Welcome!

In my daily practice, as a San Diego chiropractor, I spend a tremendous amount of time not only treating my patients, but also educating them about the importance of proper health care.

Did you know that chiropractic is the largest natural health care profession in the world? Developed over 100 years ago, this conservative, drug-free, surgery-free approach to optimal health is based on the premise that the relationship between the body's structure and function is a significant factor in your health. The road to a healthy life includes maintaining your body's natural healing ability and practicing preventive health care.

Chiropractic is a WHOLE PERSON approach to health care that targets the cause of the problems, rather than just the symptoms. Regular chiropractic care, along with good nutrition, stress management, and sufficient exercise can help you become and remain a healthy human being.

• Spinal Manipulation May Benefit Asthma Patients
  
  
• Effect of Chiropractic Treatment on the Endocrine and Immune System in Asthmatic Patients
  
  
• Asthma - Gasping For Fresh Air
  
  
• What is Causing the Asthma Epidemic?
  
  
• Chiropractic Management of 47 Asthma Cases
  
  
• Chronic Pediatric Asthma and Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation
  
  
• An Impairment Rating Analysis Of Asthmatic Children Under Chiropractic Care
  
  
• Changes in pulmonary function associated with upper cervical specific chiropractic care
  
  
• Upper Cervical Chiropractic Care For A Nine-Year-Old Male With Tourette Syndrome, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Depression, Asthma, Insomnia, and Headaches: A Case Report
  
  
• Adjustive osteopathic manipulative treatment in the elderly hospitalized with pneumonia: a pilot study.
  
  
• Chiropractors Really Do Treat Asthma?
  
  
• Chiropractic treatment may help asthma sufferers breathe easy
  
  

The Inflammation Syndrome: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies, and Asthma Written by the bestselling author of the groundbreaking Syndrome X, the book that helped bring the attention of the public to this major new health crisis, The Inflammation Syndrome is the first major trade book to identify the Inflammation Syndrome for the consumer and to show how to heal it. Drawing on the cutting-edge research that is being done all over the world, Jack Challem provides a revolutionary approach to healing inflammation—one of the major causes of diseases such as heart disease, arthritis, and diabetes through an easy-to-follow nutritional program.

• Chiropractors Offer Hope and Help to Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  
  
• Children with ADHD Medical vs. Chiropractic Perspective and Theory; Part 1
  
  
• Children with ADHD Medical vs. Chiropractic Perspective and Theory; Part 2
  
  
• Chiropractic and ADHD
  
  
• Children, ADD/ADHD, and chiropractic
  
  
• If we don't help our children, who will
  
  
• Natural treatments for kids with ADD/ADHD
  
  
• Back to school ... vaccination time?
  
  
• Children, ADD/ADHD, and Chiropractic
  
  
• Cervical Kyphosis Is a Possible Link to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
  
  
• Foods and additives are common causes of the attention deficit hyperactive disorder in children
  
  
• Synthetic food coloring and behavior: a dose response effect in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, repeated-measures study
  
  

ADHD Alternatives: a natural approach to treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder This timely look at one of North America's most troubling health issues advocates the need to treat the child, not the disease. Aviva Romm, CPM, Herbalist AHG, and Tracy Romm, Ed.D., offer parents ways to treat ADHD herbally, holistically, and lovingly.

• Back Pain Statistics
  
  
• Research: Evidence for the Effectiveness of Chiropractic
  
  
• Chiropractic Research: Synopsis of Cost Effectiveness Research
  
  
• Chiropractic care for low back pain
  
  
• Chiropractic vs. hospital treatment for back pain
  
  
• Back Pain During Pregnancy
  
  
• Upper Back Pain
  
  
• Middle Back Pain
  
  
• Lower Back Pain
  
  
• Back Pain Exercises
  
  
• Chiropractic Care and Back Pain: Non-Invasive Treatment for Bulging, Ruptured, or Herniated Discs (Slipped Discs)
  
  
• Treatment Options: Non-Surgical: Chiropractors
  
  

Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection Dr. John E. Sarno, author of the revolutionary book Mind Over Pack Pain, is a medical pioneer whose program has helped thousands of patients overcome their back conditions-without drugs or dangerous surgery. Now, using his latest research into TMS (Tension Myositis Syndrome), Dr. Sarno goes one step further: after identifying stress and other psychological factors in back pain, demonstrates how many of his patients have then gone on to heal themselves without exercise or other physical therapy

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome -Do You Have It, What Is It?
  
  
• Carpal Tunnel / RSI Article
  
  
• Comparative efficacy of conservative medical and chiropractic treatments for carpal tunnel syndrome: a randomized clinical trial
  
  
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Chronic Back Pain - a Thing of the Past with Ergonomics
  
  
• Ergonomic Tips to Help You Prevent Repetitive Motion Injuries
  
  
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Reaching Epidemic Proportions
  
  
• CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME - US DEPT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
  
  
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome -- Workplace Buzz-Word of the 90s
  
  
• WHAT ARE NONSURGICAL TREATMENTS FOR CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME?
  
  
• Carpal Tunnel - Cold Laser Treatment
  
  
• It’s Only Natural - Miracle Healing With Photons
  
  
• ARE YOUR HAND/WRISTS SORE? TINGLY? WEAK?
  
  

Dr. Pascarelli's Complete Guide to Repetitive Strain Injury: What You Need to Know about RSI and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome In this comprehensive, fully up-to-date guide, the world's leading authority on RSI shows people how to relieve the pain and emotional distress of this potentially disabling condition. Incorporating all of the many advances that have occurred since the publication of his bestselling Repetitive Strain Injury, Dr. Emil Pascarelli offers proven methods for relieving the pain of RSI-induced conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome and tenosynovitis; preventing RSI through proper workstation setup; and regaining the use of muscles, nerves, and tendons damaged by RSI

• WHAT IS FIBROMYALGIA?
  
  
• WHO GETS FIBROMYALGIA?
  
  
• WHAT CAUSES FIBROMYALGIA?
  
  
• DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA: HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU HAVE FIBROMYALGIA?
  
  
• Study Examines Chiropractic Treatment for Fibromyalgia
  
  
• Ultrasound Treatment of the Fibromyalgia Patients' Trigger Points
  
  
• Surgery can cause fibromyalgia; chiropractic care can effectively treat it, says Dr. Whitcomb
  
  
• Massage, Chiropractic Top Medical Alternatives
  
  
• A Novel Holistic Explanation for the Fibromyalgia Enigma: Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction
  
  
• Fibromyalgia & Thyroid Disease
  
  
• Massage – A Touch of Relief for People with Fibromyalgia
  
  
• An Overview of Fibromyalgia for Newly Diagnosed Patients
  
  

Alternative Treatments for Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Insights from Practitioners and Patients A compendium of alternative medical treatments offering new relief for chronic pain and fatigue.

• Working With the Injured Runner
  
  
• Running Injuries -- Starting Off on the Right Foot-- Part I
  
  
• Running Injuries -- Starting Off on the Right Foot-- Part II
  
  
• Running Injuries Consulting a Chiropractor
  
  
• Sports Injuries and Performance
  
  
• Marathon and Beyond Specialist Specific
  
  
• Successful Ankle Sprain Management
  
  
• Ankle Injuries: Step, Step, Miss a Step ... Twist
  
  
• D.D. Palmer and Chiropractic Foot Care
  
  
• Tell me about...Foot Problems
  
  
• Orthotics in the Sports Chiropractic
  
  
• Peripheral Nerve Entrapment Syndromes Often Seen in a Sports Injury Practice
  
  

Running Injuries In this completely revised edition of their best-selling handbook, Tim Noakes and Stephen Granger present the most up-to-date findings on running injuries, and their prevention, diagnosis and treatment. At some point in their running careers, most runners find themselves injured, in pain, or even laid off. Running Injuries is the ultimate resource on injury prevention and is the unrivalled guide for runners of all levels -- from elite athletes to weekend joggers to doctors.

• Have a Splitting Headache? Chiropractic Care Can Help
  
  
• HEADACHES AND CHIROPRACTIC
  
  
• Substantial Evidence Shows Efficacy of Chiropractic for Tension and Cervicogenic Headaches
  
  
• What a Rational Chiropractor Can Do for You
  
  
• Headache pain: the problem may not be in your head
  
  
• The Cervical Spine and Headache
  
  
• The Common Headache: Some People are Finding the Answer to This Painful Malady Without Medication (press release)
  
  
• Handling Headaches A Specialist's Self-Care Program
  
  
• POST MENOPAUSAL and other HEADACHES TRADITIONAL vs ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS
  
  
• MIGRAINE / HEADACHES: Nutritional Causes, Prevention and Therapies
  
  
• Cause and Treatment of Migraine Headaches
  
  
• Sacroiliac Causation of Headache
  
  

Breaking the Headache Cycle: A Proven Program for Treating and Preventing Recurring Headaches - how to relieve the pain of migraines- how to detect and ward off oncoming headaches and- how to prevent migraines from even threatening

• What Chiropractic has to offer for lowering Blood Pressure
  
  
• Effects of chiropractic treatment on blood pressure and anxiety: a randomized, controlled trial
  
  
• Preliminary study of blood pressure changes in normotensive subjects undergoing chiropractic care
  
  
• Exercise: Take charge of your health
  
  
• Dark chocolate may lower blood pressure
  
  
• Using Diet to Lower Your Blood Pressure
  
  
• Meditation Helps Teens Lower Blood Pressure
  
  
• How to Eat to Lower Blood Pressure
  
  
• Aspirin Alternative
  
  
• Sidestep Heart Disease
  
  
• The 3 B's Block Cardiovascular Disease
  
  
• Can garlic lower blood pressure? A pilot study.
  
  

The Amazing Way to Reverse Heart Disease Naturally: Beyond the Hypertension Hype: Why Drugs Are Not the Answer Dr. Braverman presents a 30-day hypertension diet, emphasizing 50 foods that lower blood pressure and warning against 50 other foods that raise it. Included are customized diet plans and information on supplements and stress control.

• Myths about sciatica treatment options
  
  
• Sciatica: Description and Diagnosis
  
  
• WHAT ARE THE TREATMENTS FOR UNCOMPLICATED ACUTE LOW BACK PAIN OR SCIATICA?
  
  
• Alternative Treatments to Reduce Sciatica
  
  
• Making Sense of Sciatica
  
  
• Bed Rest for Sciatica? Not Effective, Study Says
  
  
• Piriformis Syndrome and the Sciatic Nerve
  
  
• New Technologies for Treating Sciatica and Back Pain
  
  
• Sciatica exercises
  
  
• Sciatica first aid
  
  
• Sciatica and Massage
  
  
• What you need to know about sciatica
  
  

Relieving Sciatica: Using Complementary Medicine to Overcome the Pain of Sciatica Identifying symptoms and offering solutions to a painful condition, this book describes how to use more than 15 effective complementary medicine approaches including acupressure, Alexander technique, Feldenkrais method, foot reflexology, hatha yoga, osteopathy, qigong, and rolfing.

• Understanding Scoliosis
  
  
• Scoliosis
  
  
• Electrical Stimulation In Idiopathic Spinal Deformity
  
  
• Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: Radiologic Decision-Making
  
  
• Scoliosis treatment using a combination of manipulative and rehabilitative therapy: a retrospective case series.
  
  
• Chiropractic and pilates therapy for the treatment of adult scoliosis
  
  
• Questions and Answers about Scoliosis in Children and Adolescents
  
  
• Study on Chiropractic Care for Adolescent Scoliosis is Encouraging
  
  
• Children and Scoliosis
  
  
• Scoliosis and Chiropractic
  
  
• Scoliosis and the Child's Spine
  
  
• Lumbar Scoliosis with Pelvic Obliquity
  
  

Stopping Scoliosis: The Whole Family Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment Scoliosis -- curvature of the spine -- is a disorder so common that twenty states now require screening of preteens. One in every fifty American youngsters is affected by it. While scoliosis is an upsetting condition, it can almost always be treated if detected early.Written by a scoliosis sufferer, Stopping Scoliosis takes the reader through every stage of the condition. It discusses ways to diagnose scoliosis before exploring all the options for treating it -- both surgical and non-surgical. The advancements in bracing and surgical techniques that have been made in the past few years are examined in detail. Also included are methods for managing pain, tips on how to prepare for surgery, and compelling patient stories from people of all ages.Endorsed by the National Scoliosis Foundation, this is the most comprehensive, up-to-date book on scoliosis available. References. Index.

• Tell me about...Shoulder and Arm Pain
  
  
• Study Finds "Manual Therapy" Effective for Shoulder Dysfunction/Pain
  
  
• Sports Injury: Anterior Shoulder Dislocation
  
  
• Shoulder Muscle Dysfunction and the Golf Swing: Important Treatment and Educational Considerations
  
  
• Shoulder Pain
  
  
• Shoulder Impingement Syndrome
  
  
• Managing Shoulder Sprain/Strain Injuries
  
  
• Preventing Youth Baseball Injuries
  
  
• A Shoulder Aggravating a Neck that Aggravates a Shoulder
  
  
• Shoulder Rehabilitation -- Part I
  
  
• Shoulder Rehabilitation -- Part II - Tendinitis
  
  
• Shoulder Rehabilitation Part III
  
  

The Pilates Back Book: Heal Neck, Back, and Shoulder Pain with Easy Pilates Stretches Pilates has swept the nation, and everyone from celebrities to college students to homemakers are in on it. They know that Pilates can grant tremendous fitness benefits, that it can stretch, tone, and strengthen, and that the exercises are fun to do. But most people aren't aware that Pilates stretches can relieve pain, too.Back pain is the number-one cause for missing work in America. Millions of people suffer from back pain and are unable to find relief with drugs or surgery. Pilates is a collection of exercises for strengthening the spine, and it can relieve chronic neck, back, and shoulder pain for good.The Pilates Back Book is the first book to highlight the pain-relieving properties of Pilates. Readers will discover: -- The link between muscles and back pain -- and how to use that knowledge to prevent further injury.-- How to design a personal Pilates program for specific types of pain.-- Exactly how to do the Pilates stretches through lavish full-color photos.

• Arthritis Chiropractic
  
  
• Chiropractic for Arthritis: New Research Shows Wide Usage and Satisfaction
  
  
• Sea Cucumber: A Natural Arthritis Treatment
  
  
• Helpful Treatments Keep People With Arthritis Moving
  
  
• Ankylosing spondylitis
  
  
• How Do I Know if I Have Arthritis in My Spine?
  
  
• Arthritis and Your Spine: Introduction
  
  
• The effect of chiropractic care for a 30-year-old male with advanced ankylosing spondylitis: a time series case report
  
  
• Kids Need Chiropractic Too! Spinal Problems in Children Part III: Adolescents
  
  
• Homeopathic Relief of Arthritic Pain
  
  
• Lasers and Osteoarthritis
  
  
• Getting Hip to Chiropractic
  
  

Easing the Pain of Arthritis Naturally: Everything You Need to Know to Combat Arthritis Safely and Effectively From diet and supplements to exercise and therapeutic massage, Dr. Mindell presents safe, easy-to-use strategies to help readers achieve optimum health and relief from the discomfort of arthritis.

• TMJ Diseases & Disorders - Basics - Overview
  
  
• Giving TMJ Pain an Adjustment
  
  
• The Chiropractic Dentist
  
  
• Birth-Induced TMJ Syndrome Is Most Common Cause of Breastfeeding Difficulties
  
  
• Infrared Thermal Imaging of Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome
  
  
• Chiropractic, Dentistry, and Cervical Adjustment
  
  
• Medical Massage for Jaw-Joint (TMJ)Disorders
  
  
• TMJ Pain May Be Aggravated by Free Radicals, Relieved Partly by Antioxidants
  
  
• Temporomandibular Disorders and Stress
  
  
• Jaw Pain: It's Not "Just Stress"
  
  
• TMJ: Primary Problem, or Tip of the Iceberg?
  
  
• TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DYSFUNCTION & PSYCHOLOGY
  
  

Tmj, the Jaw Connection: The Overlooked Diagnosis: A Self-Care Guide to Diagnosing and Managing This Hidden Ailment Tmj, the Jaw Connection: The Overlooked Diagnosis: A Self-Care Guide to Diagnosing and Managing This Hidden Ailment

• Whiplash: Description and Diagnosis
  
  
• Symptoms of Whiplash and Chiropractic Care
  
  
• Whiplash and Chiropractic Care: Children Suffer Too
  
  
• Chiropractic "Only Proven Effective Treatment" for Chronic Whiplash
  
  
• Tell me about...Whiplash
  
  
• Chiropractic Care for Spinal Whiplash Injuries
  
  
• Support and Rehabilitation After Whiplash
  
  
• Understanding and Managing Whiplash-Associated Disorders
  
  
• Long-Term Consequences of Whiplash: Allergy; Breathing, Digestive and Cardiovascular Disorders; Hypertension and Low Back Pain
  
  
• Glucosamine Sulfate and Chondrin Sulfate
  
  
• Whiplash Q & A: Insurance Institue for Highway Safety
  
  
• Whiplash Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
  
  

Advanced Whiplash Care: A Manual for Patients and Professionals A guide to help everyone understand the biomechanics and physical injuries associated with a whiplash trauma.