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Monsalve Integrative Health We strive to help our patients get well using natural means. Functional Medicine and/or Chiropractic care. Contact us today to book an appointment!

Monsalve Integrative Chiropractic is a local chiropractic care clinic serving patients in the Miami area. We strive to provide effective natural treatments to some of the world's most common yet most troublesome health issues. Not only will you receive a proper and individualized treatment plan that includes chiropractic care, exercise, muscular re-education, and functional medicine, but you will also be provided with the necessary home recommendations in order to improve your quality of life.

Did you know that a pinched nerve in your neck can send pain all the way down to your fingers?That's cervical radiculopa...
09/22/2026

Did you know that a pinched nerve in your neck can send pain all the way down to your fingers?

That's cervical radiculopathy — and it's more common than most people realize.

In this carousel, we break down:
📍 What cervical radiculopathy actually is
📍 The most common causes (it's not always a disc)
📍 Where you actually feel the symptoms (hint: it's not just neck pain)
📍 How we tell it apart from other conditions
📍 How we diagnose and treat it without surgery

The bottom line: not all arm pain is the same — and not everyone needs an MRI or a scalpel to find relief.

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Monsalve Integrative Health
📍 6705 SW 57th Ave, Suite 702, Miami FL 33143
📞 (305) 209-4731
🌐 monsalvehealth.com

What We Learned This Week 🔬 🏥 Conservative Care Rivals Surgery for Cervical Radiculopathy — New research shows chiroprac...
09/18/2026

What We Learned This Week 🔬

🏥 Conservative Care Rivals Surgery for Cervical Radiculopathy — New research shows chiropractic and physical therapy match surgical outcomes for pinched nerves in the neck. Your spine deserves the least invasive path first.

🧠 Could a Food Sensitivity Diet Quiet Your Migraines? — A 2026 IgG elimination diet study found significant migraine reduction linked to gut health. What you eat might be triggering your next headache.

🧬 Your Family Tree Just Got a Rewrite — Scientists are redrawing the human family tree with ancient DNA. Amazing stuff — and a reminder that your body's story is more complex than we knew.

📲 Follow Monsalve Integrative Health for weekly health news breakdowns — making sense of the latest research so you don't have to.

I hear this one all the time: "If I see a chiropractor once, I'll have to keep going forever."No — but most people *choo...
09/16/2026

I hear this one all the time: "If I see a chiropractor once, I'll have to keep going forever."

No — but most people *choose* to keep coming. Here's why.

Maintenance chiropractic care is like going to the gym. You don't HAVE to go forever. But you keep going because you want to maintain the results. Small issues get caught before they become big problems.

You're in control. Always.

📍 6705 SW 57th Ave, Suite 702, Miami FL 33143
📞 (305) 209-4731
🌐 monsalvehealth.com

Thinking surgery is your only option for a bulging or herniated disc? Think again 🧠Spinal decompression is a non-surgica...
09/15/2026

Thinking surgery is your only option for a bulging or herniated disc? Think again 🧠

Spinal decompression is a non-surgical, evidence-backed approach that creates space between vertebrae, taking pressure off nerves and promoting natural healing.

Swipe through to see what it is, who it helps, and how it stacks up against surgery 👉

📍 Monsalve Integrative Health
📞 (305) 209-4731
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What We Learned This Week 🔬Three fascinating stories from the research world:1️⃣ Your Family Tree Just Got a RewriteMona...
09/11/2026

What We Learned This Week 🔬

Three fascinating stories from the research world:

1️⃣ Your Family Tree Just Got a Rewrite
Monash University researcher Dr. Ian Towle proposes expanding the Homo genus to include Lucy (Australopithecus) and other early hominins. If adopted, Lucy becomes Homo afarensis — and our evolutionary tree gets a major redraw. (General Science News)

2️⃣ Garlic & Cardiovascular Risk: 108 Trials
The largest meta-analysis yet (7,137 participants) confirms garlic supplementation significantly improves cholesterol, blood pressure, blood glucose, inflammation, and oxidative stress — especially in those with elevated baseline risk. Dose: 600-1200mg daily for 8-12 weeks. (Health News Review)

3️⃣ What Is a Transitional Segment?
About 1 in 8 people have this spinal variation where L5 and S1 don’t develop normally. Most never have symptoms, but when it causes pain (Bertolotti syndrome), it’s treatable with conservative care first. (Chiropractic)

Read the full articles on our website and stay curious.

Monsalve Integrative Health
📍 6705 SW 57th Ave, Suite 702, Miami FL 33143
📞 (305) 209-4731
🌐 monsalvehealth.com

Behind the PracticeYou're not a collection of symptoms. You're a whole person.That's not marketing fluff — it's how I ac...
09/10/2026

Behind the Practice

You're not a collection of symptoms. You're a whole person.

That's not marketing fluff — it's how I actually practice.

Before I adjust, I sit down and listen. I want to know what brought you in, yes. But I also want to know what else is going on — your sleep, your stress, your history, what you've tried before, what you're afraid might be wrong.

Every new patient hears these three questions:

1️⃣ "What have you had to stop or alter because of this?"
2️⃣ "What other treatment have you tried prior to seeing me?"
3️⃣ "What would you consider to be an achievable goal?"

The answers tell me more than any scan could. They tell me whether this is an acute issue or a decades-old pattern. Whether you've been dismissed before. Whether you're looking for relief or for someone to actually figure it out.

I don't treat spines. I treat people who happen to have spines.

Your head weighs 10–12 lbs. Tilt it forward to check your phone, and suddenly your neck is supporting 60 lbs.Here's what...
09/10/2026

Your head weighs 10–12 lbs. Tilt it forward to check your phone, and suddenly your neck is supporting 60 lbs.

Here's what's happening to your spine. 🧵👇

Your neutral spine is designed to support your head directly above your shoulders — about 10-12 lbs. But for every inch your head shifts forward, the load on your cervical spine increases by ~10 lbs.

At a 60° angle (typical phone use), your neck is supporting 60 lbs.

The consequences? Forward head posture causes chronic tension headaches, neck & shoulder pain, disc compression over time, reduced lung capacity, and jaw pain/TMJ issues.

Good news: it's reversible.

Simple fixes — raise your phone to eye level, chin tucks (5 reps / hold 5 sec, hourly), the 20-20-20 rule, and strengthening your upper back.

We can help — postural assessment, spinal adjustments, ergonomic coaching, and exercises to reverse forward head posture.

📍 6705 SW 57th Ave, Suite 702 — Miami, FL 33143
📞 (305) 209-4731
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What We Learned This Week 🧠📚This week's top blog insights, spanning chiropractic, health news, and general science:🦴 Chi...
09/10/2026

What We Learned This Week 🧠📚

This week's top blog insights, spanning chiropractic, health news, and general science:

🦴 Chiropractic + Ergonomic Training beats training alone — A new RCT in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine found that adding chiropractic care to standard ergonomic training significantly reduced neck pain in industrial workers. Just 4 weeks made a real difference.

🧬 HRT and dementia: it's personal — The largest study ever (183,450 women, 13 years) showed HRT users had 16% lower Alzheimer's risk. The benefit was even stronger for women with surgical menopause (26% lower risk) and APOE4 carriers. Timing and biology matter.

🦧Animal genomes follow evolutionary highways — Scientists mapped 5,821 genomes across 4,454 species and found chromosome evolution isn't random. It follows irreversible one-way paths. Even our DNA has rules.

Which insight surprised you most?

Monsalve Integrative Health
📍 6705 SW 57th Ave, Suite 702
Miami, FL 33143
📞 (305) 209-4731
🌐 monsalvehealth.com

Myth: Chiropractic manipulation is dangerous. ❌The evidence says otherwise. Chiropractic manipulation has one of the low...
09/10/2026

Myth: Chiropractic manipulation is dangerous. ❌

The evidence says otherwise. Chiropractic manipulation has one of the lowest complication rates of any non-invasive treatment — safer than common painkillers or anti-inflammatory medications.

Sources: Swait & Finch, BMJ Open 2016

It's not about "cracking backs."A chiropractic adjustment is a precise, targeted motion that restores movement to a stuc...
09/10/2026

It's not about "cracking backs."

A chiropractic adjustment is a precise, targeted motion that restores movement to a stuck joint. That's it. Simple intervention, mechanical problem.

No two patients get the same adjustment — because no two bodies are the same. We assess what's actually going on, then build a plan that fits.

Swipe through to see how we think about it 👉

Monsalve Integrative Health
📍 6705 SW 57th Ave, Suite 702, Miami FL 33143
📞 (305) 209-4731
🌐 monsalvehealth.com

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6705 SW 57th Avenue, Ste 702
Coral Gables, FL
33143

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 1pm
3pm - 7pm
Thursday 10am - 1pm
3pm - 7pm
Friday 10am - 2pm
Saturday 10am - 2pm

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