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What Problems Can Balance Therapy Treat?

What Problems Can Balance Therapy Treat?
Mild cases of dizziness and vertigo are common, with virtually everyone having an occasional experience. Balance therapy refers to any treatment protocol that helps you overcome these conditions and restore your balance.
Feb 13th, 2025
What Causes Shooting Pain That Goes Down One Leg?

What Causes Shooting Pain That Goes Down One Leg?
Sharp, shooting pain that extends from your lower back, through the buttock, and down one leg is most often caused by lumbar radiculopathy affecting the sciatic nerve. You may know the symptoms of this condition as sciatica.
Jan 15th, 2025

Why Pain Sustained from a Car Crash Is Often Delayed
Even minor car accidents can be upsetting events and with the weight, speed, and momentum of vehicles colliding, your body faces tremendous forces that provoke responses, and sometimes pain isn’t one of the first.
Dec 20th, 2024
10 Adverse Health Effects of Poor Posture

10 Adverse Health Effects of Poor Posture
Poor posture is more than a simple musculoskeletal problem causing sore muscles. The effects of posture on your body affect many of your major systems and body functions. Here are 10 adverse health effects caused by poor posture.
Nov 15th, 2024
5 Essential Benefits of Cold Laser Therapy

5 Essential Benefits of Cold Laser Therapy

“Cold” lasers are low-energy light therapy devices that work well to assist the healing of soft tissue injuries. Unlike other therapeutic lasers, a cold laser device won’t create heat, instead triggering chemical changes that aid healing.
Nov 2nd, 2024

7 Long-Term Benefits of Regular Chiropractic Care
While chiropractic care often offers fast pain relief, it’s intended as lasting therapy to help your body operate at peak efficiency. Here, we outline seven long-term benefits you may gain through regular adjustments.
Oct 21st, 2024

Feeling Stressed? Try Chiropractic Care
October is National Chiropractic Health Month. While you might know that chiropractic care is great for back pain, fewer people are aware of the stress-busting benefits of an adjustment. Chiropractic care can reduce cortisol levels in your body.
Oct 21st, 2024
5 Common Causes of Persistent Neck Pain 

5 Common Causes of Persistent Neck Pain 
Persistent, or chronic, neck pain isn’t as common as incidental neck pain, but it can be a big problem when it starts to interfere with your daily life. Today we’ll discuss five common causes of persistent neck pain. 
Sep 19th, 2024
 Can Physical Therapy Help Resolve My Sciatica for Good?

 Can Physical Therapy Help Resolve My Sciatica for Good?
Any condition that irritates or pressures the sciatic nerve can produce the classic signs and symptoms of sciatica.  While physical therapy won’t resolve sciatica on its own, it can be an important part of a sciatica treatment plan. 
Sep 19th, 2024
Migraines? Maybe It's Time to Get Adjusted

Migraines? Maybe It's Time to Get Adjusted
Migraines can be one of the most disabling, disruptive, and distracting forms of headache, shutting down your ability to focus on everyday tasks. Chiropractic adjustments reduce the intensity of migraines in a completely natural, drug-free way.
Aug 8th, 2024
Myths and Facts About Chiropractic Care

Myths and Facts About Chiropractic Care
Despite decades of successful holistic care, myths about chiropractic care persist while facts are slow to spread. The fact remains that chiropractors make a real difference in wellness by focusing on the balance of your musculoskeletal system.
Jul 11th, 2024
Benefits of Modern Cupping Therapy

Benefits of Modern Cupping Therapy
Cupping uses suction to selectively stimulate blood flow to or away from target areas in your body. Modern cupping relieves pain from arthritis, joint pain, and soft tissue injuries, as well as treating a range of metabolic and systemic conditions.
Jul 11th, 2024
Cold Laser Therapy: Your Answer to Chronic Joint Pain

Cold Laser Therapy: Your Answer to Chronic Joint Pain
For decades, cold laser therapy has been a drug-free way to treat a range of pain conditions, including carpal tunnel syndrome and osteoarthritis. The properties of low-level laser light stimulate body healing responses.
Jun 20th, 2024
Tips for Maximizing Your Chiropractic Adjustments

Tips for Maximizing Your Chiropractic Adjustments
The pain relief you feel after a chiropractic adjustment can be substantial and instantaneous. It’s natural to want that relief to last. There are ways you can maximize the benefits of your adjustment, both before and after your appointment.
Jun 20th, 2024
What Most Don't Know About Vertigo

What Most Don't Know About Vertigo
Dizziness is a common human condition that virtually everyone experiences on occasion. Vertigo is dizziness in Technicolor. Instead of a feeling of lightheadedness, vertigo introduces a swirling sensation of spinning, in the room or inside your head.
May 16th, 2024
Can Chiropractic Care Induce Labor?

Can Chiropractic Care Induce Labor?
While chiropractic care is great for pregnancy back pain, some worry it could induce labor unexpectedly. There’s no evidence it can start contractions, but chiropractic care can help you have shorter labor with increased comfort. 
May 2nd, 2024

5 Telltale Symptoms of a Herniated Disc
Herniated discs are common spinal dysfunctions that don’t always cause symptoms, but when they do, these can be extreme and debilitating. Fortunately, most cases heal on their own, but you can often accelerate healing with treatment.
Apr 4th, 2024

The Link Between Headaches and Neck Pain
The connection between headaches and neck pain is both complex and obvious. There are physical reasons as well as psychological and social contributors. Regardless of the causes, headaches and neck pain frequently occur together.
Apr 4th, 2024
The Effects of Whiplash After a Car Accident

The Effects of Whiplash After a Car Accident
A common injury following car accidents is whiplash, where the momentum of your head overcomes the counterbalancing power of your neck. The snapping or whipping motion that results can leave you with a collection of injuries and tissue strains.
Mar 13th, 2024
Will My Sciatica Resolve on Its Own?

Will My Sciatica Resolve on Its Own?
Sciatica isn’t a medical disease on its own, but rather a name for the collection of symptoms that commonly accompany sciatic nerve irritation. The good news is that most of the time, the reasons behind your sciatica pain resolve naturally.
Mar 12th, 2024
Why Identifying Your Migraine Triggers Is So Important

Why Identifying Your Migraine Triggers Is So Important
Migraines are more than simple headaches. A neurological disease that can bring your day to a sudden halt and keep you in silence and darkness for days, migraine pain often follows an activity, condition, or event called a trigger.
Feb 12th, 2024

Leading Causes of Shoulder Pain
Most shoulder pain stems from tendons in the rotator cuff of the shoulder. The rotator cuff stabilizes the joint, the most mobile in your body. However, the shoulder is a complex joint and other soft tissue may be the source of pain.
Feb 7th, 2024

5 Lifestyle Tips for Managing Arthritis Pain
Arthritis includes over 100 conditions affecting the joints and causing pain, stiffness, and inflammation. Here are five things you can do to help manage arthritis pain.
Jan 3rd, 2024

The Most Common Causes of Lower Back Pain
When you’re living with back pain, finding out what caused it helps you most effectively treat it. Here, we explore a few of the most common reasons for this issue.
Jan 3rd, 2024
A Closer Look at How Pregnancy Can Affect Your Skeleton

A Closer Look at How Pregnancy Can Affect Your Skeleton
Pregnancy is an amazing time. You’re creating life inside your body and, naturally, that means plenty of changes as your systems support both the baby and you. Here’s a closer look at how pregnancy can affect your skeleton.
Aug 23rd, 2024
Some of the conditions that are often alleviated with Chiropractic care: