Our musculoskeletal system is made up of all of our bones and muscles, working together to help us stand and move. Our muscles are either postural, phasic, or a mix of both. Postural muscles brace your posture as gravity pulls down on it. They have slow-twitch muscle fibers and are made for continued work and …
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Using Chiropractic Care to Fight the Opioid Crisis
Opioid abuse in the U.S. has become an epidemic that affects everyone. In most cities, overdose deaths are a daily occurrence with 68% of the 70,200 drug overdose deaths in 2017 caused by opioids, according to the CDC. New Hampshire, which ranks 42nd in population, is in the top 5 for opioid-related deaths, prompting the …
October is National Chiropractic Health Month!
Our bodies are like complex machines, each part working together for one purpose: Movement. Each organ, each bone, each muscle, a cog in the machine, necessary to keep us going. (Except maybe the appendix.) Some cogs work to convert food into fuel, some to move oxygen to our cells, some do the actual work of …
Chiropractic Care for Seniors
Chiropractic care isn’t only for pain management or lack of mobility due to an illness or injury, it can also be an important tool for preventative care. This is particularly true for seniors. At a time when body parts begin to show signs of wear such as degeneration of disks in the spine, spinal adjustments …
Bad Posture is More Harmful Than You Think
When you were young, your mom told you to sit up straight and not slouch. She may have even tried to teach you proper posture by walking with a book on your head. As much as you may not want to admit it, your mom was right. Good posture not only makes you look better, …
Arthritis Pain and Chiropractic Care
Arthritis isn’t a single disease, it’s an umbrella term for joint pain and disease that consists of more than 100 different types. Arthritis mainly affects joints but there are types that affect some surprising areas of the body including the ear, eyes, lungs, kidneys, and skin. More than 50 million adults suffer from arthritis in …
Common Sports Injuries in Adults
When you were a kid playing sports, your body could handle anything. Practices that lasted for hours, falling off your skateboard and skinning your knees, touch football tackles, and kinds of bumps and bruises; you took it all and went back to it the next day. As an adult, it’s not so easy. Even with …
Auto Accident Injuries: Concussions
Automobile accidents, even at low speeds, can result in many different injuries to the body, and one of the most common and potentially most serious is a head injury. Your brain is a fragile organ that sits within your skull protected by cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid acts as a cushion for the brain in case …
Headaches: A Chiropractic Approach
We live in a hectic, stress-filled, fast-paced world. It’s no wonder that so many people suffer from headaches regularly. Their intensity can vary from person to person and for some, they’re merely an inconvenience, while for others, they’re downright debilitating. Often people don’t consider the root cause of the headache; they merely pop some aspirin …
What is a “Slipped Disc”?
A “slipped disc” is a common term for a ruptured or herniated disc which is a problem in the spine that most commonly occurs as the body ages. It can be slight or severe, it can be extremely painful and you may not even know when it occurred. How Discs Work The spine is made …
