You love your job; it’s challenging and rewarding, and it pays the bills. However, throughout the day and even long after you’ve come home, you struggle with persistent back and neck pain. Although there are many tricks out there to help you deal with pain from a desk job, such as stretches and exercises in your daily schedule, these merely treat the symptoms, not the cause of your pain. Here are some ways that you can address the problem at its source and minimize your discomfort.

At the beginning of this new year and a new decade, many people set goals for improving their health. In addition to having a better diet, they can add in more workouts at the gym into their lifestyle. Is  improving your health on your list of New Year’s resolutions too? If you struggle with chronic back pain, are over age 30, or have had back injuries in the past, pushing yourself in exercise can feel more uncomfortable and nervewracking. You don’t want to push too hard and hurt yourself. In this blog post, you’ll learn how you can avoid back pain from working out and stay on track with your resolutions.

You’re at the park with your kids. One wants you to push them on a swing, and the other wants you to kick a ball with them. You know that spending quality time with them is important, especially while they are young, but lately, you’ve been dealing with chronic back pain. Instead of creating meaningful memories with your loved ones, you sit at the bench groaning with discomfort.

If your back pain is interfering with your ability to live life to the fullest, it’s time to get professional help! At Wills Chiropractic, we can treat the source of your neck or back pain and enable you return to the activities and people you love most. Here are ways that your chiropractor can help!

You’re sick of it—your back pain is interfering with your ability to move comfortably, and it just never seems to go away for long before it comes back. You decide to go to a chiropractor for a few visits to readjust your spine and relieve your pain, but they recommend coming on a consistent basis even after the pain subsides for rehabilitation. What is exactly is rehabilitation? Do you really need these additional appointments? Read on to learn more about this important part of successful chiropractic care.

It’s like clockwork. Every morning when you wake up, you take two aspirin to lessen the dull pounding in your head and allow you to go to work. Around lunch time, you take another two to get you through the day, and two more with dinner and when you go to sleep. Then, the whole cycle starts all over again the next day. If this sounds familiar with your regular schedule, then chronic headaches are interfering with your life, but by understanding headaches better, you can understand the treatment you need to manage and treat this pain at the source. Keep reading to learn more about headaches and how chiropractic care can be the answer to long-term wellness.

Although your injury occurred weeks ago, your knee is still mostly out of commission. You still experience substantial pain when you try to use the knee, which is frustrating and inconvenient for someone as active as you are. You’ve been told that it will take significant time to heal, but you wonder if there’s an alternative method to help your body along the way and reduce the pain you feel. Well, laser therapy may provide the answer you’re looking for. Keep reading to learn how this technology can help you with knee pain.

As you take down your Halloween decorations, you start to feel a crisp chill in the air and know that colder weather will come shortly. The temperatures are dropping, and the days are getting shorter—signaling that winter is just weeks away. For many, this time of year entails more than just holiday get-togethers. It also includes more back pain than usual. Regardless of geographic location, colder temperatures seem to escalate problems with back pain, but you may be wondering, “Why does my back hurt worse in the winter?” In this blog post, you’ll learn more about this connection between cold weather and back pain and what you can do to manage and reduce your back pain.

You like what you do for a living. Your job is certainly fulfilling, but sitting at a desk all day every day can take a toll on you after a while. Looking at and working with a screen can lead to slouched or crooked posture, which then causes several problems. Even if you get and use a stand-up desk, you can still struggle with maintaining good posture and keeping your body in optimal health. In this blog post, you’ll learn how you can fix your posture and what the benefits of your efforts can be.

When you hear your phone chime with a notification, you pick it up and look at a friend’s text. You write a response and then pop over to Facebook to update your status. Afterward, you check your email and reply to your client’s query really fast. Your phone alerts you to how many followers liked your latest tweet when you feel a sharp pain in your shoulders and neck. This neck pain, also called text neck, can do more than cause you discomfort—in this blog post, you’ll learn more about text neck, what it can do, and how to prevent and treat it with your chiropractor.

While helping a friend move, you bend over to pick up a heavy box. As you lift it up, you feel an excruciating pain shoot through your lower back. You decide to visit a chiropractor for help. Although you may be expecting them to use traditional treatments like spinal decompression therapy, in which your spine is stretched to relieve back pain, you should find a chiropractor that also uses laser therapy. For about 20 years now, laser therapy has been approved by the FDA and used in chiropractic care for back pain. In this post, you’ll learn more about how this advanced method can alleviate your back pain and help you heal.