How often have you heard that the best way to prevent lower back pain is to develop strong core abdominal muscles? Chances are you've even embarked upon your own crash course in "core strengthening" in order to minimize your struggles with back pain. Although the term core strengthening is now fairly universal, what's not so clear...
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The vision of success and victory are measured by the successes of not only receiving high marks but how consistently a team or program can achieve the high marks of success. As we cheer and stare in awe at our athletes we often look at the days well done performance without looking at all the...
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Are you ready to experience the great sleep you had as a child? Of course you are so read on to find out how you can set Mr. Sandman back on speed dial! Trouble Sleeping? If you have trouble getting quality sleep, rest assured you're not alone. “Rest assured” is probably a poor reference here…...
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Have you experienced sheer agony from just standing up? Walking has became labored and now avoided all together due to the immense pain that shoots down one leg or the other. Unfortunately, this description is far to common. Your condition is diagnosed most often as sciatica. It is managed by medication until the point...
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Ouch! Being pinched hurts, but to pinch a nerve? Ugh! That must feel like severe, intense pain – and it often does. “Pinched” nerves could happen anywhere in your spine; they can affect nerves that go to your arms, fingers, wrist, neck, back, shoulder, head, legs, muscles and internal organs, and can affect your general...
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Teenagers today are under a lot of pressure to be the best and in the world of sports that is the fastest and strongest. We have raised them in the fast food - fast everything era so they want to obtain all of that in the shortest time. The artificial edge of steroids and performance...
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Today everything comes with a label of ingredients and warnings. Although the warning labels are clear the ingredients most often can not even pronounced or spelled. The simple and safe rule of thumb that can easily be applied is that if you can not pronounce it do not eat it and try to only eat...
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The era of replace and buy new is in full swing and has swung so far to the right that we are now applying this principle to our health. In previous generations we understood the premise "built to last" and maintained the high quality of the product until it was past onto its next owner....
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Living a full out lifestyle of a career life stylist, as a weekend warrior, or professional athlete is challenging when an injury has occurred. We mask and push through the pain as long as possible. Most often we listen to our bodies only when the pain becomes to much to bear and that our range...
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As a chiropractor, we very often hear people talk in our office about "getting sick." I like to challenge their thoughts and suggest that it is really more of a case of us "doing sick." Sickness, disease, a cold or the flu are each far more related to what choices we make each day. Bad...
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