Many of you have been thinking that functional medicine and chiropractic are two separate and distinct medical specialties. To understand the interlinking between chiropractic and functional medicine you first must understand that functional medicine is not a treatment, it Is a way of thinking very much like chiropractic. Both look at a patient with a […]
I would like to follow-up with the diagnosis of arthritis. The following quote is by John McM. Mennell, M.D. In his textbook on joint pain. At the time he wrote this textbook he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine. As a side note, I have been trained under his technique of […]
The diagnosis of arthritis really bugs me. It seems to be a catch-all for musculoskeletal conditions that are not sufficiently evaluated. Arthritis can be caused by autoimmune disease, trauma, rarely infection, and overuse/misuse of the joint. The overuse/ misuse diagnosis of arthritis is concerning to me. Once the diagnosis of arthritis is made, it immediately […]