Advanced Spinal Care

12/25/2025

🎄✨ Merry Christmas from Advanced Spinal Care! ✨🎄

From our ASC family to yours, we wish you a Christmas filled with joy, peace, and meaningful moments. May your day be surrounded by people you love, good food, and the kind of warmth that makes the season truly special. ❤️

Thank you for trusting us with your care and being such an important part of our community. We are grateful for each and every one of you.

Merry Christmas! 🎁🌟
— Dr. Lapenski & ASC Staff

12/24/2025

🧠 Understanding Multiple Sclerosis (MS) 🧠

A diagnosis of MS can be life-changing—for you and your loved ones. MS occurs when the myelin sheath around nerve cells is damaged, slowing or blocking signals between the brain and body.

Common symptoms may include:
✅ Loss of balance
✅ Muscle spasms & weakness
✅ Numbness or tingling
✅ Difficulty walking
✅ Tremors, dizziness, or vision changes
…and many more.

It’s important to remember that experiencing one or more symptoms doesn’t automatically mean you have MS. Doctors perform a series of tests to confirm a diagnosis.

Research also shows that upper neck misalignments can affect brainstem and nervous system function. If you have a history of head or neck trauma, a thorough evaluation by a Board Certified NUCCA Doctor may provide insight and support.

Learn more here:
🔗 https://nuccawashington.com/multiple-sclerosis-common-causes-and-symptoms/

📍 Advanced Spinal Care – Graham, WA

12/23/2025

We’re honored to care for patients like this! 🌟💙

Our doctor and staff are dedicated, caring, and knowledgeable. Through gentle NUCCA treatments, we’ve helped patients recover from brain 🧠 and neck 💆‍♂️ injuries, improving their quality of life and helping them live longer, happier lives. ✨🙌

📍 Advanced Spinal Care – Graham, WA
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12/22/2025

✨ From the doctor’s chair: one of my favorite moments is seeing a patient’s first reaction after a NUCCA adjustment.

Kathy felt warmth in her head, instant blood flow relief, and noticed her pain easing right away. After two months, her hip, neck, and shoulder pain? Gone! 🙌 She’s staying in alignment and feeling incredible.

That’s the NUCCA difference — precise, painless, life-changing care. 💙

12/19/2025

Barrett used to live in a cycle of pain → adjustment → temporary relief → repeat.
Traditional care only managed the symptoms… never the source.

But with NUCCA at Advanced Spinal Care, she finally found the root cause — a misalignment affecting her whole body. Now her alignment holds longer, she feels balanced, and pain no longer controls her life. 🙌✨

🌟 Gentle. Precise. Root-focused.
This is NUCCA care with Dr. Lapenski.

12/18/2025

💜 Fibromyalgia & IBS: Finding Hope 💜

Fibromyalgia and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) are often misunderstood—even doubted. Yet for those living with these conditions, the pain, fatigue, and digestive struggles are very real.

🧠 Research shows both fibromyalgia and IBS may be linked to changes in the central nervous system (CNS), sometimes triggered by an undetected head or neck injury. Misalignments in the upper neck can disrupt brainstem function, affecting pain regulation, sleep, and digestion.

✨ NUCCA upper cervical care offers a gentle, precise way to restore alignment and reduce stress on the nervous system. Patients often report:
✅ Less pain and stiffness
✅ Better sleep
✅ More energy
✅ Normalized digestion

While results vary, many who thought they were out of options have found new hope through NUCCA care.

Learn more in our latest blog:
🔗 https://nuccawashington.com/drug-free-remedy-for-fibromyalgia-and-irritable-bowel-syndrome/

📍 Advanced Spinal Care – Graham, WA

Gentle Care. Rejuvenated Hope.

12/17/2025

🎄✨ Holiday Office Closure Notice ✨🎄

Our office will be closed for Christmas from Wednesday, December 24th through Friday, December 26th so our team can enjoy the holiday with their families. ❤️
We will reopen on Monday, December 29th.

We will also be closed on Wednesday, December 31st and Thursday, January 1st for New Year’s celebrations. 🎉
Normal hours resume on Friday, January 2nd.

Thank you for your understanding, and we wish you a joyful, peaceful holiday season and a bright start to the new year! 🌟

— Dr. Lapenski & ASC Staff

12/16/2025

We are truly humbled to share stories like this from our patients. One patient, who had battled migraines since age 4 and experienced severe neck, shoulder, and nerve pain for decades, came to Advanced Spinal Care as a last resort. 😢💫

After a thorough evaluation and specialized NUCCA imaging, Dr. Lapenski performed her first Atlas (C-1) adjustment — completely pain-free. The results were life-changing. She has not experienced a migraine, mild headache, neck pain, dizziness, or nerve pain in her arm since. 🌟🙏💙

Stories like this remind us of the transformative power of precise NUCCA care. For some patients, it’s not just relief — it’s a true miracle. ✨🙌

📍 Advanced Spinal Care – Graham, WA
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12/15/2025

😣 Before Advanced Spinal Care, Kristen’s life revolved around endless chiropractic visits—2–3 times a week, constant adjustments, heel lifts, and even sleeping on a wedge. Still, nothing changed.

💙 Then she began care at Advanced Spinal Care. The heel lifts, the wedge, the constant adjustments—all of it went away. Most importantly, she finally found lasting relief.

🙌 Gentle. Precise. Life-changing.

12/12/2025

🌟 20 Years of Relief With NUCCA Care 🌟
Meet Suzanne — she came to us after neck surgery left her with returning pain and relentless headaches. Even after a bone graft and metal plate, the symptoms kept creeping back… and no one could tell her why.

What she DID find was relief through NUCCA.
By gently correcting the misalignment in her upper cervical spine — and addressing the rotation in her hips — her headaches, hip pain, and day-to-day discomfort finally eased.

✨ “I don’t know what I would do without it. It’s kept me from needing more invasive surgeries, more scar tissue, more trauma. This has been such a blessing.” ✨

NUCCA isn’t a one-time fix — it’s a way of supporting your body so it can stay aligned, stable, and strong. And for Suzanne, it’s made all the difference in living a comfortable, functional life again.

If you’ve been searching for answers after surgery… or you’re tired of “we don’t know why you’re hurting,” you’re not alone — and there IS another path.

💙 Advanced Spinal Care – NUCCA That Works.

12/11/2025

🧠 Multiple Sclerosis Testing: What You Need to Know 🧠

In this blog , we explained what MS is and some of its common symptoms. Since many other conditions can mimic MS, doctors run a series of tests before confirming a diagnosis:

🔹 Neurological Examination – Questions & assessments of mental and emotional health.
🔹 Lumbar Puncture (Spinal Tap) – Checks cerebrospinal fluid for abnormalities.
🔹 Evoked Potential Testing – Measures brain wave response to sensory input.
🔹 MRI – Detects brain & spinal cord changes other scans cannot.

👉 After testing, if MS is confirmed, management becomes the next step. While medications are common, research has linked past head & neck injuries to MS. Misalignments in the upper neck may impact cerebrospinal fluid flow and brainstem function—factors that can influence MS symptoms.

That’s why a precise NUCCA evaluation may be an important part of your care journey.

Learn more in our latest blog:
🔗 https://nuccawashington.com/multiple-sclerosis-testing/

📍 Advanced Spinal Care – Graham, WA

12/10/2025

Brenda works in construction — and she said something that perfectly explains NUCCA care:

🧱 “I'm in construction, if you have something just very small off on one side, by the time you get down here, you’ve got a huge problem.”

That’s exactly how the spine works.
If your atlas — the top bone in your neck — is even slightly off, everything below it can shift out of alignment, leading to pain, pressure, and imbalance throughout the body.

✅ Correct the base. Restore the balance. Feel the difference.