How Many Chiropractic Visits Do You Actually Need? We Tracked 4,443 Patients to Find Out "Chiropractor Promises He'll Have You Good As New After 328 More Visits." That's a real headline — from The Babylon Bee, a satire site. The joke: a guy comes in with a crick in his neck from a [...]
Spinal Stenosis Without Surgery: What the New Research Says, What It Doesn't, and Where Conservative Care Fits If someone told you that you have spinal stenosis, you probably heard one of two things next. Either "it's degenerative, it only gets worse," or "you'll probably need surgery eventually." Neither one is the whole story, [...]
Why 96% of People Trust Chiropractic Care Once They Try It — And What's Stopping the Other 56% From Ever Finding Out A national survey released this month by Synchrony/CareCredit put a number on something I see in this office almost every week: people don't distrust chiropractic care because they've tried it and [...]
Shockwave Therapy for Stress Fractures Shockwave Therapy for Stress Fractures: A Non-Surgical Option Backed by a Head-to-Head Trial Against Surgery By Dr. Matthew Wilson, DC, FIACA | Ashworth Chiropractic, Physical Therapy & Acupuncture | West Des Moines, Iowa A stress fracture that isn't healing on the expected timeline puts athletes in a frustrating [...]
Weak Hip Adductors: Signs, Causes, and What to Do About It If you've ever felt your hip give a little when you plant and cut, or noticed a dull ache along the inside of your thigh after a long run, or found yourself bracing your knees together just to feel stable standing on [...]
Shockwave Therapy for Post-Surgical Scar Tissue Shockwave Therapy for Post-Surgical Scar Tissue: Why Scars Keep Causing Problems Long After the Incision Heals — and What Actually Works By Dr. Matthew Wilson, DC, FIACA | Ashworth Chiropractic, Physical Therapy & Acupuncture | West Des Moines, Iowa The incision closed months ago. The surgery, by [...]
Shockwave Therapy for Chronic Trigger Points Shockwave Therapy for Chronic Trigger Points: Why Some Muscle Knots Won't Release — and What Actually Works By Dr. Matthew Wilson, DC, FIACA | Ashworth Chiropractic, Physical Therapy & Acupuncture | West Des Moines, Iowa You know the spot. Right between the shoulder blade and the spine, [...]
Shockwave Therapy for Greater Trochanteric Bursitis: What the Research Shows and What to Expect By Dr. Matthew Wilson, DC, FIACA | Ashworth Chiropractic, Physical Therapy & Acupuncture | West Des Moines, Iowa Greater trochanteric bursitis is one of the most common causes of chronic outer hip pain we see — and one of [...]
Your Labs Came Back Normal - But You Still Feel Terrible I hear some version of this almost every week — and if you're in the Des Moines area, you may have heard it from your own doctor. "Your labs look fine." The patient in front of me can't lose weight despite doing everything [...]
Why Upper Cross Syndrome Keeps Coming Back You've probably done the exercises. Chin tucks. Band pull-aparts. Pec stretches. Maybe some shoulder blade squeezes. Your chiropractor, physical therapist, or personal trainer told you to pull your shoulders back and down, lift your chest, keep your head up. It helped. For a while. Then the tightness [...]
