Chiropractic Care
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Understanding Sciatica: What It Is and What It Isn’t
Sharp pain shooting down your leg. Numbness in your foot. Tingling that won’t go away. Someone tells you it’s sciatica, and suddenly you’re worried about disability, surgery, or chronic pain. But here’s the truth: sciatica is a symptom, not a life sentence. Understanding what sciatica actually is—and what causes it—is the first step toward effective
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Make 2026 Your Year to Control Inflammation: A Practical Action Plan
We’ve covered the science of inflammation—how holiday habits trigger it, how stress amplifies it, and how exercise reduces it. Understanding the mechanisms is valuable, but knowledge without action changes nothing. This article is different. Rather than explaining why inflammation matters, we’re providing a practical, actionable plan for controlling inflammation throughout 2026. At Performance Health, patients
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Exercise as Medicine: How Movement Reduces Inflammation and Promotes Healing
When you’re experiencing pain and inflammation, exercise might be the last thing you feel like doing. Your joints ache, your muscles are stiff, and movement sounds exhausting rather than therapeutic. Yet exercise is one of the most powerful anti-inflammatory interventions we have—often more effective than many medications for reducing chronic inflammation. At Performance Health, we
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Back to Work, Back to School: How Stress Triggers Inflammation
The alarm goes off Monday morning. The holidays are over. It’s back to work deadlines, back to school schedules, back to packed calendars and endless obligations. Within days, your shoulders are tight, your neck hurts, headaches return, and that sense of being constantly ‘on edge’ settles in. You might think this is just psychological stress,
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Post-Holiday Inflammation: Why You Feel Worse After the Festivities
The holidays are over, and instead of feeling refreshed and ready for the new year, you feel sluggish, achy, and bloated. Your joints hurt more than usual, that nagging back pain has intensified, you’re exhausted despite sleeping in, and your clothes feel tighter. You’re not imagining it—there are real physiological reasons why many people feel
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Why You ‘Hold Stress in Your Neck’: The Connection Between Tension, Headaches, and Cervical Pain
You’ve had a stressful day at work—deadlines mounting, difficult conversations, endless decisions. By evening, your neck feels like it’s made of concrete. Your shoulders are hiked up toward your ears, there’s a dull ache at the base of your skull, and a tension headache is building behind your eyes. Sound familiar? At Performance Health, we
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Protecting Your Neck in BJJ and Muay Thai: Prevention and Treatment for Martial Artists
If you train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or Muay Thai, your neck takes a beating. The forces, positions, and impacts these arts demand create unique stresses on the cervical spine that accumulate over months and years of training. While some degree of wear is inevitable in combat sports, understanding the specific mechanisms of injury and implementing proper
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Sleeping Your Way to Neck Pain: Why Your Sleep Position Matters More Than You Think
You spend approximately one-third of your life sleeping. For most adults, that’s 7-8 hours every single night—somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 hours annually. If you’re sleeping in a position that places abnormal stress on your cervical spine, you’re subjecting your neck to thousands of hours of pathological loading each year. At Performance Health, neck pain
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Whiplash Injuries: Why Early Diagnosis and Treatment Prevent Chronic Pain
You’re sitting at a red light. You glance in your rearview mirror just in time to see the car behind you isn’t slowing down. The impact hits—your body jerks forward against the seatbelt while your head snaps backward, then rebounds forward violently. The whole event takes less than a second. In that fraction of a
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Tech Neck: The Modern Epidemic Destroying Your Cervical Spine
We’re living through a public health crisis that most people don’t even realize is happening. Right now, as you read this, your neck is likely bearing forces it was never designed to handle. The culprits? Your computer, your smartphone, and the countless hours you spend hunched over screens every day. At Performance Health, we see
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Getting Martial Artists Back to the Mats: Evidence-Based Chiropractic Care for BJJ and Muay Thai Injuries
If you train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or Muay Thai, you already know that these martial arts demand everything from your body. The explosive movements, repetitive strain, joint manipulation, and high-impact nature of these disciplines create unique injury patterns that require specialized treatment approaches. At Performance Health, we work with martial artists who need more than generic
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The Future of Injury Prevention: Pre-Hab and Movement Assessment Screening
In sports medicine, we’ve traditionally operated in a reactive model—wait until someone gets injured, then treat the injury. But what if we could identify vulnerability patterns before an injury occurs? What if we could strengthen the weak links in your movement chain before they become the site of your next orthopedic injury? This is the
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How Chiropractors Treat Tendonitis: Evidence-Based Solutions for Shoulder Pain
That nagging shoulder pain that flares up when you reach overhead, lift weights, or even just grab something from the back seat of your car—if you’re dealing with tendonitis, you know how frustrating it can be. What starts as a minor annoyance can quickly evolve into something that affects your workouts, your sleep, and your
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Don’t Let Running Injuries Sideline Your Goals: A Runner’s Guide to Prevention and Recovery
If you’re a runner, you know the feeling—that nagging pain in your shin, the burning sensation in your heel, or the tightness that just won’t quit. Whether you’re training for your first 5K or your tenth marathon, injuries can feel like they’re derailing everything you’ve worked for. The good news? They don’t have to. At
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The Science of Sleep Positions: How Your Sleeping Posture Affects Spinal Biomechanics
Why Sleep Position Matters for Optimal Spinal Health Your sleeping position directly impacts the biomechanical forces acting on your spine for 6-8 hours each night. Poor sleep posture can create sustained mechanical stress on your vertebral joints, intervertebral discs, and surrounding musculature, leading to morning stiffness, chronic pain, and compromised nervous system function. The Gold
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How Regular Exercise Improves Sleep Quality and Spinal Health
The Exercise-Sleep Connection: Why Movement Matters for Rest Regular physical activity is one of the most powerful tools for improving sleep quality, but the timing and type of exercise matter significantly. When done correctly, exercise strengthens your core muscles, improves spinal alignment, and promotes deeper, more restorative sleep. How Exercise Enhances Sleep Reduces Sleep Onset
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Foods That Sabotage Your Sleep (And What to Eat Instead)
How Your Diet Directly Affects Sleep Quality and Spinal Health What you eat and when you eat it can dramatically impact your ability to fall asleep and stay asleep. Poor food choices don’t just affect your digestion – they can increase inflammation throughout your body, including around your spine, leading to discomfort that keeps you
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Create the Perfect Nighttime Wind-Down Routine for Better Sleep
Why Your Evening Routine Matters for Spinal Health and Sleep Quality Your body needs time to transition from the activity of the day to the rest of the night. A proper wind-down routine doesn’t just help you sleep better – it allows your spine and nervous system to decompress, leading to more restorative rest and