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Can someone who has had back surgery receive chiropractic care?

Yes. Rest assured that we will avoid the surgically modified areas of your spine. However, what we find is that surgical interventions will often produce spinal instability above or below the involved level. This is will be the focus of your chiropractic care.

What's the difference between a "good" drug and a "bad" drug?

As a chiropractor, I see the use of many drugs (legal or illegal) as merely symptom treating. Worse, virtually every drug produces unwanted effects. The effects of chiropractic are largely positive effects. If you're a Midtown East parent, consider carefully before giving your child a cough medication, cold remedy or pain reliever so this sort of question doesn't arise in the first place.

What's Sooooo Funny?

Why is it called a “funny bone” when it’s not a bone and isn’t funny when you hit it? 

You know the sensation; you hit your elbow on a hard surface and you feel shooting pains or a “tingling” sensation down the length of your arm to your fingers. What causes that?

The humerous is the upper arm bone that connects your shoulder to your elbow. At the elbow, it joins with the two more bones, the radius and the ulna. The ulnar nerve lies in a ridge along the ulna bone. It controls the movement in your wrist, ring finger and pinky.

Since there is very little muscle around the elbow, the ulnar nerve is close to the surface of the skin. So, when you hit your “funny bone” you are actually hitting the ulnar nerve, which sends a pins and needles sensation from your elbow, down your forearm, and into your wrist and fingers. Which is rarely funny!