Articles For Health

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL The accident lasted less than a second. The impact, the jolt, the jarring sensation through your neck and shoulders and then it was over. You may have felt shaken but functional. You may have waved off the other driver's concern and driven yourself home. You may have taken some ibuprofen, expected to feel sore for a few days, and assumed the whole thing would resolve on its own. This is the experience mo

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL It is not a comfortable title, but it is an accurate one, and it belongs to one of the most important books written about modern health in the past decade. In Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World, Dr. Kelly Starrett, Doctor of Physical Therapy, New York Times bestselling author, and coach to Olympic athletes and Special Forces soldiers, delivers a blunt assessment of what the modern desk-based lifes

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL If your child has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, sensory processing disorder, developmental coordination disorder, or another neurodevelopmental condition, you have probably spent a significant amount of time navigating a complex and often overwhelming landscape of therapies, interventions, specialists, and approaches. Applied behavior analysis. Occupational therapy. Speech and langu

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL There is a conversation that most Americans never have until something goes terribly wrong. Until the morning they cannot get out of bed. Until the pain down their leg becomes impossible to ignore. Until the MRI comes back with findings that lead to a referral to a spine surgeon, a prescription for opioid pain medication, or both. By that point, the structural problem they are dealing with has typically

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL When you think about your child's health before the school year begins, you probably think about the annual pediatric checkup, the sports physicals, and the dental cleaning. You think about whether they have the right shoes for PE, the right diet for energy and focus, and enough sleep to handle a full day of learning. What almost no parent thinks about, and what almost no pediatric checklist includes, is

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL You may have noticed it in a family member, a visible rounding at the base of the neck and upper back that seems to have appeared gradually over the years. Or perhaps, you have caught your own reflection and recognized that the upright posture you once had has slowly given way to a forward lean that no amount of effort to "stand up straight" fully corrects. Maybe a friend mentioned it, or a physician bro

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL So much attention during pregnancy is focused on preparing for birth. Birth classes, birth plans, hospital bags, nursery setup. And then the baby arrives, and almost overnight, the entire focus of attention shifts to the baby; their feeding, their sleep, their development, their wellbeing. What gets left behind in that shift is you. Your body just completed one of the most physically demanding things a h

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL If you have a child who is still wetting the bed past the age when their friends have stopped, you have likely heard a lot of well-meaning but unhelpful advice. Limit fluids before bed. Wake them up at night. Use a bedwetting alarm. Be patient, they'll grow out of it. Don't make a big deal of it, but also, have you tried rewards for dry nights? You may have also felt a quiet sense of confusion, because n

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL If you have ever experienced a migraine, you know that "headache" is an insufficient word for what it is. The pulsing, one-sided pain that makes light unbearable and sound excruciating. The nausea. The visual disturbances, the aura that tells you one is coming and that there is no stopping it now. The hours spent in a dark room, waiting for it to pass, rearranging your entire day around an attack that ar

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL You have probably heard someone say they had a "gut feeling" about something. Or that they felt "sick to their stomach" with anxiety. Or that stress always seems to go straight to their digestion. These are not just figures of speech. They are descriptions of a real, physiological connection, one that science is now understanding in remarkable detail. The relationship between the gut and the brain is one

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL Few things derail daily life quite like sciatica. The searing, electric pain that shoots from the lower back through the buttock and down the leg. The numbness or tingling that makes your foot feel like it belongs to someone else. The sharp jolt that stops you mid-step, mid-reach, or mid-sleep. The inability to sit comfortably, drive without agony, or stand long enough to cook a meal. If you have experie

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL If you are preparing for birth, whether it is your first or your fourth, you have probably thought about what labor will be like. How long it will last. How intense it will be. Whether your body will be ready. Whether your baby will be in the right position. Whether you will need interventions you were hoping to avoid. These are not small concerns. Labor is one of the most physically demanding experience

Tired of the antibiotic cycle for your child's recurring ear infections? Discover the upper cervical spine-Eustachian tube connection and how gentle pediatric chiropractic care at Principled Chiropractic in Royal Palm Beach offers a safe, drug-free alternative.

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL If you are pregnant and experiencing pelvic pain, you are not alone and you are not simply expected to endure it until your baby arrives. Pelvic pain during pregnancy is one of the most common complaints we hear from expectant mothers in our Royal Palm Beach office. Research published in peer-reviewed medical literature estimates that pelvic girdle pain affects nearly half of all pregnant women, making i

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL When most people think about their immune system, they think about vitamin C, hand washing, sleep, and maybe a zinc supplement during cold and flu season. These are all reasonable things to think about. There is a connection between immunity and the health of the human body that almost never comes up in these conversations, one that has been documented in scientific research for decades and that changes

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL Here's a question worth sitting with for a moment. When was the last time you went to the dentist? If you're like most people, you go twice a year, not because your teeth hurt, not because you've noticed a problem, but because you understand that keeping your teeth and gums healthy requires regular, consistent maintenance. You brush every day. You floss. You get your cleanings. You do all of this proacti

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL You brought your newborn home, and something seems off. Maybe your baby always turns their head to the same side. Maybe they struggle to nurse on one breast but latch easily on the other. Maybe you've noticed a slight tilt to their head that never quite straightens out, or a flat spot developing on one side of the skull. You mentioned it to your pediatrician and were told it might resolve on its own. Or

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL As a parent, you know the milestones by heart. Rolling over. Sitting up. Crawling. Pulling to stand. First steps. First words. You watch for them, celebrate them, and quietly worry when they seem slow in coming. What most parents don't know, and what very few pediatricians discuss, is that every single one of those milestones is driven by the nervous system. And the nervous system, from the very first mo

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL People ask us all the time about our name. "Principled Chiropractic — what does that mean, exactly?" It's a fair question. And the honest answer is that the name isn't just a brand choice. It's a declaration of how we practice, what we believe about health, and what kind of chiropractors we have committed to being. The word principled has a specific meaning in chiropractic. It refers to practitioners who

By Dr. Andrew Biggs, DC | Principled Chiropractic | Royal Palm Beach, FL If your child has been diagnosed with ADHD, or if you're in the middle of trying to figure out why they can't sit still, can't focus, can't sleep, and seem to be constantly overwhelmed, you already know how exhausting and confusing the journey can be. You've probably been told that ADHD is a brain-based condition, that medication is the most evidence-supported treatment, and that your child may simply ne