Blog Articles: Ptak Family Chiropractic
Are you seeking relief from chronic or trauma-related pain? Or do you simply want to feel healthier, inspired and more energetic every day? Our passion at Ptak Family Chiropractic is restoring patients of all ages to their optimum health and wellness through natural, effective methods.
10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Something Goes Wrong
After forty years of practice, the questions I believe are worth asking while you still have a say in the answers. Ten questions worth asking before something goes wrong: what you want to still be able to do, how steady you are, whether you are losing strength,...
7 Questions We Start Asking as We Get Older
You’re getting older. But how much of what you’re experiencing is inevitable and how much can you still influence? Stiff mornings, slower recovery, less strength, the same ache returning, shakier balance. Too often, changes like these get filed under age and left...
What Braces Taught Me About Back Pain
What straightening teeth taught me about getting out of pain — and staying well. Imagine wearing braces for a year. Your teeth look straight. You’re happy with your smile. So you tell your orthodontist you’re finished. There’s just one problem. Your orthodontist isn’t...
7 Habits of People Who Still Move Well at 70
After forty years of examining bodies, the people who are still moving well late in life have a few things in common. None of them are secrets. People who move well in their seventies are rarely the ones who did everything right. They are the ones who kept doing a few...
Why Do I Keep Getting Muscle Cramps?
Drink more water. Eat a banana. Take magnesium. But what if your recurring muscle cramps have little to do with any of those things? A muscle cramp does not automatically mean you are dehydrated or low in potassium or magnesium. Many people with recurring cramps have...
Why Does My Neck Hurt — and Why Does It Keep Coming Back?
The episode always settles. That’s the part that fools people. Feeling better and being recovered are not the same thing. Neck pain that keeps returning usually isn’t a new problem each time. The pain settles faster than the capacity comes back — so you return to the...
Why Do My Hands Go Numb When I Sleep? Is It Carpal Tunnel?
Which fingers go numb tells us where to start looking and it may not be your wrist. Jeffrey Ptak, DC, DSS, MSS, MA Nighttime hand numbness does not automatically mean carpal tunnel. The first useful question is much simpler: which fingers? The classic median-nerve...
Why Do I Wake Up Stiff and Achy Every Morning?
Don’t just tell me you wake up stiff. Tell me how long it takes to loosen up. Almost everyone is somewhat stiff on waking. The useful information is how long it takes to loosen up, where you feel it, and whether moving helps. That number won’t diagnose you, but it...
Why Am I Bloated and Gassy All the Time?
Feeling bloated doesn’t necessarily mean you have too much gas. Notice when it happens the pattern may tell us far more than the word bloating ever could. Feeling bloated doesn’t necessarily mean you have too much gas. Before eliminating another food or trying another...
Is It Me Spinning or the Room? Why?
You don’t need to figure out why it’s happening. Two things give us surprisingly useful information: how long does it last, and what seems to set it off? When the room suddenly spins or you feel as though you’re moving when you aren’t it can be frightening. And if...
Office:
3122 Santa Monica Blvd #102,
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Email:
ptakfamilychiropractic@gmail.com
Office Hours:
Monday:7:30am – 12:15pm & 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Tuesday: 7:30am - 12:15pm
Wednesday: 7:30am – 12:15pm & 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Thursday:7:30am - 12:15pm & 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Friday:7:30am – 12:15pm
Saturday: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Phone:
310-473-7991
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