https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/blog/ Health updates and articles from Van Every Family Chiropractic Center in Royal Oak, MI. en-us Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:33:09 GMT https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/where-a-pinched-nerve-really-starts/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/where-a-pinched-nerve-really-starts/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Where a Pinched Nerve Really Starts, and Why It Keeps Coming Back You know the exact moment the pain started to change. It was not the dull ache you had gotten used to. It shot down your arm, or maybe your leg, sharp enough to stop you mid-sentence. Then came the tingling, or the numbness that made you drop your coffee cup, or a grip that suddenly could not quite hold onto anything. You have proba https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-your-childs-ear-infections-keep-coming-back/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-your-childs-ear-infections-keep-coming-back/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why Your Child's Ear Infections Keep Coming Back Another ear infection. Another round of antibiotics. You just finished the last bottle two weeks ago, and now your child is tugging at that same ear again, fussier than usual, waking up three times a night. The pediatrician says it happens. You start to wonder if this is just what having a toddler is. Maybe you have already tried the wait-it-out app https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/your-pots-symptoms-were-never-just-anxiety/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/your-pots-symptoms-were-never-just-anxiety/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Your POTS Symptoms Were Never Just Anxiety You've probably heard some version of it more than once: your bloodwork is normal, maybe it's anxiety, have you tried drinking more water and adding salt. Meanwhile your heart pounds every time you stand up from the couch, grocery aisles feel unsafe some days, and you're exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't touch. Getting a POTS or dysautonomia diagnosis https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/what-the-webster-technique-actually-does/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/what-the-webster-technique-actually-does/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT How the Webster Technique Supports Your Pelvis in Pregnancy You've heard that a chiropractor can turn your baby, and if yours has settled posterior or transverse, you've probably already tried everything on the list. Spinning Babies exercises. The hands-and-knees inversions. Maybe swimming laps or asking about an external cephalic version. Your provider likely said to come back around 36 weeks and https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/what-your-childs-asthma-flare-ups-keep-missing/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/what-your-childs-asthma-flare-ups-keep-missing/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What Your Child's Asthma Flare Ups Keep Missing You keep the rescue inhaler in the same pocket of the diaper bag or the same drawer by the front door, just in case. You've done the nebulizer treatments at two in the morning, tracked which pollen counts set off a cough, and followed the care plan your child's doctor gave you. Most of that is working, some of the time. But if you're still watching f https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/how-your-body-quietly-normalizes-pain-over-time/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/how-your-body-quietly-normalizes-pain-over-time/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT How Your Body Quietly Learns to Live With Pain It Should Not Have To At some point, you probably stopped mentioning it. The stiffness when you get out of bed, the ache that shows up by mid afternoon, the twinge you feel when you reach for something on a high shelf. It did not go away. You just stopped bringing it up, because it became part of how your day works now. You built small workarounds wit https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/consistency-beats-intensity-for-a-changing-nervous-system/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/consistency-beats-intensity-for-a-changing-nervous-system/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why Steady Care Beats One Big Push for a Changing Nervous System Some new patients ask if there is a way to speed things up. Could we just do a longer visit, or come in every single day for a week, and get through whatever needs to happen faster? It is a reasonable question. Most of us are used to solving problems by pushing harder. A stuck jar lid gets more force. A slow computer gets a bigger pu https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-your-headaches-keep-coming-back-anyway/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-your-headaches-keep-coming-back-anyway/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Recurring Headaches Often Miss One Key Piece You take something for it. The pain fades for a few hours. Then it's back, right on schedule, and you're digging through your bag for the bottle again. Maybe you've cut out wine, tracked the weather, given up your afternoon coffee, and none of it made a lasting difference. At some point you probably stopped asking why this keeps happening and just start https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/missed-milestones-and-the-nervous-system-connection/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/missed-milestones-and-the-nervous-system-connection/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Missed Milestones Often Trace Back to Your Child's Nervous System You've sat through the well-child visit where the pediatrician paused a beat too long before writing something in the chart. You've watched your child's cousin, born three weeks later, walk and babble first and told yourself it doesn't mean anything. You've heard "let's wait and see" more than once, and you've nodded along even whil https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-recovery-stalls-after-a-successful-surgery/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-recovery-stalls-after-a-successful-surgery/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Recovery Can Stall Even After a Successful Surgery Six weeks out from surgery, you're doing everything right. You're taking the medication on schedule, you're icing when you're supposed to, you're showing up to physical therapy. And yet you still feel tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix, the swelling around the incision is stubborn, and some mornings your neck and shoulders ache for no reason yo https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-pregnancy-back-pain-keeps-coming-back/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-pregnancy-back-pain-keeps-coming-back/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why Pregnancy Back Pain Keeps Coming Back No Matter What You Try You've propped the pillow between your knees. You've tried the heating pad, the prenatal massage, the stretches your OB printed out at your last visit. Some of it helps, for an hour, maybe an evening. Then you roll over in bed at 2am and it's right back, that ache low in your back or the sharp catch in your hip when you try to sit up https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/the-nervous-system-layer-of-arthritis-pain/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/the-nervous-system-layer-of-arthritis-pain/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Arthritis Pain Might Have Two Layers, Not One You wake up and your hands don't work right away. Maybe it's ten minutes before your fingers loosen up enough to make coffee without dropping the mug, or an hour before your knees feel like they belong to you again. You've learned the small workarounds: the jar opener kept by the sink, the stairs taken one at a time holding the rail, the good glove for https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/what-really-causes-adhd-in-your-child/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/what-really-causes-adhd-in-your-child/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT What Really Causes ADHD in Your Child If you have gone looking for what causes your child's ADHD, you have probably landed on the same two answers over and over. It runs in the family. It is a chemical imbalance in the brain. Both answers are true in a narrow sense, and both leave you standing exactly where you started, because neither one points to anything you can actually do. Here is a pattern https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-kids-get-stuck-on-one-thing/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-kids-get-stuck-on-one-thing/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why Kids Get Stuck on One Thing First it was dinosaurs. Then trains took over, or one show got watched on repeat, or four minutes of a movie played over and over until you could recite it in your sleep. Most parents live through some version of this, and most of the time it is just a phase your child grows past. Sometimes, though, the fixation does not loosen. It gets tighter, and taking it away t https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-the-upper-back-hump-isnt-about-age/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-the-upper-back-hump-isnt-about-age/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Rounded Upper Back Isn't Just About Getting Older You catch your reflection in a shop window or a photo someone else took, and there it is: a rounding at the base of your neck that wasn't there a few years ago. Maybe you've asked, quietly, whether it will keep getting worse. Maybe you've been told it's just aging, just posture, just something to cover up with a scarf or a looser collar. You've https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-colic-often-starts-in-the-upper-neck/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-colic-often-starts-in-the-upper-neck/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Your Baby's Colic May Start in the Upper Neck The crying that will not stop no matter what you try. The arching, the drawn up legs, the belly that feels tight and gassy under your hand. You've bounced, rocked, sung, and paced the same stretch of hallway more times than you can count. Some nights you get twenty quiet minutes and call it a win. You've probably tried the gas drops, the gripe water, a https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/the-nervous-system-layer-underneath-lyme-disease/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/the-nervous-system-layer-underneath-lyme-disease/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT What Your Nervous System Has to Do With Your Lyme Recovery If you've been living with Lyme disease, we don't need to describe what a bad week feels like. Brain fog thick enough that simple tasks take twice as long. Fatigue that a full night of sleep doesn't touch. Joint pain that moves from your knee to your shoulder to your wrist without warning. Heart palpitations. Days where every system in you https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-youre-wired-and-tired-at-bedtime/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/why-youre-wired-and-tired-at-bedtime/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why You're Wired and Tired the Moment Your Head Hits the Pillow You're exhausted by nine o'clock, watching the clock until you can finally get horizontal. Then your head hits the pillow and something flips. Your mind is suddenly wide awake, replaying a conversation from three days ago, running through tomorrow's schedule, or just humming with a low static you can't quite name. Wired and tired at t https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/your-postpartum-body-needs-support-too/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/your-postpartum-body-needs-support-too/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Your Postpartum Body Needs Support Too, Not Just Your Baby Somewhere between the two a.m. feeding and the load of laundry that's been sitting in the dryer since yesterday, your own body became an afterthought. That's not a failure on your part. Everything genuinely does shift to the baby after birth, and it should, at least for a while. But weeks in, the back pain hasn't let up, your thumb aches e https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/what-autism-obsessions-are-really-about/ https://www.vaneverychiropractic.com/what-autism-obsessions-are-really-about/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT What Autism Obsessions Are Really About Your child can tell you the make and model of every excavator that has ever rolled through the neighborhood, but cannot quite explain how the school day went. Or it is one specific episode, watched daily for months, word for word, without a single change in the routine. Clinicians call this a restricted or special interest, and it sits among the core traits