Back pain in teenagers is common. Dr. Kelly Brinkman shares a story of a 14 y.o. with a disc injury.
Kelly K. Brinkman, DC, MCS-P graduated from Logan College of Chiropractic in 1990 and was in private practice through 2016. She is an Associate Professor at Logan University in their College of Chiropractic and has taught the Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction course at Logan since 1991. She is currently working full time at Logan and has begun working on a research project involving the Cox Flexion Distraction technique and diagnostic ultrasound. As a certified Cox Flexion Distraction practitioner she has witnessed the profound effects this technique has had on the lives of patients and particular enjoyed treating those difficult patients such as those who didn’t do well with lumbar surgery, those who herniated lumbar discs or who had degenerative disease and stenotic radiculopathies.
Resources:
Episode 174 Dr. Tyler Lomnicki – Disc Herniation
Episode 62 Dr. Ram Gudavalli – The Research Behind Cox Technic
Episode 158 Dr. Tyler Hill – Winged Scapula
Episode 181 Dr. Scott Taylor – Vertiflex for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Episode 168 Dr. Nima Rahmany – Emotional Wounding and Chronic Pain
Episode 227 Dr. Joseph Cabaret – Interventional Pain Management
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