[Transcription] Hi, I’m Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractic. I’d like to talk about chiropractic and headaches. Headaches are a very common symptom that patients exhibit that they often refer to as normal. “Well, I normally get headaches once or twice a week” or sometimes they’re daily. And this becomes their new normal where […]

[Transcription] Hi, I’m Dr. Steve Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractic. I want to talk for a second about chiropractic and migraine headaches. Specifically, what is causing the migraine and how chiropractic plays a role in getting rid of that migraine? So, let’s look at the spine structurally. This is the back of the spine, this is […]

This is a good question. It seems like when you’re sleeping, you’re laying down, you’re resting, that pain and those kind of symptoms would be less. But in some patients, they have worse back pain when they’re sleeping. So let’s take a moment to look at the final structure. This is the spine. You can […]

Hi, I’m Dr. Steve Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractic. “Is it okay to get my child checked by a chiropractor?” is a question I get asked quite a lot. “Why should I get my kids checked? They haven’t had a bunch of traumas, they haven’t worked at an office for 30 years.” These are good […]

Hi. I’m Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Chiropractic, and I want to talk about ribs for a minute. A lot of people complain that they have a rib out. It’s kind of a new term that more and more people are aware of and probably because they’re kind of painful when they go out of […]

Hi. I’m Dr. Steve Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractic in Petaluma, CA. A real commonly asked question is “Why do I need to get adjusted? My back doesn’t hurt” or “It might hurt a little bit, and then it goes away. It’s fine, it’s not a big deal.” The answer to that question is this: […]

Hi, Dr. Steve Battaglino. Today I want to show you some X-rays, to show you the importance of x-ray. What kind of information we get from them that we can’t otherwise just glean from our hands. This first x-ray series, this is “before and after,” so this is the side view of the neck like […]

Hi. I’m Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Chiropractic [now in Petaluma, California]. I want to encourage you to have your children checked by a qualified chiropractor. This includes infants and newborns as well. The reason is that infants and newborns often have birth trauma that distorts their spine, either their neck or lower down in the spine, and causes problems. […]

When I first consulted with this 11-year old boy’s mother, he was scheduled to have long stainless steel rods, called ‘Harrington Rods’ surgically inserted along the entire length of his spine on both sides.  In the first x-ray view (on left), a pronounced scoliosis is present. The second view (on right) was taken after four […]