Wellness Blog

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 […]

In a time where our culture seems to embrace the organic and natural way, it is disturbing to see the percentage of non-natural births increase every year in the United States.  This is not meant to make someone feel bad if you needed an intervention like a c section, but the WHO (World Health Organization) […]

1) Shoulder/Neck sprain /strain While “kipping” is not the cause of all of the time, it is a factor for most cross-fit gym goers.  While kipping is great for gymnastic movement, coordination, and getting extra reps in when the classic strict pull up would not work, the “kip” can easily lead to shoulder/neck strain/sprain, and […]

With the explosion of the Wellness industry, we could all name thousands of ways to alleviate stress; from revolutionary ways to exercise our bodies, to eating certain types of “super foods”, to incorporate meditation practices that have been revolutionary. Yet somehow, many of us, still find ourselves pulled in so many different directions and still […]

Are you blaming your pain and poor health on your bed, work chair, or picking up your kids? You did not sleep funny! Every week in our office, I will hear one of our patients say something like,”I must have slept funny last night.” When someone says this, it’s most likely because they went to […]