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What Happens Inside Your Body During Shockwave Therapy for Back Pain?
Shockwave therapy uses acoustic waves to trigger blood flow, collagen remodeling, and pain receptor desensitization — restarting the body's own healing process for chronic back pain that hasn't responded to conventional care.
Tim St. Onge
Aug 196 min read
Rest Doesn't Fix Chronic Back Pain—Here's What Actually Does
Quick Summary: Rest alone rarely resolves chronic back pain because prolonged inactivity can lead to muscle weakness, joint stiffness, reduced tissue health, and increased pain sensitivity. While short-term relative rest may help after an acute injury, chronic back pain typically requires addressing the underlying causes rather than simply waiting for symptoms to improve. Effective treatment often combines restoring joint mobility through chiropractic care, stimulating soft t
Tim St. Onge
Aug 427 min read
How Shockwave Therapy Works: What Happens Inside Your Body During Treatment
Quick Summary Shockwave Therapy is a non-surgical treatment that uses acoustic sound waves to stimulate healing in injured tissues. Research shows that shockwave therapy may improve blood flow, increase collagen production, stimulate healing cells, reduce pain signals, and help damaged tissues repair themselves. It is commonly used for plantar fasciitis, rotator cuff injuries, tennis elbow, hip pain, knee pain, Achilles tendinopathy, and chronic back pain. At Thrive Chiroprac
Tim St. Onge
Jun 235 min read
Why Does My Pain Keep Coming Back Even After Stretching?
Why Does My Pain Keep Coming Back Even After Stretching? A lot of people with chronic pain hear the same thing: “Your muscles are just tight.” Sometimes that is partly true. But most of the time, chronic pain is about more than just tight muscles. That’s why so many people stretch every day, use massage guns, or get massages… but the pain keeps coming back. At Thrive Chiropractic & Functional Health, we help people find the real reason behind their pain so they can finally st
Tim St. Onge
May 193 min read
Why Your Back Hurts More Than It Should: The Hidden Causes Of Back Pain Most People Miss
If you’re dealing with recurring back pain—especially the kind that comes and goes, flares up with activity, or gets worse after sitting—you’re not alone. Back pain is one of the most common reasons people visit a doctor, but here’s the surprising part: most people never discover what’s actually causing it. They focus on the pain, not the root issue. At Thrive Chiropractic & Functional Health, we help patients uncover the real sources of their back pain every day. And in many
Tim St. Onge
Dec 2, 20253 min read
Why Chronic Pain is More than Just Inflammation
If you’ve had back, neck, shoulder, hip, knee, or foot pain for months—or even years—you’ve probably heard the word inflammation. And inflammation can absolutely be part of the problem. But chronic pain is often more complicated than that. Pain can be affected by the health of your joints and tissues, your nervous system, strength and movement, previous injuries, sleep, stress, and other factors. That helps explain something we see frequently: The place that hurts isn't alway
Could Mold Be Making You Sick? Symptoms & Hidden Mold
Could Mold Be Making You Sick? Signs Your Home May Be Affecting Your Health You eat pretty well. You try to get enough sleep. Maybe you've even had blood work done. But you still don't feel right. You're tired. Your head feels foggy. Your sinuses are always bothering you. Or you just don't feel like yourself. When this happens, we usually start looking inside the body for answers. Sometimes we also need to look at the environment around us. One place worth considering is
Could Your Headache Actually Be Coming From Your Neck?
Could Your Headache Actually Be Coming From Your Neck? If you get headaches over and over, you probably know the routine. Your head starts hurting. You take something for the pain. Maybe the headache gets better. Then a few days later, it comes back. But what if the problem isn't actually starting in your head? For some people, recurring headaches can be connected to problems in the neck. When a headache originates from structures in the neck, it is often called a cervicogeni
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