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Is Chiropractic care good for someone with a scoliosis?

- Monday, September 12, 2022

Yes! Chiropractic care is good at keeping joints moving as normally as possible. When someone has a scoliosis, their joints are not lined up the way they are supposed to be, which causes them to move abnormally. This can cause the joints to wear out faster than normal. With Chiropractic...

What is Frozen Shoulder?

- Thursday, September 08, 2022

Hey, everybody. Dr. Fedich here, at Village Family Clinic, Clinic Director. Here to talk to you today about frozen shoulder and medical terminology for that is actually adhesive capsulitis. Really fancy word. We got our little skeleton buddy here to show you a little bit what's going on. So, the...

Can you see a chiropractor when you’re pregnant?

- Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Of course! We can treat people during all stages of pregnancy. It’s a great way to reduce the back and hip pain commonly associated with pregnancy without any medications. There are actually studies that show regular chiropractic care during pregnancy reduces the amount of time spent in labor by a...

What is Occipital Neuralgia?

- Wednesday, August 31, 2022

How's everybody doing out there? This is Dr. Carlock. We're going to start this new video series where we're going to talk about a different little condition each week. Since I just did actually a talk this past week on headaches, we're going to talk about specific type of headache...

What pillow should I use?

- Tuesday, August 30, 2022

No two people are going to agree on the best pillow, but there are some basic rules you can follow if you want to minimize neck and upper back pain while sleeping. If you are a side sleeper, you want a pillow that is on the ticker side that offers...

Chiropractic Treatment for Lower Back Pain (SI Joint Dysfunction)

- Sunday, August 28, 2022

Our patients and regular readers of our blog know that we are Hackettstown’s most celebrated chiropractic and multi-specialty medical facility. Part of that reason is our commitment to patient and community education regarding painful health conditions that can be addressed via an assortment of chiropractic care services.   Lower back...

Jim Recommends Village Family Clinic for back pain in Hackettstown, NJ

- Tuesday, August 23, 2022

"Hi, my name is Jim Burns. I would recommend Village Chiropractic to anybody who's looking for back relief. The techs, the doctors are all great. So anybody who requires some back relief, this is the place to go."

Once I go to the Chiropractor do I have to keep going forever?

- Monday, August 22, 2022

You don’t HAVE to keep going once you feel better, but maintenance care helps you feel better for longer. Think of it like going to the Dentist. Once you go to the Dentist do you have to keep going forever? No, but going for cleanings and maintenance for your teeth...

Is it bad if I crack my own back/neck?

- Thursday, August 18, 2022

Yes! When a person cracks their own back/neck, they are just moving the joints that are already moving. When you continue to do that over and over, the joints become hypermobile (move too much) and make you more prone to joint pain, ligament injuries, and joint degeneration. When a chiropractor...

Village Family Clinic: These People Are The Best!

- Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Here's another testimonial video from one of our clients: "Hi, my name is Aiza. I’m here at the doctor’s office and I really like to be at this place. These people are the best."

Jeff Felt So Much Better After Few Treatments From Village Family Clinic

- Thursday, August 11, 2022

Hi,  I'm Jeff and I swear by the staff here and the doctors, I feel so much better since I've been coming here. So, only four weeks of treatment and I'm already feeling so much better.  I can sit in the car for longer. I can move a lot more...

Car Insurance Coverage for Chiropractic Treatment – How it Works

- Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Greetings from all of us here at Hackettstown’s Village Family Clinic! As most of you know, we are a multi-specialty medical facility providing chiropractic care, physical therapy, spinal decompression, and a number of other pain management disciplines. Last week in our Auto Accident-Related blog post, we briefly covered how your...

Is it a good idea to get adjusted after a car accident?

- Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Yes! No matter how minor the car accident may seem, they are all traumatic on your body. The forces of the accident are enough to pull joints out of position and cause tight muscles to keep them out of position. By receiving an adjustment, we can get the joints moving...

Pet Food Drive

- Tuesday, August 02, 2022

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Village Family Clinic Help Relieve Jim's Sciatica Pain

- Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Hi, my name is Jim. I’ve been a patient here at Village Family Clinic for six or seven months. I came here because my wife, Alice, raved about this place and I had been coming to chiropractors for 20 years on and off, and because of my wife. I decided to...

Chiropractic Treatment for Auto Injury Pain

- Monday, August 01, 2022

Hello dear fans of our Hackettstown’s Village Family Clinic blog. If you are suffering auto-accident related pain, our multi-specialty medical facility and team of professionals are highly trained and ready to treat you today! Whether we treat your auto-accident pain via chiropractic, treat your auto accident pain via physical therapy,...

SI Joint Dysfunction (Sacro-iliac joint)

- Monday, August 01, 2022

Lower back pain is by far the #1 complaint we see in our office on a daily basis. Pain in the lower back can be coming from a few different areas: lumbar spine, nerves in the lower back, disc pain, muscle pain, hip pain, referral pain from thoracic spine, or...

Physical Therapy: Speed Your Recovery via Compassionate and Comprehensive Care

- Wednesday, July 27, 2022

In any treatment sessions, a patient’s motivation is one of the most important factors that influences the speed and extent of their recovery. It is understood that staying motivated throughout the rehabilitation journey will be a challenging task. With physical therapy, it offers compassionate and comprehensive care to make patients...

Chiropractic Helps Much More than Back Pain

- Sunday, July 17, 2022

Hello dear fans of our Hackettstown’s Village Family Clinic blog. Although we are a multi-specialty medical facility, today we are going to focus on educating you about the multitude of health benefits you can enjoy by engaging in chiropractic care services here in Hackettstown. You are going to be amazed...

FREE Community Wellness Workshop

- Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Greetings All! Dr. Fedich, DC, here with you today. I am the Clinical Director here at Hackettstown’s Village Family Chiropractic and Multi-Specialty Medical Facility. I recently served as a featured speaker at Rutherfurd Hall the other day and it went great! The house was packed, It went Great! Out of...

Demystifying Spinal Decompression: Your Surgical and Drug-Free Path to Spinal Pain Relief

- Sunday, July 10, 2022

Greetings again from your friends and neighbors here at Hackettstown’s Village Family Clinic, a multi-specialty medical facility. Since a significant percentage of our patient inquiries involves interest in learning about this thing called “spinal decompression for back pain”, we thought we’d spend a few moments here today to address the...

Chiropractic Care for Personal Injury: Regain Proper Spinal Alignment and Function

- Thursday, June 30, 2022

Chiropractic care is a natural healing method that can help alleviate pain and retrain your body to take care of itself. There are various chiropractic services that are most often used to treat complaints of back pain, neck pain, pain in the joints of the arms or legs and headaches....

What do deep tissue laser therapy and 4th of July have in common?

- Tuesday, June 28, 2022

So, what do deep tissue laser therapy and 4th of July have in common? Well, Village Family Clinic, of course! What is the difference? One gives independence from pain and swelling while the other gave independence from tyrannical rule. Happy 4th of July week! We will be closed Monday July...

Chiropractic Care for Auto Injury: Your Drug and Surgery-Free Option

- Thursday, June 23, 2022

Those of you suffering auto accident pain, you realize that resultant pain can be immediate as well as delayed. Believe it or not, the former is less threatening than the latter and today we’re going to tell you why. Sometimes spinal injury is not immediately noticeable after the accident. Some...

Class 4 Deep Tissue Laser For Nagging Knee Pain

- Friday, June 17, 2022

So, we have been running a little advertising on Facebook about our Class 4 Deep Tissue laser for Knee Pain! Well, needless to say, we really struck a cord with people! We have been getting lots of calls and texts for this amazing technology! Even a few long time patients...

Help the Fire Department

- Tuesday, June 14, 2022

We are giving away this Blackstone Grill! Support the Allamuchy Fire Department! Get an Entry to Win $5 Donattion to Allamuchy Fire Department Refer a Friend Give us a Video Testimonial! You Can Also be entered to win a $100 Amazon Gift card if you use this link HERE REFER...

Medical Doctors Increasingly Referring Auto-Accident Victims for Chiropractic Care

- Friday, June 10, 2022

Spinal trauma resultant of an auto accident is a major source of both pain and confusion regarding what to do about it. The most common way this plays out for auto accident victims is to first try to gut it out. The common theory is the pain will be transitory...

Drug-Free Non-Surgical Chiropractic Treatment for Auto Injury Pain

- Friday, May 27, 2022

If you suffer systemic pain from a car accident, chiropractic treatment for auto accident pain is a drug and surgery-free approach to pain management to strongly consider. Here at our multi-specialty medical facility here in Hackettstown, we offer a team of pain management specialists that do wonders for people like...

Village Family Clinic: More than backs and necks!

- Thursday, May 26, 2022

Hello, I’m Dr. James Fedich, DC (Chiropractor) and Clinical Director here at Hackettstown’s Village Family Clinic, a multi-specialty medical facility. We love giving people back an important part of their lives that they were missing. It’s a rewarding experience for us. I may not always spend a lot of time...

Auto-Accident Pain? Chiropractic Treatment Can Help

- Friday, May 20, 2022

If you suffer systemic pain associated with an auto accident, there is real pain relief awaiting you here at Hackettstown’s Village Family Chiropractic and Multi-Specialty Medical Facility. Chances are that the accident has misaligned your neck and or back, pinching nerves, and other painful results of spinal misalignment. We can...

Chiropractic Pain Relief for Those Suffering Scoliosis

- Thursday, May 19, 2022

One of the common causes of back pain is Scoliosis. A condition in which the spine abnormally curves to the side. It can displace the rib cage from its normal position and put pressure on the muscles and nerves on the back, resulting in pain and discomfort. The spine abnormality...

How To Avoid Injuries While Doing Spring Yard Cleaning

- Thursday, May 12, 2022

Hello everyone, once again from your friends at Village Family Clinic. We love to educate and provide comprehensive chiropractic care and we do this in part by managing our chiropractic care blog. As so many of you are actively working your outdoor spring cleaning and yard work, there are a...

Chiropractic Care for Frozen Shoulder

- Thursday, May 05, 2022

Shoulder pain is one of the most common and persistent (yet treatable) body pain. General pain and in the shoulder can be attributed to what is commonly known as “frozen shoulder”. Pain associated with frozen shoulder can start as something rather tolerable but gradually worsens over time. A recurring complaint...

Cold Laser Therapy: Non-Surgical Sciatica Treatment Option

- Friday, April 29, 2022

There is a non-surgical and drug-free approach to addressing your sciatic nerve pain. Chiropractic treatment is a highly celebrated treatment option that has provided measurable pain relief to those suffering from sciatica. One treatment employed by Chiropractors to treat sciatica is via Cold Laser Therapy. The main goal of Cold...

Spinal Decompression Therapy: Surgical and Drug Free Disc Pain Relief

- Thursday, April 28, 2022

People who suffer long lasting back pain know the dramatic negative effect upon quality of life. So maybe you’ve been recommended for surgery but have strong reservations against surgery. Maybe you are reconsidering the numbing (and potentially addicting) effects of opioid medication. Chiropractis and spinal decompression therapy just might be...

Auto Accident Victims Celebrate Their Chiropractic Treatment

- Sunday, April 24, 2022

One of our most rewarding service offerings is to provide chiropractic treatment to auto accident victims here at our Hackettstown multi-specialty medical facility. The word is out about the difference we’re making in peoples’ lives here at The Village Family Clinic. If you are suffering any form of pain resulting...

Physical Therapy: Dedicated/Private Treatment is a Rare Service Offering

- Saturday, April 23, 2022

Unlike many large clinics, The Village Family Clinic here in Hackettstown offers one on one physical therapy. You will spend 30 minutes with one provider and will see the same provider each session. One to one manual therapy with one provider for 30 minutes in a private room. Active people...

Condition of the Month - April: Frozen Shoulder

- Friday, April 01, 2022

Frozen Shoulder or otherwise known as adhesive capsulitis is a condition of the right or left shoulder that we have been seeing in the office for years. It mostly is an “idiopathic” condition – meaning that generally there is no known cause or happens randomly (unfortunately). Sometimes the condition can...

A Real Pain In The Rear!

- Thursday, March 31, 2022

Sciatic! What is Sciatica? Simply put, sciatica is nerve pain from irritation of the sciatic nerve, located in the lower back that runs down the back of each leg. The biggest tell of sciatica is radiating pain starting in your lower back that works its way down the back of...

Chiropractic Treatment for Frozen Shoulder

- Monday, March 28, 2022

Welcome back dear patients, friends, family, neighbors, blog followers, and all of you moving forward toward pain-free living via chiropractic care here at Hackettstown’s Village Family Clinic. Today we want to introduce you to a painful condition that we treat on an increasing basis here at our Hackettstown multi-specialty medical...

Chiropractic Treatment for Wrist Pain

- Thursday, March 24, 2022

Most of your daily activities require your hands. Wrist pain is a very common ailment that most people falsely believe is something that they have to live with. Not true! Chiropractic treatment for your wrist pain can deliver measurable relief to you in as little as one chiropractic treatment session!...

New Jersey’s Premier DOT Certified CDL Physicals and Testing Service Center

- Friday, March 18, 2022

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), together with the Department of Transportation (DOT), mandates all persons that require a commercial driver's license (CDL) to undergo drug and alcohol testing. As an employer, it is your responsibility to ensure your drivers have subjected themselves for DOT Testing and have followed...

Condition of the Month - March: Arthritis

- Wednesday, March 16, 2022

By: Dr Tyler Carlock, DC Many of you have probably heard the term arthritis and may have even been told that you have it! There are many different forms of arthritis, some are inflammatory and others are non-inflammatory. The most common form is “Osteoarthritis.” This is a non-inflammatory condition and...

Chiropractic Treatment of Hip Pain - Try First Before Surgery

- Friday, March 11, 2022

Here in 2022, who does not know someone who has had knee replacement, hip replacement, or one of the countless other forms of joint surgery? Their stories are harrowing regarding post-surgery pain and highly painful rehabilitation processes. Talk to someone who first entertained chiropractic treatment for hip pain and you...

Chiropractic Treatment for Shoulder Pain

- Monday, February 28, 2022

Shoulder pain is a very common ailment. We treat countless patients with chiropractic care for shoulder pain and are proud to say the pain relief is real and measurable. The shoulder is one of the most complex joints in the body. It has a wide range of motion that is...

How Stress Affects Our Health

- Friday, February 25, 2022

Greetings friends, neighbors, blog followers, and all of you moving forward toward pain-free living chiropractic care here at Village Family Clinic. Today, let’s talk about stress. Stress is an unavoidable part of life. We can limit it, we can manage it, and we can ignore it. But, there will always...

Getting Back in the Swing of Things

- Thursday, February 24, 2022

What’s that peeking itself around the corner? It looks like, yes, warming spring air it is. Visions of going the game with the spouse and children. Walks down at the beach or park. And yes, GOLF! People across Hackettstown are gearing up for their golf season in the back yard...

Finding a Healthy Balance

- Friday, February 18, 2022

As Doctors of Chiropractic, our education is focused on the whole-body connection of health: the physical-emotional-psychological web. That means we learned early that it is impossible to treat the physical body without also addressing the emotional and psychological parts of health. In reflecting upon pandemic-influenced change over the past two...

Importance of Proper Posture and Getting Poor Posture Corrected

- Thursday, February 17, 2022

Your friends here at Village Family Chiropractic and Medical want to remind you that, as it pertains to good physical and mental health, the importance of good posture is foundationally important. It is widely known that a healthy lifestyle involves conscious and strategic management of diet, sleep, and exercise. However,...

Research Conclude Spinal Manipulation is Effective Treatment for Tension Headaches

- Friday, February 11, 2022

For many of us, stress manifests into many forms of headaches. Were you aware of the fact that tension headaches are one of the most common types of headaches, affecting about 90% of all headache sufferers? Likely, however, you are not aware of the fact that research shows spinal manipulation,...


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