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Time to Address Your Lingering Back Pain!

Whether your lingering back pain is constant or intermittent, if it’s been around long enough, you’ve probably made accommodations for it. That’s what a lot of people do. Many people with long-term (or chronic) back pain tend to accept it. They may have tried a variety of therapies that gave temporary relief, but they soldier […]

Backpacks may seem harmless at first glance. They’re a great way to transport items from point A to point B and you need one when you go camping. But backpacks are more treacherous than they may appear. For example, 14,000 children and teens sustain backpack injuries every year. That’s a statistic which shouldn’t even exist, […]

At one time or another, most people have had a Charlie horse or muscle cramp. About 50 percent of adults over 50 suffer from night cramps. Our Manhattan therapist is often asked where these cramps come from and how to get rid of them. A common type of muscle cramp is caused by exercise, which […]

Our NYC therapist has some great info about a common knee injury. “Jumper’s Knee” is the term that describes an injury to the tendon that attaches the lower to the prominence on the proximal shin bone. This is the upper pole of the knee cap or patella to the quadriceps femoris muscle. Jumpers knee affects […]

The Many Problems and Injuries of the Hip Explained by our Manhatten Chiropractor

Hip pain commonly contributes to missing time in a sport or event, along with other important tasks like work or school. Our Manhattan Chiropractor is going to inform you on frequent injuries of the hip. MUSCLE STRAINS: The number one most frequent hip and groin area injury come from muscle strains. The muscles have a […]

Our 10022 Chiropractic wants you to know that you are at risk for lower limb injuries, more specifically hamstring injuries, if you participate in sports that use great acceleration / deceleration, cutting left and right, agility, jumping, and bending in a pose. In Australian football, hamstring injuries affect 16 percent of players, which equals about […]

Not a lot of people think about it, but head posture can be the root cause of neck pain. The way you sit and stand matters. I think about this stuff because I’m a chiropractor, but if people would be more attentive to their posture, they wouldn’t need to come and see me so often. […]

I’m a chiropractor. I’m also an athlete. Chiropractic care is a complex medical discipline that exploits the intimate relationship between the skeletal and nervous systems. A chiropractor has a professional understanding of how closely related these two physical systems are and how much they rely on one another. When the spine is in alignment (the […]

At our chiropractic clinic here in Manhatten Island, NY, we see countless people who work at a desk all day coming in complaining of back pain. It’s extremely common, and one of the most usual reason why people are sick from work. These so called “desk jockeys” complaints are largely triggered by many stressors combined […]

Two Important Factors in the Treatment of Ankle Sprains Ankle sprains are very commonplace, especially with active persons and athletes. While we see many of these conditions at Back and Body in NY, we want to treat them appropriately and also to ensure that further repeat injury is prevented as much as possible in the […]