CONDITIONS
We know that navigating your own health can, at times, be confusing and overwhelming.
So we’re here to help make it simpler and more approachable for you. We believe that "Knowledge is Power" so we want to make sure you’re armed with the right knowledge to make a good decision for your health, fitness and well-being.
Below you will find a list of conditions that we regularly see in the office. We have done our best to give you a "brief" regarding each condition and also outline how Chiropractic Adjustments may help you if you are suffering from one of these conditions.
As always, we are only a phone call or text away at 602.712.9444, Call Us if we can help.
LOW BACK Pain
In the United States, 39% of adults reported back pain in the previous 3 months. That means roughly 4 out of every 10 adults are dealing with back pain at any given time. Back, Lower Limb, and Upper Limb Pain Among U.S. Adults, 2019
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common nerve entrapment problem in the upper extremity. It can cause numbness, tingling, pain, weakness, loss of dexterity, and trouble using the hand normally. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6721837
In employed adults, CTS affects an estimated 3% to 4.7%, and work-associated CTS can create significant medical and disability costs.
Carpal tunnel is not just a wrist problem. It is a function problem. When your hand goes numb, your grip gets weaker, your sleep gets interrupted, and you start dropping things, your body is waving a pretty big red flag. The encouraging part is this: mild to moderate carpal tunnel symptoms do not always mean surgery first. Conservative care may help reduce symptoms, improve hand function, and address the mechanics that keep irritating the nerve
TendOnitis
Your tendons are what connect your bones to your muscles and allow you to move around. Tendon pain is fairly common and usually affects active people, workers with repetitive actions, athletes, and sedentary adults.
Modern research often uses the term “tendinopathy” rather than “tendonitis” because many chronic cases are not just inflammation; they involve tendon irritation, overload, poor healing, and changes in tendon structure.
Tennis Elbow
Tennis elbow is not really a “tennis” problem. It is an overuse and irritation problem where the tendons on the outside of the elbow get cranky from gripping, lifting, typing, pulling, twisting, or doing the same motion over and over.
It can make simple things feel ridiculous, like picking up a coffee mug, turning a doorknob, shaking hands, or lifting a bag.
The goal is not just to quiet the pain. The goal is to figure out why that tendon is overloaded, calm it down, and rebuild strength so your elbow can handle real life again.
Headaches and Migraines
Headache disorders are among the most common nervous system disorders worldwide.
The WHO estimates that about 40% of the global population, roughly 3.1 billion people, had a headache disorder in 2021. Migraine affects about 1.1 billion people globally. Migraine and other headache disorders
A CDC report from 2021 found that 4.3% of U.S. adults were “bothered a lot” by headache or migraine in the previous 3 months, with women affected more often than men. QuickStats: Percentage* of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Have Been Bothered a Lot by Headache or Migraine in the Past 3 Months,† by Sex and Age Group — National Health Interview Survey, 2021§
Sciatica
Sciatica is not just ‘my back hurts.’ It is nerve irritation, and nerve pain gets your attention fast.
It can shoot, burn, ache, tingle, numb, or make your leg feel weak or unreliable.
And because it messes with sitting, walking, sleep, work, and normal life, it can become expensive physically, emotionally, and financially.
The goal is to calm the leg pain down and figure out why that nerve is angry in the first place. Many people get great relief from sciatica by getting a chiropractic adjustment. Results are even better if specific exercises are added to the adjustment program.
Asthma
Asthma is a chronic lung condition where the airways become inflamed, narrowed, and reactive, making it harder to breathe.
In 2024, CDC/NCHS reported that 8.6% of U.S. adults and 6.5% of U.S. children currently had asthma.
Asthma is not something to ignore or ‘push through.’ It can cause wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, emergency visits, and in severe cases, death.
When someone has asthma, the chronic coughing, chest tightness, rib stiffness, neck tension, poor posture, and stress can all make the body feel like it is working harder than it should.
Chiropractic adjustments can help support better movement, posture, rib and spinal mechanics, and overall function while the asthma itself is medically managed.
Neuralgia
More specifically, neuralgia is sharp, shocking, burning, stabbing, or electric-type pain that follows the path of a nerve. It usually happens because a nerve is irritated, compressed, inflamed, damaged, or not signaling correctly.
Common examples include sciatica, cervical radiculopathy, trigeminal neuralgia, occipital neuralgia, post-herpetic neuralgia after shingles, diabetic neuropathy, carpal tunnel-related nerve pain, and nerve pain after trauma, surgery, chemotherapy, or chronic compression.
Chiropractic care does not cure every form of neuralgia. But when nerve pain is being driven by mechanical stress, spinal restriction, posture, disc irritation, muscle guarding, or a spinal nerve pathway that is getting irritated, then chiropractic care may help reduce the stress on the system and improve how the body moves.
Our job is to ask the better question: why is this nerve mad, and what can we do to calm it down?”
Herniated Discs
A spinal disc is the little cushion between 2 vertebrae in your spine.
A herniated disc occurs when inner or outer disc material moves squishes out of its normal space. The disc does not usually “slip” like a hockey puck. It bulges, protrudes, extrudes, or leaks material that can irritate nearby nerves.
Other spine literature estimates lumbar disc herniation incidence at about 5 to 20 cases per 1,000 adults annually. It is most common between ages 25 and 55 and is reported more often in men than women.
Herniated discs can become expensive quickly because they often trigger imaging, specialist visits, injections, medications, missed work, and sometimes surgery.
Chiropractic care does not “put the disc back in.” That is not how discs work. The goal is not to jam anatomy back into place like a drawer that came off the track.
Our real goal in the Alpha 5 Phase System is to reduce the mechanical irritation, improve your spinal and hip motion, calm down your muscular guarding, improve your movement tolerance, decrease your nerve sensitivity when appropriate, and help you rebuild strength and confidence.
The Alpha 5 Phases System in order are: Relieve, Realign, Rebuild, Retrain, and Reclaim. Not every disc case is the same, and not every case belongs in our office. The point is to find the right next step for you.
Fibromyalgia
The American College of Rheumatology describes fibromyalgia as a chronic condition that causes widespread pain, about 2% to 4% of people, usually in women, and is not considered an inflammatory or autoimmune disease.
Chiropractic care does not cure fibromyalgia. That is not the claim. The goal is to help calm the body down, improve movement, reduce mechanical stress, support better function, and help the nervous system stop treating normal life like a threat. With fibromyalgia, the plan has to be paced, gentle, and specific. The goal is not to crush your body into change. The goal is to help your body trust movement again.
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