Craig Abrams, DC

Craig Abrams, DC Chiropractic care driven to help you "Move well to be well"
We use diet, exercise, adjustment & laser therapy to get you on the path to recovery and beyond

02/23/2026

Sitting doesn’t tighten your back.

Loss of hip control does.

When rotation disappears, the spine overworks.

That’s the root cause.

Fix the system.
The tightness drops.

Follow if you want it solved correctly.

02/23/2026

If your back tightens after sitting 30 minutes, it’s not a flexibility problem.

It’s a control problem.

Most people stretch the area that hurts.

That’s not the root cause.

If this sounds like you, follow along.
We’re breaking low back pain down all month.

02/13/2026

Long drives don’t hurt your back.

Staying in one position for hours does.

When the hips stay flexed
and the spine stays compressed,
the system stiffens to protect itself.

That stiffness shows up
the moment you unload the car
or step into boots.

Movement doesn’t have to be a workout.

Just interrupt the position
before it becomes the pattern.

02/12/2026

Most injuries don’t happen
because something was heavy.

They happen
because the system wasn’t organized
before the load showed up.

When you stack well,
brace lightly,
and own the position first,

the weight becomes training.

When you rush it,
the weight becomes stress.

Set yourself
before the load sets you.

02/12/2026

Late in the day is when compensation shows up.

Fatigue doesn’t create bad patterns.
It reveals them.

What you see at 5pm
is usually what needs attention.

02/10/2026

She didn’t come in for neck pain.

She came in because overhead work kept flaring her shoulder
and she’d stopped lifting the way she used to.

Rows were fine.
Lower body was fine.
But pressing always turned into neck tightness and headaches later that day.

She’d been told her shoulder was weak.
Then that her neck was stiff.
Then that she needed more mobility.

What we saw was constant upper-trap dominance.

Any load she picked up
went straight into her shoulders and neck.

No matter how “light” the weight was,
the system was organized poorly.

We didn’t start with heavier lifts or more stretches.

We fixed how she carried load.

Once the shoulders stopped doing extra work,
pressing felt clean again
and the neck stopped getting irritated.

The problem wasn’t strength.
It was where the work was going.

That’s the difference between treating pain
and fixing the reason it shows up.

02/10/2026

Most people don’t realize
how much tension they carry
above the shoulders.

Jaw clenching.
Raised shoulders.
Hands gripping for no reason.

That tension increases load
through the neck and upper back
all day long.

Noticing it is the first step
to changing how the body moves.

02/09/2026

He told me,
“I can ride, train, and work through it…
but it never really goes away.”

That’s not resilience.
That’s adaptation.

His body learned how to move around low-level stiffness
in his hips and mid-back.

No pain during the ride.
Pain later that day.
Or the next morning.
Or somewhere new.

The problem wasn’t where it hurt.
It was the background noise changing how he loaded his body.

Once we quieted that noise
and restored control where it was missing,
movement normalized.

Pain didn’t need to be chased.
It didn’t need to be managed.

It stopped being necessary.

That’s what root cause care actually means

02/09/2026

Most people don’t notice the small stuff.

The low-level tension.
The stiffness you work around.
The way you’ve learned to move without thinking.

That background noise changes how the body loads
long before pain shows up.

Quiet the system,
and movement has a chance to normalize again.

That’s the work.

02/08/2026

Pain tells you where something hurts.
It does not tell you why it hurts.

If treating the painful area fixed the problem, most people would be better by now.

Root-cause care looks for:
• what stopped moving well
• what lost control
• what the body stopped trusting

Those are often not at the site of pain.

Fix the source.
The pain follows.

That’s how this actually works.

02/08/2026

Some days aren’t for optimizing.

They’re for being present
with the people
and moments
that matter.

That’s the work today.

Address

3249 S La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
90016

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 7pm
Tuesday 8am - 7pm
Wednesday 8am - 7pm
Thursday 8am - 7pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 3:30pm

Telephone

+15162417114

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Craig Abrams, DC posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Practice

Send a message to Craig Abrams, DC:

Shortcuts

Share

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn
Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share via Email
Share on WhatsApp Share on Instagram Share on Telegram

Category