November and December are when my schedule fills up with a very specific complaint: ‘I was fine until I sat in a car for six hours.’ Between people driving up to see family in the mountains, flying out of Oakland…
I have had more conversations about dogs in my treatment room than I expected when I went to chiropractic school. Pleasanton is an extremely dog-friendly town — between the Arroyo trails, Val Vista Park, and basically every neighborhood having its…
I want to start this one with a caveat, because dizziness is one of those symptoms where I’d rather be the doctor who sent you somewhere else first than the one who didn’t. If you’re having sudden, severe dizziness, especially…
Somewhere around the third or fourth time a patient tells me “I think I have carpal tunnel” before I’ve even examined them, I’ve started answering with a question instead of a nod: which fingers, exactly? It matters more than people…
My daughter’s backpack weighs more than our cat. I weighed it once out of curiosity — 14 pounds, for a nine-year-old who weighs maybe 60. Do that math and you’ll understand why I see so many kids walking into my…
I want to be straightforward about something, because I think this gets oversold in parts of the wellness world and it bothers me: chiropractic care does not treat, prevent, or cure the flu. If you’re sick, see your doctor, get…
Shoulder pain is one of those things people live with for an embarrassingly long time before they come see me. I get it — unlike a back that locks up and stops you cold, a cranky shoulder usually lets you…
I wrote previously about chiropractic care during pregnancy and the Webster Technique, but there’s a whole chapter after delivery that almost nobody talks about, and it drives me a little crazy how little attention it gets. The pregnancy ends. The…
Every October I can predict, almost to the week, when the “I just raked my yard and now I can’t stand up straight” patients are going to start calling. It happens like clockwork, usually right after the first big leaf-drop…
I see a very specific kind of patient every fall when the weather cools off and everyone in Pleasanton suddenly remembers they own running shoes. They’ve usually just come back from a loop around Shadow Cliffs, or they got ambitious…
