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By Dr. Matthew Hannikainen DC — The Well Adjusted Chiropractic Centre, Toronto If you've dealt with back pain that improves, disappears for a while, and then returns — sometimes worse than before — you're not alone and you're not imagining it. Recurring back pain is one of the most common presentations we see at our downtown Toronto clinic, and it has a consistent explanation that most patients have never been given. The pain keeps coming back because the thing causing it has

By Dr. Matthew Hannikainen DC — The Well Adjusted Chiropractic Centre, Toronto If you commute into downtown Toronto every day carrying a laptop bag, a heavy purse, or a loaded backpack, your spine is absorbing a mechanical stress that most people never think to connect to their back pain, neck tension, or headaches. Bag carrying is one of the most overlooked contributors to structural spinal problems we see at our clinic. It's not dramatic — it doesn't feel like an injury. It