What Causes Sciatica and How Sports Chiropractic Care Can Help?

What Causes Sciatica and How Sports Chiropractic Care Can Help?

The sciatic nerve runs from the lower back through each buttock and down each leg. It’s the largest nerve in the body and helps us with stability and movement, making it significant to many of our everyday activities.

How Chiropractic Care Can Alleviate Sciatica

How Chiropractic Care Can Alleviate Sciatica

Millions of Americans suffer from sciatica every year; sometimes, the pain is minimal, and other times it’s intense. In either case, finding the right chiropractic treatment will ensure you get optimized care that delivers results.


Chiropractic techniques are proven to end pain by finding what’s causing it. This comprehensive approach will dictate a wellness plan that reestablishes and restores the body’s full function, taking pressure off affected areas, including those found within the sciatic nerve.


5 Areas To Develop Great Habits That Will Improve Your Health

5 Areas To Develop Great Habits That Will Improve Your Health

With the continuation and exacerbated condition of the COVID-19 pandemic, this might be a challenging question to answer. You may feel physically well. Heck, you may even be one of the strong ones, unphased by the "stay home" orders and are socially and mentally doing well also.

Regardless of how you respond to the initial question, I have one response for you.

New Year - New Goals: Setting & Achieving Your Goals This Year.

New Year - New Goals:  Setting & Achieving Your Goals This Year.

If you are like me, you love to set goals, spend hours on action plans to achieve those goals, and ponder on the impact and improvements you can make to yourself, your company, your family, your health, and everything else around you.

Tendinopathy Injuries - 7 Things You Need To Know About Tendinitis and Tendinosis

Tendinopathy Injuries - 7 Things You Need To Know About Tendinitis and Tendinosis

Tendinopathies are a pain. If you have ever experienced this type of injury, you know this! While we treat these conditions often, these patients often become great friends of ours. Not only because we get them back to running, but because these injuries take time and constant attention.

Hamstring Injury - Part 1: Anatomy & Runner's Risk

Hamstring Injury - Part 1: Anatomy & Runner's Risk

It’s the start of a beautiful day. You were able to get to the track around 6:00 am for a solid speed workout, your favorite. You warm-up, go through your stretching and dynamic movement routine, and besides a little early morning stiffness, you feel great. Then it happens, you are on number 5 or 12 200 meter repeats, and the back of your leg cramps up something fierce! You stop, stretch, massage, but nothing helps…now you can’t run - workout over.

Youth Running: Benefits, Risks, & Considerations

Youth Running:  Benefits, Risks, & Considerations

Running is one of the best (coming from a runner) and easiest sports to take up in the world. Running is a major part of nearly every sport on the planet, making it an excellent option for our school-aged athletes. In 2017, almost 500,000 runners ran XC, and over 1 million athletes ran track. With the ease of access and a million different training techniques and training theories comes the risk of adverse effects. Over the last 10 years, we have seen a 34% increase in injuries incidence among runners.

Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome Part 3 - Treatment and Rehabilitation

Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome Part 3 - Treatment and Rehabilitation

So we have made it to this point. You have been rolling, stretching, warming up before your runs, but your nagging shin splint pain will not go away. Maybe it has improved 50%, but as you continue to train for your upcoming event, the pain has plateaued. Sound familiar?

Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome Part 2 - Self-Care For Shin Splints

Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome Part 2 - Self-Care For Shin Splints

In PART 1 of our Shin Splints series, we took a look at the anatomy associated with medial tibial stress syndrome as well as the factors that make runners especially susceptible to them, namely the repetitive nature of running compounded by most cases typically doing too much too soon. Here in PART 2, we are going to look at self-care options as well as some considerations for preventing repeate episodes of shin splints so that you can keep running and training for your goal races.