A year of abundant health starts with setting smart goals and taking proactive daily steps to support your body being its best. Movement and exercise are both essential foundations to living your best life. Movement and exercise help you feel better physically, but emerging research shows they may also help your brain stay sharp and focused. Before you can begin
Inflammation is like a check engine light for your body. It tells you something isn’t quite right, and you should pay attention. The first step in discovering the cause of the problem is determining whether you have acute or chronic inflammation. Acute inflammation is short-term and critical in healing and injury repair. Chronic inflammation on the other hand describes a
Tennis elbow isn’t just for athletes. Lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) is a painful condition when the tendons in your elbow are inflamed and overloaded due to repetitive motion.
Because of the motion that occurs when swinging a racket, it’s commonly referred to as tennis elbow, but anyone with a job that features repetitive arm motions may be at risk.
In the intricate universe of our bodies, our joints – shoulders, hips, knees, and elbows – play the pivotal role of maintaining mobility and ensuring our active participation in life’s many adventures. But what happens when these joints start crying out in pain and restrict our movement? Traditional medicine often recommends painkillers, anti-inflammatories, or in severe cases, surgery
While the hip and SI joints are very different in structure and function, they share similar pain patterns, making it difficult to tell one from the other. It’s common to have SI joint pain mimic low back pain.
Your shoulder is the most unstable and moveable joint in your body. If you have shoulder pain, here is how you can find relief.
The nervous system contains many different categories in many different ways. In understanding nervous system physiology, a simple but accurate way of categorization is to view the nervous system as two separate but integrated systems: The MOTOR nerve system and the SENSORY nerve system. The MOTOR nerve system is the nerves that move our muscles (motor). Also, it controls the function of our visceral organs (like
Shoulder pain is a REALLY common problem in North Dallas. There are many causes of shoulder pain. Understanding what is causing your pain is helpful in finding shoulder pain relief. Sources of Shoulder Pain The most common source of shoulder pain arises from the muscle tendons and the bursa. Bursas are fluid-like sacs that cushion and protect the sliding tendons
One of the most common causes of shoulder pain is a rotator cuff (RC) tear. To determine just how common this is, one study looked at a population of 683 people regardless of if they had shoulder complaints or not. There were 229 males and 454 females for a total of 1,366 shoulders. (The participants’ average age was 58 years,
The shoulder is a very complex region that comprises multiple joints and muscle attachments. A strong joint capsular ligament, multiple nerves, and blood vessels pass into the arm to bring motor and sensory function to the hand and fingers. One condition of the shoulder that may drive a patient to seek chiropractic care is entrapment neuropathy of the suprascapular nerve.
Jonathan Woodward, D.C.
Woodward Chiropractic & Massage
6310 Lyndon B Johnson Fwy Ste 115
Dallas, TX 75240
(972) 490-9888