Craig Abrams, DC

Craig Abrams, DC Chiropractic care driven to help you "Move well to be well"
We use diet, exercise, adjustment & laser therapy to get you on the path to recovery and beyond

12/09/2025

Back pain has a way of shrinking your world. One day you are training, moving well, feeling strong. The next you are waking up stiff, skipping workouts, and doing everything you can just to get through your day. For a lot of people it becomes hard to carry their kids, hard to focus at work, hard to feel like themselves.

Most of the men I help are in their thirties. They were active in their twenties, found the gym, played club sports, and felt capable. Then back pain hit and slowly chipped away at that identity. What hurts most is not the pain itself. It is the fear that they cannot be the present active father they wanted to be because they never had one growing up.

Here is the good news. Back pain is not a life sentence. You do not need to wake up feeling one hundred years old. When we fix the real root cause, people sleep through the night again, return to the gym three days a week, and get back to coaching their kids soccer team with confidence.

If you want my free Back Blueprint, comment STUCK and I will send it to you.



12/08/2025

If you ride long enough, you learn the truth. Pain on the bike rarely comes from the spot that hurts.

Most cyclists just want to ride without the knee pain, the hand numbness, the low back tightness, and without having to stop mid climb because something feels off.

I work with cyclists every week who have already tried the classic fixes like bike fits, stretching, new gear, and still feel like they are managing the same issue. It is not their fault. No one ever showed them the root cause.

Cycling is repetitive. It hides problems until your body cannot compensate anymore. When we restore hip rotation, rib mobility, core control, and the way your body loads the pedals, everything changes. You ride stronger, safer, and with more efficiency.

I have seen riders go from quitting halfway up Mandeville to finishing long weekends in Ojai without pain. Not because of a miracle stretch, but because we addressed why their body was breaking down.

If you want my free Bike Body Blueprint, the same framework I use to help cyclists get out of pain and unlock more power on the bike, comment RIDE and I will send it to you.

12/05/2025

If every time you go overhead your neck is the first thing to fail… this is for you.

Not the “I slept funny” stiffness —
I’m talking about the kind of neck pain that shuts down your lifts
and makes you wonder:

“If this is how I feel at 30… what does 60 look like?”

That’s the part people don’t talk about —
it’s not the pain itself,
it’s the fear of what this pain means.

And then the objections kick in:

• “Maybe I just need to stretch more.”
• “Maybe overhead pressing isn’t for me.”
• “Maybe I’m just built wrong.”
• “Maybe I should stop trying so hard.”

No.
Your neck isn’t the problem.
Your control is.

Here’s the flow we used:

• Dead bug with a block → teaches your ribs, pelvis, and core to actually stabilize
• Bretzel → opens the rotation your body has been stealing from your neck
• Half-kneeling lift → the pattern that fixes overhead pressing without neck tension

The outcome?

He went from avoiding overhead work completely
to hitting a pain-free overhead press at half his bodyweight.

If overhead exercises keep lighting up your neck,
start here.
Your future self will thank you.

12/03/2025

If your back just blew up and you’re scared to move… this is for you.

I know the kind of pain you’re in — the kind where getting out of bed feels impossible… and for a second you actually consider just peeing the bed because moving seems like a terrible idea.

And maybe you’re thinking:
“If I hurt myself getting off the toilet… what else is going to break?”
That fear hits hard when you’ve never had pain like this before.

Right now you might be asking yourself:
• Is this my new normal?
• Am I suddenly old?
• Why isn’t this going away like it usually does?
• Do I really need help or should I just wait it out?
• PT worked before — is this really different?

If those thoughts are running through your head —
you’re exactly who I made this flow for.

This is the sequence I used when my back locked up after a race.
I could barely walk.
Every hour I did this just to keep my body from freezing:

lunge → tall kneeling → deep knee bend → walkout → sphinx → baby cobra → back up.

This won’t fix the root cause — not yet.
But it will calm your system down enough so you can breathe, stand, and stop feeling trapped in your own body.

And once the pain settles…
that’s when we fix why it happened in the first place
— so you don’t end up here again.

If you’re scared to move today…
start here.
You’re going to get through this.

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Grateful for the places we get to see, the moments we get to share, and the people I get to walk through life with. The ...
11/28/2025

Grateful for the places we get to see, the moments we get to share, and the people I get to walk through life with.

The older I get, the clearer it becomes—gratitude isn’t a holiday, it’s a practice.

Some people stay with you no matter where you go, and some you hold close even oceans apart.

Happy Thanksgiving from Thailand 🦃 🦃 🦃

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