Everyone knows the importance of eating healthy, whole foods to improve your overall physical and mental health. But did you know there are specific foods you can eat than can target your spine, giving it the foods it needs to be healthy and strong? Salmon Salmon has a lot of Omega-3 that helps fight …
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When Do Most Auto Fatal Accidents Occur?
During the winter, much of the country’s drivers are forced to contend with winter storms, snow, fog, and ice. Add to that the fact that days get shorter and visibility gets poorer and it’s probably safe to assume that most fatal accidents occur during the winter months. Think again. Time of Day Matters Not …
Causes of Back Pain in Women
As anyone who’s experienced back pain knows, the pain can be severe, it can be chronic, and can greatly reduce your quality of life. Back pain can vary in its severity and can have lots of causes like injury, degeneration, and muscle strain. For women, back pain is not only caused by the same …
Using Cryotherapy to Treat Muscle Spasms
When you hear the word “cryotherapy”, you may have an image of a Dr. Frankenstein-type laboratory with a mad scientist performing questionable medical tests on unsuspecting patients. Cryotherapy is not that. Quite simply, cryotherapy is the use of ice or freezing temperatures to relieve pain. When Cryotherapy Is Used When we get an injury, the …
Auto Accident? Your Chiropractor Can Help.
It makes sense that the faster a car is traveling when it gets into an accident, the more severe the injuries but serious injuries can occur even at slow speeds. Most injuries occur when a vehicle is going under 12 MPH and are often soft tissue injuries. Even if there is no damage to your …
Fighting Opioid Abuse With Alternatives to Drugs
When we hear statistics about drug overdose deaths, such as there were 69,029 drug overdoses resulting in death during a one-year period ending in February 2019, we brush it off as something that happens to people on the fringe of society, those who do drugs like heroin or meth. It’s easy to put it off …
Tips for Staying Healthy During Social Distancing
During this difficult time of the coronavirus pandemic, life has been completely altered. Many people are forced to work from home or worse, have lost their jobs altogether. For everyone, everyday life has changed, from the way we shop for necessities to the way we try to stay active and healthy. Gyms, parks, and beaches …
Immune System Basics
One of the many things we’ve learned in recent months with the rapid spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19, is how vital a strong immune system is and how even a healthy one can have difficulty fighting off viruses and disease. The Immune System The immune system is a group of cells, tissues, and organs that …
Why We Feel Pain
Pain is a good thing. Quite simply, it’s a message from your brain telling you that something is wrong. If your brain wasn’t warning you that you’d been injured, you wouldn’t know it and the injury could get worse. Pain tells you to stop what you’re doing immediately because it’s harming you. It’s also about …
Chiropractic Care for Rotator Cuff Injuries
Shoulder pain is a common pain for many adults in the U.S., often caused by tears or injuries to the rotator cuff. The rotator cuff is a group of muscles and tendons that surround the shoulder that gives the shoulder its wide range of motion and gives the shoulder its stability. The rotator cuff tendon …
