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

01/19/2026

A patient once told me
Sundays were the worst part of her week.

Not because she was busy.
But because she never actually rested.

She spent Sundays catching up.
Scrolling.
Thinking about Monday.
Trying to “prepare.”

By the time the week started,
her body already felt tense and behind.

What finally helped wasn’t more stretching or planning.
It was learning to let the system settle.

A few quiet minutes.
No phone.
No noise.

Once she gave herself permission to reset,
her body moved better
and Mondays stopped feeling so heavy.

Sometimes recovery isn’t doing more.
It’s letting things get quiet.

01/18/2026

Most weeks end without a real pause.
Just rolling straight into the next one.

Taking a few quiet minutes
with no input
gives the nervous system a chance to reset.

You don’t need to fix anything today.
Just let the system settle
before the week starts again

01/17/2026

Most people finish a workout or ride
and immediately rush into the next thing.

But the body doesn’t adapt
the moment the effort stops.

Adaptation happens in the pause after.
When breathing settles.
When the system has a chance to register what just happened.

Taking a moment to notice how your body feels
helps lock in the benefit of the work you just did

01/17/2026

A cyclist came in with chronic low back pain that flared on any climb longer than a couple minutes.
Strong rider.
Disciplined.
Always “doing the right things.”

His tension was so high he couldn’t even relax on vacation.

He had just moved to LA and finally found community through group rides.
When his back started flaring, it felt like he was about to lose that too.

The root cause was limited range at his hips.
But here’s the thing…
stretching and traditional drills didn’t change much at first.

What finally worked was giving his system permission to let go.

We taught him to shake.
Wiggle.
Move without rules for a couple minutes.

Once the nervous system relaxed,
his hips started to open.
His back stopped flaring.
And he stayed in the rides that gave him community.

Sometimes the most effective part of care
doesn’t look like rehab.

That’s the trick.

And yes… treatment can be expensive.
But the humor is free.

01/16/2026

By the end of the week,
most bodies are holding more than they realize.

Tension.
Effort.
Control.

Letting movement be playful for a few minutes
gives the system permission to loosen up.

Sometimes that’s all the body needs
to feel better again

01/15/2026

Most mornings feel chaotic
not because people are lazy
but because they’re overloaded with decisions.

What to wear.
What to eat.
What they forgot.

Reducing that load before the day starts
is one of the simplest ways
to lower stress and tension.

01/14/2026

If your body feels tense or scattered,
this is often what’s missing.

Most people lose connection to the ground during the day.
They’re on screens, in shoes, sitting, rushing.

When the feet aren’t giving good feedback,
the nervous system stays a little on edge.

A simple way to change that
is to reconnect the feet and slow the breath.

Light pressure through the ball of the foot and lean forward making sure your heel doesn’t lift.
Slow nasal breath.

That input gives the brain better information.
When the brain gets better information,
the system organizes and tension often drops.

That’s changing the system,
not just chasing symptoms.

01/14/2026

Most people spend the day living from the neck up.
Thoughts racing, shoulders tight, jaw clenched.

Grounding through your feet is a quick way to bring the system back down.
Feet on the floor. One slow breath.

When the body feels grounded, the nervous system organizes.
And when the system is organized, movement, focus, and pain all tend to improve.

01/13/2026

A woman came into my office with hip and low back pain.
Yoga had always been her thing. She actually met her husband there.

As her pain got worse, she stopped going.
Not because she didn’t try.
She was stretching every day.
Pigeon pose. Hamstrings. Long holds.

Nothing stuck.

What made it harder was that stopping yoga felt like a betrayal.
Of her body.
And of something she and her husband shared.

The issue wasn’t that she wasn’t flexible enough.
Her hips weren’t moving well or under control.

Once we restored motion and control at the hip,
her back stopped doing extra work.

She didn’t need to quit yoga.
She needed a different starting point.

That’s what root cause care actually looks like.

01/13/2026

A lot of people feel “tight” in their hips
and immediately try to stretch them.

The problem is, tight doesn’t always mean short.
Often it means the joint just isn’t moving well.

When the hips lose motion,
the back and other areas usually compensate.

Getting the hips moving again
is often where lasting change starts.

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3249 S La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
90016

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