Strive Chiropractic Blog

The Ergonomic Danger That Sedentary Kids Face

Parents: ever feel like you were more active than your children at their age? Instead of tablets and video games, do your childhood memories include late nights of tag with the neighborhood kids? Or invigorated water balloon fights, perhaps scraped knees and elbows from trouble on your bike? It’s recommended that kids get at least…

What You Should – and Shouldn’t – Do After Your Chiropractic Adjustment

If you’ve scheduled your first chiropractic adjustment, or are considering going to a chiropractor for the first time, you may be wondering what happens after your appointment. Are there special rules to follow or things you shouldn’t do?  While there aren’t any requirements regarding what to do after your adjustment, there are some tips and…

High Or Low Impact Exercise: What’s Best With Back Pain

When you’re in pain, it’s easy to let any exercise come to a screeching halt. This is especially true when it comes to back pain. It’s an understandable reaction—  pain typically doesn’t encourage us to keep moving.  Did you know, pain is a protective mechanism built into our bodies to prevent further damage from being…

Acute vs. Chronic Neck Pain: How To Beat Both

Pain when you rise in the morning. Stiffness and discomfort whenever you turn your head in the slightest. A searing referral of pain down your spine with the wrong movement. If you’re in a losing battle with neck pain, we know just how uncomfortable and interfering it can be in day-to-day life. When lingering irritation…

A Tingling Arm Could Indicate This Syndrome

You know that persistent pins and needles feeling in your arm? It may not just be your arm just “falling asleep.” And, if it’s occurring along with a tingling sensation in your arm and fingers, a chronically achy shoulder and neck, along with the weakening ability to grip firmly, this combination of symptoms is likely…

A Holistic Approach To Weight Loss

Yo-yo dieting. Crash dieting. The inevitable new fad diet that storms onto the scene. If you’ve hopped on the diet train to lose weight only to gain it back, you’re not alone. Many people go all-in on a diet, see some relatively quick results…but then inevitably crash and burn later, oftentimes gaining everything back.  The…