Posts by Bella Kirk

Chiropractic Role in Insurance Reimbursement for Breast Reduction Surgery No one should see a chiropractor for breast reduction. No chiropractor should ever do a breast exam- ever. A chiropractor is trained to treat musculoskeletal problems that may arise from macromastia. If you were wondering what macromastia is it means breast hypertrophy. As chiropractors, we may…

Why You Should Be w/ Leaky Gut Your body is under attack and you don’t even know it. Many symptoms can be happening and yet you have no idea where or why. So you take an Advil or Aleve and don’t pay much attention to the symptoms. Then you learn to live with the symptoms…

Is it a sprain or a strain and what’s the difference? Well let me tell you. Sprains and strains are common injuries that can occur during exercise, heavy lifting, accidents, and daily physical activities. These two injuries are often confused for one another, but there is a difference. A sprain is a stretch or tears…

Why is standing better than sitting at a desk all day? Chiropractors see a wide range of spinal problems, and a lot of them have to do with poor posture and prolonged sitting or slouching. Too much lumbar pressure from constant sitting can lead to back pain. Also, extended sitting means your abdominal and hamstring…

Degenerative Joint Disease and Low Back Pain It is a lot simpler to call osteoarthritis arthritis and degenerative joint disease arthritis. So for explanation purposes here it will be called arthritis. So we all know that as we age we get arthritis, correct? There are three hallmark issues with arthritis that cause lower back pain. The first is obviously pain. The next…

Adhesive Capsulitis aka Frozen Shoulder Are you looking for the secret sauce to eliminate your frozen shoulder pain? Well here goes it. There are 4 muscles that can cause you to have a lot of shoulder pain and loss of mobility. Here are the muscles The latissimus dorsi muscles, known as the lats, are the…