The Movement Chiropractic & Manual Medicine

06/05/2025

Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring Update! We have learned so much over the past two weeks!

🩸How you think you eat isn’t always reality! I personally realized my macros were off from what “optimal” eating would indicate! This can affect your blood sugar levels.

🩸 The order you eat your food in matters! Eat protein and fat first to slow down the absorption of sugar.

🩸High highs and low lows has an impact on your adrenals! I was spiking after a meal and crashing about two hours later. This is when I would typically grab a snack and “spike my levels again”. Keeping my blood sugar levels from spiking kept me from feeling like I needed to grab a snack, take a nap, or have another cup of coffee!

Insulin and glucose levels have their impact on your entire body. The nicer you treat your body now, the better it will treat you when we are much older!

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07/11/2024

True structural short leg vs. functional short leg 🦵🏼

What does it mean when someone says, “I have a short leg.”

A structural short leg is when the actual bones are physically shorter on one side vs the other side. This can happen either during growth, can be caused by a fracture in a growth plate or from a surgery.

A functional short leg is when the musculature in the hip is not firing the way it should and it causes the femur to not move correctly in the hip joint. This can be caused by an injury or inactivity.

Functional short hips are more common. Exercise, rehab, and soft tissue work help to allow the muscles to work the way they should to “drop the hip”.

A structural short hip requires either a heel lift or possible surgery depending on the severity of the leg discrepancy.

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17/01/2024

What is tech neck?! 🩻

Technically, it is pain and stiffness that results from poor posture when we use phones and computers.

BUT… what happens when we allow that pain and poor posture to go on for years?!

Let’s just say a lot of early onset of degeneration can occur! 🤮

The curve in our neck should resemble the curve in our low backs. It’s a “lordotic” curve. This means that it curves back. That allows the weight from our head to be evenly distributed throughout the skeletal system of the neck and mid back.

If we allow our heads to move forward to look at our cell phones or computers the muscles and joints can only withstand the stress for so long. Our bodies are great at adapting to the stress we put them under! New cells will lay down and create osteophytes (aka bone spurs), some muscle will hypertrophy, and others will atrophy. Ligaments along the spine can weaken and allow for the vertebrae to shift, which leads to instability! 😱 We don’t like that!

Listen to your mother, and don’t slouch! 🫶🏻 Good posture is worth the work!

13/09/2023

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29/03/2023

Leg length discrepancies!

Has your chiro ever told you that you have one leg shorter than the other?! 🤔 I honestly roll my eyes when I hear this most of the time. In our humble opinion, this can happen but we feel like this description is used to often! The muscles in the hip tighten up and causes the leg to “appear” shorter.

This patient is experiencing a true leg length discrepancy post hip surgery. We measured the legs and she is about 1inch shorter on the right.

We typically don’t measure this first visit. I want to see how much of the discrepancy is caused by muscle tightness vs. anatomical changes! We teach the patient strengthening exercises and stretch the area first and then we measure!

Surgery is amazing when it is needed, but the appliances used are not always a perfect fit for every leg. This is ok. We just have to assist the area the best we can.

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23/03/2023

Test out class in the books !

We do what we teach! I want people to live long healthy mobile lives! Sometimes that means we have to get up on that stage and motivate people too!

Being consistent with exercising THROUGHOUT life will help to combat injuries and disease! Keep moving!

17/03/2023

What is cupping all about?!

Cupping has been around for a long time! In our office, we use it as a way to cause local vasodilation to help warm up an area or to get the muscle to relax! The suction helps to dilate local blood vessels which can sometimes cause the “bruise” look.

The muscle moves the joint, right?! So, why not first work on the muscles in the area of concern before mobilizing the joint!

When a therapist or chiropractor works on the muscle and the joint we get a more well-rounded approach at tackling a painful area. Cupping is one of many soft tissue techniques that can be used. After we work to reduce, pain, inflammation, and joint stiffness it’s time to strengthen the area with exercises!

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03/12/2022

What is dry needling ?!

Inserting an acupuncture-like needle into a muscles trigger point relaxes the muscles, boosts blood flow, and triggers a healing response. This treatment activates the release of your body's natural pain relievers!

We like to use dry needling if we need to get a little more aggressive with a muscular injury!

We've used needling with:
Rotator Cuff Tendonitis
Thumb pain
Low back pain
Tennis Elbow

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17/09/2022

13/09/2022

Rehabilitative medicine practitioners always talk about returning to normal daily activities, but how do they get their patients there?!

There seems to be a gap between active injury rehab and full activity that a lot of doctors don't discuss. You don't need full treatment anymore , but you don't feel 100% ready to lift, bend, and move the way you use to.

Our way to bridge the gap is with personal training. Once out of acute pain, we work with our patients to regain strength, stability, and endurance.

Contact us to see how we can help you achieve your goals.

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08/09/2022

Let us come mess up your work space! 💻

Poor work place ergonomics can cause musculoskeletal sprain/strains, fatigue, and decreased productivity. In 2019, microtask injuries accounted for 7.6 % of injuries and musculoskeletal disorders accounted for 16.1% of work comp cases that ended up in the ER!

Sometimes it is as simple as a 10 minute assessment to evaluate what needs to be tweaked in your space !

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11/08/2022

Sometimes Chiropractic care is from achy necks from carrying heavy crowns!

Congrats to Williamson Countys' newest crowned Miss Teen Williamson County!

Good grades, Page High Cheerleader, and a church girl! She is a great representation of the teens here in Williamson County!