Chiropractic Insights & Wellness Tips from Leading Edge Chiropractic

Hip pain is one of those complaints where the source and the symptom are often in two different places. Many people who come to Leading Edge Chiropractic in Holmen WI convinced they have a hip problem actually have an issue originating in the lower back, pelvis, or sacroiliac joints. The

If you have never been to a chiropractor, the uncertainty about what happens at a first chiropractic visit is one of the most common reasons people put off going. The good news is that there are no surprises at Leading Edge Chiropractic in Holmen WI. The first visit is built

Protecting a throwing arm takes more than just resting it and icing the shoulder. The throwing motion is one of the most demanding movements in sports, and it loads the entire upper body as a connected chain, from the hand all the way down through the shoulder, neck, and mid-back.

Most people think of stress as a mental or emotional experience. But stress has a very physical expression in the body, and the spine absorbs a significant share of it. At Leading Edge Chiropractic in Holmen WI, Dr. Katie Canar sees the stress-spine connection constantly, particularly in moms, caregivers, and

Wrestling is one of the most physically demanding sports a young athlete can compete in, and it produces a very specific set of spinal and structural injuries that most wrestlers simply push through. At Leading Edge Chiropractic in Holmen WI, Dr. Chad Updike works with wrestlers throughout the La Crosse

If you wake up stiff and unrested most mornings, or if back and neck pain makes it hard to find a comfortable position at night, you are caught in a cycle that most people never fully connect. Poor sleep makes spinal pain worse. Spinal pain makes sleep worse. At Leading

Running is one of the most popular activities in the La Crosse area, and it puts a predictable set of structural demands on the spine that most runners never think about until something hurts. At Leading Edge Chiropractic in Holmen WI, Dr. Chad Updike works with runners at every level,

Neck pain that people in Holmen WI brush off as a stiff neck is often a sign of something more significant happening in the cervical spine. Muscle tension is a symptom, not a cause. When the same spot keeps tightening up, when turning your head feels restricted, or when the

Dr. Chad Updike is the Team Chiropractor for Holmen High School football, which means he sees these athletes up close throughout the season and understands exactly what the sport demands of their bodies. What years on that sideline have taught him is that the players who come in before the

Dr. Katie Canar has spent years watching what gymnastics does to young bodies, first as an athlete, then as a coach, and now as President of the Board for Blue Angels Gymnastics Club in the Holmen area. When gymnast patients come to Leading Edge Chiropractic, she brings both her clinical

Back pain from sitting all day in Holmen WI is something Dr. Chad Updike and Dr. Katie Canar see constantly at Leading Edge Chiropractic. Teachers, office workers, remote workers, healthcare professionals who spend hours at a desk all develop the same predictable pattern of spinal stress. The frustrating part is

Recurring lower back pain in Holmen WI is one of the most common complaints Dr. Chad Updike sees at Leading Edge Chiropractic, and the most frustrating part for most patients is not the pain itself. It is that nobody has explained why it keeps coming back. You rest, it settles,