Chiropractic Singapore Blog

I started this blog to offer evidence-based chiropractic content so people could make informed-decisions about their pain treatment.

It has since grown to include other topics, in over 200 posts, to provide a true biopsychosocial, whole-person approach to helping you find freedom from pain.

I’ll like to thank the support of my readers — all 10,000 of you — who have helped this site grow to become the most read chiropractic/physiotherapy blog in Singapore.

To facilitate your reading experience, I am compiling an essential reading list. If you prefer, you can scroll down to access the blog in reverse chronological order (newest entries first).

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Favourite Posts

Singapore Chiropractic Guide

Does Chiropractic Adjustment Work?

Coaching vs Adjustment

Do I need a full spine x-ray?

Recovery Truths

Does Stretching Work?

“Bad” Posture Truths

An Orthopaedic Surgeon’s Mistakes

Choosing a Chiropractor or Physiotherapist

Hard Science

Pain Neuroscience Education

Neuroscience Behind Mindfulness

Ultimate Back Pain Guide

Everything Wrong with a Problem-Narrative

Soft Recovery

Setting Recovery Goals

Effect of Self-Talk on Exercise

Self-Compassion for Performance

Hard Change vs Easy change

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Can reframing your experiences take your recovery to the next level?

Words are more powerful than you imagine. For example, positive self-talk before exercise can lead to a 22% improvement in their pain experience after exercising. That's a lot of upside for very little effort! In the same study, those who read a negative-worded script saw a -4% change in their pain experience. To put in [...]
personal training singapore,
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90% of patients with degenerative meniscus tear benefit from exercise

If you had 90% chance of winning the lottery, would you go for it? I am guessing you would. What if you had 90% chance of getting better with exercise, would you give it a shot? Exercise is not bad for you. Supervised exercise can help you with your knee pain! In fact, exercise is [...]
no pain no pain, chiropractor singapore, pain solution
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Don’t aim for less pain! Instead, aim for more function.

When it comes to chiropractic treatments, most people want instant relief. I get it. After all, living with lower back pain or neck pain is awful. All you want is for it to go away. The problem with instant relief is that they don't tend to last very long. Like pain killers, chiropractic adjustments make [...]
kettlebell training, crossfit singapore
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How to optimise your training so it can fit into your time-tight schedule

A lot of what I do as a chiropractor is to encourage clients to meet WHO physical activity guidelines. This means engaging in strengthening exercises for at least twice a week! If you are finding it hard to carve out time for weight training, the following strategies may help you optimise your training so you [...]
exercise for seniors, weight training
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Can powerlifting be your arthritic knee pain solution?

As a chiropractor, I've seen the limitations of chiropractic adjustments firsthand. While spinal manipulation can often provide pain relief, the results don't last. This is why I started offering exercise to help my clients find true freedom from pain. Can I exercise with knee pain? As a pain sufferer, you worry that exercise will make [...]
neck pain singapore, chiropractic treatment, movement pattern
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Why you should care more about your chronic pain and take action now

Everybody agrees that living with pain is terrible. However, despite its awfulness, we seem to also think it's okay to live in pain. We trivialise pain as something that has no real consequences. You may even go as far as to think it's a sign of weakness. Chronic pain has real consequences. What pain feels [...]
back pain exercise, pain solution
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Six exercises for neck pain and back pain — does it work?

Someone reached out today to ask if the exercises we prescribed as a chiropractor are the same as what is used in physiotherapy. In my opinion, that is not a very meaningful question because it's akin to asking if cai png and nasi padang are the same. There is no perfect answer to that! However, [...]
upper cervical chiropractor, neck x-ray
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Evidence-based chiropractic, while unpopular, is a thing

Super surprised to read this morning that British Columbia chiropractors are spilt over if x-ray usage should be limited. The good news is that 54% voted that diagnostic x-rays should be limited and claims that are not supported by scientific evidence should be banned. Hopefully in more years to come, we will see an increase [...]
dr oz, back pain singapore, cost of mri
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Stop caring about the “degeneration” in your x-ray or MRI reports

In all that we know about back pain, disc herniations, useless x-rays, and chronic pain, degeneration is a non-issue. As a chiropractor, patients always come to me being worried about the degenerative changes in their spine. Here is the good news -- you absolutely don't have to worry about it. "Your spine is fragile" is [...]
temporary solution, pain keep coming back
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Why do my problems keep coming back? Can I truly get better?

Recovery can get frustrating when your problem keeps coming back. Be it neck pain or back pain, we get a little discouraged each time it starts hurting again. As a chiropractor, I help chronic pain patients through these issues, and help them develop long-term working solutions. I have successfully coached hundreds of clients to help [...]
philosophy phenomenology cup, pain science
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Why my back pain isn’t going away even though I always use my core?

When working with patients with back pain, they often want to know how they should do certain things or what they should pay attention to (during movements) to help themselves. One of the things that always surface is the core. Understanding how your brain and memory works. In order to adequately explore this topic, we [...]
cobra pose, back pain
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Back Pain Guide

"Back pain" affects over 80% of people at least once in their lifetime. As a chiropractor, I work a lot with clients suffering from back aches and soreness. In this guide, I hope to share my experiences with you so you can find your own freedom from pain. I will cover: What is the most [...]