Spine Universe Editorial Board

Dr. Arn Strasser is a Chiropractor who specializes in the non-force, non-surgical treatment of disc conditions in the neck and low back (Cox protocol) , gentle and non-force chiropractic care of neck and back injuries and pain, conservative management of migraine and headaches, and gentle chiropractic care for children. He is a specialist in Cranial Therapy, with an approach that combines Cranio-Sacral, Osteopathic and Chiropractic Craniopathy and European techniques.

Dr. Strasser practices in Portland, Oregon at the Strasser Chiropractic Center in NE Portland.

He graduated from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan with bachelors and masters degrees, and received his doctorate in chiropractic from Western States Chiropractic College in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Strasser received his internship training at Western States outpatient clinic.

Dr. Strasser has taught as an adjunctive professor at Western States and was on the postgraduate faculty of the Northwestern College of Chiropractic in Bloomington, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous articles on chiropractic management of back and joint pain.

Dr. Strasser is committed to an integrated chiropractic approach to conservative care. He utilizes a wide range of chiropractic techniques, including diversified adjusting, sacro-occipital technique, Cox flexion-distraction protocol, as well as cranial therapy, manual and muscular therapies, and therapeutic exercise.

Throughout his career, Dr. Strasser has had an active interest in holistic health. In his practice and in writing, he has emphasized the need to see the back and joint patient as a whole person with lifestyle, nutritional and stress factors as important components in successful care. He works closely with the medical community and feels that medicine and chiropractic offer patients complementary care for spinal conditions.

SpineUniverse articles from Arn Strasser, DC

• Chiropractic and Neck Pain: Conservative Care of Cervical Disorders
  Chiropractic manipulation, or adjustment, of the neck is a precise and gentle technique. The goal is to manage neck pain and restore motion to the spine’s joints.
• Chiropractic and Neck Pain: Patient Case Study Conclusion
  Chiropractic care is characterized by a unique doctor/patient dynamic providing a high degree of patient satisfaction.
• Chiropractic Care and Back Pain: An Overview of Diagnostic Principles and Treatment
  Understanding what happens during a visit to a chiropractor will help you to see how chiropractic fits in with other spinal specialties to provide an integrated approach to treating back pain.
• Chiropractic Care and Back Pain: Non-invasive Treatment for Bulging, Ruptured, or Herniated Discs (Slipped Discs)
  To treat low back herniated discs, most spine experts agree that, unless it’s a severe case, you should try conservative care before considering surgery. Chiropractic is a non-invasive (non-surgical and drugless) treatment option to bring relief.
• Chiropractic Care and Back Pain: Techniques
  To treat disc injuries, chiropractors use various techniques. Your chiropractor may use flexion-distraction, which gently stretches and flexes the spine, if you have back and leg pain. Other treatments include pelvic blocking and exercise.
• Chiropractic Care for Back Pain
  Before developing a treatment plan, a chiropractor will do a thorough examination to diagnose the exact cause of your back pain. Then you'll begin chiropractic treatments, which may include spinal manipulation and other manual techniques.
• Chiropractic Care for Chronic Pain
  The chiropractor's view of pain management from a non-drug treatment perspective yields favorable outcomes.
• Chiropractic Care for Degenerative Disc Disease
  Chiropractic may be a good option if you have degenerative disc disease. Chiropractic can improve spinal mechanics by improving spinal joint motion and reducing muscular pain. Article outlines chiropractic diagnosis and treatment options.
• Chiropractic Care for Kyphosis
  A chiropractor may be a good option if you have kyphosis. Though chiropractic care cannot reduce the hump associated with kyphosis, its treatments can improve overall spinal motion and reduce pain. Article outlines chiropractic diagnosis and treatmen
• Chiropractic Care for Neck Pain
  Chiropractor explains how a chiropractor diagnoses and treats neck pain. He or she will do a thorough examination to figure out the exact cause. Treatment may include spinal manipulation or other manual chiropractic techniques.
• Chiropractic Care for Sciatica
  Chiropractors routinely diagnose and successfully treat leg pain associated with inflammation of the sciatic nerve, commonly called sciatica. Your chiropractor will carefully examine the source of your leg pain to determine the cause of sciatica.
• Chiropractic Care for Spondylolisthesis
  Patients with spondylolisthesis, and disturbed pelvic and spinal mechanics because of this condition, will find chiropractic to be a very good approach to relieving their back pain. Article explains chiropractic techniques to relieve pain.
• Chiropractic Care for Whiplash
  Consulting a chiropractor may be a good option if you've suffered a whiplash injury. Chiropractors can diagnose your injury and provide treatment options, such as spinal manipulation, that may provide neck pain relief.
• Chiropractic Examination of the Cervical Spine
  Chiropractors examine your whole spine, even if you come in with neck pain, because a problem in one spinal region can cause problems in the rest of your spine. Checking out your posture is a key part of a chiropractic cervical spine examination.
• Chiropractic Management of Cervical Bulging, "Slipped", Herniated and Ruptured Discs
  Chiropractic care may include gentle spinal distraction, physiotherapy, exercises and a home care program.
• Chiropractic Management of Cervical Strain Associated with Osteoarthritis
  Home care is an important aspect of chiropractic care and may include neck exercises and suggestions to help maintain healing progress.
• Chiropractic Management of Neck Pain
  Chiropractiors have a wide range of therapeutic tools that include gentle manipulation and adjusting, non-force and soft tissue techniques.
• Chiropractic Management of Postural Cervical Strain
  Spinal manipulation is an efficient means to stretch soft tissue, stimulate the nervous system, increase vascular supply, and help reduce muscle tightness and inflammation.
• Chiropractic Management of Traumatic Cervical Injuries
  Muscle energy therapy is a gentle resistance-type maneuver that may be combined with gentle stretching.
• Chiropractic Patient Case Study: Cervical Bulging, "Slipped", Herniated and Ruptured Discs
  Chiropractors correlate examination findings with the finds from MRI or other radiographic studies.
• Chiropractic Patient Case Study: Cervical Postural and Repetitive Strain
  Chiropractic patient case study involving a patient with cervical postural and repetitive strain.
• Chiropractic Patient Case Study: Neck Pain Associated with Aging and Osteoarthritis
  The chiropractor correlates the patient's complaints of disabling pain in the back and neck with x-ray findings of mechanical problems in the spine.
• Chiropractic Patient Case Study: Traumatic Injury to the Cervical Spine
  Trauma in the form of a blow to the neck can cause the spine to lock up, lose motion between the segments and facet joints.
• Chiropractic Review: Primary Spinal Anatomy
  A chiropractic review of the anatomy of the cervical spine.
• Chiropractic Review: Spinal Facet Joints and Nerve Structures
  A brief chiropractic review of the spine's facet joints and nerve structures.
• Chiropractic Scope of Practice in Treating Neck Injuries
  Chiropractors are conservative care doctors and their practice does not include the use of drugs or surgery.
• Chiropractic Spinal Adjustment: What Was That Pop?
  During chiropractic adjustment, small pockets of air or bubbles in the tissue fluid surrounding a joint capsule may create a pop or cracking sound when joint tissues are stretched.
• Chiropractic Treatment: Slipped Discs
  Chiropractic treatment includes careful history taking, vitals signs, and orthopaedic and neurological testing.
• Computer Keyboards and Mouses: What Really Works Best for the Body?
  Don't be swayed by descriptions of keyboards as ergonomically advanced. Concentrate on how they work for you.
• Computer Monitors: What Makes Ergonomic Sense?
  Choosing the right computer monitor and positioning it correctly for your body is important to create an ergonomic workspace.
• Computers and the Body: The Ergonomics Solution
  Poor ergonomics is often an element to the cause of neck and back strain, repetitive stress injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome and even slipped discs.
• Developing the Chronic Pain Picture and Chiropractic Care
  What is important are not the specific findings, but the idea that the diagnosis is a complex picture involving a number of interrelated factors.
• How a Chiropractor Treats Degenerative Disc Disease
  Read a chiropractor's explanation of degenerative disc disease and how it can cause back and leg pain. He also explains what kind of chiropractic techniques are used to treat degenerative disc disease.
• How Chiropractors Diagnose Neck Pain: Patient History
  Chiropractic patient history taking is the same as in a typical medical office with some important differences.
• Neck Manipulation: Incidence of Vertebral Artery Dissection (VAD)
  Incidents of serious complications such as vetebral artery dissection (VAD) occurring after a patient has received a chiropractic manipulation are rare.
• Neck Manipulation: Safety, Contraindications, and Risks of Cervical Spine Manipulation
  Chiropractic manipulation of the neck is contraindicated in the presence of a nearby bone fracture, bone disease, or disc rupture with severe neurological findings.
• Neck Pain: Minor Incidents to Serious Accidents and Spinal Conditions
  The neck's susceptibility to injury is due in part to biomechanics and the connection between the head and thoracic spine.
• Pain Management and Chiropractic Care: Listening to the Patient
  Listening to the patient and the body through examination means possibly elicitng pain and determining its source.
• Palpation: The Art and Science of Chiropractic Diagnosis
  Spinal palpation is an important part of the patient's chiropractic examination and helps the chiropractor determine where and how to adjust or manipulate the spine.
• Spinal Palpation of the Neck
  The art of spinal palpation is the first procedure a chiropractor learns in school and continues to perfect through his or her career.
• Understanding Chiropractic and Low Back Injury
  Chiropractors use a range of techniques that include specific adjustments, general manipulation, low force and non-force maneuvers, and other procedures tailored to meet the patient's needs.