Author: Jesse Cai

A self-proclaimed “not your usual chiropractor”, Jesse believes in using movement as medicine and champions an active lifestyle for a functional and fulfilling life. Jesse, who originally chose to enroll in a Veterinarian School, went on a whirlwind journey through the law department of Murdoch University before settling into its Chiropractic Science course for five years.

Prior to his return to Singapore, Jesse worked closely with high level Australian athletes. This included the Australian Football League as well as various state and national level sporting clubs. He was the Head Sport Trainer for the Forrestfield Football Club, board member of the Sports Chiropractic Australia in 2017, and was a member of Sports Medicine Australia.

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Chiropractor Case 2a: Numbness and Tingling, Sharp Pain, and Weakness

A couple of months ago, a lady came into our chiropractic clinic complaining of recurrent sharp pain in the foot with numbness and cramps in the leg. Classic symptoms of chronic neurological conditions, I thought to myself. The client already had a nerve conduction study done and the findings suggested nerve pathology. The patient decided [...]
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Mindfulness Apps for Chronic Pain: A Chiropractor’s Perspective

We talked about mindfulness practice last week because the latest lower back pain clinical guidelines recommend mindfulness as a second-line treatment for lower back pain. If you are looking for treatment for your lower back or neck pain, mindfulness practice could be a good place it start. Today, we discuss three apps that we have [...]
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Mindfulness For Chronic Pain | Chiropractor Singapore

There are some discussions of mindfulness practice is an effective strategy for managing chronic pain. As discussed previously, lower back pain clinical guidelines do include mindfulness practice in their recommendation. However, research in this area is still lacking. This post largely describes my previous experience with mindfulness practice. A subsequent blog post will detail my [...]
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Does Frozen Shoulder Exist? A Chiropractor’s Perspective

There is very little clarity on what frozen shoulder actually is among research literature. Because of the vague diagnostic criteria and poor understanding of the condition, chiropractors and physical therapists sometimes mis-diagnose shoulder pain. What is frozen shoulder or adhesive capsulitis?   Doesn't matter if you've been told you have a frozen shoulder or adhesive [...]
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Sports Massage Debunked | Chiropractor Singapore

A physiotherapist reached out the other day after reading the chiropractic adjustment truths blog post. We had a bit of discussion on manual therapy and I dismissed manual therapy as ineffective for musculoskeletal conditions (back pain, shoulder pain, knee pain, etc). He somewhat disagreed. He thinks there's value in manual therapy. I realised I have [...]
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7 Lessons I Learn from Pain Schooled! | Chiropractor Singapore

Pain Schooled! #4 is now over. We are super privileged to have millennial hawker and fitness icon Walter Tay to join us as a guest at our chiropractic clinic. Pain schooled! was founded to explore what it means to live in pain. We use research from pain science, that is how to approach pain from [...]
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Transitional Vertebrae: Do They Cause Back Pain?

Chiropractic is fairly new in Singapore (+/- 30 years). Square One is also new - we are about a year and a half old. What we do at our chiropractic clinic is virtually unheard of in Singapore - pain solutions through exercise. (Manual therapy like chiropractic adjustments and soft tissue "release" is still all the [...]
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Free Community Clinic | Chiropractor Singapore

Square One Active Recovery is organising our first free community clinic! We have wanted to do this for a while now but never had the time to sit down to think through what a free clinic might entail. Truth is we still haven't, but we are going ahead with it anyway. Why? We wouldn't be [...]
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Chiropractor Case 1: Achilles Tendinitis ft Kingsley Tay

We started working with Kingsley Tay a couple of months ago. He approached us for help with knee pain, previously diagnosed as quadriceps tendinitis, because it doesn't seem to be getting better. He had been receiving treatment from sports doctor and physiotherapist for nine months prior to seeing us. This was his Instagram post: I'M [...]
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Why Your Instagram Rehab Doesn’t Give You Pain Relief | 7 Tips from a Chiropractor

Every now and then we get chronic pain clients who come to us for a visit and we never see them again. When we check in on them a few weeks or months later, they told us they've tried many exercises at home and they didn't work. Of course, they didn't work! When we think [...]
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Pain School! #4: Walter Tay – Low Back Pain from a Hawker’s Perspective

What is Pain Schooled! Pain Schooled! is Singapore's first pain community founded on the exploration of what it means to be living in pain in the 21st century. Our mission is to educate and empower pain sufferers with strategies to manage their pain. You can expect high quality content from the latest research, storytelling from [...]
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Chiropractic Treatment For Sports Injuries | When To See A Chiropractor?

Chiropractors are known for treating back pain and neck pain but do you know sports chiropractors also work with sports injuries? At Square One, we work with you to give you long term pain relief. What is chiropractic care? Most people mistake chiropractic care as chiropractic adjustments or spinal manipulative therapy. Chiropractic care, however, refers [...]