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The Benefits of Spinal Manipulation in 2025: Why HVLA Still Matters

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Whether you're a clinician looking to refine your technique or a patient curious about whats happening when you hear that audible release, this deep dive will provide clarity on the powerful impact of spinal manipulation. Heres an easy-to-follow blog with actionable strategies to help you better support your patients in your office today.

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Why Kids Get Hurt Differently: Using Panjabi’s Model to Decode Pediatric Lower Extremity Injuries

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When it comes to treating pediatric patients, its important to understand theyre not just small adults. Growth plates, ligamentous laxity, and neuromuscular control are all still maturing, which can lead to unique injury patterns. Thats where Panjabis model of joint stability becomes really useful.

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Ankle sprains as peripheral and central injuries

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Heres how, reframes this common injury through the lens of neuroplasticity, asserting that ankle sprains not only damage local ligaments and tissues but also induce changes in how the central nervous system (CNS) processes sensory and motor signals. This technique anatomically reattaches torn ligaments to the fibula.

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Supplements you can recommend to improve back health

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As a DC, a majority of your practice undoubtedly involves treating the symptoms and underlying causes of back pain, enabling your patients to live healthier, happier lives. Of the potential causes of back pain, injuries to discs, connective tissue or ligaments are common culprits. Vitamin C helps promote collagen production.

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Top five most popular laser therapy articles of 2024

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Laser focus: Boosting athletic performance with low-level laser therapy by Michael Trayford The use of laser therapy in sports medicine is nothing new, although progressive applications for peak athletic performance are now going far beyond joint, muscle, tendon and ligament repair. Laser therapy for mitochondrial dysfunction by Robert G.

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Meralgia Paresthetica: A Commonly Overlooked Cause of Thigh Pain

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Persistent, burning pain along the front or side of the thigh can be frustrating and disruptive for patients. 1-3) The LFCN originates from L2-L3 spinal roots, courses through the lumbar plexus, and exits the pelvis just medial to the ASIS beneath the inguinal ligament - a frequent site of entrapment. (4)

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A comprehensive guide to attaining spinal stability

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DCs play a pivotal role in assessing and enhancing spinal stability through manual therapies, corrective exercises and patient education. Anatomy and biomechanics of spinal stability Stabilizing subsystems Passive subsystem Comprises vertebrae, intervertebral discs, ligaments and joint capsules. erector spinae , rectus abdominis ).

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