Hometown Family Wellness Center

IT band syndrome is one of the most common overuse injuries I see in runners, cyclists, and active patients at our Freehold practice. It produces a sharp, burning pain on the outside of the knee that often shows up at a predictable point in your run or ride, and it has a frustrating habit of returning whenever you ramp activity back up. The good news is that with the right ap...

Trochanteric bursitis is one of the most commonly misdiagnosed sources of hip pain I see at our Freehold practice. Patients often come in convinced they have hip arthritis or need a hip replacement, when the actual problem is inflammation in a small fluid-filled sac on the outside of the hip. Treating it correctly can produce significant relief in weeks, while treating it as ...

Degenerative disc disease (DDD) is one of the most common diagnoses I see on patient imaging reports, and it’s also one of the most misunderstood. Despite the name, it’s not really a disease. It’s a description of normal age-related changes in the spinal discs that can cause pain in some patients and absolutely no symptoms in others. At Freehold Chiropractic in Freehold, our ...

Spinal stenosis is one of the more frustrating conditions I see in patients over 50, mostly because so many of them have been told their only options are heavy medication or surgery. At Freehold Chiropractic in Freehold, we take a different approach. By understanding exactly what’s narrowing the spinal canal and addressing the mechanical contributors, many patients find signi...

Your feet are the foundation of everything above them. When that foundation is off, the effects travel upward through the knees, hips, and lower back in ways that most people never connect back to their feet. At Freehold Chiropractic in Freehold, custom orthotics are one of the most impactful tools we use for patients dealing with a wide range of pain conditions, and the resu...