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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.  When you don’t suffer an immediate traumatic injury as part of a car crash, you’ll still...

Muscle strain is a common source of back pain. Often stemming from unbalanced posture or overexertion, your symptoms could linger beyond the time it takes for muscle strain to heal. The problem isn’t in the muscles themselves but in surrounding tissue called fascia.  At Active Care Chiropractic & Rehabilitation, we...

While poor posture may give you a stiff neck or a sore back, these could be the least of your worries if unbalanced postures have become a habit. Posture has a direct influence on spinal health, and since the spine is crucial for virtually every aspect of your body’s operations,...

Lasers have meant many big changes in all fields of medicine. Precision cutting abilities make surgery easier on the patient with a wealth of other benefits.  Chiropractic care works well alongside a technology called cold laser therapy. Unlike surgical lasers, cold lasers aren’t designed to cut tissue and in fact,...

Your back pain is gone so your need for chiropractic care is gone too, right?  Discontinuing your adjustments might be a short-sighted decision that overlooks the long-term benefits of regular chiropractic care. While relief from musculoskeletal pain is an effective reason to choose chiropractic, the primary goal of your treatments...

October is National Chiropractic Health Month, a time to raise awareness of musculoskeletal health and the benefits of chiropractic care. While many people know that chiropractic adjustments treat neck and back pain, fewer know of the stress-busting potential that your chiropractor has to offer.  At Active Care Chiropractic & Rehabilitation,...

Virtually everyone suffers from neck pain from time to time. Unbalanced posture, overexertion, injury, and more can contribute, so rest and self-care solves the problem.  Persistent, or chronic, neck pain isn’t as frequent, but it can be a big problem when it starts to interfere with your daily life. The...

Any condition that irritates or pressures the sciatic nerve can produce the classic signs and symptoms of sciatica, a pain syndrome that affects this largest pair of nerves in your body. Sciatica can be a chronic or recurring problem for some people.  At Active Care Chiropractic and Rehabilitation, we use...

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.  Producing the calcium necessary for the formation of your baby’s bones means that there may be some challenges for your own skeleton, not...

Migraines can be one of the most disabling, disruptive, and distracting forms of headache, shutting down your ability to focus on everyday tasks. The reasons why people suffer from migraines isn’t fully understood.  As specialists in chiropractic treatment of headaches and migraines, the team at Active Care Chiropractic & Rehabilitation...

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.  A visit to an office of Active Care Chiropractic & Rehabilitation can put...

There’s a trend in medical treatment today toward drug-free treatments, spurred in part by the worldwide opiate crisis. Re-exploring ancient therapies adds options to the therapeutic toolbox without relying on pharmaceutical treatments that often take their own toll on patients.  At Active Care Chiropractic & Rehabilitation, we practice a modern...

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.  Most medical laser devices use heat to get results, whether it’s to coagulate collagen as with many...

The pain relief you feel after a chiropractic adjustment can be substantial and virtually 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.  It doesn’t matter what condition caused you to visit Active...

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.  Peripheral vertigo starts in the inner ear or vestibular nerve, and it’s what...

There are many myths and misconceptions still floating around about chiropractic care and, in particular, with chiropractic adjustments and pregnant women. It’s common during pregnancy to experience back pain, and chiropractic adjustments often relieve this with a simple and safe procedure.  However, many worry that chiropractic treatments may somehow induce...

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.  Many people associate back pain from herniated discs with chiropractic care, and with good...

The connection between headaches and neck pain is both complex and obvious. There are sometimes physical reasons while other times the problem might include psychological and social contributors. Regardless of the causes, headaches and neck pain frequently occur together.  When connected head and neck pain is only an occasional problem,...

Because of the weight and inertia involved in an automobile accident, significant force can be transferred to your body, even in low-speed collisions. A common injury involving these forces is whiplash, where the momentum of your head overcomes the counterbalancing power of your neck.  The snapping or whipping motion that...

The condition called sciatica isn’t a medical disease on its own, but rather a name for the collection of symptoms that commonly accompany sciatic nerve irritation. As the largest and longest nerve in your body, the pair of sciatic nerves run down each leg after branching off the spinal cord...

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 is pulsing and intense, affecting about 12% of the American population.  The reasons why some people suffer from migraines aren’t fully...

As neck and shoulder pain specialists, the team at Active Care Chiropractic & Rehabilitation knows that 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.  Tendon tissue in the shoulder can become irritated with...

Arthritis, affecting over 53 million people in the United States, is a condition marked by joint inflammation that can significantly affect your daily activities through pain, stiffness, and reduced mobility. Beyond medical interventions, incorporating specific lifestyle changes can help you manage arthritis pain effectively. Known for our expertise and compassion,...

Most people will deal with back pain at some point in their lives. In fact, it’s the leading cause of disability across the globe. You don’t want to be a statistic. If you have back pain, seeking treatment and getting relief means you can return to doing what you love....