How to Travel This Summer Without Pain

Do you put off vacations due to pain?

Traveling can be uncomfortable for anyone, and it can make already existing pain even more apparent. Here are some tips to prevent pain this summer:

Luggage – For small bags, consider backpacks. Rather than weighing down one of your shoulders with a heavy shoulder bag, a backpack will distribute the weight evenly on both shoulders. For a suitcase, choose one with wheels. Make sure to lift correctly while carrying or retrieving any luggage. Learn how to lift correctly here: https://www.drthatcher.com/chiropractor/annarbor/secrets-to-managing-lower-back-pain-chiros-ann-arbor

While Sightseeing – If you’re walking more than usual, bring comfortable shoes and shoe insoles. These can help plantar fasciitis and heel pain.

See more tips to manage pain while traveling.

Chiropractors in Ann Arbor Can Help Relieve Your Pain

How much have you missed out on due to pain? Maybe you haven’t noticed because you’ve gotten used to living this way.

You don’t have to continue living in pain! You can decrease your pain, increase your range of motion, and feel better with chiropractic care from Dr. Bill Thatcher.

Call 734-663-2300 or fill out our contact form to see one of the gentlest chiropractors in Ann Arbor!

How to Manage Your Pain on a Plane

Does chronic pain make it hard for you to travel?

Have vacations lost their appeal?

Don’t let pain prevent you from traveling! You deserve to relax and explore the world.

Here are our tips for minimizing your pain while on vacation.

Planes – The best seat to have on a plane isn’t the window seat! When you have pain, the aisle seat is the best choice because you can stretch your legs more. While in your seat, sitting with good posture can prevent additional pain. Every thirty minutes, get up and walk up the down the aisle to prevent stiffness and get your blood circulating.

Neck pillows help but bring your neck or back brace if you know you’ll need more support. If you have lower back pain, place a blanket or towel in between your back and the seat and mold it to support the areas you need it to.

Learn more travel tips!

Chiropractors in Ann Arbor Can Help Relieve Your Pain

You don’t have to continue living in pain! You can decrease your pain, increase your range of motion, and feel better with chiropractic care from Dr. Bill Thatcher.

Call 734-663-2300 or fill out our contact form to see one of the gentlest chiropractors in Ann Arbor!

How Can Chiropractic Help Your Allergy Symptoms?

The nerves that run through the spinal column help regulate every part of your body. When your spine is misaligned, important nerve functions can be interrupted, weakening your body’s own abilities and causing uncomfortable symptoms. Returning your spine to optimal health benefits your entire body and supports your immune system.

When you’re suffering from seasonal allergies, you might reach for over-the-counter antihistamines only to find that they make you feel worse than your allergies do. Chiropractic is a gentle, natural way to relieve allergy symptoms without the side effects.

Learn how chiropractic care from Dr. Bill can boost your immune system, support your respiratory system, reduce stress to help fight those seasonal allergies. 

If your allergies are unbearable, it might be time to ask, “is there a chiropractor near me?”

How to get started: Search for a “Chiropractor Near Me”

At your initial appointment, you’ll receive a thorough examination and surface EMG to find where your main areas of stress are.

Dr. Thatcher uses non-invasive techniques to give you gentle, safe, and effective care to relieve your allergies and have you breathing easily once again.

To make an appointment, call us at 734-663-2300 or fill out our contact form.

Chiropractic Can Help You This Allergy Season

Are itchy eyes, congestion, and coughing from spring allergies keeping you in the house when you’d rather be outside? Do over-the-counter allergy medications make you feel disconnected?

Have you ever wondered if chiropractic care can help your allergies?

Chiropractic care provides a natural, non-pharmaceutical method of treating your allergies that won’t leave you feeling disconnected or shaky, like some antihistamines. If you’ve never considered chiropractic care, you might be thinking it’s only for back pain. You might be surprised to hear what it can do for the rest of your body! 

It’s all connected, after all! Returning your spine to optimal health benefits your entire body and supports your immune system. 

See specific ways chiropractic can help seasonal allergies.

Instead of wondering what chiropractic can do for allergies, it might be time to ask, “is there a chiropractor near me?”

How to get started: Search for a “Chiropractor Near Me”

At your initial appointment, you’ll receive a thorough examination and surface EMG to find where your main areas of stress are.

Dr. Thatcher uses non-invasive techniques to give you gentle, safe, and effective care to relieve your allergies and have you breathing easily once again.

To make an appointment, call us at 734-663-2300 or fill out our contact form.

Is Healing Laser Therapy is Right for Your Condition?

A healing laser does two things: it reduces your inflammation, which helps reduce your pain and it stimulates your cells’ mitochondrial activity, which creates more ATP (Adenosine triphosphate), AKA - energy- to accelerate the healing process.

Healing lasers are used to help the body improve its own healing capacity. Imagine a slow-healing injury speeding up, inflammation from shingles being reduced, or a scar fading away. Healing lasers can even heal bones, help with migraines, and improve neuropathy. Speeding up the healing process can bring you relief and help avoid costly surgeries or other interventions.

See which conditions laser therapy can improve.

Laser Therapy Chiropractors in Ann Arbor

Thatcher Chiropractic & Laser is here to help you heal from injuries and any discomfort in the best way possible. Most sessions take about 10 minutes and are pain free. We offer 4 session, 6 session, and 12 session packages for half the rate of other pain treatment centers or chiropractors in Ann Arbor. 

This spring, feel alive! Please contact us today to schedule your first laser therapy session. 

The Injuries Healing Lasers Can Help

 If you receive chiropractic adjustments, chances are you already know the benefits of traditional chiropractic techniques to realign the spine and heal the body. But did you also know that chiropractors have other therapies that can help you heal? Dr. Thatcher uses pain relief laser therapy to help the body with the following challenges:

• Arthritis in the spine, hips, knees, hands, and shoulders
  
• Bone repair
• Brain injury/concussion
• Burns
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Herniated discs
• Inflammation
• Lower back pain
• Migraines
• Musculoskeletal pain
• Neuropathy
• Plantar fasciitis
• Rotator cuff
• Scar tissue
• Shingles
• Sprain/strain
• Stroke
• Wound healing

Learn how healing laser therapy works.

Laser Therapy Chiropractors in Ann Arbor

Healing laser therapy can provide lasting relief to injuries that might otherwise require surgery or cause chronic discomfort. We offer 4 session, 6 session, and 12 session packages for half the rate of other pain treatment centers or chiropractors in Ann Arbor. 

This spring, feel alive! Please contact us today to schedule your first laser therapy session.

How Temperature and Humidity Can Contribute to Arthritis Pain

Do you have arthritis?

Do you notice more pain during certain seasons?

You might be picking up on changes in the weather. Nerves in your joints can sense humidity, precipitation, and temperature and can react with pain or stiffness. This doesn’t happen to everyone, however. If you feel more pain in cold weather, your body may be reacting to the low temperatures, low humidity, and low barometric pressure. Low temperatures can also make the fluid inside joints thicker, so they feel stiffer. If you experience more pain in warmer weather, your joints are picking up on the high barometric pressure, high temperature, and high humidity. The fluids in your joints may also become thinner and result in increased inflammation, pain, and discomfort.

Learn about barometric pressure.

Pain Relief Laser Therapy and Chiropractic in Ann Arbor

If you experience more joint pain in certain types of weather, you’re not alone. Chiropractic adjustments and pain relief laser therapy can help. Gentle Activator™ adjustments can help relieve your joint pain and any pain in the surrounding soft tissue. Laser therapy can relieve inflammation and promote healing in arthritis of the spine, hips, knees, hands and shoulders. 

The cost of pain relief laser therapy at Thatcher Chiropractic & Laser is considerably less than other laser treatment centers. Laser sessions are quick and painless, averaging about 10 minutes!

Contact Thatcher Chiropractic & Laser today for chiropractic in Ann Arbor.