Downers Grove Chiropractic Spine and Injury Center Blog

A thing I get asked a lot of times by people, especially online, or call at the office and ask me questions is, how do I know when it’s real? How do I know that my back pain is something that’s serious or that’s just going to go away? How do I know know that…

I want to take this time to talk about some things that I see people doing, and you absolutely cannot do. These are the huge mistakes people make when they have back pain or sciatica, and they make themselves worse. The first thing that people do that’s a huge mistake, a huge no-no, is your…

I hear it all the time: “Nothing’s worked.” “You tried everything.” “You’ve lost all hope that anything is going to be able to get you better.” “Something helped for a little while then it comes back.” “The issue felt like it was getting better. Then it kind of plateaued.” “This is your last hope.” I…

I wanted to take a minute to kind of show you what a disc herniation is, show you what it looks like, and then also talk a little bit about what some of those issues are that it can cause. I got this cool model here and with this model, I can show you what…

An interesting thought just occurred to me. I’m right in downtown Downers Grove, and we’re not far away from the train station, the train, we’re also not far away from the fire department. With that we hear the fire engine, and we hear ambulances going by on Main Street all the time. Normally, when you…

I wanted to talk about pain scales. That’s one of the biggest things that people have an issue with when they come in, and I ask them to rate their pain on a scale of one to ten. I hear, “I have high pain tolerance,” or “I don’t know what number it is.” We go…