Downers Grove Chiropractic Spine and Injury Center Blog

I wanted to talk about pain scales. That’s one of the biggest things that people have an issue with when they come in, and I ask them to rate their pain on a scale of one to ten. I hear, “I have high pain tolerance,” or “I don’t know what number it is.” We go…

I get this question a lot, which is kind of interesting — but patients ask if they need a referral to see me. The answer is no. I’m a doctor. I don’t need a referral to do any kind of treatment, to do any kind of diagnosis, to take any kind of X-rays. We do…

I wanted to go over an interesting study I just got done reading about car bumpers. Not something you normally think about, but car bumpers are interesting because, they’re supposed to be rated for a certain mile per hour to where after that certain amount of impact, they’re going to degrade, they’re going to have…

One thing I wanted to talk about today is the notion that chiropractic is only for those people that are in pain. A lot of times people come in when they’re in pain because they want to be out of pain. That makes a lot of sense, so we treat people who are in pain,…

One common myth that I hear people talk about is that chiropractic care is expensive. It’s kind of interesting when we think about that saying that chiropractic care is expensive because what people are talking about when they talk about chiropractic care being expensive is they’re comparing it to zero. Anything is expensive compared to…

I had a patient come in, and the first thing they say out of their mouth is, “Doc, what did I do?” When I hear that, it’s always interesting because I know it’s going to be one of two things. We’re probably not talking about a major injury and by that I mean, a very…