Comprehensive Chiropractic & Sports Performance

Comprehensive Chiropractic & Sports Performance 🏅 One of St. Louis’ Top Chiropractic Clinics
💥 Sports Rehab | Family Care | Evidence-Based
👨‍⚕️Dr. Feder, Dr. Gorman, Dr. Benton
📍 Eureka, MO

We are staffed by caring, high-quality Chiropractors. Some services we offer Chiropractic Care, Nutritional Education, Sports Performance assistance & Supplements. Our beautiful Studio in Eureka offers Pilates, Yoga, and massage therapy. We strive to provide the most innovative ways to assist our patients and clients on their journey to a healthier lifestyle.

04/03/2026

Pain changes more than just how you feel physically—it changes how you live.

This patient came in after dealing with neck pain and arm symptoms for years. It had reached the point where it was affecting everyday life, and like many people, she felt like she had already tried everything short of surgery.

After a thorough evaluation, we built a plan around what her body actually needed.

That meant a combination of:
✔️ targeted exercises
✔️ manual therapy
✔️ chiropractic adjustments

The goal was not just temporary relief, but improving how her neck moved, how her body tolerated load, and why the symptoms were traveling into the arm in the first place.

Now she says she can feel her hands again… and most importantly, she feels like she has her joy back again.

That’s why individualized care matters. Sometimes the right answer is not doing more treatments. It’s doing the right treatments in the right order. 🙌

04/01/2026

When the QL is guarding hard, even simple things like standing up straight, bending, or rolling in bed can feel rough. This release helps calm down a muscle that’s often overworking to stabilize the low back and pelvis. The goal isn’t to “break up knots” forever, but to temporarily reduce sensitivity, improve movement, and make it easier to get into the exercises that create lasting change. Research on myofascial/manual therapy for low back pain shows it can help with short-term pain relief and function, especially when paired with active rehab. 

That’s why we do not stop at just manual therapy.
Release the area ✅
Restore better movement ✅
Rebuild strength and control ✅

Manual therapy can open the door, but exercise is what helps keep it open.



Sources: Myofascial release systematic review/meta-analysis (2021) and JOSPT low back pain clinical practice guideline/revision.

03/23/2026

When you play at a high level, rotation matters. 🏃‍♂️🎾🏆

For athletes in sports like racquetball, golf, baseball, tennis, and soccer, rotational mobility through the spine is a huge part of performance. If certain segments stop moving well, the body usually steals motion from somewhere else—and that can eventually create overload, compensation, and irritation.

Spinal adjustments are one tool we use to help restore segmental motion, improve how the joints are moving, and keep the body feeling free during high-speed rotational demands.

Research has shown that spinal manipulation can improve spinal mobility, temporarily reduce stiffness, and enhance movement efficiency—especially when paired with strength work, mobility training, and sport-specific rehab.

A 2019 study showed thoracic spinal manipulation improved trunk rotation immediately after treatment, which matters when rotational power is everything. Another review found manipulation can positively influence joint motion and neuromuscular control, which is why many athletes report feeling looser and moving better.



References:
Bicalho E et al. Immediate effects of a high-velocity spine manipulation in paraspinal muscles activity of nonspecific chronic low-back pain subjects. Manual Therapy.
Fisher J et al. The effect of thoracic spine manipulation on trunk range of motion. Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy.

03/20/2026

You don’t ALWAYS have to start with low back stretches to fix low back pain.

That’s why one of the things we look at is thoracic spine mobility first. A good goal is around 45° of thoracic rotation. If that area is stiff, it can be a great starting point while the low back is calming down.

Why does that matter? Because when the thoracic spine moves better, the lumbar spine doesn’t have to do more than it’s supposed to during daily activities, lifting, and rotation. 🌀

Sometimes the best place to start with low back pain isn’t pushing into painful low back movement. It’s improving the areas above and below it so the body can move the way it was designed to. As the low back heals, we can then build back into the right exercises at the right time. 💪

Painful doesn’t always mean better.

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03/18/2026

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03/13/2026

Dry needling the upper trap helps when that muscle has been tight, sore, or constantly “on” for way too long. 🎯

A lot of people think their upper trap is tight because it needs stretching, but many times it’s tight because it has been overworking for other areas that are not doing their job well — especially the neck, shoulder blade, and upper back.

Dry needling uses a very thin needle to target those irritated trigger points in the muscle. This helps calm the muscle down, improve blood flow, and often gives people that feeling of immediate relief or looseness after treatment. Research shows dry needling can help reduce pain and improve motion, especially for people dealing with neck and shoulder tension.

But this is why exercise after dry needling matters so much 👇

If we only loosen the muscle but never teach the body a better movement pattern, that tightness often comes right back.

That’s why after dry needling we usually follow it with simple exercises to:
✔️ help the shoulder blade move better
✔️ activate the muscles that should be helping
✔️ improve posture and neck control
✔️ keep the upper trap from taking over again

Think of dry needling as creating a reset — and exercise helps your body hold onto that reset. 💥

The goal is not just short-term relief. It’s helping your body move better so the same pain doesn’t keep returning.

References:
• Ge**er et al. – Dry needling reduced upper trap trigger point pain
• Navarro-Santana et al. – Systematic review showing short-term pain relief with dry needling for neck muscles

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