Category: Dr. Graham

Our culture has a weird relationship with pain, discomfort, and injury. We have been taught to ignore it, push through it, or bury it.   If someone is in pain and can keep functioning (although at a lesser level), we tend to view it as that individual being tough or having a high pain threshold. We…

Most of the time when we think about our health, we instantly move our thoughts to the amount of pain we are currently dealing with.  If we feel well we deem ourselves fine. Or we imagine how well we’ve felt in generally in our lifetime and label ourselves healthy or unhealthy.  The problem with this…

I suppose I am getting older (as we are all prone to do), because I find myself comparing things to years past or thinking that a movie is “fairly new” only to later learn that the movie is like 20 years old! Another thing is that I’m consistently shocked at the cost of everything: gas,…

Happy Memorial Day!  We use this day to honor those who give their lives in service of this country. How do we do this though? I mean, I’m normal. I like an extra day off.  But do we use this day off to really honor the fallen?  Maybe some do, but for many its a…

Why do you get adjusted? If you’re like most people it’s because you hurt.  You have back pain or neck pain, etc.  This is an understandable reason to seek help.  And frankly, if you are going to seek this kind of help you could do much worse than chiropractic. In fact, it might be the best choice…

Do you complain? No, seriously, do you? I think we all know the obvious answer: yes, we complain. We complain early and often. I’m not judging.  I do it, too.  I’ve just come to conclusion for myself, and perhaps you will feel this way about yourself, too:  I need to complain less.  I mean, honestly,…

If you have never had experience with a chiropractor, you may be curious about what we do, how we do it, and what our goals are. Simply, most people associate chiropractic care with back pain relief. This is fair because chiropractic has been shown in research, and case studies to be quite successful in caring for back…

So often chiropractic is associated with back pain. If you ask the average person what a chiropractor is, you’ll probably hear something along these lines: “ back doctor”, “back pain”, etc.  It’s easy to understand this misconception. Chiropractic IS really good at dealing with back pain.  Also, many chiropractors do focus on pain treatment.  I’ve…

Jack Kerouac has a quote regarding fads: “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinions.”  I find this quite appropriate for modern American.  We, in general,  are trend hopping, gimmick-chasing, fad mongers.  We trade long term results for short term experiments. We chase the new, the fast,…

Sometimes I’m asked a very common question when dealing with spinal problems: is the issue a bone problem or a muscle problem?  The answer can be both or neither. But it’s not really ever one or the other. You see the muscles attach to the bones (thus having the ability to move the bone). So if the muscle…