Imagine a healthcare team where one provider gently tweaks your spine and the other taps the right points with needles—sounds like the ultimate wellness duet, right? That’s the promise of integrative care combining chiropractic adjustments and acupuncture. Separately, each is powerful. Together, they may just be a symphony for your muscles, nerves, and joints.

Whether it’s osteoarthritis, osteopenia, or osteoporosis, our skeletal system sometimes protests the daily grind. Understanding these conditions and how chiropractic care may help turn that creak into a confident stride.

Affecting roughly 1 in 10 women of reproductive age (NIH, 2023), PCOS isn’t just about irregular periods or a few stray hairs. PCOS is a complex metabolic and endocrine condition that can ripple through nearly every system in the body.

The Female Athlete Triad isn’t about three sports or three stretches, it’s a medical syndrome describing the interaction of three interconnected conditions seen in physically active women.

Welcome to perimenopause and menopause, a natural biological transition marking the gradual decline of ovarian hormone production. According to the National Institute on Aging (NIA), menopause officially begins 12 months after a woman’s last menstrual period, typically between ages 45 and 55.

A headache is pain originating from the head or upper neck. People may think a headache is cause from the brain but brains can’t feel pain. Instead, it comes from nerves, blood vessels, muscles, and connective tissues surrounding the skull and neck.

Bloating isn’t just a dinner-table inconvenience; it’s one of the most common digestive complaints worldwide. What is it, really? What causes it? And why does it always seem to strike right before important events, tight clothing, plane rides or photo ops?

Let’s introduce you to this technique! Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT) isn’t electroshock or sci-fi sound cannons, it’s focused acoustic energy applied to injured tissues.

Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) is not the latest smoothie ingredient, but it does involve spinning your blood until the platelets, tiny cell fragments packed with growth factors are concentrated. Those platelets are then injected into an injured tendon, arthritic knee, or sometimes post-surgical site with the hope that they’ll accelerate healing.

Rumor has it fibermaxxing is becoming trendy. Because yes, when influencers start sprinkling flaxseed dust over everything and brag about hitting 50 g of fiber a day, it becomes a trending health topic worth interrogating.

Imagine trying to navigate a maze blindfolded, using only gut feeling and rumors from passersby. That’s roughly what it’s like to be a healthcare provider without a scientific process. The scientific method is our headlamp in that maze.

Think you've recovered from COVID-19? We are finding that this may not be the case. For many, the virus sticks around in the most unwelcome way: pain. Welcome to Long COVID’s musculoskeletal nightmare, where every wink, stretch, or yawn is a reminder that your muscles didn’t get the memo that the virus moved out.

Pull up a chair, though not for too long, mind you. Let me spin you a cautionary tale about your muscles. Imagine they’re office workers: answerable, reliable sorts… until they don’t move, and then suddenly they're calling in sick. Welcome to sedentary-induced muscle anarchy: where inactivity begets weakness, faster than you can say “Netflix binge.”

In chiropractic school (and beyond), chiropractors are able to learn and discover many different techniques. After chiropractic college, many chiropractors continue their education to receive diplomates, and certifications in topics such as Functional Medicine, Sports (CCSP/ACBSP), Neurology, and more!

The crack is called cavitation, and it doesn’t arise from smashing bones and joints. The science points to something cooler: tribonucleation.

Magnesium, the humble mineral, is responsible for over 300 enzymatic reactions in the body, and yet most of us don’t get enough. Why should you care?

The pelvic floor may not be as glamorous as the glutes, but it's the backstage crew keeping our bowels, urine, and reproductive organs from staging a grand exit. If the pelvic floor is too weak, things fall apart.

Radiating arm symptoms often arise from nerve compression (radiculopathy or entrapment), plexus irritation, or vascular compromise.

When your nerves decide to play hide-and-seek, but they hide in your spine and seek in your toes, that’s radiating pain for you. The difference lies in where and who is “it”. Welcome to our lineup: sciatica, peripheral neuropathy, piriformis syndrome, and lumbar radiculopathy.