Dr. Pete Lazarnick "Dr. Pete": Blog

Lower back pain is a common complaint among golfers. That doesn’t mean golf is bad exercise; besides being something that can be done while physically distancing, it allows you to stretch and absorb sunlight to produce Vitamin D. But golf does have a downside, and at the Carrollton chiropractic office of Dr. Peter Lazarnick (Dr. Pete), we want our patients to understand how they can mitigate their risk, and what options are available to them if they are injured. Although the perfect golf swing is a smooth motion, even in the best cases it requires the spine to experience torsion at high speed. The lower back, or lumbar region, doesn’t have as much lateral muscle support as other parts of the spinal column. The support it does have is subjected to a large amount of force (torque) during a swing, and spinal discs that are having to take the brunt of the torque could easily fray. The facet joints connecting the backs of the vertebrae may also fracture, allowing the vertebrae to slip slig

Do you feel soreness in your hip when you walk upstairs or lie on your side? The problem might not be in the joint. At the Carrollton chiropractic office of Dr. Pete Lazarnick (Dr. Pete), we offer a variety of complementary, uninvasive, non-addictive treatments for all sorts of musculoskeletal problems. Among those problems are hip bursitis, the inflammation of bursae. A bursa is a sac of fluid that tendons slide over, sparing them from having to rub directly against bony ridges. There are hundreds of them in the body, but the largest and likeliest to be injured are the trochanteric bursae. The trochanteric bursae are located on the outward facing side of each femur on a notch near the top of the bone. When the bursa suffers an acute injury or becomes overused, it becomes inflamed and develops a dull pain, especially when it is subjected to pressure.  Hip bursitis is more likely to occur in women and older people. We identify it through a combination of x-rays, which may show calcium