Category: Chiropractic and your health

Memorial Day, 2020….it’s been a while since I’ve posted to my site and looking back at previous posts brings home how much our world has changed. There are so many things that I would like to share with you based upon what I have learned over these past months, strategies that have helped me cope […]

The Invisible Health Condition Behind Everything From Heart Disease To Dementia The scary thing is, you can’t see it or feel it—but it might be hurting every part of your body It’s called chronic inflammation and, like Chiropractic, it’s not just about pain! Scan the obits and you’ll see the usual suspects listed as causes […]

One Minute per Day for a More Stable Lower Back! I am frequently asked for lower back exercises and, inevitably, patients do not do the exercises for several reasons: They take too long Patients are afraid of hurting themselves Patients are unsure of how to do the exercises My One Minute Exercises are certainly not […]

LABOR DAY 2019 Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer (despite the latest heat wave!) and back to work, back to school, which means BACK TO STRESS! (though for many of us, the stress never left!) For those of you old enough to remember, there was an aspirin commercial years ago with the tag line, […]

Happy Groundhog Day! Ok, how many of you are saying right now, “I love that movie!” How many of you are also saying that Life feels like “Groundhog Day,” where every day is the same, especially the same aches and pains that you wake up to, except that Cher is not singing “I Got You […]

Let’s Talk About Posture!   I know, I hear you, “yeah, yeah, sit up and stand up straight.” Poor posture leads to slow, long term damage to your body, WITHOUT PAIN, until that “it just happened” moment. The same happens with tooth decay, arthritis, diabetes, PINCHED NERVES. We all know what to do! Head up, […]

New Year’s 2018 Happy New Year! Maybe because I’m getting older (notice I said “older” not “old!”) but Life seems to pass by more quickly each year. Each year we become so busy with the mechanics of life that we forget how to live. Each year we sit down and try to make goals, plans, […]

December 1, 2017   The New Year is a month away. It is traditionally a time for “resolutions,” most of which concern health.   “I want to lose weight, exercise and get healthy.” The number one usually is weight loss.   Good start. However, statistically, 80% of resolutions fail by February.   “Health is the […]

You KNOW You Need to Exercise and Eat Well, But WHY Don’t You?   “IT’S SO HARD!”   In a new study from the Atlantic:   13 percent of all people were nonsmoking, active, healthy eaters.   The average American man has a body mass index just barely under the medical definition of OBESE.  In a 2013 […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHIROPRACTIC! On September 18, 1895, Chiropractic was born in a very unusual manner, since today it is associated with neck pain, back pain, headaches, numbness and tingling. How about deafness? Here is a quote from the first chiropractic patient, Harvey Lillard: “I was deaf 17 years and I expected to always remain so, […]