Your Exercise Journey If you’re looking to shed a few pounds, you’re not alone. Many people share the same goal, and the key to success lies in how you think, eat, and, well, move! So, where does our care fit into this? We’re glad you asked! It’s true that adjustments don’t directly cause weight loss, […]
My Pain is Back… I understand how stressful it would be to feel like your pain was returning. After all the hard work, adjustments, and taking care of yourself, you now feel like you did something wrong, and your pain is coming back to punish you for that. Now, you’re probably thinking, “How will I […]
The Emotional Car Crash Most people know chiropractors help with low back pain, headaches, and tightness in the mid back. However, the treatment stretches much further than the musculoskeletal system. Symptoms like anxiety, fatigue, and discomfort caused by thoughts are also treated as chiropractors adjust the spine. This brings us to the idea of the […]
It’s the Little Things… Often, we find ourselves focusing on the big details in life—what house we live in, what car we drive, our job title, etc. It then becomes very easy to tether our happiness to those details. This makes it difficult to enjoy the smaller things in life between those big events. A […]
Be Sure to Listen to Your Body Listening to your body is one of the most important things you can do as a patient at a chiropractic office like McKinley Family Chiropractic. Over the course of around 8-12 weeks, we adjust you routinely, provide exercises to do at home, and reintroduce exercise into your daily […]
This Week… On Your Journey to Better Health Busy schedules and stress are the two biggest reasons people skip exercise (surprise, surprise right?!), but they’re also the two best reasons to stay active! Those endorphins that help you feel great also relax your mind. And when you feel better, your days tend to go just […]
Consistency is Key Brushing your teeth, working out, eating healthy, and going to bed early are all things that require consistency to work. Have you ever met anyone who was surprised that they didn’t have six-pack abs after going to the gym every other week? Probably not. We have all learned that things like that […]
Why Do I Need a Morning Routine? Raise your hand if you snooze until the last minute every morning. Then you rush out of bed to get ready, forget to put deodorant on, blame traffic for how late you are, and feel stressed for the next two hours until your nervous system calms down. We’ve […]
Sports Switch Up McKinley Family Chiropractic is full of multisport athletes! It’s no secret that today’s youth sports landscape leans heavily on early specialization. However, when young athletes focus on just one single specific sport year-round, it can tend to lead to repeated overuse injuries. Cross-training, or sports sampling, on the other hand, can help […]
Swing Kings and Queens Golf is an extremely difficult yet rewarding sport. It requires multiple skills, such as speed, control, timing, flexibility, power, and accuracy. But above all, golf requires an impressive ability to understand where your body is in space. There is a word for that in science called proprioception, and chiropractors help improve […]