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4/21/2025 0 Comments

Don’t Let Spring Clean-up Lead to a Messed up Back

Spring Cleaning Advice to avoid injuries
As we move into warmer weather and start our spring cleaning projects whether inside the house or in our yards, we want to ensure that we minimize our risk of injuries.  Two of the main injury potentials we want to watch for are our overuse injuries and bending and twisting injuries.

When we come out of the winter months, where we have been a little more sedentary, we want to slowly increase our activities and should avoid an all day clean up and should start with just a few hours at a time.  After even a couple of weeks of reduced activity and movement we lose some of our strength and endurance so if we have several months of reduced activity, it becomes important not to think we can resume our activities at the same level.  My recommendation is to start with a couple of hours of activity followed by at least a 30-minute break to see how your body feels.  If you start to feel a lot of muscle stiffness, give your body more time to recover because you will not be able to recruit as many muscles to your task and you may increase your likelihood of injury.  This is your overuse injury where you have pushed your body too hard and strained your muscles.  



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2/24/2025 0 Comments

Now Offering Custom Insoles in Vallejo

Vallejo Chiropractic is proud to announce a new technology to the office.  We have recently incorporated a digital foot scanner for having custom insoles (orthotics) made.  We work with the company Foot Levelers, who have been making custom insoles for over 70 years, to bring high quality insoles to our clientele.  Not only do they make custom insoles, but they also make custom shoes as well as custom sandals and flip flops.

Many of us have seen commercials advertising custom insoles (orthotics) with the promise that they can help relieve foot pain, knee pain, low back pain, etc.  You may be wondering how effective these may be and whether custom insoles (orthotics) would be a benefit to you.  The most common foot problem is called pronation where the medial arch drops and starts to flatten the foot.  This can put more stress on the knees, which in turn can affect how the pelvis functions, which affects the lower back and can even cause effects all the way up to the neck.  This is what is called a kinetic chain and shows how one area/region of the body can affect other areas based on the interconnectivity of our musculoskeletal system.

Custom Orthotics in Vallejo

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8/7/2024 0 Comments

Another Potential Tool to Assist Migraine Sufferers

Here at Vallejo Chiropractic, we help a good number of people find relief from their chronic migraines and even post-concussive headaches.  Recently I came across an article though that can potentially help migraine sufferers between their visits and help them find more relief increasing their ability to enjoy their activities of daily life.  Best of all it is a relatively low-cost option with some significant early results, and it is as easy as getting the right light wavelength to soothe the brain.
Migraine help and recommendations from Vallejo Chiropractic
The recent small-scale studies have been comparing chronic migraine sufferers with an average of 7.9 migraine headache days per month to different light exposures, specifically white LED and green LED light, the green LED had a specific wavelength of 525 nanometers.  The white light showed no significant change in headache frequency, but the green LED groups saw a reduction in the number of headache days from 7.9 to 2.4.  Participants would use the light for 1-2 hours per day in a dark room and were encouraged to participate in whatever activities the lighting allowed; reading, playing music, exercising, etc...

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7/9/2024 0 Comments

Patient Appreciation Day is August 10th!

Vallejo Chiropractic Patient Appreciation Day 2024Saturday, August 10, 2024
WE APPRECIATE all of our Patients! That's why we're hosting our annual special day in honor of our current patients! In addition to general appreciation, a portion of all proceeds will be donated to these two nonprofit organizations:
  • Loma Vista Farms
  • National Public Radio (NPR)

Slots will fill up fast - be sure to make your appointment soon!

Please call us if you want your $20 adjustment and/or $20 targeted massage (15 minutes) with one of our certified massage therapists. ​

​UPDATE: All slots are now full for Saturday but please stop by and let us say thanks for being a patient!!


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1/16/2024 0 Comments

Wellness Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic Wellness care for healthy people
Have you ever met a health nut? Are you a health nut? You know who i’m talking about. It’s the type of person who eats super healthy and exercises just for the sake of eating super clean and exercising. 

They aren’t doing it because of health problems. They aren’t overweight, they aren’t in pain. They aren’t training for an upcoming event. They just exercise and eat healthy because they want to be healthy and be at their best.


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10/2/2023 0 Comments

Pickleball Shoulder Injury Rehab

With the rising popularity of Pickleball, we are also seeing an increase in Pickleball related injuries.  The most common injuries we are seeing are ankle injuries and shoulder injuries.  With this we wanted to talk about ways to rehab after your Pickleball injury as well as address ways to try and prevent injuries (hint: often the exercises and stretches we do for rehab are good at helping to prevent injury as well).

In this post we will be focusing on shoulder injuries and what can be done to both help rehabilitate as well as some preventative strategies.  Most of the shoulder injuries that we are seeing are related to overuse and bad technique as opposed to traumatic (i.e., falling on the shoulder).      
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When it comes to the pains we feel with overuse or bad technique one of the best at home therapies is turning out to be heat as opposed to ice.  Now if heat makes it feel worse switch over to ice instead.  When heating the affected area, we recommend focusing the heat on the muscles more than the joints, typically heating for 20-30 minutes at a time.  The big rule to follow while heating is don’t burn yourself.  Other options instead of sitting with a heating pad can include topical heating products as well as the various patches that are on the market.  When using topicals avoid using the products shortly after taking a shower as the skin pores are open and the intensity of the creams can be amplified.  If needing to use ice instead of heat typically use the ice for 10-15 minutes or until the area numb.  You can often do this 3-4 times a day if needed.
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8/14/2023 0 Comments

Pickleball Ankle Injury Prevention

Pickleball ankle injury prevention from Vallejo Chiropractic
With the rise in popularity of Pickleball we are also seeing an increase in Pickleball related injuries.  The most common injuries we are seeing are ankle injuries and shoulder injuries.  With this we wanted to talk about ways to rehab after your Pickleball injury and we also want to address ways to try and prevent injuries (hint: often the exercises and stretches we do for rehab are good at helping to prevent injury as well).

In this post we will be focusing on the ankle injury of which the most common is the inversion ankle sprain.  This is the classic “I twisted/rolled my ankle”.  Most people will experience a certain amount of swelling with the injury, and we often find it feels better when we ice it and elevate it to try and reduce the swelling.  From a chiropractic standpoint we often find that there are some misalignments/fixations that take place and by adjusting these points we can often speed up the recovery time.  The main fixations we find are of the fibula (the small bone on the outside of the lower leg) as well as some of the ankle bones (calcaneus, talus, and navicular in particular).  On top of this there also can be injuries to the tendons (attach muscle to bone) and/or the ligaments (attach bone to bone).  The injuries that occur to the tendons and ligaments often do well with bracing/taping in the short term to help increase stability and reduce the likelihood of re-spraining the ankle while the injury is still fresh.


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