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11/14/2025

11/14/2025

Migraine isn’t an exaggeration — and it’s definitely not “just a headache.”
It’s a complex neurological disease that affects the entire body.
During an attack, your nervous system goes off balance: your brain struggles to filter light, your digestion slows, your body temperature shifts, and words slip away.

It’s not “in your head.”
It’s your brain, your body, and your energy fighting together.
And you deserve to be taken seriously. ❤️‍🩹🫂

11/12/2025

Pain is not the enemy—it’s a message asking you to adjust something: rest, move differently, get aligned, strengthen, or heal.

Low back pain is the leading disability AROUND THE GLOBE. Pain is a symptom, not a diagnosis. It's a messenger!

There are many ways to mask pain, and sometimes these can be very useful for short periods of time. But masking pain is not a solution. In fact, masking pain will lead to worse problems in the long run!

Finding hypomobile joints within the spine and extremities, applying an adjustment to restore motion, will help decrease pain signals and reduce painful and tense muscles. This isn't masking the pain: it's restoring the body to a state of balance!

11/01/2025

The claim that “chiropractic care is not effective” has been made repeatedly over the last century, but it’s not always based purely on data — it’s tied to emotional, economonic, political, and philosophical differences about what “effective” means, how evidence is judged, and how chiropractic care fits into the medical system.

Let’s unpack this clearly and objectively:

⚕️ 1. Historical context: medicine vs. chiropractic

Chiropractic began in 1895 with D.D. Palmer’s idea that spinal misalignments (“subluxations”) could disrupt nervous system flow and affect overall health.
At the time, medicine had little scientific grounding — it was before antibiotics, vaccines, or modern diagnostic imaging.

But as medicine evolved into a science-based field (especially after 1910’s Flexner Report), it began to emphasize laboratory proof and biomedical explanations.

Chiropractic, meanwhile, stayed rooted in a 🌱vitalistic, holistic model — emphasizing the body’s self-healing ability and the spine’s role in health.

Medicine saw chiropractic’s early claims as unscientific and unproven, especially the idea that adjusting the spine could affect organs (especially the brain), immunity, or disease.

⚖️ 2. Scientific skepticism — evidence and mechanism

Medical institutions would often state that chiropractic care was “not effective” because of:

Inconsistent evidence and Quality of studies:
Many early chiropractic studies were small, lacked randomization, or had methodological flaws, giving critics grounds to question their validity.

✨So, the chiropractic profession went to work! They published hundreds of studies PROVING the effectiveness in the care they provided and they did this with the highest proof literature: randomized, controlled trials (RCT’s) and systematic reviews.

🧠 3. Professional turf and economics

Beyond science, there was a strong political and 💲 financial motive 💲to quiet the chiropractic profession.

In the mid-1900s, the American Medical Association (AMA) labeled chiropractic an “unscientific cult.” 😳

The AMA’s “Committee on Quackery” (1960s–80s) actively tried to eliminate chiropractic through public relations campaigns, medical education, and insurance exclusion.

In 1987, a U.S. federal court (the Wilk v. AMA case) ruled that the AMA unlawfully conspired to destroy chiropractic competition.

So, the “ineffective” narrative was reinforced not just by evidence gaps — but by institutional bias and competition over control of musculoskeletal care and healthcare dollars.

📚 4. What modern evidence actually shows

Recent decades have changed the landscape:
Systematic reviews consistently show spinal manipulation (the main chiropractic intervention) is effective for acute and chronic low back pain and neck pain!

Evidence also supports benefits for headaches, joint mobility, and improved function (aka: neuroplasticity).

So, the evidence supports chiropractic! It ALWAYS HAS. The proof is in the data! ▶️ In the world of healthcare, data is the driving factor (or it’s supposed to be)!

Chiropractic care isn’t going away, friends. We are here to stay and we won’t be silenced. The proof of the cost effectiveness for chiropractic care, effectiveness for spinal pain, headaches, etc. has been published and CONTINUES to prove itself.

Education is powerful, but education with action is how change occurs! ✌️

11/01/2025

Want to know how movement, synovial fluid, and joints can heal with chiropractic adjustments?

🦴 1. The Role of Movement in Joint Health

Joints are designed to move, not just for flexibility but for nutrition and repair.
When a joint becomes restricted (due to injury, poor posture, or muscle imbalance), several things happen:
▶️Blood flow and nutrient exchange decrease.
▶️Waste products accumulate. (Hello, inflammation!)
▶️Nearby muscles and ligaments tighten to protect the area.(Aka:knots and trigger points!)
▶️Nerves send altered or “noisy” signals to the brain, affecting coordination and balance.
This lack of motion is called hypomobility, and it sets the stage for joint degeneration and inflammation.

💧 2. Synovial Fluid: The Joint’s Lifeblood

Inside most joints is synovial fluid, a thick, slippery substance that:
➡️Lubricates the joint surfaces to reduce friction.
➡️Feeds the cartilage (which has no direct blood supply).
➡️Removes metabolic waste from the joint capsule.

🌀 Movement is what circulates synovial fluid.
When a joint moves, it acts like a pump, squeezing and releasing the capsule, which:
🌟Pushes fresh fluid in.
🌟Flushes waste out.
🌟Keeps cartilage smooth, resilient, and nourished.

If a joint stops moving, synovial fluid becomes stagnant — much like a pond without flow — and cartilage begins to dry, crack, and thin.

⚙️ 3. How Chiropractic Adjustments Restore Movement

A chiropractic adjustment (spinal or extremity) is a specific, controlled thrust applied to a restricted joint.
Here’s what happens at the tissue level:
➡️The adjustment releases the joint fixation, allowing normal motion to return.
➡️That movement stimulates mechanoreceptors (movement sensors) in the joint capsule.
➡️Mechanoreceptors send clear signals to the spinal cord and brain, recalibrating muscle tone and coordination.
➡️The synovial fluid begins circulating again, bathing cartilage with oxygen and nutrients.
🌟The result: less friction, less inflammation, and better neurological control.🫶

🧬 4. Healing at the Joint Surface Level

With proper motion and fluid flow restored:
✨Cartilage cells (chondrocytes) can receive nutrients and repair microdamage.
The joint capsule becomes more elastic.
✨Inflammatory cytokines (pain chemicals) decrease.
✨Muscles surrounding the joint relax, improving alignment and load balance.
✨Over time, this reduces wear and tear and supports tissue regeneration.

🌿 5. The Neuroplastic Bonus

Every adjustment also provides powerful sensory feedback to the brain and cerebellum, which:
❣️Re-maps movement patterns.
❣️Normalizes pain processing.
❣️Enhances proprioception (body awareness).

This is why patients often report improved mobility, less stiffness, and even better balance — all rooted in how the nervous system integrates restored motion.

🧩 In Summary
Chiropractic care helps joints heal by restoring movement, which revives synovial fluid flow, nourishes cartilage, reduces inflammation, and rebalances neurological control.

📢Movement is medicine — and chiropractic adjustments help the body move, feed, and repair itself naturally! ✌️

10/31/2025

Happy All’ Hallow Eve. Aka Halloween.

10/24/2025

Have you seen your chiropractor lately?!

10/10/2025

Chiropractic adjustments — particularly spinal manipulations — may influence brain chemistry and neurophysiology.

Here's a breakdown of what current research and theory suggest about how chiropractic care might affect brain chemistry:

🧠 1. Neuroplasticity and Nervous System Modulation

Chiropractic adjustments can affect the central nervous system (CNS) by stimulating proprioceptors and mechanoreceptors in the spine and joints. These receptors send signals to the brain, potentially influencing:
➡️Sensory processing
➡️Motor control
➡️Pain perception

This sensory input can lead to 🌟 neuroplastic 🌟 changes — meaning the brain can reorganize and adapt, which may influence how it processes pain, stress, and other inputs!!

🧬 2. Neurotransmitter Release

Adjustments may impact the autonomic nervous system (ANS) — which controls involuntary functions like heart rate, digestion, and stress response. By modulating sympathetic (fight-or-flight) and parasympathetic (rest-and-digest) balance, chiropractic care could influence the release of:

➡️Endorphins – natural painkillers that elevate mood
➡️Cortisol – the stress hormone, which may decrease after adjustments
➡️Dopamine & Serotonin – linked to mood, motivation, and well-being
➡️Norepinephrine – involved in attention and alertness

These neurochemical changes may help explain why some people report feeling relaxed, euphoric, or mentally clearer after an adjustment. 🫶

🔁 3. Pain Modulation via Brain Structures

Spinal adjustments can influence brain regions involved in pain and emotional regulation, such as:

➡️Prefrontal cortex – involved in decision-making and emotional control
➡️Anterior cingulate cortex – regulates pain and emotional response
➡️Insular cortex – integrates sensory and emotional information
➡️Periaqueductal gray (PAG) – involved in pain inhibition and endorphin release

These areas can influence both how pain is perceived and how the body responds to it chemically.

📊 Supporting Evidence

Research is still developing (as it always is), but some studies using functional MRI (fMRI) and EEG have shown:

➡️Changes in brain activity patterns after spinal adjustments
➡️Modulation of muscle reflexes and motor control
➡️Reduction in stress-related biomarkers

It's not just about the spine, friends! Everything is connected!❤️

10/03/2025

Listen carefully!!!! I listened to her before ‘they’ censored her. Where would be at if her work would have been embraced? Are you questioning things?

10/02/2025

Great study!

Chiropractic care reduces opioid risk and saves lives. A major new study of ~25,000 patients with low back pain who received spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) had an 🌟 80% lower risk of developing opioid use disorder 🌟 compared to those prescribed ibuprofen.

✅ Fewer opioid prescriptions
✅ Lower rates of long-term opioid use
✅ Strong evidence supporting SMT as a first-line treatment

This isn’t just a win for chiropractic, it’s a win for society. At a time when opioid misuse continues to devastate families and communities, evidence-based, nonpharmacologic care like has the power to improve outcomes and protect public health.

Opioid abuse has caused WAY more deaths and devastion than you can imagine. ➡️ Based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the daily death rate for opioid abuse in the United States was 217 people per day in 2023.

Chiropractic care needs to be the first line of defense for back pain!

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