Ho! Ho! Ho!  Christmas is almost here!  Can you feel the excitment?  We can here at Doctors’ Choice because Santa’s been here getting ready for his big night!  He’s exercising and Doc Novatnak has been treating Santa with his extra special care, making sure Santa’a able to carry all those goodies to the children of [...]

Schuylkill County:  Did you know that about 10% of back injuries do not resolve in two months time and the back pain is considered chronic?  Is there something different about backs from other tissues or joints in the body?  Yes, there is! In 1987, the journal Spine published Dr. Vert Mooney’s Presidential Address of the International Society for [...]

Here is a simple exercises that you can do at home with no equipment. It works the multifidus, erector spinae, transverse abdominus, oblique muscles. The purpose of this exercise is to Increase low back strength and muscular endurance. By doing this exercise you can have the benefits of Improved stability, functional strength and injury prevention [...]

I am constantly amazed by the number of covered no-crash car accidents that we see in our office…

What treatments helped their back pain the most? In this Consumer Reports survey, many of the respondents tried an average of five to six different treatments over the course of a year. There were 23 different types of treatments tried…