North Nancy DC CCSP CCEP

read moreAdvanced sports injury techniques continue to represent the cutting edge of research into the care and treatment of any injury. Sports chiropractic (Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician) is always ahead of its time. Whether you are a weekend warrior with strained muscles, a serious athlete with an injured ligament, or a couch potato with knee pain, Dr. North will get you well faster than you probably thought possible. The specialty of treating extremities in chiropractic (Certified Chiropractic Extremity Practitioner) fits perfectly with sports and orthopedic medicine.

read moreThere's another statistic, too. Once your back "goes out on you" even one time, there's a 65% chance that it will happen again within the next year or two. When that happens you will have a 100% chance of experiencing a spectrum of chronic low back problems the rest of your life. There are two important reasons for this. One is that the soft tissue, (mainly ligaments), that are injured in low back sprains, pinched nerves, and disc episodes etc, are replaced by a cheaper grade of tissue that is less flexible and strong as the tissue you were born with during the healing process.

read moreA surprising number of chronic shoulder patients come in to this office misdiagnosed and that is why they continued to suffer for years. With proper diagnosis and treatment protocol, desired results may finally be achieved. Years ago, if you went to a doctor with pain in your shoulder, you were likely to be diagnosed with a condition called bursitis. Although rotator cuff tears are a "fairly" common injury, an MRI will show "tears" in the rotator cuff of the average person. This can be true of just about anyone who has used their arms throughout their life, especially athletically, by the time they are twenty-five years old.

read moreBelieve it or not, I have simple mechanical tests that will determine why physical therapy, surgery, cortisone shots, rehabilitation exercises and medications have left you lacking in everyday functioning of the knee. My patients know from the first office visit if they are in the right place to fix their knee. Then it's just a matter of stabilizing the mechanical changes which take pressure off the weakened pain sites to enable a steady recovery after just a few visits to my office. Then you'll finish treatment on your own and be in control of any flare-ups.