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, […]

Why is it so difficult to exercise? And what to do about it!   For even the most dedicated, the word “exercise” causes us to echo very familiar words:   “I know I should but….   Top three answers…and the survey says:   “I don’t have time.” “I don’t feel like it.” “I’m lazy.”   […]

New Year’s 2017   Happy New Year! Maybe because I’m getting older (notice I said “older” no “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, […]

Labor Day 2016   Back to school/back to work/back to routine (do we have to?)   I hope that everyone had a good summer. It went too fast, didn’t it? (It usually does!)   What does good health mean to you?   Do you want: To take care of that nagging pain that doesn’t seem […]

INFLAMMATION IS NOT JUST ABOUT PAIN! AND NEITHER IS CHIROPRACTIC!   Science is now focusing on the effects of inflammation on the function of organs in the body, not just on pain. They call it SIRS – systemic inflammatory response syndrome.   More dangerous than inflammation caused by an injury is what is known as […]