Bottom Line: Postural stress occurs not only because of your anatomy but also because of the decisions you make each day. Believe it or not, many of us spend...

Bottom Line: Posture is described as the position that your body maintains while standing, sitting, or lying down. Most experts would agree that "good" postu...

Bottom Line: "Sit up straight and stop slouching!" You've likely heard this since childhood, but is there such a thing as perfect posture? The answer is a bi...

Bottom Line: One of the problems with pain medications is that they only treat the symptoms. In fact, they aren't doing a thing to resolve the source of your...

Bottom Line: If you haven't heard about the problems that opioids have caused over the past decade, you must be living under a rock! Did you know that many o...

Bottom Line: What began as a chronic pain epidemic has evolved into our current opioid crisis. For decades, opioids were marketed as a "safer" alternative to...

Bottom Line: About 30 years ago, there was a fundamental shift in medicine as to how pain was understood and treated. The number of people with chronic pain ...

Bottom Line: Degenerative disc disease is a condition that can affect your spinal discs as you age. Due to stress and injury throughout your life, your spina...

Bottom Line: Slipped or herniated discs happen when the inside of your spinal disc pushes through the disc’s exterior. Believe it or not, most herniated disc...

Bottom Line: You’ve felt back pain. What’s causing it, and how can you tell if your back pain is muscle or disc related? Well, there are several common cause...

Bottom Line: Have you ever experienced back pain? Did you know that's one of the most common health complaints in the US? Each day about 31 million Americans...

Understanding Pain: Why do we “pick the scab?” The following information is from a great book meant for the non-physician to help resolve their own back prob...

Oxygen, water, food, sleep. These are the four requirements for life. Without them (in varying lengths of time) people die. Sleep is an important factor as i...

Running has become one of the most common forms of physical activity in today’s society. It can be a community building activity, a personal challenge and mo...

Dr. Callie was published in the Chattanooga Business Trend for her article on how to fight back pain in the work place. Click this link to access it! http://www...

Vladimir Janda, a highly notarized Medical Physician, was the first physician to define posture into the different “crossed syndromes” outlined in chapter 2....

The key to injury prevention for the spine is to avoid improper positioning and movements that will cause undue stress. The Sternum Up, Power Zone and Abdomi...

The word ‘ergonomics’ comes from the Greek words ‘ergon’ which means work, and ‘nomos’ which means natural laws. Ergonomics can thus be defined simply as the...

How can you stay health trapped behind a desk all day, every day?!

Dr. Callie Lance, owner of Chattanooga Sports Chiropractic Institute, is changing the way Chattanooga thinks when they hear “chiropractic.” How? First of all...