Stretching is an important habit to incorporate into your daily routine. In this episode, we discuss why developing your own stretching routine, ideally in the morning and at night, can help you stay consistent and take an active role in your daily care.
Rest and sleep are essential parts of your body's recovery process. In this episode, we discuss how quality sleep supports healing, why excessive caffeine and energy drinks can interfere with rest, and how developing better sleep habits may help support recovery from neck and back problems.
Many spinal problems are mechanical, meaning they involve the way the spine moves and functions. In this episode, we explain how chiropractic adjustments, intersegmental traction, and spinal decompression focus on addressing spinal mechanics rather than simply managing symptoms such as pain, numbness, and tingling.
Your sleeping position can have an impact on your neck, back, and overall spinal alignment. Dr. Ryan Alter from Alter Chiropractic shares practical tips for improving sleep posture, choosing supportive positions, and reducing unnecessary strain on your spine throughout the night.
Pain may be telling you that something isn’t moving or functioning the way it should. Discover why identifying the mechanical factors behind discomfort can be an important step toward better movement and function.
Should you stretch when your back hurts? Learn when stretching may help, when to be cautious, and why identifying the cause of your back pain is important before deciding what to do next.
Change takes time, but every step forward matters. Dr. Ryan Alter explains why consistency is the key to long-term healing and how trusting the process can lead to lasting improvements in your health and well-being.
After years of pain, it’s perfectly reasonable to need consistent care before seeing permanent results. This week Dr. Alter is explaining why that is, and how he approaches your health with care.
And what we’ve found over the last 15 years after seeing a thousand plus headache patients is that many times there’s a problem in the neck that is contributing, if not a hundred percent, causing their headaches.
So when someone gets in a crash, they should come and see me because what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna carefully evaluate every vertebrae, their entire spine.
Today I want to talk about fitness and working out and how it affects the neck and what to be careful of. The key, the key when you’re working out when it comes to your neck, is that your neck is in a neutral position.
You can’t have that. And how about the rest of your health in terms of your spine? That’s where chiropractors come in. Is your nerve system working properly? Are you in pain
So really, both ways are okay, but really to answer the question, if you don’t feel good and you’re on your way to the gym, it’s better to come and get adjusted first.
If you have a spine and you wanna keep it in as good shape as possible, you should go regularly and get chiropractic care the same way you take care of your teeth
All of the twisting and the bending, any injuries or car crashes, lifting cases of water, sitting in the car, traveling on airplanes. All of that has got you in the condition you’re at right now.
The nerve is coming out through a hole and we want the most amount of space there and what can happen is this vertebrae can shift and start to get stuck right here.
We are on a mission here, as you can probably tell. There’s people out there hurting in a thousand different ways that chiropractic and spiral decompression can help.
And then most of the time I’m taking a set of digital x-rays. We wanna see, there’s a saying to see is to know and to not see is to guess, and we don’t guess with your health.
You get one body that you’ve gotta navigate through life for your entire life. You can’t trade it, you don’t get a new one. So why don’t people take care of it like they take care of their car?
You break your arm you’ve got shattering arm pain and you go to the hospital for relief. The symptom is gone. Is the problem gone? You haven’t even started.
And in between these vertebrae are nerves and the scientists were able to attach a wire to one of these nerves and put the other end, attach it to a light bulb, and the electrical power from the brain coming down and out that nerve is able to light the light bulb.
Is pain holding you back from doing what you wanna do? Well, I’ll tell you what, after seeing 8,000 plus patients here in Delray Beach over the last 18 years, there’s a very good chance we can help you feel a thousand times better.
So you can have freedom at the end of your life. This is about getting anything that you’ve wanted, a new watch, a new car. So everything in your life can fit in one of these 4 categories. And what we wanna have happen, and I’m encouraging you to want this to have happen, is to get each of these areas really dialed in in your life.
What lesson can you take from that? Well, what it’s saying is that taking care of yourself, taking care of your body, your teeth, your skin, your spine, taking care of your body and taking care of your health is easier than not taking care of it and then trying to do everything you have to to get it back to health.
With all of my experience, 18 years here in Delray, I’m gonna take all of that information and design a plan perfectly for you. Isn’t that what you want? When I have a problem and I go see a doctor, that’s exactly what I want from him. So come and see me.
Changing the body takes consistency over time. If you’ve had a problem for five years, what’s it going to take to get a lot better? It’s probably going to take a lot of work. If you’ve had it a long time, it’s going to take time to get better. It’s almost common sense—and I’m still startled that people don’t understand that.
People in my office ask me all the time when I’m talking about our spinal decompression. They ask me about an inversion table. Is an inversion table kind of the same thing? Is it good? Well. There’s a big difference.
I would say about 90% of the time in my office, we are recommending cold because there’s almost always an inflammatory component to these problems. The only time I’m telling people to use heat is if they’re achy and a little bit sore, not pain. If there’s pain, I’m using cold and I recommend you use cold.
Well, there’s nothing normal about a headache. They’re very common, which means a lot of people have them, but it’s not normal. Okay. There are warning sign that something is going on. Something is wrong.
Most of the problems in the spine are mechanical in nature, meaning they don’t move, they’re fixated. It’s a moving thing like a joint or a hinge on a door. And it looks like this.
If you have a spine and you want to keep it in as good shape as possible you should go regularly and get chiropractic care the same way you take care of your teeth.
