The Wellness Blog
Finding Pain Relief During Pregnancy: Why You Should Consider Chiropractic Care
There are few instances in life that bring about as many changes as pregnancy. Expecting mothers will experience extreme changes to their bodies and emotions. While developing a baby is extremely beautiful and exciting, your body goes through many, sometimes painful, changes. In this post, we will show you how and why chiropractic care can be a source of relief for the uncomfortable changes that many expecting mothers endure. Changes When a body adapts to accommodate the development of a baby, it’s often an uncomfortable process for the mother. Not surprisingly, as their bodies changes, many expecting mothers feel various degrees
Continue ReadingDr. Foster's Helping Hands Give Back to the Community He Was Raised By
In Bedford County, it’s easy to know just about everybody. Growing up in a small town with a tight-knit community such as Bedford often inspires unexpected roots to sprout. At least this was the case for Tuck’s Bedford Clinic, Dr. Matthew Foster, who completed his preceptorship and began practicing as a licensed chiropractor at Tuck Chiropractic Clinic in Bedford in the Fall of 2017. When Career and Community Come Full Circle As a Sophomore football player at Jefferson Forest High School, Dr. Foster sustained injuries in the weight room. Most young, spry athletes are always eager to get back on the field after an
Continue ReadingFive Tenants of Choosing Your Care-provider Wisely
As active leaders in both the chiropractic and wider medical industries, we take pride in being first in line to educate patients, the public, and anyone who will listen about the importance of providing supportive, conservative care to patients in need. While we do our best to go above and beyond for all of our patients, that doesn’t always mean providing more care than we need. To us, conservative care means finding the right treatment for an individual’s specific needs and nothing more. Choosing Wisely This concept is closely aligned with the American Board of Internal Medicine‘s (ABIM) Choosing Wisely initiative. Their most well known initiative, Choosing Wisely was
Continue ReadingKeep Your Young Athlete Moving
There is a reason that NFL teams keep a chiropractor on staff to treat their athletes. Chiropractic care is one of the only ways to treat an injury and reduce pain from the inside out, while keeping the minds of their athletes clear headed and free of the fog that medications often cause. But football players aren’t the only athletes that benefit from chiropractic treatment of injuries. We’ve heard and shared stories from runners, gymnasts, and even soccer players about how they have regained mobility or improved performance after chiropractic care. If the sport includes the use of your musculoskeletal system (aka of them), the athlete
Continue ReadingLiving With Pain to Gaining Independence: One Patient's Chiropractic Journey
Good, better, best. This tends to be the typical path for the patients treated at Tuck Clinic. Most patients come in just wanting to feel good. They are sick of being in pain and they want to feel normal again. After starting a treatment plan, they start to feel better. They begin returning to their normal daily routines, gaining more independence, and just feeling “better” over all. Eventually, they come to the conclusion that this is the best they’ve felt in a long time. This is the path that Judy embarked on with Dr. Flynn at the Tuck Clinic in
Continue ReadingA Lifelong Search for a Feel Better, Live Better Lifestyle
At Tuck Chiropractic Clinic, we often find ourselves building relationships with our patients beyond the day to day treatments and transactions. We get the opportunity to get to know our patients outside the Clinic walls and hear their stories beyond just how they ended up in our office. Skip Hebert is no exception! Skip is a retired veteran and avid adventurer. Sometimes, his adventures lead him to bike across the Western Coast of the United States and other times, his adventures lead him to pay a visit to the Tuck Chiropractic Clinic in Botetourt. From the Open Road to the
Continue ReadingLocal, Kid-Friendly Ways to Get Active This Summer
Summertime is on the horizon and the kids will be let out of school soon. Do you have plans in mind to make sure both their brains and their bodies stay active over break? Summer is a great opportunity to loosen the reigns at work and find more ways to bond with your kids, all while staying happy and healthy! Living around Southwest Virginia’s abundance of natural resources and small businesses that facilitate an active, healthy lifestyle makes it even easier. As people who embrace these amenities as often as we can, we’ve rounded up a few of the best
Continue ReadingFollowing Your Gut: How a Desire to Help Turned Into a Career in Chiropractic
Some people spend their whole lives trying to figure out what they want to do “when they grow up”. Others tend to have a gut feeling from a young age which path is right for them. When Dr. Anna Occhiuzzi-Flynn joined Tuck Chiropractic’s Botetourt Clinic last year, we got to hear how she decided at a young age that finding natural ways of healing through lifestyle and nutrition were the way to go. As her career developed, she wanted to find a way to help people heal through natural means and fell into chiropractic care through her network of peers. By fell
Continue ReadingHow to Keep Your Workspace Healthy
The average workweek of 40 hours per week equates to almost 24% of your year is spent at your office or place of work. If you are spending a quarter of your year in the workplace, it becomes important that said place is not wearing on your mental and physical health. Let’s look deeper into how you can better care for your body and mind while at work. Keep Moving Stretching, in general, is important for the muscles in your body. Stretching becomes very important when you are at work if you are sedentary for a long amount of time.
Continue ReadingRocky Mount Clinic Moves to New Location
Dr. Tiffany Grace and the Rocky Mount Clinic staff are excited to share that they are now operating out of a new facility in Rocky Mount, VA. After years at their current location, the Rocky Mount practice has relocated this week to a location that we feel will be more convenient and offer better accessibility for all of the patients they serve. Located on the lower level of 490 South Main Street, just below Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital in Rocky Mount. It is in the same building as Carilion Pediatrics. The new facility is more modern, with plenty of room
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