What is a Wellness Chiropractor?

“Wellness” is more than a trendy buzzword. It’s a proactive approach to your health by eating healthy food, getting regular exercise and ideally, seeing your chiropractor on a regular basis to keep you functioning at your optimal capacity. Does that surprise you? A wellness chiropractor can boost your immune system, reduce stress, and generally help…

Is Poor Posture Causing Your Neck and Back Pain?

By Jen Phillips AprilJanuary 29, 2019January 29, 2019 Chiropractic Care, neck pain

Ballet dancers have excellent posture, but what about the rest of us? If you’re like a lot of my patients, you probably spend hours every day slumped over your computer and phone. You probably don’t spend much time thinking about your posture. The problem with bad posture is that it can cause neck and…

4 Common Causes for Neck Pain

By Jen Phillips AprilJanuary 18, 2019 neck pain, neck pain relief neck pain

Neck pain is no fun. One common cause of neck pain is as simple as what Dr. Jeff calls “text neck.” If that’s the case, the solution is simple, be aware of how much time you spend looking down at your phone or tablet and try to keep it eye level instead. But there are plenty…

How Chiropractic Therapy for Sciatica Can Help

By Jen Phillips AprilDecember 27, 2018 Chiropractic Care, sciatica chiropractic therapy for sciatica, sciatica

If you suffer from sciatica, you may wonder if chiropractic therapy can help you find relief. After all, chiropractors can help relieve all types of body aches, why not sciatic pain? Sciatica, as you may know, starts in your low back and shoots into one or both of your legs. However, the pain isn’t the…

Avoid Back Pain While Holiday Gift Wrapping

By Jen Phillips AprilDecember 12, 2018December 23, 2018 back pain back pain

Let me guess, you’ve done your shopping and you’ve got a stack of holiday gifts to wrap. Congrats! Now comes the fun part, wrapping them. You may love this part or you may dread it. Either way, if you’ve ever plopped yourself on the floor to wrap, you know that it doesn’t take long before…

What is Chiropractic Medicine?

By Jen Phillips AprilNovember 27, 2018November 27, 2018 Chiropractic Care, pain management pain management

You’re probably familiar with the concept of chiropractors. Most people associate them with “cracking backs” for pain relief and while there is a kernel of truth to this idea, there’s a lot more to it. In fact, you might be surprised at what that so-called “cracking” actually is! (Hint: it’s not bones cracking.) But first,…

How Often Do You Need a Chiropractic Treatment for Low Back Pain?

By Jen Phillips AprilNovember 13, 2018December 23, 2018 back pain, lower back pain back pain

If you’re like one of the millions of people who suffer from low back pain, you want to feel better. You’ve tried massage, you’ve tried pills, you might even be considering back surgery. But before you go that route, you decide to try chiropractic treatment for low back pain. After all, at least 22 million Americans…

Top Pain Relief Benefits of Chiropractic Therapy

By Jen Phillips AprilOctober 29, 2018December 23, 2018 Chiropractic Care, pain management chiropractic therapy

Raking Leaves? Avoid Back Pain with These 4 Tips

By Jen Phillips AprilOctober 12, 2018November 27, 2018 back pain, Chiropractic Care back pain, doylestown chiropractor

Fall leaves are pretty but they can be a pain to clean up. Which means many Doylestown area residents will spend time raking leaves this weekend (and over the next few weeks.) Fall yard work like leaf raking is great exercise and it’s nice to enjoy the crisp air of the season, yet, it…

Protect Your Back When Snow Shoveling: A Chiropractor’s Guide for Bucks County

By Jen Phillips AprilJanuary 5, 2018June 3, 2018 back pain, lower back pain, massage therapy protect your back

Here in Bucks County, Pa. it seems like the winter predictions for a cold and snowy one are coming true. “Bomb-cyclones,” blizzards, or just plain old snow has most of us shoveling snow and trying to maintain balance on icy sidewalks. Not only is it cold, but winter activities like snow shoveling can put…