A practical guide to tech neck, desk posture, simple exercises, warning signs, and chiropractic care from San Francisco chiropractor Dr. Katherine McCarty.

Posture, poor posture, adaptation, compensation, and our body’s response to stress. Chiropractic Care in San Francisco.

Learn how the psoas connects your spine and hips, how tension may contribute to low-back discomfort and posture changes, and what can help.

Misalignments in the spine create tension at the brainstem, and at various levels of the spinal cord, causing our nervous system, including the Vagus Nerve, to be impaired.

Birth traumas lead to misalignments in the spine of the infant, as well as strain patterns in their cranial mechanisms. Indicators for birth traumas that a would prompt a chiropractic examination include latching issues, inability to turn head in both directions, and colic.

Feeding a baby can mean hours of sitting, holding, and looking down while your body is still recovering from pregnancy and birth. Learn practical ways to reduce neck, shoulder, and back strain during breastfeeding, pumping, bottle-feeding, and everyday infant care.

Research all information given to you, and question any sounding authority. Know where the information is coming from, and if it has been approved by an agency you are familiar with.

The benefits of improving mobility, performance, and reaction time are a few of the benefits that an athlete utilizes chiropractic for.

One chiropractic adjustment can make a meaningful difference, but lasting improvement often takes time. Dr. McCarty explains what determines visit frequency, how progress is measured, and why your care plan should change as you improve.

When a bone is misaligned, it will widen the intervertebral foramen on one side of the spine, where the nerve exits, and tighten the foramen on the opposite side. Each intervertebral foramen has a nerve exiting it, as well as transverse ligaments, blood vessels, and lymphatics. So even the smallest misalignment can cause local irritation, inflammation, and impingement on that nerve’s ability to do its job.

Resistant band exercises target the smaller muscles in the spine, rotator-cuff muscles, and hip joints that are overpowered by larger muscles. That is why thera-band is used for rehabilitation purposes, but in consideration it should be utilized as a preventative means to enhance stability in all joints.

Our bodies are replicas of the forces and activities we have placed on them, just as a Bonsai tree is formed and created.

Structural trauma of childbirth alone can produce developmental issues in the growing newborn.

Women benefit from Chiropractic Care through stress reduction, posture, scoliosis, PMS and cramping, pregnancy related symptoms, and so much more!

Chiropractic upholds the holistic premise of health is to foster our natural abilities to heal!

A weekly adjustment will allow proper movement of the spine to create a proper environment for your body to offset the activities that promote degenerative changes.

In order for you to sustain exercise, foam rolling is an effective way to lengthen and soften the muscles. It gives your body the opportunity to rebuild, strengthen, and heal as you stress them with physical exercise.

Chiropractic supports a vitalistic approach by focusing on removing structural interference from your brain to your body. By adjusting the bones that house the nervous system, it corrects misalignments that are disrupting that communication.

Chiropractic allows the body to heal by getting it to move properly, and taking pressure off of our nervous system, allowing the body to heal without adverse side effects.

By getting adjusted, you allow your central nervous system to function appropriately by taking irritation off of the nerves going to the stomach and/or intestines. This will directly influence your digestive system and the health of your gut.