Relaxing your spine to improve mobility  In order for your spine to achieve full range of motion, the muscles that support it need to be free of tension. Now this is a tall order. But there are certain activities that you can do on a daily basis to promote both relaxation of the muscles and…

Few people realize how essential their hips are to their spinal health Whether you like it or not, your hips will have a significant part to play in the way your spine feels at the end of the day. Modern lifestyles and tight hips go hand in hand- when we sit all day, our hip…

There is no getting around it: running isn’t great for your lower back Depending on the running surface, how hard you strike the ground, and what kind of shoes you wear, each step represents a shock that ripples up through the joints of your lower body and eventually reaches your spine. This repetitive stress causes…

The downward-facing dog pose is a win-win for chronic back pain sufferers At our office in Hackensack, we talk a lot about spinal decompression. So much of modern life involves unhealthy compression of the spine- from sitting all day, to using mobile devices too frequently, to foregoing physical activity. Our spines are already under an…

When your body feels like one big ball of tension… …you know that it’s time to act. Yet so many of us choose to ignore our muscles at the end of the day, opting instead to lounge around and let the tension fully set in. No one is blaming you- you work hard and you…

Don’t shoot yourself in the foot… Despite being of primary importance in the struggle for spinal health (along with exercise), we often forego the power of nutrition by reaching for nutritionally-deficient foods. We are here to tell you that immediate gratification and sensation of comfort that comes with eating bad foods is more than offset…

Prioritizing your back pain through nutrition  Between exercise and nutrition, you have two essential tools for avoiding and managing back pain. Nutrition is perhaps the more potent of the two because it deals with the ingredients that you provide your body- the building blocks of success. Nothing in the human body works without the right…

Exercise is the best thing you can do for your back pain For back pain sufferers, exercise is an indispensable tool in managing the symptoms. It‘s effect can be as powerful as pain medication with the crucial difference being that exercise and stretching are targeted to specifically ease the pressures on the root cause of…

Life is miserable with hurting hands So take note when your fingers start to ache after a day of office work. The intensive typing and clicking involved in computer work are taking a toll on your hands that could come back to bite you in the future! Office workers are at risk for the development…

Are your shoes causing strife for your back? If you are like millions of Americans, your shoe choice is made on the basis of style first and comfort second; often times, comfort is simply seen as a bonus! But we are here to tell you definitively that this is the wrong way to go about…