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At Optimize Chiropractic we make sure every visit you leave, moving, feeling and healing better. A Data Driven Chiropractic office in Upper Arlington, Ohio.

We pride ourselves on our friendly service, clear communication, and our result oriented and data-driven care.

12/13/2025

Tight hips in the morning but don’t have time to get on the floor and do a full mobility routine?

Try these three movements.

- high knees
- standing leg wags
- hip rotations

3 quick easy movements to make the hips feel a little more limber throughout the day

12/12/2025

If you’ve ever thought, “My injury healed… so why does this still hurt?” — you’re not crazy, and you’re not broken.

Here’s the shift most people never get taught:

Pain isn’t a direct “damage meter.”
Pain is an output — your brain’s protective alarm system deciding how much warning you need in a given moment.

That’s why you can have:
• a “clean” MRI and still feel real pain
• strong muscles and still feel limited
• “good posture” and still feel symptoms

Because when pain sticks around long after tissue healing, the problem is often not the tissue anymore — it’s the sensitivity of the system.

The 3 common traps:

1) “I must be weak.”
Strength matters, but chasing strength without calming the alarm usually just turns the volume up.

2) “My posture is the problem.”
Posture is a position, not a diagnosis. Your body is built to move through lots of positions — even “imperfect” ones.

3) “The MRI will show the answer.”
Imaging is useful for ruling out serious issues. But many findings are common in people without pain, and pain can exist with minimal findings.

What’s actually happening?

Over time, your nervous system can learn to stay “on alert.”
Stress, poor sleep, fear of movement, repeated flare-ups, and uncertainty all teach your brain: “Stay protective.”

The good news:

If pain is an alarm, it can be retrained.

Not by ignoring it. Not by forcing through it.
But by rebuilding safety through graded exposure, smart strength, and confidence-based movement — so the brain stops needing to shout.

Understanding the alarm is step one. Turning it down comes next.

12/11/2025

☀️Pain Free Tip of the Week!💥

Long hours hunched over a computer or a desk can cause us to hunch over increasing pressure on pain sensitive structures of the neck.

Which can then lead to headaches, neck pain, jaw pain, and more.

One thing we can do is strengthen the muscles of the neck to help bring the neck and head into a more upright position and increase the strength of the neck to help make it more resilient and less prone to injury.

Chin-Tucks is one way to do that!

12/10/2025

🔑 Unlocking the Secrets of Spinal Stability: The Mighty Multifidus Muscle 💪

Did you know that our body's ability to sense its position and movement in space is crucial for maintaining balance and performing coordinated movements? This sense, known as proprioception, relies on specialized receptors called mechanoreceptors found in our muscles, ligaments, and tendons.

One group of muscles that plays a critical role in spinal stability and proprioception is the multifidus muscle. Despite their small size, these deep segmental muscles run along the length of the spine and are richly supplied with mechanoreceptors. These receptors provide valuable feedback to the brain about the position and movement of the spine.

Research has shown that individuals with chronic lower back pain often experience atrophy (shrinking) of the multifidus muscles, which can lead to altered movement patterns, decreased spinal stability, and an increased risk of injury.
This is one of the reasons why movemement and not immobilization is extremely important in the beginning stages of recovering from back pain as stopping movement leads to quick atrophy of the multifidus and a further decrease in movement control

🌟 Stay tuned for more insights on how to keep your spine healthy and strong! 🌟

12/09/2025

🔍 Unraveling the Mysteries of Chronic Lower Back Pain: A Comprehensive Approach to Spinal Function Assessment 🔬

At Optimize Chiropractic, we believe in taking a holistic approach to evaluating spinal function in patients with chronic lower back pain. Our assessment includes a thorough examination of range of motion, which helps us identify restricted movement patterns that may contribute to pain and discomfort.

By pinpointing these limitations, we can create personalized treatment plans that target specific areas of dysfunction and promote improved spinal mobility. 🎯

In addition to range of motion assessments, we employ advanced functional tests such as the Modified Clinical Test of Sensory Integration and Balance (MCTSIB) and the Limits of Stability Test.

These tests provide valuable insights into how well a patient's sensory systems (visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive) work together to maintain balance and control their center of gravity.

By gathering this crucial information about balance, proprioception, and motor control, we can better understand the unique challenges faced by individuals with chronic lower back pain and develop effective strategies to help them achieve lasting relief. 💪

👉 If you or someone you know is struggling with chronic lower back pain, reach out to schedule your complimentary consultation to find out how we can help you. We're here to help you on your journey to better health and improved quality of life.

12/08/2025

When it comes to managing pain, feeling better, performing.⁠
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The most important question is...⁠
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What is your goal?⁠
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Is your goal to be able to sit at work for an hour without pain?⁠
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Is it your goal to be able to play 50 holes of golf on the weekend without the fear of soreness or pain from affecting you on Monday? ⁠
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Is your goal to finish the 5k in three months that you've been training for and all the sudden you are noticing a "weird pain" in your heal and lower back?⁠
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Or is it your goal to be able to cook dinner and enjoy a show without having to take a rest?⁠
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To reach each goal it's going to take a personalized approach.⁠
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An approach that takes the time to understand you. Your history, what you've tried, what has and hasn't worked. Your past injuries and how they affect you now. An approach that looks at your activity, or lack thereof and works with you to reach your goal.⁠
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When it comes to YOUR health the only thing that matters, is YOU, and whether or not who you are working with is helping you reach your goals.⁠
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At Optimize Chiropractic we help you reach your goals.

12/07/2025

Over 50% or Americans suffer with neck pain.

Individuals with neck pain have⬇️
😵‍💫Worse Balance
👁️ Worse Hand Eye Coordination
🦥 Slower Movements

While neck pain is common.
It’s NOT normal.

Turning your head to back out of your driveway shouldn’t be painful.
Finding a comfortable way to sleep at night shouldn’t be painful.

Pain is common, but it’s not normal, and it doesn’t have to be that way.

Find relief with Data-Driven Chiropractic.

Learn more at datadrivenchiropractic.com

12/06/2025

Move today.

Move everyday.

It reminds your brain that you can move.
It reminds your brain that movement is safe.

After months of pain or discomfort every movement can feel “off” and “uncomfortable”.

Your nervous system is on high alert.

So what do we do?

We have to find the movements that feel good, the movements that help you feel better after you’ve done them.

This is one of my favorite morning movements that helps decrease stiffness and more importantly reminds the brain that it’s safe.

How does this help the brain realize it’s safe?

Think of your nervous system like a security system. When you’ve been in pain for months, that system is on high alert, scanning constantly for threats. It treats stiffness and stillness as “protection.”

But when you introduce gentle, rhythmic movement, you flood your nervous system with proprioception (movement data).

These “movement signals” travel faster to the brain than pain signals do. By flooding the system with safe movement, you are literally crowding out the danger signals.

You aren’t just moving; you are sending safety signals to your brain.

You are proving to your brain—in real-time—that you are capable, adaptable, and safe.

12/06/2025

💢 Having constant burning pain in the back of the leg up by the buttocks isn’t normal.

💢 Feeling like there is a shooting pain down the front or back of the thigh isn’t normal.

While that pain isn’t normal, over 3 million people suffer from sciatic pain each year.

While there are many different causes of sciatica one of those causes is a tightening of the fascia and muscles surrounding the nerve.

The movement in the video helps to move the fascia, surrounding muscles and the sciatica nerve often leading to a decrease in sciatic type nerve pain.

This tightening of fascia and muscles is often caused by imbalance in the pelvis and abnormal movement mechanics.

That’s what we work to correct at Optimize Chiropractic.

To learn more about our data-driven approach and how we’ve helped individuals with sciatica give us a call at 614-769-7831 or visit us online at datadrivenchiropractic.com

12/05/2025

Why “Just Resting” Isn’t Fixing Your Pain.

If you look at the left side, that dashed line is your current pain threshold. Right now, it’s sitting low. This means normal activities—like bending over, lifting the kids, or sitting at work—are crossing that line and triggering your nervous system to produce pain.

This explains why constant stretching, foam rolling, or just ‘resting it’ hasn’t worked for you up to this point.
Traditional care often tries to stop the pain by telling you to stop your activities.
• Here is the trap: Resting might temporarily lower the pain, but during that time, your muscles, tendons, and tolerance are actually getting weaker.
• So, the next time you try to get back to your favorite activity, your body is less prepared than before, and your back flares up again.
Creating a cycle of pain, weakness, and frustration.

We don’t want to do that. We want you to live your life

At Optimize, our goal is the picture on the right. Instead of lowering your life to fit your pain, we are going to raise your ability and your threshold.

We’re going to slowly, safely build your capacity and calm your nervous system so that you can do the exact same things you’re doing now and more, but with a much bigger ‘buffer’ before pain sets in.

12/05/2025

🖥 After spending all morning ☀️ at the desk or hunched over a computer often times we’ll start to feel pain or discomfort of the neck and upper back.

Try this easy movement to increase the muscle activity of the upper back and help decrease that mid-day pain slump.

Also if this is you everyday.
Try 👇🏽
💻 Raising the height of your computer. A lower computer brings your eye level down and then your body most likely will follow into that compressed pattern. Higher computer, higher eyes bringing you back into a more upright position.
👁 Look away from your computer at an object 20+ feet away for 30+ seconds.
🚶‍♂️ Try, keyword try, to get up and move for at least a minute or 2 every hour.

12/04/2025

❌The “Old Science” told us that pain equals tissue damage. More pain = More injury.

But biologically, tissue heals within 3 to 6 months. So if you are still hurting a year later, we are no longer looking at a tissue issue. We are looking at a hypersensitivity issue.

🧠 The Brain is Boss.
Pain an output from the brain. It is a decision your nervous system makes based on one simple calculation: The Threat Equation.

🐻 If your brain perceives more Danger (fear, memory, anticipation) than Safety (stability, capacity), it triggers the alarm.

🚨 In chronic pain, this system becomes hypersensitive. It interprets normal, safe movements—like bending, lifting, or sitting—as dangerous threats. You aren’t damaging your body; you are triggering a “False Alarm.”

So, what do we do?

The Optimize Method:

1. Relief & Reframe: We don’t just calm the tissue; we calm the brain. We use education to dispel the myths that keep the alarm volume high.

2. Rebuild: We don’t just “exercise.” We use graded exposure to teach the body that it is safe. We prove to the brain—rep by rep—that the tissue can handle load.

3. Return: We bridge the gap to real life, ensuring that activities that once seemed “unreachable” become routine again.

Your body is not fragile. Your system is just sensitized. And systems can be retrained.

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Columbus, OH

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Monday	6am - 6pm
Tuesday	10am - 2pm
Wednesday	6am - 6pm
Thursday	6am - 6pm
Saturday	8am - 12pm

Telephone

+16147697831

Website

https://datadrivenchiropractic.com/

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