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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 […]

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 […]

As the weather warms, many of you are most likely prepping to hit the pavement and trails for some running this spring and summer. McKinley Family Chiropractic will be right next to you, ensuring your body stays healthy while you crank out your mileage. Chiropractors specialize in the treatment of the nervous system and musculoskeletal […]

Recently I was sitting at my favorite smoothie joint, Real Juice on Southport, and I recognized someone I knew sitting with her friend and her friend’s newborn and toddler.  After introductions, my friend told her friend she should talk to me about her 3 years olds multiple ear infections.  She replied, “So, THAT REALLY is […]

What if I told you that there is “spa-like” experience you could provide your children that would make ALL their (and yours) stress melt away? What if I told you that this experience would boost your childs mental, physical and emotional wellbeing as proven numerous times in scientific studies? What if I promised you that […]

Why read this blog? If you are new to this blog, here is my pitch to get you to read the rest of it and take a golden nugget or two. My kids are 9,7, and 4 (20 years of parenting) and not once have we needed to give them a drug for any ailment […]