Sleep Hygiene for High School Athletes
Today, we're talking about sleep and sleep hygiene, specifically for our high school athletes, but this will apply to most of us in general. The average adult needs 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night. Most of us aren't getting that because we're staying up late watching...
Keeping You in the Know: Preventing Bone Stress Injuries
With the weather improving and summer approaching, most runners are excited about hitting the road while enjoying the sun. Unfortunately, those extra miles can cause discomfort in the form of a bone stress reaction or a stress fracture. These stress injuries...
Keeping You in the Know: Mckenzie Method
What is the Mckenzie Method? If you've ever been a patient here, we have more than likely put you through a Mckenzie assessment and sent you home with press-ups or chin retractions, that we love so much! Patients normally have a complaint of burning, shooting pain...
Keeping You in the Know: Disc Herniations in Athletes
We treat numerous athletes in the office with various extremity and low back issues. There have been times when our athletes tell us they have or had a disc herniation. A disc herniation is when the discs in between our spinal segments are creating irritation on a...
Keeping You in the Know: Sunlight
Everyone has heard that sunlight is good for us because it helps us make Vitamin D. Unsurprisingly, there are other benefits to getting sunlight that would make this post much longer if we covered them all. One of the most underappreciated benefits of exposing...
Keeping You in the Know: Cortisol
Everyone has heard cortisol is the major hormone that controls stress in our bodies. For this reason, it gets a bad rep when in reality this hormone is beneficial in the short-term by increasing alertness and activation of what is called our “flight or fight” nervous...
Tuesdays With Taylor! Episode 4: Ankle Sprains, stop the R.I.C.E.!
A Quick Anatomy Lesson...The most common mechanism of ankle sprains is an inversion movement. This puts a ton of stress on the lateral (outside) ligaments and muscles of the foot and ankle. Check out the picture for a good visual of these ligaments. The way our foot...
Tuesday’s With Taylor! Episode 3: Headaches… There is always an answer!
Headaches... Musculoskeletal or Bad Stuff?There are so many reasons one may have a headache that may range from dehydration to sinister disease. Our goal at Winchester Spine and Sport is to rule out the scary things and hone in on the exact cause. Our chiropractors...
Winchester Spine and Sport… Not just Back Doctors
A sentence that we hear all the time in our office is “I didn’t know you treat that!”. Yes, when someone thinks of a chiropractor they think “Back Doctor”, which is a common perception, but we do things a little differently at Winchester Spine and Sport in Troy, MO....
Tuesday’s With Taylor! Episode 2: Shin splints, NOT something to just run through!
What are shin splints?Shin splints are very easy to define and diagnose but are extremely misunderstood in terms of management and treatment. In the simplest terms, shin splints are characterized by pain and sometimes swelling of the muscles surrounding the shin....
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Sleep Hygiene for High School Athletes
Today, we're talking about sleep and sleep hygiene, specifically for our high school athletes, but this will apply to most of us in general. The average adult needs 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night. Most of us aren't getting that because we're staying up late watching...
Keeping You in the Know: Preventing Bone Stress Injuries
With the weather improving and summer approaching, most runners are excited about hitting the road while enjoying the sun. Unfortunately, those extra miles can cause discomfort in the form of a bone stress reaction or a stress fracture. These stress injuries...
Keeping You in the Know: Mckenzie Method
What is the Mckenzie Method? If you've ever been a patient here, we have more than likely put you through a Mckenzie assessment and sent you home with press-ups or chin retractions, that we love so much! Patients normally have a complaint of burning, shooting pain...
Keeping You in the Know: Disc Herniations in Athletes
We treat numerous athletes in the office with various extremity and low back issues. There have been times when our athletes tell us they have or had a disc herniation. A disc herniation is when the discs in between our spinal segments are creating irritation on a...
Keeping You in the Know: Sunlight
Everyone has heard that sunlight is good for us because it helps us make Vitamin D. Unsurprisingly, there are other benefits to getting sunlight that would make this post much longer if we covered them all. One of the most underappreciated benefits of exposing...