The Top Three Reasons Your Back Pain Keeps Coming Back Even After Years of Treatment

One of the most common questions we get asked is ‘Why does my back pain always come back?’. Most people that come into our clinic See most people have tried chiropractic, physical therapy, massage, and/or acupuncture. All of which provided some symptomatic relief during the course of therapy - but didn’t seem to keep it from coming back the minute they stopped. They’re frustrated because they’ve already spent a good amount of time, energy and money on ‘solutions’ to their back pain - only for the pain to come back a few weeks later and they don’t want to make the same mistake again.

In this article we discuss the top three reasons your back pain keeps coming back…eve after years of treatment and therapy.

Back Pain, Low Back PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPMarch 13, 2020Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

How to SAFELY Improve Core Strength For Less Back Pain

When it comes to strengthening our core there is beauty in simplicity. Planks, anti-movement, and crawls are categories of exercises that SAFELY strengthen our core and can easily be progressed and regressed to fit your current ability level.

Back Pain, Fitness, Low Back PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPMay 22, 2019Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Focusing on Solutions Over Services to Keep You Active and Doing What You Love

Learn why traditional healthcare’s focus on services over solutions has failed to give you the lasting results that keep you strong and active so you can get more joy and fulfillment out of your life.

Back Pain, Low Back Pain, MovementDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPApril 25, 2019Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Safely Strengthen Your Hips for Back and Knee Pain

Building functional strength of our hips is one of the most important things we need to do to be sure we avoid pain and can live out lives without limitations. Training the glutes does not need to be overly complicated. You do not need hundreds of different exercises to strengthen your hips effectively. Variations and progressions of simple movement patterns are all you need to guarantee you engage and strengthen your glutes to eliminate back pain and keep up your active lifestyle. Bridging, lifting, lunging, and squatting are categories of exercises that SAFELY strengthen your hips and can easily be progressed and regressed to fit your current ability level.

NE Portland, Low Back PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPApril 7, 2019Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Treating Neck and Back Pain Through Our Breath

Establishing proper movement patterns is the key to overcoming chronic pain.The breath is a foundational movement pattern that occurs over 20,000 times a day. Today we discuss how our breath can contribute to neck and back pain and what we can do to prevent it.

Back Pain, Low Back PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPMarch 21, 2019Evolve Performance Healthcareneck painComment

Eliminate Back Pain and Stay Active By Strengthening This One Muscle Group

What’s the strongest and arguably the most important muscle in the body? Your Glute Max. Laying at the transition between our upper and lower extremity the glute max is vitally important in stabilizing our pelvis and spine, developing power in more athletic movements, and controlling the movement of our lower extremity in walking, running, lunging, ANYTHING.

Learn how weakness in our glute muscle contribute to back pain and what you can do to strengthen this important muscle group in this weeks muscle group.

Protecting Your Spine for Less Back Pain in the Gym and At Work - The #1 Exercise to Master

Learning to properly brace our spine is the #1 important concept to master before beginning any fitness routine and a great way to protect our spine throughout our day. In this week’s article we cover proper bracing sequence.

Back Pain, Low Back PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPDecember 11, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Three Easy Tips to Protect Your Spine And Exercise Without Back Pain

When it comes to back pain - exercise should be part of the solution - not the problem. Learn three easy things you can do to protect your spine and avoid back pain in the gym.

Five Ways to Ease Back Pain - While Keeping Up With Your Exercise Routine

When it comes to back pain, exercise routine should be part of the solution - not the problem. Learn five things you can incorporate TODAY to be sure you can keep up with your exercise routine - even if you’re dealing with low back pain.

Ten Hip Hinge Progressions to Treat Low Back Pain

The hip hinge is the most important exercise to master to treat low back pain. Learn the 10 best hip hinge progressions to protect your low back during daily activities to more advanced fitness movements.

The Five Most Common Hip Hinge Mistakes

The Hip Hinge is a foundational movement on which all other movements are built upon. While a seemingly simple movement there many different mistakes that can lead the improper loading of our bodies during the hinge. We cover them here.

Treating Low Back Pain After an Auto Accident in Portland

Low back pain is one of the most common symptoms experienced following an auto accident. Learn how a combination of chiropractic adjustments, soft tissue work, and rehabilitation can help you recover from injuries sustained in a car accident in portland Oregon.

Best Exercises to Treat Low Back Pain After an Auto Accident

Low back pain is one of the more common symptoms to arise following an auto accident in Portland. The following exercises can be implemented early on in the rehab process to improve clinical outcomes.

Improving Your Squat To Treat Low Back Pain

The squat, when performed correctly, is one of the most useful tools in strengthening important spinal stabilizers. However, when performed incorrectly can actually contribute to low back pain and injury.Avoid these common mistakes when performing the squat to protect your low back and avoid injury.

Improve Hip Mobility in Five Minutes a Day

Maintaining hip mobility and motor control is important in preventing hip and low back pain/injury. Improve your hip mobility with this 5 minute routine.

Is Your Low Back Pain a Low Back Problem?

Unless your low back pain was caused by a traumatic incident, it usually isn’t a low back issue. More likely, you have a movement problem that is leading to back pain.

Treating Low Back Pain With The Hip Hinge: Easy Hinge Progressions

By keeping movement in our hips and center of gravity over our weight bearing joints, mastering the hip hinge is key to protecting our low back in fitness and in life.. Learn easy progressions to be sure your movement is safe and effective.

How To Protect And Treat Your Low Back With Intra-abdominal Pressure

Learn how Intra-Abdominal Pressure creates improves low back stability to protect the spine and reduce the risk of suffering low back injury

Treating Low Back Pain: Core Strength vs. Core Coordination

Learn the importance of training core coordination over core strength in the prevention of low back pain and simple steps you can take to improve it.

Common Movement Mistakes That Lead To Increased Low Back Pain

Improper movement always leads to pain and injury. Learn common movement mistakes and how to fix them.