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Cogito Ergo Sum: From a Famous Quote to a Practical Health Goal
"I think, therefore I am" is the familiar English for cogito ergo sum. In Part IV of René Descartes's Discourse on the Method, it's part of an argument about doubt and the existence of the person doing the thinking.…
Hang Out With a Friend Today: Make Connection Easier
You don't need a health reason to hang out with a friend. Time together is worth having for its own sake, not as one more health assignment. If pain, fatigue or a demanding week has made meeting up hard, a smaller…
Mr. Rogers and His Chiropractor: A Story Is a Starting Point
Did Mr. Rogers have a chiropractor? He did. Jeffrey H. Cohen's obituary, published in January 2016, describes Cohen as a Pittsburgh chiropractor and Palmer graduate, and recounts a close relationship with Fred Rogers…
Morning Back Pain: Patterns to Notice and When to Get Help
If getting out of bed is the hardest part of your day, how your back behaves in that first hour is worth noticing. Stiffness on waking has several possible causes, and on its own can't identify a disc problem or show…
The Clothes Make the Man? Plan the Lift, Not Just the Outfit
Good workout clothes can make it easier to move. They won't tell you if a box is too heavy to manage, or if back pain after a lift needs checking. Before you lift furniture, groceries or equipment, plan the lift itself.
When You Feel Weak: Describe the Change and Find the Right Help
When you feel weak, you don't have to prove you're strong enough or sick enough to ask for help. What matters is the change itself: a task that takes more effort, an arm or leg that no longer does what you expect, or…
Tips For Better Sleeping in Clarksville TN
The part of better sleeping a chiropractor can speak to comes down to one plain fact: you spend hours at a time in one position, and your spine holds it. That's why sleep comes up so often in a chiropractic history.…
Includes research & limitationsHow Can Chiropractic Care Help Posture in Clarksville TN
A lot of posture questions are really about a task: a day at a desk, a long drive, lifting something without setting your back off. When people ask us at Source Chiropractic about chiropractic care for posture, or…
Includes research & limitationsNeck Pain – The Cause and the Options in Clarksville TN
A second opinion on neck pain helps most when it answers one clear question: what might be causing the pain, if a proposed treatment is a good fit, or what to do now that progress has stalled. Here's how we approach…
Includes research & limitationsWhat Causes Inflammation in Clarksville TN
Inflammation is your immune system reacting to something, and the word alone doesn't say what. Causes include an injury, an infection or an autoimmune disease. With an injury or infection it can help, but sometimes…
Includes research & limitationsHeadaches – You Don’t Need to Suffer in Clarksville TN
Recurring headaches are easier to sort out when you can describe the pattern: when they hit, how they feel and what they stop you from doing. Here at Source Chiropractic, our headache and migraine guide covers the…
Includes research & limitationsDo You Have a Slipped Disc in Clarksville TN?
"Slipped disc" is the everyday name for a herniated disc, and the name is a little misleading. The disc hasn't slid out of line, and there's no loose piece of spine waiting to be pushed back into place.
Includes research & limitationsSports And Chiropractic in Clarksville TN
For an athlete, care here starts with the activity you want back: we examine you and build the plan around your condition and that goal. We won't promise more power, a faster recovery or protection from future injury.
Includes research & limitationsBenefits of Spinal Decompression in Clarksville TN
We offer nonsurgical spinal decompression in Clarksville, so here's how we think about it. People hope for less pain, walking farther or a better-looking scan. The research doesn't back promising any of those, so we…
Includes research & limitationsWhat Is Cold Laser Therapy in Clarksville TN
Cold laser therapy is the everyday name for low-level laser therapy: light aimed at tissue as a treatment, with no incision. It's also called photobiomodulation. Device and dose matter, so research on one laser…
Includes research & limitationsWhat Can a Chiropractor in Clarksville TN Help With?
What can a chiropractor help with? We start with what you want to do again: sleep without back pain, turn your head while driving, enjoy a walk you've given up. Then comes what's causing it, which a list of symptoms…
Includes research & limitationsGolf and Chiropractic in Clarksville TN: What Can Care Help With?
If pain is getting in the way of your golf, chiropractic care at our Clarksville office starts with where it hurts and what you want back on the course. Your handicap, swing and scores are between you and your golf…
Includes research & limitationsClarksville TN Chiropractic Clinics Help Joint Inflammation
Joint inflammation is behind a lot of joint pain. What matters more is which kind it is, because that decides who should be treating it and how quickly. We're a chiropractic office in Clarksville, so we'll be…
Includes research & limitationsClarksville TN Chiropractors May Relieve Migraines
During a migraine attack, very little else registers. It can mean an afternoon in a dark room, a missed day of work and canceled plans. Here's the short answer on chiropractors and migraines: what we can do as…
Includes research & limitationsClarksville TN Chiropractic Office Helps Whiplash
Whiplash is a neck injury that can follow a car accident. Before any whiplash treatment, the first question is: does the injury need urgent medical care? Some do. After that, our chiropractors can examine a whiplash…
Includes research & limitationsClarksville TN Chiropractors Help Range of Motion
You usually notice range of motion through a task: looking behind you, reaching a shelf, putting on a shoe. When one gets harder, what stops you matters: pain, stiffness, weakness or a feeling that the joint might…
Includes research & limitationsClarksville TN Chiropractor Talks About Bulging Discs
A bulging disc on a scan report can sound alarming. What matters is how it lines up with your symptoms, your exam and your daily life. The report alone doesn't tell you which treatment you need.
Includes research & limitationsClarksville TN Chiropractors May Help Scoliosis
Can chiropractors help scoliosis? They don't straighten it. Scoliosis is a sideways curve of the spine, and when a curve hurts, what a chiropractor works on is the pain, the stiffness and how you move. Our scoliosis…
Includes research & limitationsClarksville TN Chiropractor Discusses Different Types of Headaches
Headaches come in different types, and three of the best known are tension-type headache, migraine and cluster headache. They range from mild to severe, and most of them aren't dangerous. A few are. Reading about…
Includes research & limitationsChiropractor May Help TMJ in Clarksville TN
TMJ is the temporomandibular joint, the hinge where your jaw meets your skull. Pain in that joint or the chewing muscles around it is usually called a temporomandibular disorder, or TMD. A dentist or medical doctor…
Includes research & limitationsClarksville TN Chiropractor Discusses a Healthier Spine
To us, a healthier spine is a practical thing: a back that lets you work, sleep, move and do the things that matter to you. It doesn't take a perfectly straight back, or holding one posture all day. If pain is…
Includes research & limitationsDo Chiropractors Just Help Back Pain in Clarksville TN
Do chiropractors just help back pain? No. Chiropractors work with musculoskeletal problems, including the spine and other joints. Chiropractic still isn't the right treatment for every symptom, and our guide to what…
Includes research & limitationsClarksville TN Chiropractor Explains the Value of Health
The value of health shows up in ordinary things: a walk you enjoy, energy for your family, getting through a hard workday. What would better health let you do? Your answer points to the kind of help you need.
Includes research & limitationsFitness Tips From a Chiropractor in Clarksville TN
Pulled muscles, strains, sprains and a low back that objected to one particular lift are among the common ways exercise catches up with people. These fitness tips from a chiropractor cover what's happening in the…
Includes research & limitationsHealth Advice From a Clarksville TN Chiropractor
Most of this page has nothing to do with your spine. The short version: some activity can bring benefits even if you can't meet the full guidelines, sleep and mood trouble deserve help from the right professional, a…
Includes research & limitationsChiropractor in Clarksville TN Talks About Headaches
Most headaches aren't dangerous, even the ones that wreck your concentration, cancel your plans or send you to a dark room for the afternoon. A small number are. So before we get to triggers, posture and what a…
Includes research & limitationsHow to Choose a Clarksville TN Chiropractor
The best way to choose a chiropractor is to sit down and talk with a few of them. Plenty of people who might benefit from chiropractic care in Clarksville TN don't know where to start, and when there are several…
Includes research & limitations3 Common Conditions Chiropractic Care in Clarksville TN Can Help
Headaches, shoulder pain and low back pain can all get in the way of your day. Each has more than one possible cause, so the name alone won't tell us what's behind yours or how you'll respond to care. Whether…
Includes research & limitationsAthletes in Clarksville TN Excel with Chiropractic Care
Being active doesn't, by itself, mean you need a chiropractor. What brings athletes in Clarksville to see us is something specific in the way: reaching overhead, getting through a training session, or getting back to…
Includes research & limitationsSciatic Leg Pain in Clarksville TN
Sciatic leg pain means leg symptoms that go with an irritated or compressed sciatic nerve or nerve root. Nobody can say what's causing it from the name alone, so the details of where it goes and what sets it off…
Includes research & limitationsClarksville TN Chiropractor Has 3 Tips
Here are three tips from our Clarksville office: desk posture and getting through a workday of sitting, when back symptoms need checking (and which can't wait), and what stretching is really for. None of them asks…
Includes research & limitationsHow Back Injuries Happen in Clarksville TN
People tend to call a back injury bad luck, and sometimes it is. A collision or a fall puts more load on the back than any tissue could absorb, and how you were standing had little to do with it. Most other back…
Includes research & limitationsChoosing a Chiropractic Office in Clarksville TN
Choosing a chiropractic office in Clarksville comes down to how each one would work for you: the practical stuff, how well they explain things, and what they recommend. We're one of those offices, so no ranking, just…
Includes research & limitationsChiropractor in Clarksville TN Discusses Stretching
Stretching can help you explore or increase a comfortable range of movement. As chiropractors in Clarksville, we'd start with what you want to do more easily, not how far someone else can bend. A painful restriction,…
Includes research & limitationsEducation of a Clarksville TN Chiropractor
Choosing a chiropractor shouldn't mean decoding a wall of initials. Three things get lumped together when people talk about a chiropractor's education: the D.C. degree, a state license and any specialty training.…
Includes research & limitationsChiropractic Care for Pregnancy in Clarksville TN
Chiropractic care for pregnancy, as we practice it, is aimed at one thing: the back and pelvic aches that come with carrying a growing baby. Pregnancy changes how your low back and pelvis carry load, and muscle and…
Includes research & limitationsAuto Accident Care with Chiropractic in Clarksville TN
After a car accident, the first job is making sure nothing serious was missed, and the warning signs below mean an emergency room, not our office. For muscle and joint symptoms without those signs, seeing a…
Includes research & limitationsChiropractor Discusses Improved Health in Clarksville TN
It's a familiar story every time the weather turns: months at a desk, then a weekend of moving soil, lifting bags and working overhead, and a back that complains about it a few days later. We're chiropractors in…
Includes research & limitationsChiropractor Has Tips for Auto Accidents in Clarksville TN
After an auto accident, the first question is whether you need urgent medical care. Questions for a chiropractor come after that. A low-speed crash doesn't prove you weren't hurt, and neither does feeling mostly fine…
Includes research & limitationsPeople Are Sitting Too Much in Clarksville TN
At a computer job, sitting too much is easy to fall into, and you don't need a treadmill desk or an app to change it. The place to start is a desk that fits you, chances to switch tasks and position, and knowing…
Includes research & limitationsAre You in Search of a Chiropractor in Clarksville TN
If you're searching for a chiropractor in Clarksville because something hurts, start with the problem, not a technique you've read about. Maybe a new pain needs explaining, maybe you're weighing your options, or…
Includes research & limitationsHow to Exercise More Safely in Clarksville TN
Injuries from a new exercise routine tend to cluster in its first few weeks, and there's a plausible physical reason for that timing: muscle adapts to training faster than tendon and bone do. The standard advice to…
Includes research & limitationsTips for Beating Back Pain in Clarksville TN
Back pain is one of the most common reasons adults seek care, and it has picked up a lot of folklore. The parts that hold up are plain. Most acute episodes of ordinary low back pain get substantially better over the…
Includes research & limitationsClarksville TN Chiropractor Discusses Herniated Discs
If you've been told you have a herniated disc, the next step is matching that finding to what you feel, then looking at your treatment options. At Source Chiropractic in Clarksville, that starts with your history and…
Includes research & limitationsClarksville TN Chiropractor Discusses Proper Child Backpacks
A proper child backpack is one your kid can carry comfortably all school day, and an uncomfortable one is worth changing. But a heavy schoolbag isn't evidence of a damaged or "misaligned" spine, and back pain that…
Includes research & limitationsHeadache Tips From a Clarksville TN Chiropractic Office
Most people get headaches, and most of them aren't dangerous. A small number are. So this page starts with the signs that separate the two, because they matter more than anything else on it.
Includes research & limitationsAre You Looking for a Chiropractic Clinic in Clarksville TN
An open appointment is the easy part of choosing a chiropractic clinic in Clarksville. What matters is who'll examine you, how treatment decisions get made, what care may cost and when the plan gets reviewed. We're a…
Includes research & limitationsHow to Find a Chiropractor in Clarksville TN
To find a chiropractor in Clarksville, gather names from several places, check each license, then compare how each office handles your problem, its costs and its first visit. We're Source Chiropractic, so we have a…
Includes research & limitations4 Ways Choosing a Chiropractor in Clarksville TN is Beneficial
Choosing a chiropractor carefully can get you four things: a plain explanation, goals from your own life, a plan you can check before paying, and a real say in decisions. We're a Clarksville chiropractic office, so…
Includes research & limitationsIs Chiropractic Safe During a Pregnancy in Clarksville TN
Can you see a chiropractor while you're pregnant? We regularly treat pregnant patients at our Clarksville office, and your OB or midwife should be part of that decision. Is chiropractic safe during pregnancy? Serious…
Includes research & limitationsBack Pain Relief with Chiropractic in Clarksville TN
Back pain relief is more than a lower number on a pain scale. It might mean sleeping better, walking farther or getting back to work, so at our Clarksville chiropractic office we start by asking which of those…
Includes research & limitationsWhat Kind of Education Does Your Clarksville TN Chiropractor Have?
To be licensed in Tennessee by examination, a chiropractor has to show four years at an accredited chiropractic college (or a Board-approved international one), bachelor's-level education first for anyone who started…
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