17 04, 2014

Best Pillow? Here’s Some Guidance! – Dr. Mruz

By |2020-04-09T14:46:16-04:00April 17th, 2014|FAQs, Health Tips, Spinal Care Tips|Comments Off on Best Pillow? Here’s Some Guidance! – Dr. Mruz

I'm often asked by my patients, “which is the best pillow to use?” The truth is there is no one answer that works for everybody because there’s no one best pillow that works for everybody. I’ll talk about some of the different pillows and the advantages and disadvantages of those pillows in this blog post, then after talking about it with your healthcare provider, come up with a pillow or series of pillows that works best for you. The Challenge of [...]

8 04, 2014

The Aging Spine: We Get Shorter and What To Do About It!

By |2020-04-09T14:38:56-04:00April 8th, 2014|FAQs, Health Tips, Spinal Care Tips|Comments Off on The Aging Spine: We Get Shorter and What To Do About It!

Many of my patients ask the question "Do people shrink when they get older?" Even more curiously, does our height vary throughout the day, and what causes it to change? The answer to the first question is "yes," and it's all because of our aging spine.  But how does this occur? Gravity Is Relentless... During the course of any given day, the discs of the spine (the shock-absorbing, sponge-like structures that lie between the vertebrae), absorb or lose water, leading to [...]

6 04, 2014

Hincapie Development Cycling Team at Redlands Bicycle Classic

By |2020-04-09T14:38:03-04:00April 6th, 2014|archive|Comments Off on Hincapie Development Cycling Team at Redlands Bicycle Classic

Hincapie Development Cycling Team The 2014 Hincapie Development Cycling Team are a group of young, rising star cyclists who are being groomed for future success by the great structure of the Hincapie team and director Thomas Craven. Their past 5 days in California have illustrated just how powerful and balanced this Greenville based team really are! Redlands Bicycle Classic The Redlands Bicycle Classic is the longest continuous running stage race in American bike racing history. Since 1985, the race has hosted future [...]

4 04, 2014

Laptop ergonomics – Here’s your guidelines!

By |2020-04-09T14:26:37-04:00April 4th, 2014|FAQs, Health Tips, Spinal Care Tips|Comments Off on Laptop ergonomics – Here’s your guidelines!

Laptop computers are first and foremost designed with portability in mind.  Laptop ergonomics are not a major consideration for most manufacturers. My MacBook Pro is a mere 14 inches wide, and has vastly more computing power than the computers which landed men on the moon a mere 4 decades ago. But portability and ergonomics are at odds with one another; if I position my screen at the correct ergonomic height, then my keyboard is too high. If my keyboard is in [...]

4 04, 2014

Low Back Pain – How Do Medical Doctors View Chiropractors?

By |2020-04-09T14:25:48-04:00April 4th, 2014|Back Pain, Chiropractic|Comments Off on Low Back Pain – How Do Medical Doctors View Chiropractors?

The history of the various treatments of low back pain has been marked by political fights.  In the 1980s,  a political event spurred a massive change concerning organized medicine's outward disrespect for chiropractors. The American Medical Association was sued for anti-trust violations, and the chiropractic profession won. For the first time, the public, open anti-chiropractic slander that had appeared on billboards, in magazine articles, and in TV and radio advertisements was prohibited. In fact, prior to this event, it was against [...]