pain... multiple RCTs show short-term benefit, safety profile looks favorable compared to other options.

Mobilization when someone has neck pain with clear movement restrictions. The literature supports targeted manual techniques here.

Soft tissue work when muscle tension is obviously part of the problem.

What I skip:

Anything where imaging points to surgical need. Manual therapy isn't the answer for every back or neck issue, and pretending otherwise does nobody favors.

Cases where the evidence is weak or all over the place. If five studies show conflicting results, I'm honest about that uncertainty.

Here's where it gets interesting.

Some chronic conditions have limited high-quality trials. When a patient presents with something in that gray zone, I explain exactly what we know and what we don't. We might try a short course of treatment, but I'm upfront about working in an evidence-thin area.

The 2005 education grants to four chiropractic institutions helped accelerate this shift... more research infrastructure meant better studies over time, which benefits practitioners and patients equally.

Evidence-based practice requires two things happening simultaneously: providers who can read research critically and actually having quality research to read. We've made progress on both fronts. Still have gaps.

I'd rather acknowledge where the evidence runs thin than oversell what manual therapy can do.

Seen this shift in how complementary approaches use research? Drop a comment if you've noticed the conversation changing.

Sitting all day? Follow the 20-20-20 rule: every 20 minutes, stand up and move for 20 seconds. Your spine will thank you...
10/06/2025

Sitting all day? Follow the 20-20-20 rule: every 20 minutes, stand up and move for 20 seconds. Your spine will thank you!

A large claims analysis found people who included chiropractic in their care pathway had about 40 percent lower spine re...
10/03/2025

A large claims analysis found people who included chiropractic in their care pathway had about 40 percent lower spine related costs.

That's a big number.

But here's what it actually means... and what it doesn't.

The study tracked thousands of patients dealing with spine issues, and those who saw chiropractors alongside their other healthcare providers spent significantly less on overall spine care. We're talking real money here - the kind that shows up on insurance statements and medical bills.

Now, before anyone gets excited thinking chiropractic is some magic bullet, let me break down what's really happening.

Timing matters. A lot.

When spine issues get addressed early with conservative care, it often prevents more intensive interventions later. Basic maintenance vs major repairs, right?

The research shows something fascinating about what happens in your brain during adjustments. Studies document about 20% improvement in prefrontal cortex activity - that's the brain region handling pain processing and motor control. Your spine houses over 100 joints constantly sending signals upstairs.

When they stop moving properly, that communication gets disrupted.

But here's what the 40% cost reduction doesn't tell us: which specific conditions benefit most, how long effects last, or whether every patient saw those savings.

What it does suggest? Coordinated care works.

Having the right provider handle the right job at the right time can be both effective and economical. Sometimes a $60 adjustment prevents a $6,000 surgery. Other times, you need that surgery regardless.

The magic happens when providers actually communicate and know when to refer patients appropriately.

I see this daily in practice - patients who get caught in expensive cycles because nobody's coordinating their care properly.

What's been your experience with healthcare coordination? Drop a comment if you've seen how timing and communication between providers makes a real difference 👇

Two levers that move the whole profession.I've been thinking about how chiropractic care actually gains credibility in h...
10/02/2025

Two levers that move the whole profession.

I've been thinking about how chiropractic care actually gains credibility in healthcare, and most people focus on just one thing.

Either better research or better practitioners.

But here's what I've noticed after looking at the data: both levers need to move at the same time for real change to happen.

The first lever is practitioner skills. Teaching chiropractors to read studies critically, assess evidence quality, and apply findings directly to patient care instead of just relying on what they learned years ago.

The second lever? Research foundation. More randomized controlled trials, better methodology, stronger safety data that actually backs up what practitioners are doing in their clinics.

Back in 2005, something interesting happened. Four chiropractic institutions got education grants to strengthen their evidence-based curricula, and that's when I realized the real challenge.

Individual capability without research support hits a ceiling pretty quickly.

Research without skilled practitioners who can interpret and apply it properly goes nowhere.

The profession needs both levers operating at full capacity simultaneously, and when that happens credibility follows naturally because practitioners can evaluate literature properly AND have solid research backing their interventions.

Like if you think both levers matter, or comment with which one you're working on first in your practice 👇

10/01/2025

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The 50 year graph that changed my mindI used to think chiropractic care lived in some gray area between medicine and wis...
10/01/2025

The 50 year graph that changed my mind

I used to think chiropractic care lived in some gray area between medicine and wishful thinking.

Then I saw the publication curve.

Picture this: 6,286 research articles published since Medicare started covering chiropractic back in 1972. The early years? Papers defending scope of practice, fighting regulatory battles, basically arguing for the right to exist.

But plot those publications over time...

The inflection point becomes obvious.

Recent papers aren't about legitimacy anymore. They're randomized controlled trials. Systematic reviews. The same methodical approach used to validate any medical intervention.

Here's where it gets interesting:

33 clinical practice guidelines now include spinal manipulative therapy. Not fringe publications - mainstream medical guidelines.

90% recommend SMT for low back pain.
100% support it for neck pain.

Recent additions include tension headaches and cervicogenic headaches.

This wasn't lobbying or marketing campaigns changing minds. This was evidence accumulating study by study, building a case through the same rigorous standards applied to pharmaceuticals.

The profession stopped defending its existence and started proving its effectiveness.

What struck me wasn't the final numbers. It was watching how research quality evolved, how clinical guidelines responded to better evidence, and how a entire field transformed from marginalized practice to mainstream healthcare option.

Sometimes the most compelling arguments develop slowly.

One well-designed study at a time.

Like this post if you've changed your mind about something based on evidence rather than opinion.

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We provide the best and latest in chiropractic technology and treatment options. We emphasize maintaining existing healthy muscles and ligaments, while relieving pain whenever possible. Our team emphasizes comprehensive quality care and progressive chiropractic care.

Our friendly and competent staff is dedicated to your comfort and quality of care throughout your visits.

We look forward to welcoming you to our practice.