Herd That: Interesting Articles & Evidence-Based Health Tips

  • 📱 Text Neck: The Real Pain Behind Your Screen Time In today’s tech-driven world, our phones are never far from reach. Whether you’re scrolling through social media, texting a friend, or catching up on emails, chances are your neck is feeling the effects — and you might not even realize it. Welcome to the modern-day

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  • Over 80% of people will experience some form of low back pain during their lifetime, and it is the leading cause of disability in workers under the age of 40.1 Many countries and organizations have released Clinical Practice Guidelines to layout the best practices for treating patients with low back pain. Your doctors can then

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  • Opioids should not be recommended for acute non-specific low back pain or neck pain given that we found no significant difference in pain severity compared with placebo. This finding calls for a change in the frequent use of opioids for these conditions. Jones et al. (2023) Researchers in Sydney, Australia conducted a 6-year study and

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  • Know your limits! When returning to outdoor activities in the spring, it’s important to ease back into your routine gradually. If you have taken the winter off from running or outdoor sports/hobbies begin with shorter durations or lower intensity levels than you were used to before the snow started. This allows your body to readjust

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  • Everyone experiences pain at some point in their life. However, not everyone experiences pain the same way. We all know someone who has a high pain tolerance and someone else who has a low tolerance for pain. But why is that? There are people who spend their entire careers studying pain and how we perceive

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  • The Cervicogenic Headache

    Wait, my headache is coming from my neck? According to the International Headache Society headaches affect just under half of the world’s population. Among those 15-25% are referred from the cervical spine, a category classified as “cervicogenic.” These headaches often manifest as pain that starts at the base of the skull and radiates to the

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  • And do you need to hear it in order to feel the benefits? The scientific term for the popping or cracking noise that you often hear with a chiropractic adjustment is tribonucleation, or joint cavitation. Tribonucleation is the process of creating tiny gas bubbles within the synovial fluid of a joint. The gas bubbles form

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  • What does this mean? Should you still seek treatment for a disc herniation or just wait for it to go away on its own? “The existing evidence shows that the overall resorption incidence of lumbar disc herniation (LDH) was 70.39%, the resorption incidence of ruptured LDH is higher than that of contained LDH.” (Zou et

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  • Introducing Dr. Lamb

    Welcome to the official website for Lamb Chiropractic. My name is Dr. Derek Lamb and I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself to those who may not know me. I grew up the son of two chiropractors and having spent my life around the profession I am committed to sharing what I have

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  • Welcome!

    Welcome to the official website for Lamb Chiropractic CNY! We are thrilled to connect with you and share valuable insights, inspiration, and tips for a healthier life. ✨ About Us ✨ We are an evidence-based practice providing safe, compassionate, and individualized care to improve each patient’s quality of life. Through a holistic approach to chiropractic,

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