I want to be straightforward about something, because I think this gets oversold in parts of the wellness world and it bothers me: chiropractic care does not treat, prevent, or cure the flu. If you’re sick, see your doctor, get…
Shoulder pain is one of those things people live with for an embarrassingly long time before they come see me. I get it — unlike a back that locks up and stops you cold, a cranky shoulder usually lets you…
I wrote previously about chiropractic care during pregnancy and the Webster Technique, but there’s a whole chapter after delivery that almost nobody talks about, and it drives me a little crazy how little attention it gets. The pregnancy ends. The…
Every October I can predict, almost to the week, when the “I just raked my yard and now I can’t stand up straight” patients are going to start calling. It happens like clockwork, usually right after the first big leaf-drop…
I see a very specific kind of patient every fall when the weather cools off and everyone in Pleasanton suddenly remembers they own running shoes. They’ve usually just come back from a loop around Shadow Cliffs, or they got ambitious…
By the time most of my stressed-out patients get to me, they’ve already tried to explain away the tension. “I probably just slept wrong.” “I’ve been hunched over my laptop too much.” Sometimes that’s true. But a lot of the…
I can always tell when a patient’s sleep position is working against everything we’re doing in the office. They come in, we get great results, and then two days later they’re back to feeling stiff and “off” again for no…
I see the same golfer walk into my office almost every week: mid-round or right after, gripping their lower back, insisting it “just happened out of nowhere.” It didn’t happen out of nowhere. The golf swing asks your spine to…
I’ve had at least four new pickleball patients walk into the office this month alone, and I don’t think that trend is slowing down anytime soon. Pleasanton’s courts at Val Vista and the Firehouse Arts Center are packed most mornings,…
This one almost never comes up as the reason someone books an appointment — it comes up as an aside, halfway through treating something else, when a patient mentions their jaw’s been tight or clicking for months and they’ve just…
