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We’ve made it to the big leagues! Nearly all professional sports teams – baseball, hockey, football, and soccer – now have chiropractors on staff.

Play Hard, Recover Better: Proactive Health Habits for Weekend Sports “Play hard or go home.” It’s funny how one of my go-to catch-phrases has taken on a new life …

It’s safe to assume that all of us have an over-the-counter pain reliever like Aleve or Ibuprofen in our medicine cabinets at home.

Let’s go ahead and lay all of our collective cards out on the table. Most of us spend way, way more time sitting at our computers or sitting down with our digital devices than we know we should.

When we feel pain in our low back, what’s the first thing many of us tend to think?

For many of us, gone are the days where we can clean the house, go for a walk, play with the kids, play with our pets, or, if we’re being honest, simply go to sleep without putting ourselves at risk for neck or low back pain.

I’m not really sure where that started, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the person who originally coined that phrase was a chiropractor… thinking about spinal disc health and proactive care.

Whether you’re living with pain today or looking to reduce your risk of injury and find ways to prevent a herniated disc in the future, you may be curious about how you can strengthen your spine.

When patients ask me for advice on how to know if you have a spinal disc problem, there’s a story that comes to mind every time.

The discs of the spine are some of the hardest working players in the body.