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.
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...
What Is Innate Intelligence? The Body Knew What to Do Before It Had Nerves
Your heart started beating before a single nerve reached it. Here is the physiologybehind chiropractic’s oldest idea — and what it does and doesn’t prove.Jeffrey Ptak, DC, DSS, MSS, MA Yesterday marked 131 years since the day chiropractic traces its beginning,...
Why Am I Dizzy When I Stand Up?
“Dizzy” can mean several very different things. Describing what you actually feel isoften the first step toward figuring out why it is happening. If you feel lightheaded, your vision greys or narrows, or you feel as though you might faint when you stand, the first...
Why Do I Have a Headache Almost Everyday?
Daily headaches are a pattern, not something to keep treating one day at a time. Two numbers usually change the conversation. A headache on most days is a pattern worth investigating. One commonly missed possibility is that frequent use of headache medication can...
Why Am I So Tired Even Though I’m Sleeping Enough?
Eight hours in bed and still exhausted? Maybe the question isn’t how long you slept. Maybe it’s whether you actually recovered and whether something is interfering with that. Sleep and recovery are not the same thing. You can spend eight hours in bed without getting...
Stress Isn’t the Problem. The response is doing its job. The trouble is how long it stays on.
Almost everything people believe about stress is built on a mistake, and the mistake is in the firstsentence: that the stress response is something going wrong.It isn’t.When your brain registers a challenge — or anticipates one — a great many systems shift at...
My Neck Is Always Tight. Why Does Stretching Never Fix It?
Maybe the muscles that feel tight aren't the muscles that need stretching—or strengthening. You stretch your neck. You massage it. Maybe you use heat. It feels better. Then a few hours later—or the next morning—it's tight again.Why?Because sometimes the muscles that...
My Low Back Pain Keeps Coming Back. Why and What Can I Actually Do About It?
Your low back gets better. Then it comes back. Then it gets better. Then it gets WORSE. Why? After 40 years of treating low-back pain, we’ve learned to look beyond the place that hurts. An injury—or physical, mental, or emotional stress—can alter spinal and pelvic...
OCD and Brain Inflammation: What New Research Is Teaching Us About Mental Health
For many years, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was viewed almost exclusively as a psychiatric condition treated with medication and therapy. While those treatments remain extremely important, researchers are uncovering another piece of the puzzle: in some...
Balancing Chronic Autoimmune Illness While Raising Children: Finding Strength in the Journey
Living with a chronic autoimmune condition while raising a family can feel overwhelming. On some days, even getting out of bed takes tremendous effort. Fatigue, pain, brain fog, digestive issues, anxiety, and unpredictable flare-ups can make it difficult to be the...
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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