Your lower back has been screaming at you for eight months now. You went through twelve weeks of physical therapy. The chiropractor helped for maybe three days after each visit. Ibuprofen just makes your stomach hurt on top of everything else. Your primary care doctor shrugged and said maybe try yoga. Here’s the thing about chronic pain: it doesn’t exist in a vacuum. That ache in your shoulder blade connects to your neck tension, which…
Most people walk away from a car accident thinking they’re fine. A little shaken up, sure. But nothing’s broken. The car absorbed most of the impact. That’s what you tell yourself anyway. Then morning comes. You wake up and your neck feels like it’s locked in place. Can’t turn your head without moving your whole body. Your back? Forget it. Feels like someone took a baseball bat to you while you slept. And here’s the…
Sciatica is absolutely brutal. That shooting pain down your leg makes you want to cry. The numbness in your toes freaks you out. Your lower back constantly aches. Even lying down doesn’t always help, which is just cruel. When you’re in the middle of dealing with this, you really just want one answer: how long until this stops hurting? Fair question. Unfortunately, the answer’s not simple because everyone’s sciatica is different. But let’s walk through…
My son started high school football this year. Two weeks into practice, he could barely get out of bed in the morning. His lower back was killing him. Shoulders tight. He was 14 years old and moving like he was 70. I took him to our chiropractor in Wall, NJ. Not because something was broken or torn, but because I remembered how beat up I used to get playing soccer in high school. The constant…
I’ve been working as a nutritionist and weight loss coach in Wall, NJ, for about twelve years now, and every October I start having the same conversation with clients. They look at me and say, “I want to lose weight before the holidays.” And I get it—nobody wants to feel uncomfortable in their clothes at Thanksgiving dinner or New Year’s Eve. But here’s the thing I’ve learned after helping hundreds of people in Monmouth County…
I threw my back out three years ago moving furniture. Spent six weeks doing physical therapy exercises – got a little better but still had this nagging ache. Finally went to a chiropractor. Two adjustments later, I felt better than I had in months. Here’s what I learned: I needed both. The physical therapy strengthened my core, but my spine was still misaligned. The chiropractic care fixed the alignment, but without the PT exercises, I…
I’ve tried every diet that exists. Keto, paleo, Whole30, that cabbage soup thing from the 90s that made me hate vegetables. I did Weight Watchers three separate times. I bought weight loss pills from Instagram ads that did absolutely nothing except make my heart race. I spent probably fifteen years yo-yoing between the same 40 pounds. Then last year I finally went to Garrow Wellness Center in Wall, NJ and started an actual medical weight…
My son started playing football for Manasquan High this year and I was nervous about injuries. You hear all these stories about kids getting hurt, and I didn’t know what to expect. My friend Karen works at a physical therapy clinic in Sea Girt and she told me they see tons of injured athletes every fall. So I asked her what we could do to keep Jake safe. She introduced me to a couple of…
Last summer, I’m playing beach volleyball at Sea Girt Beach, having a great time, when I go for this spectacular dive to save a point. Looked awesome, felt like a hero for about two seconds, then tried to get up and my back said “nope.” I’m lying there in the sand thinking, great, now what? Do I call a chiropractor or a physical therapist? Honestly had no idea. My neighbor Susan swore by her chiropractor…
I messed up my back last spring trying to move furniture by myself. Smart, right? Figured I could save the delivery fee and handle it myself. Three hours later I’m flat on my living room floor wondering what went wrong with my life choices. Spent the next two months going to different doctors who kept handing me muscle relaxers and telling me to rest. Easy for them to say – try explaining to your boss…