Chiropractic Treatment for Degenerative Joint Disease
Degenerative Joint Disease Successfully treating back pain begins with an accurate diagnosis for developing the most effective treatment plan possible. By investigating your medical history, analyzing symptoms and applying advanced chiropractic techniques for correctly assessing and treating back pain, Dr. Crist will determine whether you are suffering from degenerative joint…
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11 Tips for Improving Your Posture at Work
80% of the American population will experience back pain or back problems at some point in their lives. At any given time, there are approximately 31 million Americans suffering from low-back pain specifically. With more and more people working long hours at office jobs or having sedentary jobs in general,…
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Exercise Pain & Prevention
Making exercise a part of your healthy lifestyle is essential to overall wellness. It’s also easy to overdo it. Whether you’re new to fitness, or you work as a professional athlete, accidents happen. Exercise pain does more than derail workout plans — injuries also prevent you from living an enjoyable,…
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Spinal Decompression: A Better Alternative to Back Surgery?
Join us this Pain Awareness Month in learning more about spinal decompression therapy. Crist Chiropractic and Wellness is educating patients, this September, about the benefits of spinal decompression therapy for treatment of sciatica and disc related injuries such as disc degeneration or bulge. Dr. Brendan Wright, of Crist Chiropractic, credits spinal decompression…
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Are Your Children’s Backpacks Causing Spinal Misalignment?
“Oh, my aching back” is usually something you hear an adult say, who then attribute it to old age or too much sitting or lifting. Parents, unfortunately, are hearing their children utter similar phrases more frequently and wondering why a school-aged child’s back would hurt. If you’ve ever picked up…
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Text Neck & Mobile Device Posture Issues
Nearly everyone has a smartphone or mobile device these days, and while there is some merit to this technology by keeping us more connected – at least virtually – it is wreaking havoc on our bodies. When you look at the posture that people assume when texting, reading email, or…
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How To Treat Sacroilliac Joint Pain Relief?
How can a body part you have probably never heard of hurt so BAD? This is a common question we hear from individuals suffering from sacroiliac joint pain. The joint is formed by the sacrum and the ilium where they meet on either side of the lower back, with the…
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A Franklin,TN Chiropractor Describes Whiplash Care
Our neck is a busy body part. It holds up and turns our head, allowing us to see, hear, and speak in the direction we choose. Although the neck is a real “team player” it’s a bit of a diva, meaning it’s fairly delicate. There are many ways everyday motion…
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Fireworks Can Be a Pain In The Neck…
Coming back from a great Fourth of July weekend, you may be experiencing some unexplained neck pain. This neck pain may have been caused by looking up for a long period of time at a firework display over the weekend. This constant upward looking can irritate and compress the joints…
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Feeling Bound and Want Independence?
This year we’re proud to partner with the Franklin Lions Club to help celebrate the annual “Franklin on the Fourth”Independence Day event. To help more people experience “Freedom from Pain,” during the week of June 27-July 1, Crist Chiropractic & Wellness will donate all proceeds collected from new patient services…
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