We are all like plants. An analogy for how we can make painful things better.
Since we’re like plants, we need certain conditions to thrive, and we are infinitely more complicated than Aloe Vera. It can be very helpful to work with a practitioner who is willing and able to take the time to understand you, guide you, and provide you the education and tools you need to truly thrive.
Beginner’s Guide to Acute Low Back Pain
Back pain sucks. We can help. This article is a quick way to get you started.
Here comes the heat!
This quick blog offers three tips for exercising in the heat. You don’t need to be a pro athlete to be proactive about performance in hot weather.
The Highland’s Workout Plan Overview
This blog is primarily a resource for patients who have worked with Dr. Josh and need a little reminder of how their resistance training can be structured once care is done. If this is something you want to learn more about, let us know. We love this kind of thing.
Building the habits you need to achieve your goals
It’s the day-to-day things we do consistently that will determine whether we ever reach the goals we set. For this reason, this blog will provide some simple tools to help develop our processes and maintain consistency with our habits.
Every thing you ever need to know is on the internet
If you look up “Back Pain Cure” on Google, you get 3 BILLION results. That leads me to believe all the answers are somewhere in that snake’s nest of information.
The goal of this blog is to show you how just having the information doesn’t always do us a lot of good. Making decisions that are relevant and effective for the individual is where the real magic happens.
3 Things to Know About Chiropractic Adjustments
Adjustments, spinal manipulation, bonesetting and back cracking are all pretty much the same thing. Chiropractors have used these techniques for hundreds of years to help patients, and before that, traditional healers had been using “bonesetting” techniques since at least some time in ancient Greece by a guy name Aesculapius.
Check out this blog if you want Dr. Josh’s modern take on adjustments.
An argument for going by feel aka “RPE”
In the clinic I often use RPE to help patients plan their training (biking, lifting, swimming etc.) and also to help inform rehab decisions we need to make.
3 things you should know about my chiropractic practice.
There are a lot of ideas circling around chiropractic care and I think it can be tough for patients to decide on a practitioner sometimes. Here are the three things I want a patient to know before they even think about seeing me as their chiropractor.