This category covers a variety of health topics, tips, and advice that don’t fit into our other specific categories. Here, you’ll find posts on overall wellness, preventive care, and strategies to help your body stay strong and recover effectively.
From understanding how daily habits impact your spine to simple steps you can take at home, these posts offer practical guidance for anyone looking to improve their health and maintain long-term wellness.
I am a Chiropractor The Chiropractor’s Role in Whole-Body Wellness I am a Chiropractor. Many people come to a Chiropractor with a wide range of presentations and, from within a relatively slender scope of practice, we find a way to help. I feel that, in the face of the very complicated entity [...]
Is a Chiropractor a doctor? The short answer is “yes” but that answer might benefit from some extra clarification. A Doctor of Chiropractic is not a Medical Doctor and so cannot prescribe or unprescribe medical intervention. Even though they are doctors and have D.C attached to their name, many state boards prohibit them from [...]
Why Sitting is the Worst We see a great deal of this. Pain with Prolonged sitting. At work. Driving. At school. Ever increasing cell phone use. We treat the elements: muscles, tendons, joints, posture and nerves. But why don’t you get better and stay better? This could become a deep dive, but we [...]
Can Treadmill Walking Help or Hurt Low Back Pain? Low back pain (LBP) often improves with continued activity—rest can make symptoms worse. Exercise is strongly recommended for non-specific LBP, as it helps prevent recurrence and lessen pain, particularly when including movement of the trunk, pelvis, and legs. At Grovetown Chiropractic, [...]
Exercise and Wellbeing: Why Movement is Essential for a Healthy Life Your body is the only one you get, and taking care of it requires time, care, and commitment. Exercise isn’t just about fitness goals or resolutions — it’s about creating a lifestyle that supports your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing for the long [...]
Ice vs Heat, Which Is Right For You? Even after many years of providing care and providing counsel in matters of self care we find one of the enduring points of confusion remains use and appropriateness of heat vs ice. These are two reasonably conservative interventions with long histories of use and effectiveness, as [...]
New Year, New You. Believe it or not, the start of the year can actually be the perfect time to assess your personal health! Whether that includes looking back on 2017 at the things you accomplished or looking ahead to 2018 and the goals you plan on setting for yourself, Chiropractic care can be [...]
Feeling Pain After A Car Accident? It can happen in the blink of an eye. You’re pulling out of a parking space or crossing through an intersection and before you know you’ve been hit by another car and everything gets turned upside down. No one wants to think about getting into a car accident, [...]
Think Your Chiropractor Won’t Be Able To Help Your Swing? Guess Again. It’s springtime again, and that means all eyes in the golfing world are on Augusta and The Masters Professional golfers and Chiropractic go together like Pimento Cheese Sandwiches and The Augusta National- and it’s not hard to see why. Back pain (and [...]
Questions About First Chiropractic Adjustment Let’s face it. When you go in for your annual cleaning at the dentist or a routine physical, you probably don’t have too many questions about what to expect. You might be worried the dentist will be able to tell if you haven’t been flossing, but the general nuts [...]