Hometown Family Wellness Center

One of the most confusing things about pain is that it doesn’t always show up where the actual problem is. You feel it in your knee, but the source is your hip. You feel it in your arm, but it’s coming from your neck. This is called referred pain, and understanding it explains why so many people chase the wrong spot for months without relief. At Freehold Chiropractic, identif...

Pain that starts in your neck and radiates down your arm, sometimes with tingling, numbness, or weakness in your hand, is one of the most concerning symptoms patients bring to our Freehold practice. The condition is called cervical radiculopathy, and it happens when a nerve root in the neck is compressed or irritated. The good news is that the vast majority of cases respond w...

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 ...