Walk into almost any professional locker room today and you will likely find a chiropractor on the sports medicine team. A 2002 survey published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics found that 31% of NFL teams had a chiropractor on staff and 77% of head athletic trainers had referred players to one. Industry reports since then indicate that all 32 NFL teams now include a chiropractor, along with nearly every NHL and MLB team.
You do not need a pro contract to benefit from the same approach. At Monitto Chiropractic in Asheville, Dr. Paul Monitto brings more than 40 years of experience to runners, cyclists, weekend warriors, and competitive athletes across Western North Carolina who want to move better, recover faster, and stay in the game.
Look around any coffee shop, waiting room, or checkout line in Asheville and you will see the same silhouette repeated: head down, chin tucked toward the chest, shoulders rolled forward, eyes fixed on a screen held somewhere near the belt line. It has become the default posture of modern life, and our necks are paying for it.
Studies place daily smartphone time for American adults between four and five hours, with total screen time across all devices near seven hours a day. A 2025 systematic review and meta-analysis found a pooled tech neck syndrome prevalence of 60.8 percent among university students, and surveys of general smartphone users report neck pain in more than 60 percent of respondents. This is not a fringe complaint. It is a postural pattern reshaping cervical spines across every age group.
The encouraging news is that forward head posture is a mechanical problem, and mechanical problems respond to mechanical solutions.
Patients who come to Monitto Chiropractic in Asheville often ask about the science behind Y-Strap adjustment. Dr. Paul Monitto is one of only four practitioners in the United States trained to perform authentic Y-Strap decompression, having learned the technique directly from Dr. Joseph Cipriano. This article looks into the physics of decompression, the biomechanics of an axial pull, what the research on spinal decompression tells us, and why the direction of force matters so much.
When you go from a sedentary winter to a sudden surge of summer movement, your back, hips, and shoulders feel the difference. A healthy, well-aligned spine is the foundation of staying active and pain free all summer long. At Monitto Chiropractic in Asheville, we help active people of every age move better, recover faster, and prevent the injuries that cut a great summer short. Below, we look at how summer activities affect your spine and how proactive chiropractic care keeps you on the trail instead of on the couch.
If you have ever experienced the sharp, burning pain that shoots from your lower back down through your leg, you already know that sciatica can turn the simplest daily tasks into painful ordeals. Sitting at your desk, standing in a grocery line, or even rolling over in bed can trigger waves of discomfort that leave you desperately searching for relief.
For many sciatica sufferers, the path to lasting comfort has been frustrating. Medications dull the pain temporarily. Injections offer short windows of relief before symptoms return. That cycle of temporary fixes is exactly why a growing number of patients are seeking out specialized chiropractic sciatica treatment, and specifically, Y-Strap decompression for lower back sciatica.