Comprehensive Chiropractic & Sports Performance

Comprehensive Chiropractic & Sports Performance 🏅 One of St. Louis’ Top Chiropractic Clinics
💥 Sports Rehab | Family Care | Evidence-Based
👨‍⚕️Dr. Feder, Dr. Gorman, Dr. Benton
📍 Eureka, MO

We are staffed by caring, high-quality Chiropractors. Some services we offer Chiropractic Care, Nutritional Education, Sports Performance assistance & Supplements. Our beautiful Studio in Eureka offers Pilates, Yoga, and massage therapy. We strive to provide the most innovative ways to assist our patients and clients on their journey to a healthier lifestyle.

04/22/2026

That “neck hump” people notice at the base of the neck is often blamed on posture—but part of that bump is completely normal.

That area is called the cervicothoracic (CT) junction, and most people naturally have a small prominence there because of the vertebra prominens (usually C7/T1). But when forward head posture and thoracic stiffness build up over time, that area can start to look much more pronounced.

✅ Exercise 1: Thoracic extension with PVC pipe
Improves upper back extension so the neck doesn’t have to compensate.

✅ Exercise 2: Prone swimmer
Targets the lower traps, posterior shoulder muscles, and deep neck stabilizers—areas commonly weak in people with forward head posture.

✅ Exercise 3: Banded chin tuck
Strengthens the deep cervical flexors, which research shows are often underactive in forward head posture.

Studies consistently show that combining thoracic mobility + deep neck strengthening + scapular control works better than stretching alone for improving forward head posture and reducing neck discomfort.

A small bump can be normal. A stiff upper back and weak neck are not.

04/10/2026

If you don’t have equal range of motion between shoulders when reaching behind your back, there’s a good chance you played baseball or softball growing up ⚾🥎

The Apley scratch test shows this right away—especially in former overhead athletes who almost always have less internal rotation on their dominant side.

If throwing starts early during childhood, the shoulder actually adapts while the body is still developing. The upper arm bone gradually changes (called humeral retroversion), which usually creates:

✅ more external rotation
✅ less internal rotation
✅ a shifted total arc of motion

That extra external rotation is actually useful for throwing velocity and shoulder efficiency.

Important part: this does NOT automatically mean injury or pathology.
For many baseball and softball athletes, it’s simply a long-term adaptation to the sport.

Where it becomes important is when total motion starts dropping too much, strength is poor, or symptoms show up—because then the normal adaptation can start contributing to overload.

Research consistently shows overhead athletes often develop about 10° less internal rotation and increased external rotation on the dominant side without pain or dysfunction.

Not every asymmetry needs fixing—sometimes it’s just proof your body adapted to what you asked it to do for years 💪

04/08/2026

A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to leave our office a Google review during March! Your feedback means a lot to our team and helps more people find the care they need.

Everyone who left a review was entered into our March drawing, and this winner is taking home a massage gun + a 3-pack of laser sessions 🎉

We also had a little internal competition between our doctors to see who could bring in the most reviews… and let’s just say there was a very clear winner. We’ll keep that result in-house for now.

We appreciate every patient who trusts us with their care and takes the extra minute to share their experience.

04/06/2026

3 of the most common muscle-driven headaches we see every week are coming from the neck—not the head. 🤕➡️🧠

A lot of people call these “tension headaches,” but many are actually coming from irritated trigger points and stiffness in three major muscles:

✅ Upper trapezius
✅ Suboccipitals
✅ Levator scapulae

Each of these muscles can refer pain into the head in a very specific pattern.

1️⃣ Upper Trap Stretch
Hold the side of the table, pull your head down, and turn your chin toward the painful side.
That rotation helps isolate the upper trap fibers more effectively.

2️⃣ Suboccipital Stretch
One hand on your chin, one behind the skull.
Push the chin slightly forward first (like making a double chin), then gently pull down.
This targets the small muscles at the base of the skull that often tighten with screen time, stress, and poor posture.

3️⃣ Levator Scapulae Stretch
Hold the table again, but this time look down toward the opposite shoulder before pulling down.
That angle lines up directly with the levator scapulae—the muscle that commonly creates that sharp ache from the neck up toward the skull.

📚 Research shows trigger points in the upper trapezius and suboccipital muscles are strongly associated with cervicogenic and tension-type headaches, and stretching + manual therapy can significantly reduce symptoms when done consistently.

⚠️ But stretching alone usually isn’t enough long term.
If these headaches keep returning, the real answer is improving neck mobility, posture endurance, and strength.

If your headaches keep starting in the neck, your neck deserves to be evaluated.

04/03/2026

Pain changes more than just how you feel physically—it changes how you live.

This patient came in after dealing with neck pain and arm symptoms for years. It had reached the point where it was affecting everyday life, and like many people, she felt like she had already tried everything short of surgery.

After a thorough evaluation, we built a plan around what her body actually needed.

That meant a combination of:
✔️ targeted exercises
✔️ manual therapy
✔️ chiropractic adjustments

The goal was not just temporary relief, but improving how her neck moved, how her body tolerated load, and why the symptoms were traveling into the arm in the first place.

Now she says she can feel her hands again… and most importantly, she feels like she has her joy back again.

That’s why individualized care matters. Sometimes the right answer is not doing more treatments. It’s doing the right treatments in the right order. 🙌

04/01/2026

When the QL is guarding hard, even simple things like standing up straight, bending, or rolling in bed can feel rough. This release helps calm down a muscle that’s often overworking to stabilize the low back and pelvis. The goal isn’t to “break up knots” forever, but to temporarily reduce sensitivity, improve movement, and make it easier to get into the exercises that create lasting change. Research on myofascial/manual therapy for low back pain shows it can help with short-term pain relief and function, especially when paired with active rehab. 

That’s why we do not stop at just manual therapy.
Release the area ✅
Restore better movement ✅
Rebuild strength and control ✅

Manual therapy can open the door, but exercise is what helps keep it open.



Sources: Myofascial release systematic review/meta-analysis (2021) and JOSPT low back pain clinical practice guideline/revision.

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113 W 5th Street
Eureka, MO
63025

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