American Chiropractic

American Chiropractic We are proud to provide a state-of-the-art facility for the highest quality chiropractic care available.

🔥 Tight Traps Are More Than Muscle Tension 🔥That burning, locked-up tension in your neck and shoulders that won’t relax?...
01/15/2026

🔥 Tight Traps Are More Than Muscle Tension 🔥

That burning, locked-up tension in your neck and shoulders that won’t relax? What about the headaches, dizziness, or even nausea that seem unrelated?

👉 It’s not in your head.
👉 It’s not your stomach.

It’s your nervous system sounding the alarm.

The trapezius muscles sit at a key intersection between the spine and the sympathetic (fight-or-flight) nervous system. When they’re overloaded from stress, posture, or repetitive strain, they can trigger symptoms you’d never expect.

⚠️ Left untreated, this tension can keep your body stuck in overdrive—leading to chronic pain, nerve irritation, and ongoing discomfort.

✨ Chiropractic care helps restore balance, calm the nervous system, and release the tension at the source—so your body can finally relax and recover.

Your body isn’t broken.
It’s communicating.

01/14/2026

When Nerves Lose the Message, the Body Feels It. ⚡🧠

Peripheral neuropathy isn’t just a foot problem or a hand problem—it’s a communication problem.

Your brain and spinal cord form the Central Nervous System (CNS), the body's command center. From there, messages travel down the spinal cord, branching out into peripheral nerves that reach your arms, legs, organs, and skin. This system controls sensation, movement, balance, and even organ function.

🛣️ Think of the spinal cord as the main highway.
Peripheral nerves are the exits.

When those peripheral nerves become damaged—as in diabetic neuropathy, spinal compression, or chronic inflammation—the messages traveling to and from the brain become distorted, delayed, or blocked altogether.

🔁 The result?
• Numbness or tingling
• Burning or electric pain
• Weakness or instability
• Loss of coordination or balance

Why the Spine Matters
Peripheral nerves originate at the spinal cord. If the spine isn’t moving well, or if there is pressure, inflammation, or altered mechanics around those nerve pathways, the entire communication chain can suffer.

Conditions like spinal stenosis, disc changes, or joint dysfunction can:
• Alter nerve signaling
• Mimic or worsen neuropathy symptoms
• Prevent healing signals from reaching damaged nerves

How Chiropractic Care Helps
Chiropractic care focuses on restoring proper spinal motion, alignment, and nervous system communication—not masking symptoms, but addressing the system that controls them.

✔️ Improving spinal mechanics
✔️ Reducing nerve interference and compression
✔️ Supporting healthier nerve signaling
✔️ Enhancing balance, strength, and coordination

For many patients—especially those with diabetic neuropathy, which accounts for nearly 60% of cases—a spine-focused, neurological approach can play a powerful role in comprehensive care.

✨ When the spine moves better, nerves communicate better.
✨ When communication improves, function follows.

If you or someone you love is struggling with neuropathy, it may be time to look to the spine, the nervous system, and the source of the signal itself.

Could a Sacrum Shift Be the Hidden Source of Your Pain?The sacrum sits at the very foundation of your spine—right where ...
01/13/2026

Could a Sacrum Shift Be the Hidden Source of Your Pain?

The sacrum sits at the very foundation of your spine—right where your spine meets your pelvis. When it shifts even slightly out of alignment, the effects can ripple through the entire body.

A sacrum shift can contribute to:

🔹 Low back pain that won’t resolve
🔹 Hip and pelvic pain
🔹 Sciatic pain or leg pain
🔹 SI joint dysfunction
🔹 Groin pain or discomfort when walking
🔹 Uneven posture or feeling “off balance”
🔹 Chronic tightness in the hips or hamstrings

Because the sacrum plays a critical role in weight-bearing, movement, and nerve communication, misalignment can place abnormal stress on joints, discs, muscles, and nerves—often far from where the pain is felt.

✨ The good news? Chiropractic has solutions.
Through precise evaluation and gentle, targeted adjustments, chiropractors work to restore proper alignment, balance pelvic mechanics, and reduce nerve irritation—helping the body heal and function the way it was designed to.

If you’ve been chasing symptoms without lasting relief, it may be time to look deeper—starting at the foundation.

📞 Your body doesn’t need to “just live with it.” Help is available.

💡 The Fuller Figure Is Better! 💡When it comes to your spinal discs, "THIN DISCS CREATE A HEALTHY SPINE," SAID NO CHIROPR...
01/12/2026

💡 The Fuller Figure Is Better! 💡
When it comes to your spinal discs, "THIN DISCS CREATE A HEALTHY SPINE," SAID NO CHIROPRACTOR EVER.

Your spine and discs are constantly under pressure due to the pull of gravity while upright. Over time, thin discs allow the vertebrae to press on nerve bundles that connect your brain to the rest of your body. These nerves carry essential signals for regeneration and health:

⚡ Weakened signal? Less healing and vitality.
🚫 No signal? Chronic pain, dysfunction, and degenerative disease.

👉 Chiropractic care helps relieve pressure, restore proper alignment, and ensure your nerves can send clear signals to keep your body thriving. It’s about more than just pain relief—it’s about empowering your body to function at its best! 🙌

✨ Don’t let thinning discs create dysfunction. Take charge of your health today with chiropractic care.

📅 Schedule your appointment now and start your journey to a healthier spine and a healthier you!

Happy Friday, Everyone! We Made It!MAKE THE TIME to recharge those batteries! While you do that, tell yourself over and ...
01/09/2026

Happy Friday, Everyone! We Made It!

MAKE THE TIME to recharge those batteries! While you do that, tell yourself over and over again that: YOU ARE STRONGER Than You Think!

Reframe the things that could break you into the things that will make you! You may not have a choice in what the world throws at you, but you do have control over how you face it.

“Wait…Chiropractic Can Help That Too?”It happens all the time—patients come in for back or neck pain and are shocked to ...
01/08/2026

“Wait…Chiropractic Can Help That Too?”

It happens all the time—patients come in for back or neck pain and are shocked to discover their heartburn, vertigo, or even chronic fatigue starts to improve too.

These are conditions they’ve lived with for years—or chalked up to “just getting older.” But here’s the truth: Chiropractic care is one of healthcare’s best-kept secrets.

We don’t just treat symptoms. We look for the root cause. By restoring alignment, improving nervous system function, and supporting the body’s natural ability to heal, chiropractic care helps rebuild from the inside out.

💡 And Here's the Surprising Part:
It’s often the secondary—or even unspoken—issues that begin to improve first. Sleep. Digestion. Balance. Energy. Longstanding problems many patients never thought to mention—because they assumed it was just their “normal.”

🔹 Whether you’ve been living with discomfort for decades
🔹 Or you’re finally ready to get proactive about your health

We’ll meet you where you are—and help you rebuild.

We have the science. The technology. The skills.
We can make you better than you were before.
Better. Stronger. Healthier.

📞 Call today and let’s start your journey back to wellness.
Your body’s potential may surprise you.

Simon Says: Let's Get Healthy!Ready, set, go! Transform exercise into a fun, family-friendly game. Let's get moving and ...
01/08/2026

Simon Says: Let's Get Healthy!

Ready, set, go! Transform exercise into a fun, family-friendly game. Let's get moving and see your, your kids, and even your grandkids' health flourish!

The Injury Brought You In.The Story of Healing Goes Much Deeper.Many patients come to us after a recent injury—a car acc...
01/07/2026

The Injury Brought You In.
The Story of Healing Goes Much Deeper.

Many patients come to us after a recent injury—a car accident, a work mishap, or a sports incident. That moment is often what finally forces action. But when it comes to true restoration and recovery, the real story doesn’t always begin there.

Others arrive after what seems like a small event—a simple fall, a missed step, a quick twist. Suddenly, there’s intense neck or back pain, headaches, pins and needles, joint pain, or symptoms that just won’t heal. It’s exceeded your tolerance, and you want it fixed now.

Here’s the part most people don’t realize:
Yes, the slip or accident may have happened days ago—but the spine and nervous system may have been compensating for weeks, months, or even years before that moment.

Think of it as the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Just like a 5-mph car bump can leave visible damage to a vehicle, your body—far more complex and far more adaptable—can absorb stress silently… until it can’t anymore. Degeneration, poor posture, old injuries, and unresolved imbalances weaken an area long before pain ever shows up.

That’s why recovery time isn’t based only on how hard the accident was—but on the condition of the spine and joints before it happened.

The good news?
We don’t just treat the most recent injury.

✔️ We address the root cause
✔️ We restore proper motion and alignment
✔️ We help the body heal both the new injury and the underlying weakness that allowed it

If you’ve been in an accident—or if a “minor” incident turned into major pain—there is no risk in finding out what your body truly needs to heal.

Your pain didn’t happen overnight.
And with the right care, your recovery can be stronger than ever.

✨ Restore. Recover. Rebuild—properly.

01/06/2026

🪄 Is It Magic… or Mastery? 🧠✨

People often say chiropractors have “the magic touch.”
And while it may feel that way, what’s really happening is something far more powerful.

Yes—we can find the sore spots.
Yes—we know exactly where it hurts.
But the true story is always told through a thorough examination.

🔍 Here’s where chiropractic shines:
Someone may walk in with screaming low back pain… yet imaging and exams often reveal strong, healthy discs and vertebrae in the lumbar spine.

So where’s the real problem?

👉 The neck.
Compressed discs.
Altered spinal curves.
Hidden stress at the top of the spine.

🧠 The body is brilliant. When the brain and brainstem are under threat, the spine adapts. The lower back may shift, brace, and compensate—doing its job to protect the highest priority systems in the body.

✨ Chiropractic doesn’t guess.
✨ It doesn’t chase symptoms.
✨ It looks at the spine, the nervous system, and the patterns your body reveals.

That’s not magic.
That’s mastery, precision, and respect for how the body truly works.

💙 If you’ve been treating the pain—but not the cause—it may be time to look deeper.

The Real Measuring Stick — Fresh Start Edition! 💥POW! Yep — it’s that Monday.The one we all promise ourselves we’ll star...
01/05/2026

The Real Measuring Stick — Fresh Start Edition! 💥

POW! Yep — it’s that Monday.
The one we all promise ourselves we’ll start by - the first Monday of January. And guess what? It’s here.

Resolutions don’t need perfection — they need momentum.
And the truth is, the only competition you ever need to focus on is you.

Don’t look left.
Don’t look right.
Don’t compare your Chapter 1 to someone else’s Chapter 10.

If today you show up just a little stronger, a little healthier, a little more intentional than yesterday — you’re winning. 🙌

✨ Fresh Start. Clear Focus. Real Progress.
Success isn’t some big leap — it’s a series of small, consistent choices that start right now.

You’ve got this. Let today be the day you begin — for real. 💪🔥

✨ Friday Energy Check! ✨The New Year isn’t waiting—and neither should you.Embrace your new motto:💥 “My Future Self Start...
01/02/2026

✨ Friday Energy Check! ✨
The New Year isn’t waiting—and neither should you.

Embrace your new motto:

💥 “My Future Self Starts Now.” 💥

Every powerful transformation begins with a single step—no matter how small. What matters most is that you start. Start showing up. Start believing bigger. Start choosing the version of you that’s ready to rise.

🔥 Start today.
🎯 Set new goals.
🚀 Fuel your weekend with intention—and get ready to soar.

Your future self is counting on what you do this weekend. Let’s make it count. 💫

01/01/2026

🥳 Happy New Year! 🎉

Wishing you and your families the healthiest, happiest year ahead — one filled with ease, clarity, and momentum toward the goals that matter most to you. May this year bring strong wins, meaningful progress, and abundant blessings, health, and happiness. ✨

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Here at American Chiropractic & Acupuncture, we are proud to be providing whole family healthcare from infancy to one’s golden years and every stage in between. Our expert Chiropractors, Dr. Dan Talley, and Dr. Linda Marquez Goodine are excited and passionate about helping people to feel their absolute best in many different ways. To achieve the best results, they ensure that the team at American Chiropractic & Acupuncture located in Lake Havasu City, AZ, treat their patients holistically and comprehensively by evaluating all components of their unique health needs.

To us, a healthy family is the cornerstone of our practice. Whether you are looking for safe and natural healthcare for you and your children or are suffering from back pain, neck pain, headaches, or looking for a nonmedicated way to reduce stress, we are here to help you. Care at our office includes specialized Chiropractic Care for all ages, Acupuncture, Functional Medicine, DOT Physicals, Rehabilitative Exercises, Nutritional Counseling, and other natural non-surgical solutions that expedite healing and provide the very highest standard of healthcare for you and your loved ones. Our office also includes an on-site Any Lab Test Now facility.

At American Chiropractic & Acupuncture, we are dedicated to helping you achieve your health goals to improve your quality of life through non-surgical restoration and rejuvenation. Our mission is to help as many people in our lifetime as we can in a way that will change the way people think about “Health Care” by providing healthcare with a difference!