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Wellness vs. Medical Care
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About Chiropractic Care, What is Chiropractic
What's the main difference between wellness care and standard medical care? Wellness care seeks to turn on the natural healing ability, not by adding something to the system, but by removing anything that might interfere with normal function, trusting that the body would know what to do if nothing were
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What Are Neck Spasms and Why Do They Occur?
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Are you wondering why you have painful neck spasms?
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What Chiropractic Care Can Do for Older Patients
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Would you like to avoid aches and pains as you age? Chiropractic care can help.
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What Do Lab Tests Really Mean?
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Newsletter Library, Wellness
You're at the doctor's office because you think something might be wrong. Rationally, you know tests are probably necessary, but getting the tests done sometimes provokes a lot of anxiety in all of us. We want to know the results, but are very concerned about the outcome."You need blood work" your doctor
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What Is TMJ Syndrome and How Can Chiropractic Help?
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Can chiropractic, which corrects the spine, really affect the pain occurring from TMJ? Read on to learn more.
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What Should I Do About My Pain?
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Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
No one really wants to be a worrier. We certainly don't want to visit our chiropractor or family doctor for every ache and pain. But eventually we all experience physical problems and it may be difficult to know what to do about them. Some problems are immediate and serious. If you suddenly experience
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What Should I Do for a Herniated Disc?
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Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
Herniated discs in the lumbar spine are fairly common and having one doesn’t sentence you to a lifetime of back problems. In fact, at least one-third of people over age 30 are found to have one or more herniated discs in the lower back when a magnetic resonance imaging study (MRI) is done for reasons
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What is Flexion-Distraction Therapy?
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Looking for a drug-free way to relieve your pain? Flexion-distraction therapy may offer the ideal solution.
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What's An Adjustment?
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About Chiropractic Care, What is Chiropractic
The primary focus of chiropractic is simply to adjust the spine and remove those things which interfere with the body's natural normal healing ability.
Spinal adjustments to correct subluxations are what make chiropractic professionals unique in comparison with any other type of health care professional.
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What's Wrong with My Back?
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Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
Not all back problems are created equal. One person may have been working on a home improvement project and injured her back while simultaneously bending and twisting. Another person may have developed back pain as a result of a vehicular collision. Another person may be experiencing back pain as a result
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What's Your Sign?
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Newsletter Library, Wellness
"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." This truism is well-known in human potential circles and can often be heard at personal growth-and-development seminars. But the implications of this meaningful phrase are often ignored in our day-to-day activities and relationships. Sometimes
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What's the Problem with Stress?
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Newsletter Library, Stress & Anxiety
We live in stressful times. The economy is tough, global conflicts rage, severe weather events are affecting people in every corner of the globe, and our numerous technological devices don't seem to be making things any easier. Of course, this is nothing new. Every generation thinks theirs is the best
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When Are Simple Headaches Not So Simple?
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Newsletter Library, Chronic Conditions
Headaches are big business. For the drug companies, that is. Approximately 10 million Americans suffer daily headaches, and 50 million have headaches often enough to seek medical care. Approximately 23 million Americans suffer from migraines. Billions of dollars are spent each year on Aleve and Motrin
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Exercisers
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Newsletter Library, Injury Rehab & Prevention
"There I am," a very fit patient is saying, "out on my five-mile run, motoring my way up a steep incline. Suddenly, I feel a throbbing pain in the middle of my right shin. Oh, no, I think, not again." As things turned out, the patient recovered from the shin splints1 quickly, but he knew he'd dodged
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When Is Back Pain More Than Back Pain?
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Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
Out of the blue, your back starts to hurt. At first, it's just an annoyance. You can live with it. You've had lower back pain before and it went away on its own. Now it's a few weeks later. You've got a low-grade pain that's not getting any better. You're actually worse, in fact, because your back
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When Parents Get Older
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Newsletter Library, Senior Health
The average age of Americans is increasing year-by-year. Approximately 77 million babies were born in the United States during the boom years of 1946 to 1964. In 2011, the oldest will turn 65, and on average can expect to live to 83. Many will continue well into their 90s. Most people continue to retain
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When Your Spine Is In Line
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Good spinal alignment means good biomechanical health. Essentially, your spine is the biomechanical center of your body. Your legs are connected to your spine via two large and strong pelvic bones. Your arms are connected to your spine via your shoulder blades, ribs, and numerous strong muscles and ligaments.
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When the Cure Is Worse than the Disease
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Newsletter Library, Chronic Conditions
Chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes have increasingly high prevalence in world populations.1 Such prevalence is rising despite extensive use of prescription medications. Problematically, many people have two or more concurrent chronic disorders and are taking multiple medications. But
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Whiplash
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Common Conditions Treated, Auto Accident Injuries
The term "whiplash" was first used in 1928 to define an injury mechanism of sudden hyperextension followed by an immediate hyperflexion of the neck that results in damage to the muscles, ligaments and tendons - especially those that support the head. Today, we know that whiplash injuries frequently do
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Whiplash - Getting Well Naturally
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Newsletter Library, Injury Rehab & Prevention
You're driving to work and stop for a red light. You're minding your own business and - bam! - your car rocks forward and backward, slammed in the rear by another car driven by some guy yakking on his cell phone. Or you're a passenger in a New York City taxi. The driver's cruising down Fifth Avenue when
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Why Are Super Foods So Super?
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Newsletter Library, Nutrition & Healthy Eating
In recent years, media pundits around the world have proclaimed the extraordinary value of so-called super foods. Blueberries, broccoli, and especially kale have been described as possessing remarkable, almost magical, properties. What is it about these foods that makes them so good for you?
From a
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Why Do My Knees Hurt?
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Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
It seems that as they get older, many people expect their knees to give out. Osteoarthritis of the knee is, in fact, common in those over age 50 and knee arthroscopy is one of the most frequently done orthopedic surgeries.1 Also, increasing numbers of people are undergoing total knee replacements. The
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Why Movement is Important for Healing Injuries
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Do you want to get back to normal faster after an injury? Get moving!
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Why You Should Receive Chiropractic Care After an Auto Accident
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Has a motor vehicle accident left you in pain? Chiropractic treatment will relieve your pain and other symptoms naturally.
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Why an Inactive Lifestyle Isn’t Good For You
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Do you exercise enough? You may be at risk of developing these health conditions if you lead a sedentary lifestyle.
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Wildfire Inside of You
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Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
Comparisons between the inner world and the outer world have been frequently drawn by philosophers, nature writers, and visual artists. For example, "seeing the universe in a grain of sand" is a well-known aphorism. The number of neurons in your brain has been compared to the number of stars in the Milky
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Will Chiropractic Relieve Your Tendonitis?
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Newsletter Library, Chronic Conditions
Are you tired of living with tendonitis? Chiropractic can help reduce pain and stiffness.
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Will You be Coming?
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Newsletter Library, Wellness
An old cliche for getting to know someone in a new social situation entails asking, "What's your sign?" The notion, of course, is that a simple identifier such as astrological sign would provide grounding for a potential relationship - romance, friendship, or even a new bowling partner. As there are
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Winter Activities that Can Cause Pain and How to Prevent It
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Do you know how to avoid winter aches and pains?
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Working from Home and Chiropractic Care: How to Stay Healthy
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Suffering from work-at-home aches and pain? Chiropractic care relieves your pain naturally.
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Wrist Metabolism Monitor
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Exercise
If you are a gadget junkie, a professional athlete or just like to have the most advanced new technology, you'll want the Suunto t6. It is a wristwatch that calculates your heart rate, energy consumption, ventilation, oxygen consumption (VO2), respiratory rate, Training Effect and EPOC (Excess Post-Exercise
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Yellow Light Go Very Fast
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Newsletter Library, Pregnancy & Parenting
In a classic scene in the classic 1984 movie Starman, the extraterrestrial Jeff Bridges tells the human Karen Allen that, yes, he does know how to drive. Starman has just blasted through a traffic light changing to red, other vehicles crashing in his wake. Jenny Hayden, his protector, is screaming at
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Yoda and Yoga
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Newsletter Library, Healthy Tips
In the film classic "The Empire Strikes Back," the iconic Jedi master Yoda inscrutably refers to "the Force" during training sessions with his disciple, Luke Skywalker. Yoda informs Luke that he "must feel the Force around you." Yoda himself is frequently seen assuming what may only be described as intergalactic
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Yoga - The New Fitness
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Newsletter Library, Exercise & Fitness
Every five years or so a new fitness craze sweeps through the culture. Television news anchors blather on about the latest, greatest exercise programs. Newspapers and magazines publish features in their Sunday sections, filled with pictures of glistening, glowing, glamorous celebrities hard at work on
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Yoga, Cardio, or Strength Training?
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Newsletter Library, Exercise & Fitness
Which type of exercise is right for me? Is lifting weights going to give me the best result? Maybe I should concentrate on running - that will really help to strengthen my heart. What about yoga - everyone says yoga is good for flexibility. All of us, at one point or another, have had these conversations
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