11/10/2025
Can we talk about stress for a minute? November is when it starts. The holiday countdown begins. Family obligations pile up. Your to-do list doubles. And your body keeps score. Stress doesn't just live in your mind. It lives in your shoulders, your neck, your lower back. When you're stressed, your muscles tighten. When your muscles stay tight, they pull your spine out of alignment. When your spine is misaligned, your nervous system can't regulate stress properly. It's a feedback loop, and most people are stuck in it without realizing it. We see it every November. Patients come in with "suddenly tight shoulders" or "neck pain out of nowhere." But it's not sudden. It's stress that's been building, and your body finally can't compensate anymore. Here's the good news: you can interrupt that cycle before it derails your holidays. Don't wait until you're in crisis mode. Call us this week and let's get ahead of holiday stress before it gets ahead of you.
