Pure Wellness health resources

Everything here is written to help you understand a problem, not to diagnose one. An article can explain what typically causes low back pain, what happens mechanically when a disc bulges, or why a headache so often traces back to the neck. What it cannot do is tell you which of those is happening in your spine, because that takes an examination.

That gap matters more in this field than most. “My back hurts” is a description, not a diagnosis — the same four words cover a facet joint that has stopped gliding, a disc pressing on a nerve root, a sacroiliac joint carrying uneven load, and a muscle still guarding an injury from years ago. Each responds to different treatment, and a couple of them get worse under the wrong one.

So read these the way you would read a good pamphlet in a waiting room. They will make your first visit better, because you will arrive with sharper questions and a clearer account of your own history. They are not a substitute for the visit.

One list is worth memorising regardless of what any article says. Loss of bowel or bladder control, numbness through the saddle area, progressive weakness in an arm or leg, the worst headache of your life, or severe pain following a significant crash or fall all belong in an emergency department today — not in a chiropractic appointment next week.

The library is deliberately narrow. We write about what we treat and what patients actually ask about in the room, which is why the topic list looks like this rather than a general health feed:

Articles explore a single angle in depth. If you want the full clinical picture for a problem — the causes, what an exam checks, how it is treated, and when chiropractic is the wrong answer — start with the condition instead.

Every article carries a byline from a practicing Pure Wellness chiropractor rather than a marketing department. That is partly accountability and partly accuracy: the person describing what a Cox flexion-distraction table feels like is someone who puts patients on one.

It also means the writing gets corrected in one place. When guidance changes, or when a recommendation stops reflecting what we actually do in the treatment room, we update the article instead of leaving old versions around.