Thank you for being here. More likely than not, you’re a new, current, or past patient at Life In Alignment Chiropractic. Below you’re going to find a collection of the most essential reading we have for you. This will help you understand our form of spinal care and why it matters to your happiness and well-being.
Understanding your chiropractic care
Spine changes are brain changes (video collection): how a better balanced spine affects the brain and central nervous system – before you do anything else start here. This is a collection of videos that help you understand what’s going on behind the scenes during a chiropractic adjustment
What are upper cervical chiropractic procedures, and how do we use them? – learn why the top of the spine matters so much. 97% of the time we balance that area first. Additionally, we do what else is necessary to correct/support the spine in the context of your specific posture breakdown and lifestyle
Imagine your body, unburdened, light – this is my art – a very non-technical explanation on what motivates me. Learn how your care is different when you work with our unique chiropractic office
Why is it so hard to maintain good posture? – this originally went semi-viral on Quora. This is a technical answer involving our nervous system and the need for stability. Learn why this chiropractic practice focuses so very, very much on posture
This is why I use the NeckCare™ System to improve chiropractic patient outcomes – this article will help you understand why we use digital measurement of neck range of motion, proprioception, and sensorimotor integration. This is especially true in cases of neck injury, pain, headache (including migraine), and concussion
BONUS if you want to go deeper:
How to hold your spinal alignment: the three major chiropractic techniques – to help you understand how we think about holding alignment, and why it might be different from another chiropractic experience. Since many people have multiple chiropractors over the course of their life, this information will help explain why chiropractors adjust differently and what it means to the patient
How to maintain your positive chiropractic patient changes
50 ways to lose your neck alignment – not exhaustive, but there are quite a few you probably haven’t considered that may be locking up your neck or posture in subtle ways and slowing your progress as a chiropractic patient.
Why are you hanging 60lbs from your neck? – Americans spend 5 hours per day on a cell phone. Here’s the motivation you need to keep your head up and in the game.
The pros and cons of different sleep positions – co-written with SleepAdvisor.com, it might be time to reevaluate your sleep position.
Why you shouldn’t do crunches and what you should do instead – for our chiropractic patients who work out: never do a crunch or sit-up again and feel good about it..
Three things you think are helping your neck, but aren’t – common neck activities that most people should stop. These actions can make a neck problem worse.
These four changes will make working from home less painful – basic, common sense ergonomics changes that are important for anyone who deals with a screen.
Product recommendations when you have to sit all day – the ideal workspace situation and how to recreate it. This is especially important if you deal with back pain.
How do I answer the tough questions from the chiropractic skeptics?
People with good intentions sometimes question whether our form of chiropractic care is a legitimate health care choice for you and your family. Believe it or not, my family was once in that boat with some tough questions. So we’ve spent some time answering the big ones, like:
- Why does my chiropractor recommend return visits? Is it all about the money?
- Why does my chiropractor say there’s a problem on my x-ray but my other doctor doesn’t?
- Why does my chiropractor say that chiropractic care can help more than just back pain?
You can find this series as it grows on this page: Tough questions for chiropractors: answers for providers and skeptics.
Chiropractic patient adjunct therapies, and why we use
What is Frequency Specific Microcurrent? Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) is a therapeutic modality that uses low-level electrical currents to promote healing in a variety of health problems and conditions. This includes issues such as pain, inflammation, and tissue repair. This page will explore why we use this modality and what we may use it for.
Coming soon: What is Class IV laser therapy? Why we use this form of infrared laser for specific soft tissue injuries.
Other chiropractic resources
The Chiropractic Resource Organization contains a large collection of articles on chiropractic care on the largest non-commercial chiropractic website.
The Upper Cervical Blog is an archive of articles from different upper cervical chiropractors. It was last updated in 2016, but still contains valuable information.