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Bosscher Chiropractic, PLLC

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02/04/2026

The root of a lot of shoulder issues comes from the LACK of thoracic mobility.

I give the example of stiff hips and how the lumbar region takes up the slack and may create excessive strain..

It’s a similar idea with thoracic spine being locked up and creating excessive strain through the shoulder joint.

Thread the needle is usually performed on the ground on all 4’s, however, I like this little tweak performing it seated. 👍

Few reasons…
1️⃣ I can push off using my hand or elbow on opposite leg and
2️⃣ it’s common to “cheat” and lean your torso in effort to make it look like your getting greater range of motion ❌ using your hand or elbow helps prevent this little cheat.

Seated all ensures the lumbar spine gets “locked out” in flexion, so majority of the rotation should be coming from the thoracic region 👍

*side note. If this is difficult to perform it does not 100% mean it’s due to a STIFF spine. In some people, they just need to retrain the body in performing this movement. 🤝

Give it a go! Is one side harder like it is for me?! 😜

01/29/2026

These techniques can be quick and easy if you’re dealing with posterior knee pain or tightness 👍

Tools like a foam roller or rolling stick often get bashed because they are not “solving the problem.”

I’m not disagreeing as this is simply going after treating someone’s symptoms. However, if it provides relief, then why the heck wouldn’t you use it? 🤷‍♂️

Pin + stretch (active release technique) is what I do with just about every patient as I’m usually working with a lot of tight tissues around the area of someone’s concern.

As mentioned ☝️you need to get good tissue tension or pull prior to starting the movement.

Pretty easy if you’re dealing with tightness to muscles like:
•calves (gastroc, soleus, plantaris, popliteus)
•hamstrings (semitendinosus, semimembranosus, biceps femoris)

Dealing with ongoing knee pain? I’m happy to assess and address what you can be doing 🤝 if you’re up for putting in some work, I’m happy to give suggestions 😉 🙂

01/22/2026

12 ribs, lower 2 are “floating” meaning there’s no connection to the sternum via costal cartilage.

I’d say very common to have rib issues that can cause that sharp pain between the spine and shoulder blades. I see this at least once a week.

In this case, I would adjust the joints where the ribs attach to the spine as well as address posture and mechanics of breathing/moving.

Most rib issues are due to excessive thoracic flexion + forward head + shoulders rolled forward. All of these postures put strain on the posterior rib attachment.

I’m a fan of opening up the chest 👍 most of us need this, and it can help mobilize the ribs and their spinal articulation.

Breathing: I find most people are strictly chest breathers. This doesn’t allow proper lung expansion unfortunately, and you may rely more on accessory respiratory muscles to primarily help in this motion.

Abdominal breathing utilizes the diaphragm with this up and down function. Certianly not saying it’s wrong, but ideally you still need to fill the upper lungs (chest) to get a proper full expansion.

So the way I like to think about it is breathing in all directions, 360 degrees. Full lung and rib expansion 👍

It helps me to think about a belt around my chest that you’re trying to push all directions out into. Forward, side-to-side, and backward ✅

Realistically, this technique isn’t every breath I take, but if I’m mindful of my breathing then I like to utilize this 360 degree approach.

01/21/2026

I see overpronation everyday, with the high majority of patients NOT complaining of foot pain.

However, you can’t argue against the fact that overpronation will put consistent stress and strain on the medial ligaments of the foot.

As with any injury, almost all can be from cumulative stress.

“It’s the straw that broke the camels back.”

Someone could live in this position for a really long time and likely have no symptoms until maybe a beach walk, for example..

As with any other condition, symptoms are also usually a culmination of multiple factors.

So when I see this foot position in an asymptomatic patient, I may bring it up and suggest some home exercises for correction.

If you’re coming in WITH pain and this foot alignment, I will definitely be pushing various exercises, manual treatment, and potential orthotic if needed.

It’s just a classic case of something “not looking normal,” and not having any pain associated with it…yet 😉

01/15/2026

You can imagine an ankle that is chronically injured is likely going to end up being a bit UNstable.

Spraining or lengthening of the ankle ligaments will allow greater movement of joints.

Also to add, there will less proprioceptive input with chronic sprained ankles. AKA less muscle activity allowing support.

So what happens is somewhat of a “sloppy” foot and arch collapse. Long term can certainly contribute to a multitude of foot issues, bunions included.

Big picture is to improve ankle stability and “coordination” to ankle stabilizers.

They need more input and activation to do what they’re supposed to do, including support the natural ARCHES of the foot 🦶

I mention the peroneals as a big contributor. These muscles do eversion (the opposite of the direction of most ankle sprains).

Peroneus longus also depresses the first big toe joint which helps in overall ankle and medial arch stability 👏

There’s plenty of balancing exercises that can improve ankle stability. Just need to find a provider to help you along.

You dealing with this? I am too to an extent from a past ankle injury that I don’t think I properly rehabbed (now causing foot issues).

I’m happy to help 🤝 chiropractor with a heavy rehab emphasis. Call in or DM to get on the books. 2026, time to prioritize your health 🫡 😉

01/08/2026

It’s wintertime which means more slips and falls for us northerners. 🧊 ❄️

It’s natural to want to brace your fall by using an outstretched hand.

Unfortunately, we see a lot of wrist injuries because of this.

2 of the more severe injuries would be fracture or dislocation.

The most commonly fractured wrist bone (carpals) is the scaphoid. This carpal bone unfortunately has poor blood supply and is at risk for non-union (harder time healing together properly).

Bracing is important in the case of a fracture to the scaphoid. There are other measures you can take to ensure proper healing. Modalities (laser or acoustic compression), and supplementing for proper bone healing.

A dislocation is most common to the lunate bone. These carpal bones are connected by ligaments, so if there’s a dislocation, you can imagine there had to be some sort of injury sustained to ligaments as well.

As mentioned in the video, a ligamentous sprain (even if minor) is likely the most common issue I would see with a foosh injury.

No worries, give it time. Limit activities that hurt. Bracing may be appropriate for 2-4 weeks pending the severity of injury.

However, I don’t want to downplay an injury. If it’s significant, it may require surgery or advanced treatment 🤝

01/06/2026

I found myself scrolling through a page where the general population was commenting on giving suggestions for a certain issue someone was dealing with, let’s just call it back pain.

“Chiropractor fixed my back pain.”

Next person, “Do NOT see a chiropractor. Quacks, pseudoscience. All they want to do is sell you long treatment packages.”

Next person. “Try physical therapy, helped me!”

“Pelvic floor therapy REALLY helped with my back pain.”

“Steroid injection fixed mine!”

“Did injections, and physical therapy, nothing helped so far.”

“My chiro helped me tremendously!”

“Massage did the trick!”

“Saw a chiropractor who insisted on x-rays and 36 visits. No thanks.”

“Muscle relaxers didn’t touch it. Ended up doing physical therapy with relief.”

“Saw a chiropractor one time. No relief.”

“Physical therapy wasn’t for me, I just opted for an injection. Helped a bit, but still in pain.”

I made all of these up, but these are the types of responses I read or hear all the time.

*By the way, back pain could be: muscle strain, facet syndrome, discitis, disc bulge, disc herniation, muscle spasm, thoracolumbar fascia tear, facet cyst, central canal stenosis, fracture, cancer, lateral canal stenosis, scoliosis, facet arthrosis, facet tropism, spinal ligament sprain, SI joint fixation, referral from GI issues…etc. get my point, I wouldn’t treat all these the same way.

Yes, you should absolutely take into consideration what has helped you or friend/family member in the past.

Maybe it didn’t help completely, but that doesn’t mean it’s totally useless for everyone.

People too often label certain therapies as “bad” just because it may not have cured them instantly 🤷‍♂️ wink wink…

Careful with the latest trends too that will claim to cure things quickly and easily. Easy to get roped into trying something new, not saying don’t do it but do your research 🤝

Bottom line is you can’t really compare your health and clinical experience with someone else’s. Everyone presents differently with different histories that us providers need to take into consideration.

01/05/2026

Magnesium has been widely recognized in its importance for having a calming effect. Muscle soreness, stress, and can acts as a sleep aid.

These are just a few examples, but what I deal with everyday is tight or guarded tissues ❌

Whether from an injury, or chronically tight muscles…

While there are plenty of treatments or therapies can I and you can do, topical magnesium seems to prove to be very effective and fast acting 👍

Magnesium CHLORIDE seems to be the best option for topical use.

* if you are not aware, there are about 10-15 forms of magnesium that are commonly used. Top 4 you may have heard are magnesium glycinate, citrate, malate, and threonate.

So if you are taking any, make sure you’re taking the proper form based on what it is you’re looking to target.

As always, this is just one little piece of the puzzle of “fixing or correcting” an issue that is creating someone’s symptoms.

Bottom line, if it works for you, go for it 🤝

12/29/2025

Saw this one this morning ☝️the pectineus muscle is a small muscle in the front/inside part of the groin.

It’s a muscle that is part of the adductors that function to adduct (bring leg toward midline) as flex the hip.

Why do I see this strained in runners + athletes? 🤷‍♂️

Well when the affect leg is planted, you need good stability of the pelvis. The glutes are a big part of providing this stability, so hopefully they are activating properly ✅

The adductors in general tend to overwork due to lack of pelvic stability by the glutes.

Lack of glute/pelvic stability will create internal rotation of the hip, SHORTENING the pectineus.

An anterior pelvic tilt will also create excessive internal rotation and likely overload the adductors with LESS glute activation.

Try it out! I play around with this all the time when I’m working out on my own. Various positions of the pelvis will affect which muscles are activated. It’s very hard to get good glute activation when it an anteriorly tilted pelvis.

These are just some findings associated with strained adductors. I’m generalizing obviously, but you need to address tight muscles as well as strengthen the weak ones.. big picture, work on proper mechanics through your activity or sport 🤝

12/10/2025

You ever feel that grinding sensation in your neck?!

Well, good news is it’s not really anything to be majorly concerned about. 👍

There will likely be various thoughts on the cause of this, but this is what makes the most sense to me ☝️ (compared to gas bubbles, tissues snapping..)

We need to look at 2 main things with crepitus.
1. The facet joints (cartilage)
2. The synovial fluid

As mentioned, cartilage thinning or damage will not allow as smooth of a gliding surface area. This is to be expected as we age. Some “damage” worse than others…

The synovial fluid, hyaluronic acid, and overall hydration decreases as we age. This = less slippery joints.

More “sticky” joints and less surface area for the synovial fluid to actually move through motion is likely the cause of the “slushing or grinding” feeling.

There may be advanced ways to improve the actual cartilage (another future post), but more MOVEMENT actually helps production of the synovial fluid!

You notice the more you move, the less sandpaper feeling in the joints? 🙋‍♂️

So as always, and for MULTIPLE reasons, keep moving 🤝

Is this news to you? Share with someone who you think would like to know 🤝

12/08/2025

Here are the 3 most common muscles than can create headaches ☝️

The upper traps, suboccipitals, and the SCM.

ALL of which can be affected by a prolonged forward posture. Not saying that is the sole reason for headaches, but the tone of these muscles will be affected negatively with a forward posture…

I mention other things like stress and water + nutrient intake, for example, in relation to the tissues causing symptoms.

*there’s multiple potential reasons for a headache obviously…

Trigger points are often developed by LACK of blood flow and oxygen. This is the reason to try to increase localized blood flow through manual techniques 👍

Heating the tissues is also something I commonly recommend to improve trigger points/hypoxic tissues.

I also recommend MOVEMENT! What do you know 😉 movement will improve blood flow and get muscles to contract/relax.

Are you getting headaches and think it’s from tight muscles? I’m happy to help. Don’t let the DC scare you from someone touching your neck…Gentle, easy movements in effort to free up trigger points and improve joint mobility 🤝 pretty straight forward and easy to work on 👍

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I am happy to be transitioning to Holland, MI (from Grand Rapids) and offer my services to this community. My effort is get patients out of pain as soon as possible, but truly go after their root cause of discomfort. Many, if not most of the time, symptoms arise due to muscular imbalances through the body. My job is to find these imbalances, treat the dysfunction, and strengthen muscles where necessary. I do not only treat athletes or sports injuries, but I believe in restoring movement and mobility through the body in order to function properly.