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The effects with the laser is going to be that it blocks pain. Pain management in that area, and it's going to accelerate the individual cell. So, cellular activity, increased ATP production, that's all going to be restorative, regenerative to that cell, and by increasing enzymes and oxygen and collagen, all these different synthesis that are happening. So, it's really like apples and oranges. The ultrasound just really increases blood flow where the laser is going to have blood flow, and it's also going to have pain modulation. It's also going to accelerate enzymes and cellular activity. So, I think from a therapeutic point as a clinician, I want something that's going to encompass so many more things than just one. So, I really don't use ultrasound anymore. And those are some of the big reasons why.

Neck pain is probably in the top three problems that people list on their intake forms. And if you look statistically, I guess they're saying that approximately between 10% and 25% of the population are going to be affected by some kind of neck pain.

Chiropractors are known best for low back and treating low back pain. Statistically it's about 80% of adults are going to have some kind of low back pain in their lifetime. So that's a huge number. And walking around right now we're probably looking at about 25% of the adult population having some kind of low back pain as we speak. So it's an epidemic out there and it has lots of different causes that can underlie it. Everything from our sedentary position as we're sitting at... desks, so much more, overuse, wear and tear. I guess as we get older are the arthritic changes, all those traumas, car accidents, falling off your ladder, falling out of the trampolines, as I always loved, arthritis, disc injuries, strain, sprain. I mean, there's so many different ways you can injure your low back, and I think that's one of the reasons why it's so common. See more

The shoulder's such a complex, really big joint. It gives us mobility like no other joint that we have. But we can run into problems and dysfunction with the shoulder as well so I thought today we'd start talking just about shoulders in general and maybe starting off with something as simple as the bursa, the fluid filled sac that sits between it.

Shin splints are a really common athletic injury typically with runners. It makes up about 15-20% of running injuries. It is lower leg pain. That shin bone or the tibia in the lower leg, people get pain along it. Typically on the inside of the leg, but sometimes people get pain on the outside of the leg, it can be similar but when we look at it we can diagnosis it. It could be a compartment syndrome or another type of problem.