• back pain - birth - discomfort - headaches - massage - normal birth - pregnancy - pregnancy care - pregnant - webster technique - wellness

    Caring for Moms to Be

    August 1, 2012 - By 

    Preparing for your new bundle of joy is full of challenges. From making decisions on caring for your new little one, to preparing your home for a baby and caring for yourself to boot there is a lot to consider. During pregnancy many women experience a host of symptoms like nausea, low energy and towards the second half of the pregnancy a lot of discomfort. Pregnancy comes with a whole bunch of new hormones each with important goals to promote growth of the baby and prepare the mother’s body for birth. Many Chiropractors and pregnant women are quite familiar with…

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    Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

    June 27, 2011 - By 

    Think shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, hips, knees, ankles, and feet, these are your extremities and in the summer injuries to them can be pretty common. Often these injuries happen because we’re so much more active; gardening, walking, summer athletics, fishing and water skiing. We can sometimes over work ourselves causing simple aches and pains or even worse, injury. It’s all too common for me to hear the phrase “you can fix that?” as if chiropractors only “crack” the spine to treat back pain. Actually if it’s a joint, muscle, or nerve we can certainly address it and often get great…

  • chiropractic - flu - health - illness - immune system - immunity - vaccination - wellness

    Chiropractic and Your Immune System

    September 27, 2010 - By 

    How about a little natural immune boost. Since its inception, chiropractic has maintained that viruses and microbes don’t threaten us all equally and that a healthy immune system easily repels most invaders. The immune system protects us from the flu, as well as any other infectious disease, and strives to get us well again when we do fall ill. Our immune system, like every other system in the body, is coordinated and controlled by the nervous system. For proper function the immune system must receive the correct signals from the brain through the nervous system. Spinal misalignments called vertebral subluxation…

  • ALA - chiropractic - DHA - EPA - health - nutrition - omega-3 - omega-6 - omega-9 - omegas - supplements - vitamins - wellness

    High Quality Fish Oils and Your Health

    August 10, 2010 - By 

    With all the recent research on the importance of fish oils in heart and brain health every health food store, grocery store and big box store carries what they call the “highest quality fish oils.” But what makes fish oil high quality and what should one look for when purchasing a fish oil to improve their health? First off let’s get a little background on omega fatty acids. There are 3 types of omega fatty acids, Omega 3’s (n-3), Omega 6’s (n-6), and Omega 9’s (n-9) many fish oil supplements will list these or a variation of these on the…

  • chiropractic - health - innate - medicine - wellness

    War and Peace

    May 25, 2010 - By 

    Yes a very odd topic for a blog on health and wellness, I understand this, however I came across this quote today and was absolutely inspired. Now I must admit I’ve never read the book War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy but now it is officially on my list of books to read (although I fear that if I expect it to be full of these same inspiring quotes I so easily align with I may be disappointed). Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it…

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    In Honor of Earth Day!

    April 22, 2010 - By 

    So I was thinking about earth day and then again about my garden I’m about to start planting and thought what better way to celebrate Earth Day than to write about organic gardening! Its safe to say that growing your own vegetables is easy on the pocket book, but what about the health and environmental benefits of a victory garden of your very own? A chemical free garden would be the healthiest and most environmental friendly alternative to grocery produce but in today’s world of chemical for this and another for that how easy it that to achieve? It’s possible!…

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    Happy Feet!

    April 12, 2010 - By 

    With summer upon us and all the wonderful ways to get active our feet can really take a beating. Because our feet are the foundation of our every step it’s important that we support them well. Pain in the arches, heals and ball of your feet as well as in our calves can be a sign that we’re not supporting our feet properly. Here are some easy steps to make sure our feet are well supported. — Wear good shoes! Shoes could be flexible with support for our arches and cushion for the heal and ball of the foot. —…

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    Welcome

    March 11, 2010 - By 

    A blog about health and life, at least that’s my goal, to help my readers better achieve health.  Webster’s dictionary defines health as the condition of being sound in body, mind or spirit.  I think that’s pretty accurate, although I would have to include that health is a journey and not simply a snapshot in time but Mr. Webster and I can disagree.  So what brought me to Chiropractic?  Let’s just say in a long series of events I came to realize I was meant to help, teach and interact with people and when I finally realized Chiropractic would allow…