Archive for September 2017

If you haven’t noticed, Boston’s population has increased by over 150,000 in the past couple of weeks. That’s because Boston is home to over 35 colleges and universities. This means that among other things, there will be a lot more bicyclists around the city. If you drive in Boston or in any populated area for…

No, not Natalie Merchant’s 10,000 Maniacs. We mean the Japanese version. Everywhere you look these days, we are being told to ‘get your steps’ or ‘I need to get my step up’. Now, I’m the first to preach that as a society who is dealing with pain and obesity epidemics, we all need to move…

It’s no revelation that the number one complaint we see in our clinic is back pain. Over 85% of us will experience some ‘down time’ with an episode of back pain in our lifetimes. One of the biggest misconceptions is that people believe, perhaps by the previous statistic, that our backs (a.k.a. spines) are brittle.…