The Benefits of Chiropractic Care for Daily Headaches Half of the world's adult population struggles with headaches at least once a year. And while headaches can seem like no big deal most of the time, they also cause very real pain that affects your quality of life. I regularly treat headache patients and have a high rate of success using both Active Release Technique (ART) soft tissue therapy and gentle chiropractic adjusting. I frequently address them with ART performed on … [Read more...] about The Benefits of Chiropractic Care for Daily Headaches
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The Link between Stress and Headaches
The Link Between Stress and Headaches Are you feeling rushed? Are you dreading a big meeting at work? Take it from the leading provider of natural tension headache treatment in Seattle - these events can all add up to stress and headaches. Often it's not the event itself that results in a headache but your body's reaction to stress. If you deal with stress by clenching your jaw or tensing your muscles, you may be more likely to experience headaches due to these coping behaviors. So, … [Read more...] about The Link between Stress and Headaches
What Type of Headache Do You Have?
What Type of Headache Do You Have? In my last decade of practice I have been able to help numerous people with headache pain. Sometimes people have lived with these headaches for years and just put up with them. Other headaches are episodic and come and go periodically. Headaches cause frequent stress and lower the quality of people's lives. Headaches are experienced a little bit differently by everyone. Patients at our chiropractic headache clinic in Seattle may report feeling tired or … [Read more...] about What Type of Headache Do You Have?
Is There a Perfect Posture?
"Sit up straight and stop slouching!" We’ve all heard (or said) it a million times in the name of having perfect posture. You've likely heard this since childhood, and for good reason. Poor posture as a kid can create health challenges later in life. Rounded shoulders (scapular protrusion), swayback (lumbar hyperlordosis) and a hunched upper back (thoracic hyperkyphosis) are all postural imbalances that place a tremendous amount of stress on the spine. And when those imbalances … [Read more...] about Is There a Perfect Posture?
How to Recover from Whiplash After an Auto Accident
Your spine is a long chain of bones, discs, muscles, and ligaments that extend from your skull down to your tailbone. The cervical spine (your neck) is designed to support your head and protect the nerves that go out to your face, shoulders, and arms. Postural changes, arthritis, and sudden injuries are a few of the primary causes of neck pain. Most of the time, the pain can be traced to a problem with either the muscles, bones, discs, or nerves in your neck. That’s important to … [Read more...] about How to Recover from Whiplash After an Auto Accident
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