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Dealing with Arthritis
Category: Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
We've all seen the TV ads ─ nice-looking woman in her fifties, sitting on a nice sofa in a nice living room, rubbing her hands, in obvious pain. Of course, she's not Lady Macbeth, trying to rub off the imagined blood of her murdered husband. She's a woman with arthritis. According to the Center for
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December Newsletter: Chiropractic Care for Hip Pain
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Got nagging hip pain? Chiropractic care could help.
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December Newsletter: Custom Orthotics Could Be What You Need to Fight Foot Pain
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Are your feet killing you? Orthotics could end your pain.
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December Newsletter: Healthy Eating Tips for the Holiday Season
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Worried about gaining weight during the holidays? The healthy eating tips will help you avoid piling on the pounds.
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December Newsletter: How Wearing High-Heeled Shoes Can Lead to Scoliosis
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Could wearing high heels lead to a painful back condition?
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Decompression
Category: Newsletter Library, Staying Young
Did you know that your spinal column's spongy intervertebral discs (IVDs) comprise 25% of this segmented structure's entire length? Did you know that an adult's spinal column is approximately 24-28 inches in length? A little quick math shows that the total height of your spinal discs is approximately
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Desk Chair
Category: Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, At Work
The basics of a healthy ergonomic workstation include a bio-mechanically correct chair to sit in. It is best if it's adjustable to support your unique height and curves. Humanscale offers a variety of seating options designed to keep you healthy and well while you are working. These products are an investment
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Detecting Ovarian Cancer
Category: Newsletter Library, Chronic Conditions
While women are learning more and more about cervical cancer and its prevention, another "silent killer" remains relatively mysterious among doctors and patients alike. Ovarian cancer is only the seventh most common cancer among women, but it causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive
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Detective Story
Category: Newsletter Library, Wellness
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes applied himself to a difficult case, he famously utilized his powers of deduction. Holmes assembled and examined the facts before him and employed a scientific method of analysis to arrive at a solution that took into account of all the elements of the
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Detox
Category: Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Nutrition
Every person should cleanse the system of toxins and let the digestive tract rest at least once each year. Cleansing is one of the most direct and effective ways to improve your overall health quickly. Free radicals and toxins can build up in your body over time and may cause fatigue, poor immune function,
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Diabetes and Obesity
Category: Newsletter Library, Illness Prevention
Like Scylla and Charybdis, the twin sea monsters of Greek mythology, diabetes and obesity are the twin medical monsters confronting America's children. Diabetes and obesity have even been featured as the story line in a recent episode of Law & Order, a show well-known for focusing on issues that matter.
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Do I Have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
Category: Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
Many people believe they have carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). The majority have been told by their medical doctor that they have CTS. Others have mistakenly concluded that because they have some numbness and tingling in their wrist or hand, they must have this neurological disorder. Still others have ongoing
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Don't Let Back Pain Get You Down This Summer; Chiropractic Can Help
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Spending too much time on the couch due to back pain this summer? Chiropractic treatment could help you salvage your summer.
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Don't Let Housework Be a Pain in Your Back
Category: Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
Household chores can be a pain in the sacroiliac. Unless you're careful, routine activities around the home— washing dishes, vacuuming, even talking on the phone— can strain your back, including the sacroiliac area near the tailbone, and result in debilitating discomfort.
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Double Indemnity
Category: Newsletter Library, Wellness
In the classic 1944 film noir, "Double Indemnity", insurance salesman Walter Neff (played by Fred MacMurray), gets into some pretty hot water involving his client (Barbara Stanwyck) and his co-worker (Edward G. Robinson). Neff tries to misuse the concept of double indemnity and he pays a heavy price.
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Drivers Education
Category: Newsletter Library, Injury Rehab & Prevention
We all know someone who has suffered a serious driving-related injury that had nothing to do with being involved in a motor vehicle accident. For example, turning your head suddenly and swiftly for a last minute check of your "blind spot" before changing lanes on the interstate could result in a painful
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Drop-Table Technique
Category: Therapies & Techniques, Techniques
Forceful spinal manipulation is not always necessary to treat conditions of the lower back, mid-back and neck. Gentle chiropractic treatment, such as drop table techniques, involves less powerful spinal maneuvering and slower, low-velocity movements that allow the affected joint to stay within its passive
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Dynamic Warm-ups
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In a common occurrence, you bend over to pick up the pencil you inadvertently dropped on the floor. Or you bend over to pick up the soap bar that has slipped through your fingers in the shower. Or you bend over to lift a bag of groceries out of your automobile trunk. These are all daily events. But on
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Ear Infections
Category: Common Conditions Treated, Pediatric Ailments
If your child experiences recurrent ear infections, chiropractic can help by restoring normal drainage of the lymphatic vessels. Almost half of all children will suffer from at least one middle ear infection (otitis media) before they're a year old, and two-thirds of them will have had at least one
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Eat Your Veggies!
Category: Newsletter Library, Nutrition & Healthy Eating
Kids don't have that strong a relationship to vegetables. Kids will go through the motions, pushing broccoli spears and lima beans around their plate a few times, but few veggies actually reach the inside of a kid's mouth. And yet, we want our kids to eat vegetables on a regular basis. The best way
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Ebb and Flow
Category: Newsletter Library, Mind-Body Connection
Ancient peoples closely observed and interacted with the rhythms of their immediate environment. The sun rose in the East and set in the West. Day followed night, and approximately 12 hours later night followed day. The seasons progressed through a more leisurely, although no less regular, rhythm. A
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Effective Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain
Category: Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
Here's an all-too-common situation. You develop low back pain that lasts for more than a few days and you're uncomfortable enough to go see your primary care physician. He or she tells you it's not clear what's going on and sends you for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of your lumbar spine.
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Effectiveness & Popularity of Chiropractic Care
Category: Newsletter Library, Injury Rehab & Prevention
A critical mass of recent surveys and studies document the fact that the public, and conventional health care providers and payers, have come to recognize that traditional medicine can't answer all of consumers' health care needs. In particular, more people are turning to chiropractic services. A
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Effects of Chiropractic Care
Category: About Chiropractic Care, How Does it Work
Wellness requires you to be a proactive agent for your body. You need to treat it well and not wait until you hurt before you decide to take care of it. As we've said before health is not merely the absence of disease any more than wealth is an absence of poverty. Let's remember health is not simply
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Enhance Fertility with Chiropractic Care
Category: Newsletter Library, Pregnancy & Parenting
Thirty-five year-old Tracy had tried everything: monitoring her cycles through body temperature, over-the-counter fertility predictors and finally, fertility-enhancing drugs and in vitro fertilization. But after three years of trying, she still wasn't pregnant. She began to think she was "too old" to
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Enhance Your Balance and Coordination with Chiropractic
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Having trouble keeping your balance? Call the chiropractor!
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Enjoy the Health Benefits of Massage Therapy and Chiropractic
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Want to improve your health? Massage therapy and chiropractic treatment may offer the perfect solution.
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Entropy, the Gym, and You
Category: Newsletter Library, Staying Motivated
Let’s say you’ve been taking some time off from the gym. Maybe you reached the end of your 12-week training cycle and you’re taking a week off. It’s possible that one week turns into two or even three or four weeks. Life happens, you need to attend to some pressing matters, and going to the gym
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Erasing Migraines: An M.D. Turns to Chiropractic
Category: Newsletter Library, Chronic Conditions
Stress, sleep deprivation and fatigue have been no small component of Dr. Michael Benson’s life. As a fetal surgeon, Benson is often up for 24- to 36-hour stretches at a time looking after patients. He has little time to rest or eat regular, healthy meals. It’s no wonder he has
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Essential Fatty Acids
Category: Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Nutrition
One component of nutrition that deserves significant attention is essential fatty acids (EFAs). EFAs cannot be produced by the body and therefore must come from the food we eat. They are the main structural components of our cell membranes, and keep our cell walls healthy by allowing nutrients to flow
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Exercise Ball
Category: Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Exercise
These days an exercise ball is a great tool to have and use at home. You can do a thorough workout on it, you can stretch on it and you can use it as a desk chair. Make sure to get the correct size. There are great videos that you can use to learn basic exercise routines.
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Exercise Smarter Not Harder
Category: Newsletter Library, Exercise & Fitness
We all want to get the most out of the time we spend exercising, and it's natural to think that exercising harder is going to provide a bigger, faster payoff. But exercising harder without adequate preparation often leads to injury. Then there's recovery time, possibly the need for rehabilitation, and
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Exercise Time Management
Category: Newsletter Library, Exercise & Fitness
We all know that five 30-minute sessions of vigorous exercise each week is necessary for obtaining and maintaining high levels of health and well-being. The type of exercise doesn't matter, although a combination of aerobic exercise and strength training provides optimal benefit. However, what many people
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Exercising Alfresco
Category: Newsletter Library, Exercise & Fitness
In "The Producers", the riotous Mel Brooks movie classic from 1968, the wily and almost washed-up Broadway producer Max Bialystock (played famously by Zero Mostel) takes timid accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) to lunch. Bialystock steers Bloom to a hotdog vendor's run-down sidewalk stand just outside
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Exercising with Your Baby
Category: Newsletter Library, Pregnancy & Parenting
From biking and hiking to walking and jogging, today's parents are keeping fit and bonding with their babies in the process. With an array of products unheard of a generation ago— like baby carriers, joggers and trailers— even the tiniest among us are enjoying the great outdoors. But while these
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