Dr. Spearman’s Blog

Recently a 30 year old patient came to see me. He wanted to get off prescription meds and lower his blood pressure. He also wanted

Connecting the base of the head just above the spine and the two top vertebrae in the neck are a group of small muscles. Some

I get patients complaining of foot pain every week. While foot pain could be a side effect of the low back and hip, in my

Hemorrhoids are veins at the very end of the digestive tract. When they are irritated they can be completely painful. You can see them with

First let me wish everyone a happy holiday. I will be out of town for two weeks starting 22 Dec and returning Jan 5, a

Last night Standard Process put on a dinner at True Food Kitchen in Old Town Pasadena. It is an organic restaurant and I recommend it

I hear ads on the radio for fixing the jaw with a fancy mouthpiece based on a CT scan and blah, blah, blah. On occasion

As we get older that sense of physical youth slowly fades. What happens is it literally becomes more difficult to push the body around and

We have all heard of anemia. There are several kinds. Iron poor nutrition or the inability to adsorb the iron in food to make red

Cold and Flu season are coming up this fall. But beyond that living in a big city has an effect on the air. Here in

These are common symptoms that patients complain of. More often than not gas is easily handled. Bloating tends to be more involved, but not always.

The “subluxation complex” is a very specialized term to begin with. It is peculiar to the chiropractic profession. Chiropractors do almost all of the bone

“But Dr. Spearman, stuck joints are not healthy.” Precisely, Watson! Much of the travail that people experience is because it is not routine in our

I occasionally eat fast food and, perhaps, so do you. Cheers! There is a lot of contrary data about diet out there. There are many

The dentists have done a good job at getting us to do brushing, teeth cleaning and cavity filling. Numerous people neglect their teeth anyway. I

This article is not an ad for your mom and pop donut shop or any of the big name donut houses. Here is a recipe

A few years ago I wrote an article which appeared in the “Latest” newsletter on the B vitamins and received popular public response in my

This article should more properly have been titled Abnormal Biomechanical Function Affecting the Pelvic Girdle, but who of you would have read it? The pelvic

I am working on a patient who was in a traffic accident. She is almost completely better. However she came in this morning and she

No one wants to get a herniated disc if it can be avoided. A herniated disc is found between the spinal vertebrae and each person