Throughout my past few years of practice, some of the most common misconceptions I’ve heard surround chiropractic adjustments. Every day, I have someone come into my office who has a misconception about the chiropractic adjustment. Even if you google it, all you see are blogs by chiropractors that still don’t tell you the truth. So as a chiropractor, I’m here to set the record straight.

Most patients who walk into my office have already seen another provider for the issues they are dealing with. And the majority of them didn’t see any progress with their previous provider. This leads many of them to come into my office and tell me that they won’t do rehab because they’ve tried it and it didn’t work. I’m not saying I’m better than their last provider or that other chiropractors are bad. The whole purpose of this blog post is to highlight some of the more common reasons why rehab or conservative care hasn’t worked in the past and help patients prevent that from happening in the future.

Something that I’ve wanted to talk about for a while is why I practice how I do; it may help some of you better understand me and what I’m about. This is something I’m extremely passionate about and may be controversial, but it’s something that I feel I need to discuss.

If you don’t know, I’m a performance and cash-based chiropractor. That means that I do not take health insurance and I am focused on not only helping get out of pain but helping you achieve higher goals and performing at your best.

Are your running shoes causing you pain or even injury? In short, most likely not. This is a very common thing I hear and we're often very quick to blame something small like our shoes for why we're having pain. So if it's not the shoes, why are you having pain with running?