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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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?
The Top Causes of Sciatica Revealed
Here's something that might surprise you as you dive into the top causes of sciatica. Sciatica is not a condition, disorder, or diagnosis in and of itself. In short, one might actually call it a "bucket diagnosis", meaning that it can refer to a number of conditions. Sciatica pain can be described as dull, achy, sharp, or shooting pain in the lower back and hip, buttock, and leg on one side of the body. Some may also experience burning, numbness, or tingling sensations on any of these … [Read more...] about The Top Causes of Sciatica Revealed
Improving Your Posture to Keep Your Spine Healthy
Spending more time on the couch, at your computer, and on your mobile devices has probably led you to visit Google to search for ways to start improving your posture a time or two. Those searches have probably also left you wondering… what exactly is posture? Well, posture is the position that your body maintains while standing, sitting, or lying down. To put it another way, posture is how you hold your body. To put it yet another way, posture is the particular stance you have when … [Read more...] about Improving Your Posture to Keep Your Spine Healthy
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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