The RXN Performance Blog
Honest writing on chiropractic care, movement, injury recovery, and performance for active adults. Written by Dr. Ryan Giniel, D.C.
Hinge From Your Core, Not Your Back: A Lifter’s Guide
Learn how to hinge from your core instead of your back — the single biggest fix for lifters with lower back pain. Step-by-step guide from a Dallas sports chiropractor.
Rucking Benefits and Injuries: A Chiropractor’s Guide
Rucking benefits, common rucking injuries (lower back, hip, knee), and how to train around them without breaking down. Dallas sports chiropractic guide from RXN Performance.
Hyrox Training Injuries: A Dallas Chiropractor’s Guide
Common Hyrox injuries — lower back, knee, grip/elbow, and shoulder — with a Dallas sports chiropractor’s guide to training around them and getting to race day healthy.
Why ‘Traditional’ Chiropractic Doesn’t Fix the Problem (And What Actually Does)
If you’ve ever seen a chiropractor for back pain, knee pain, or any recurring musculoskeletal issue and thought “that helped for a few days, but the pain always comes back” — you’re not doing anything wrong. You’re running into the limits of a specific model of care that dominates most chiropractic offices in the US. […]
How to Sleep With Back Pain: The Positions, Pillows, and Fixes That Actually Work
If you have back pain, the eight hours you spend sleeping are either healing you or making it worse. Most people never think about this because sleep is passive. But the position your body holds for a third of every day has a huge impact on what your back feels like when you wake up […]
Pickleball Knee Pain: What’s Really Going On (and How to Fix It)
Pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in the country, and it has quietly become one of the biggest drivers of new knee-pain cases we see at RXN Performance in Uptown Dallas. If you’ve picked up a paddle in the last couple of years and your knee is now paying for it, you’re not alone — and […]
Runner’s Knee: What’s Actually Causing It and How to Fix It (From a Dallas Sports Chiro)
Runner’s knee is one of the most common and most misunderstood injuries in the endurance world. The classic advice — rest, ice, foam roll your IT band, stretch your quads — helps some people, sometimes, for a while. It rarely resolves the actual problem, because it doesn’t address what’s actually driving the pain. Here’s the […]
Pre-Workout Routine for Back Pain: 10 Minutes That Actually Prevent Flare-Ups
If you have chronic or intermittent lower back pain and you still train, you probably already know that the difference between a good session and a bad flare-up often comes down to what you did in the 10 minutes before you touched a weight. What most people don’t know is which 10 minutes actually matter. […]
Hip Mobility for Lifters: The Drills That Actually Matter
If you lift, your hips are the single most important joint you need to keep mobile. More important than shoulders. More important than the thoracic spine. Not because they’re the most restricted (they usually are, but that’s a different story) — but because when your hips can’t do their job, your lumbar spine and your […]
Running With Sciatica: When It’s OK, When It’s Not, and How to Actually Fix It
Sciatica is one of the more misunderstood diagnoses in the running world. Some runners are told to stop running entirely and rest until it goes away. Others are told to push through because “it’s just a nerve thing.” Both are usually wrong. The honest answer is more nuanced — and depends heavily on what’s actually […]