Back Pocket Chiro

Chiropractor | Preventative Health | Movement is Medicine | Nervous System Supremacy | Not Medical Advice

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

You don't have a bad back.

You've never given it the right inputs.

Free 5-minute routine. No equipment. No email spam, just the PDF.

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[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

Three guides, three different situations. Back is fine and you want to keep it that way, back goes out a couple times a year, or back is out right now. Pick the one you're actually in. Bio.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

Numbness and weakness are different from pain and get filed under the same complaint constantly.

Pain is loud. Numbness is information. The second one earns more attention than it usually gets.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

Nobody has ever pulled something reaching for a glass of water. It is always the last item in the car, carried wrong, on purpose, because going back would take four seconds.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

A shoulder that hurts at rest, at night, and in positions that have nothing to do with the shoulder is telling you to look somewhere else.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

"Is it covered" and "is it free" are different questions.

The gap between them ruins somebody's afternoon every single week.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

The argument against ice is that inflammation is part of healing and you shouldn't blunt it.

Fine in principle. Less useful when someone cannot stand up straight and has to work tomorrow.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

"I've been icing it" usually means twelve minutes, once, four days ago.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

If your shoulder has been stubborn for months and nobody has looked at your neck, that is a gap worth mentioning out loud at your next appointment.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

The acute guide exists because I kept saying the same eight things in a first appointment and running out of time before I finished. It's in my bio.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

The joint you point at is not always the joint that is failing.

Shoulders borrow from necks. Hips and backs trade blame. The knee is one of the few that usually means it.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

Somebody described their pain to me today as "not bad, just loud." Best description I've heard all year.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

Knee pain with no trauma behind it almost always comes back to how the quad and hamstring are working.

That is an unsatisfying answer and it is usually the right one.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

What's the worst explanation a professional has ever given you for your own pain?

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

Hips and low backs blame each other constantly.

Point at the hip and the driver is often the back. Point at the back and sometimes the hip has been doing it the whole time.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

The gym in late September is entirely people who said they'd get serious after summer. Give it three weeks.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

Ice on an acute disc has fallen out of fashion. The internet decided it delays healing and everyone repeated it.

I still use it, and I still watch it work in the first few days.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

Every waiting room has one person filling out the intake form like it's a final exam and one person who wrote "yes" in the space for date of birth.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

The knee is the simplest joint you own. It flexes. It extends. That is the entire list of things it does.

People spend months looking for something more complicated in there.

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

Nobody knows what their deductible is. Nobody.

Including the people who open with "I know exactly how my plan works."

[Back Pocket Chiro @pocketchiro]

More than half the shoulder problems I see have a neck driving part of it.

Nobody walks in saying their neck hurts. They walk in pointing at the shoulder.