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Understanding the Active Release Technique

Active Release Technique (ART) is a soft tissue treatment that targets complications from overused muscles. Essentially, ART is a formalized process to help encourage soft tissue healing.

Nov 1st, 2025

Struggling to Bend Over from Tight Hip Flexors?

A group of front leg muscles at the hips, the hip flexors provide certain leg motions at the hip. When you have trouble bending over at the waist, tight hip flexor muscles might be the problem.

Oct 9th, 2025

Why Your Back Cracks Every Time You Get Out of Bed

The cracking you hear when you get out of bed isn’t a sign of your body self-destructing, at least not when the noises happen painlessly. There's not usually anything significant occurring and there’s probably nothing to be concerned about.

Oct 6th, 2025

Assisted Stretching vs. Physical Therapy

Assisted stretching is a specialization within the physical therapy and rehabilitation umbrella. While assisted stretching can use apparatus like bands or towels, we use it to describe proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, or PNF.

Sep 24th, 2025

Migraines That Start in Your Neck — What Chiropractic Can Do

Every migraine patient has details about their condition that are unique. It’s possible, for a number of reasons, for it to seem like your migraines start in the neck. As many as 80% of migraine patients have episodes that start with neck pain.

Sep 23rd, 2025

Do You Still Need an Exam If You Feel Fine After an Auto Accident?

Visiting a chiropractor after an auto accident, even when you feel fine, is a proactive health step that can minimize the effects of late-emerging injuries to your musculoskeletal system, like whiplash, soft tissue damage, and spinal misalignment.

Aug 27th, 2025

Herniated Discs in Athletes: How to Recover and Prevent Future Injuries

Herniated discs are common among athletes of all levels, leading to weeks-long visits to the disabled list and coping with pain and mobility problems. Chiropractic treatment can help you recover and prevent future injuries.

Aug 4th, 2025

Myths vs. Fact: 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 14th, 2025

5 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 2nd, 2025

Cupping Therapy: An Ancient Practice with Benefits for Today

Modern cupping therapy provides treatment for a wide range of ailments and conditions using negative pressure for deep tissue stimulation. Derived from traditional Chinese medicine, cupping is a complementary treatment with many applications. 

Jun 5th, 2025

What is Graston Technique® or Muscle Scraping?

The Graston Technique®, a muscle-scraping modality, can effectively aid the treatment of muscle restrictions and myofascial scar tissue without the use of pain medication. It’s an active technique that treats pain rather than masking it. 

Jun 5th, 2025

How Chiropractic Care Supports Arthritis Relief (May Arthritis Awareness month)

The goal of chiropractic care is to encourage your body to heal and maintain itself. Therefore, it’s a natural drug-free match for relieving the effects of arthritis, a group of inflammatory joint conditions that can be chronic and degenerative.

May 8th, 2025

Tech Neck? How to Avoid Digital-Age Spine Strain

Tech neck results from the head-forward viewing position that many people adopt when using devices like smartphones and tablets, raising the question of how to avoid neck pain in the digital age.

May 8th, 2025

 How Do Chiropractors Treat Whiplash After Auto Accidents?

The snapping motion of the head after an auto accident can damage a wide range of tissue, from ligaments and muscles to spinal discs and vertebrae. Commonly called a whiplash, this injury can be slow to emerge and complex to treat. 

Apr 9th, 2025

Understanding Dynamic Versus Static Stretching

Dynamic and static stretches use different techniques, and each has its own purpose. Generally speaking, dynamic stretching is usually a warm-up for an activity, while static stretching is better suited as a post-exertion option. 

Apr 9th, 2025

How Does Nonsurgical Spinal Decompression Relieve Back Pain?

Back pain is not only a common problem, it’s one of the leading causes of disability and lost time at work. Spinal decompression relieves back pain by releasing nerve tissue when it’s irritated by shifting anatomy of the spine.

Mar 18th, 2025

5 Signs That Your Arthritis Is Worsening and Needs Treatment

Treatment for many forms of arthritis works best when your condition is in its early stages. Rather than living with pain and stiffness, watch for the signs that arthritis is worsening and seek treatment to maintain your quality of life.

Mar 1st, 2025

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

The Art of Active Release Technique (ART) for Chronic Pain

Chronic pain can stem from soft tissue, like fascia, ligaments, muscles, nerves, and tendons, even without serious damage. Active release technique (ART) may help reduce chronic pain caused by these tissues.

Feb 13th, 2025

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

Don’t Hibernate in Pain This Winter: These 4 Innovative Nonsurgical Treatments Can Help

If you’re dealing with lingering pain, it’s easier to sidestep enjoying the outdoors or heading to the gym. This robs your body of motion, a crucial contributor to wellness. Here are four nonsurgical approaches to musculoskeletal pain relief. 

Jan 9th, 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

Limited by a Painful Back Strain? Get Relief with the Graston Technique®

Muscle strain is a common source of back pain. When your symptoms linger longer than they should, it could be a problem with myofascial tissue. The Graston Technique® is an instrument-assisted treatment that releases tense soft tissue.

Dec 5th, 2024

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

“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 

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?

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 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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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

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

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