Why Chiropractic Isn't Working — And How Integrated Care Changes That By Dr. Matthew Wilson, DC, FIACA | Ashworth Chiropractic, Physical Therapy & Acupuncture | West Des Moines, Iowa Most clinics do one thing. They do it reasonably well. And when they hit the edge of what they can offer, they send you somewhere [...]
Bladder Leakage Is Not Normal and Physical Therapy Can Fix It. By Kelly Brown Gross, PT, MPT, WCS | Ashworth Chiropractic, Physical Therapy & Acupuncture | West Des Moines, Iowa You cough, and you leak. You sneeze, and you leak. You jump, laugh, run, or pick up something heavy — and there it is [...]
Shockwave Therapy for Rotator Cuff Pain & Calcific Shoulder:1,093 Patients. 16 Clinical Trials. Here's What the Research Found. By Dr. Matthew Wilson, DC, FIACA | Ashworth Chiropractic, Physical Therapy & Acupuncture | West Des Moines, Iowa Shoulder pain has a way of quietly taking over. You stop reaching overhead. You sleep on the other [...]
Shockwave Therapy for Tennis Elbow: Why Cortisone Works Fast But Shockwave Wins Long-Term By Dr. Matthew Wilson, DC, FIACA | Ashworth Chiropractic, Physical Therapy & Acupuncture | West Des Moines, Iowa Tennis elbow has one of the most misleading names in all of musculoskeletal medicine. Most people who get it have never picked up [...]
Shockwave Therapy for Achilles Tendinopathy: Why Chronic Tendon Pain Stops Healing — and What Actually Fixes It By Dr. Matthew Wilson, DC, FIACA | Ashworth Chiropractic, Physical Therapy & Acupuncture | West Des Moines, Iowa Your Achilles tendon is the strongest tendon in your body. It bears forces several times your body weight with [...]
Postpartum Pelvic Floor Recovery: What Nobody Tells You — and What Actually Helps By Kelly Brown Gross, PT, MPT, WCS | Ashworth Chiropractic, Physical Therapy & Acupuncture | West Des Moines, Iowa You grew a human. You delivered a baby. And then — somewhere around six weeks postpartum — the world kind of expects [...]
Shockwave Therapy for Plantar Fasciitis: What the Research Shows and What to Expect By Dr. Matthew Wilson, DC, FIACA | Ashworth Chiropractic, Physical Therapy & Acupuncture | West Des Moines, Iowa Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common — and most frustrating — musculoskeletal conditions we treat. If you're dealing with sharp heel [...]
What is Shockwave Therapy? By Dr. Matthew Wilson, DC, FIACA | Ashworth Chiropractic, Physical Therapy & Acupuncture | West Des Moines, Iowa We've been practicing physical medicine in West Des Moines for a long time. And in that time, very few technologies have genuinely impressed us enough to add them to what we offer. [...]
Exercise With Oxygen Therapy (EWOT) is a supervised approach that pairs physical movement with the use of concentrated oxygen, delivered through a mask connected to an oxygen-concentrating system. During EWOT, oxygen levels typically range from 94–98% (sometimes cited as 92–97%), which is significantly higher than the approximately 21% oxygen found in [...]
🌿Recovery Isn’t a Luxury—It’s the Path to Healing In today’s world, where busyness is praised and exhaustion is normalized, recovery has been wrongly labeled as indulgent. We hear it all the time: “I’ll rest when things slow down.” “I can push through it.” “I just need to toughen up.” But here’s the reality: ignoring [...]
