Chiropractic care is a life long endeavor. It can help new injuries and life long problems such as arthritis. Spinal hygiene should be as prominent in our life as dental hygiene. The articles in this section will deal with how chiropractors effect and improve our lives.
Odds of dying from dementia and brain deterioration was reduced with exercise. Just another reason to exercise. “Researchers assessed the health of more than 45,000 men and nearly 15,000 women, ages 20 to 88 years, in the United States and grouped them into one of three fitness categories — low, middle or high.” acording to http://health.msn.com. Just another example… Read More Quick Tip Exercise Helps With Dementia
“Nearly 33 percent of adults who saw a doctor in the previous year said they were told to exercise. That was up from about 23 percent in 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.” According to fox news today. This is good new since all chiropractors know that motion leads to health and happiness. Some important rules for new… Read More Quick Tip More Doctors Recommending Exercise
Should I pick ice or heat? Ice is almost always safe, where heat can cause more damage to the area of injury. If you have an ice allergy or major vascular problem you should consult your physician first. Heat on the other hand is a great pain reliever but it increases inflammation. In conditions such… Read More Quick Tip Ice or Heat
Stress and Your Senses How do you get stress and how does it effect your life? It is the flight or fight response and is controlled by the autonomic nervous system specifically the sympathetic side. Stress is counteracted by the parasympathetic nervous system. The stress response is caused when neurotransmitters are released from the sympathetic… Read More What stress is and how to manage It?
Six great exercises to rehabilitate, strengthen, and prevent injury of the shoulders. 1: Scapular Retraction: For this exercise, you will need elastic exercise material, such as Thera-band. Put the band around a solid object, at about waist level. Each hand should hold an end of the band. With your elbows at your sides and bent to 90… Read More Shoulder Exercises
Exercise mistakes are common, correct them before you injure yourself! Sixty percent of people who initiate an exercise program wind up injuring themselves in the first month, and if you are hurt you will never reach your fitness goals. Most people who start an exercise program either want to burn fat or build lean muscle mass.… Read More Exercise Mistakes: how to exercise
Is chiropractic safe during pregnancy? (Also View This Post) Chiropractic care has also been shown to improve the complications of pregnancy such as low back pain, leg pain, headaches, nausea, and breech presentation (using “Webster’s Technique”). Many family chiropractors have special equipment to accommodate pregnant patients all the way through their last trimester. After pregnancy… Read More Chiropractic: Pregnancy and Care
A technique for pregnant women. by ICPA Staff Writer You have seen the Webster’s Technique — that chiropractic technique to help pregnant mothers with breech babies — featured on The Learning Channel’s hit series “A Baby Story.” You have read about it in Mothering magazine and Midwifery Today. You have seen it on the Internet.… Read More The Webster Technique
Scoliosis is not a disease it is a descriptive term that refers to an abnormal spinal curve. All spines have curves these are normal in the neck, upper back and lower back it is normal to find anterior to posterior curves. Humans need these spinal curves to help the upper body maintain proper balance and… Read More What is Scoliosis? Treatment for scoliosis.
What is sciatica? Sciatica is a set of symptoms and not the disease itself. If you have some or all of the following symptoms you may have sciatica. These symptoms include leg pain associated with numbness, tingling, and weakness but the pain id coming from the nerve and it is a nerve pain. Sciatica is caused by pressure on nerves located in the lumbar spine… Read More Chiropractic: What is sciatica and sciatica treatment?
Low back pain with pain radiating into the legs is one of the most common injuries in the United States. Many of the patients with these symptoms along with lower extremity weakness may have a herniated disc. Herniated discs are also called protruding, bulging, ruptured, prolapsed, slipped, or degenerated discs. A disc herniation occurs when… Read More Herniated Disc: About back pain and how to treat it.
What is the natural approach to treating headaches? Prescription and over the counter drugs are one of the number one treatments for headaches. These treatments fro a headache just mask the symptoms they do not treat them. There is a better way of treating headaches and migraines and it is the natural approach. The natural… Read More What is a Headache or a Migraine and Treatments?
syndrome affects 3-6 million people in the United States and is chronic disorder which includes widespread muscle pain, fatigue, and multiple tender points. Fibromyalgia is associated with long-term pain and tenderness in the joints, muscles, tendons, and other soft tissue, often spread throughout the entire body, and can be associated with chronic fatigue syndrome. Fibromyalgia… Read More Fibromyalgia what is it and how to treat it?
Neck pain affects millions of Americans and if you have ever woken up with a kink in your neck, suffered a whiplash injury, experienced chronic neck stiffness, felt popping and crackling whenever you move your neck around or suffer with chronic nagging pain in your neck that travels up into the back of your head,… Read More Pain relief and how to treat neck pain
Lasers are all around us today. They can be found in supermarket scanners and compact disc players. They can measure the distance from the Earth to the moon within a millimeter and repair your vision with just one treatment. They can cut steel, produce three-dimensional images and transmit telephone messages around the world. Lasers were… Read More Low Level Laser Therapy: The Healing Power
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