Dr. Tyme Gigliotti, DAc, LAc

Greetings, Between hours spent looking at screens, driving, and navigating daily stress, our necks take the brunt of modern life. If you’ve been waking up with a stiff neck or feeling tightness creep into your shoulders by the afternoon, you are definitely not alone. As a specialist in orthopedic and sports acupuncture, I see how quickly daily postural strain can turn into restricted movement and persistent pain if it goes unchecked. To help you release that tension and restore your mobility,...

Why Active People Develop Chronic Neck Tension Most people assume neck pain comes from poor posture alone. In reality, for active adults, neck tension is often the result of a combination of stress, training load, recovery deficits, and muscle compensation patterns. If you're a runner, CrossFit athlete, cyclist, weightlifter, tennis player, martial artist, or simply someone who pushes hard both in the gym, at work and in life, your neck is often the first place your body stores stress. When...

There are a number of different reasons we have joint pain. Working a joint too hard can cause irritation in the cartilage, the stiff but flexible connective tissue that coats the surfaces of the bones in our joints and cushions bones against impact , as well as inflammation. Inflammation is the body’s natural defense mechanism to any foreign substance that it considers harmful. Germs, pollen, and chemicals may trigger an inflammatory response when the body is exposed to them. Very often,...