For many of us, the practice of meditation seems like a totally foreign notion. In an era of full-time, morning-to-night distractions and distractibility, the concept of quietly sitting with nothing else to do seems impossibly ridiculous. Why would . . .
In the field of medicine, the term pain management is code for drugs and intraspinal steroid injections. Pain management drugs are almost always opioids such as Vicodin, OxyContin, and morphine. Intraspinal steroid injections are at best a temporary . . .
Everyone knows he or she “should” be doing regular exercise, but most people have not exercised in so many years that they don’t know where to begin. As a result, people start and stop various training programs and routines. They . . .
Chronic injuries require specific rehabilitation and a long-term approach. Patience is required and it is important to recall that the problem has developed over the course of years and will not be fixed in a matter of weeks or months. Progress should . . .
Professional athletes know the importance of putting together a trusted team of supporters to help them maintain peak levels of health and fitness. Personal marathoners, too, may benefit from a team of experts to help them achieve their health-and-wellness . . .
Chiropractic care provides a boost for all types of exercise. For all of us, time is immensely valuable, and we want to be sure that we get the most out of our exercise time.
What is it exactly that we “get” out of exercise? Aside from the . . .
Chiropractic care assists us on the path to smart exercise. We want to do our work, making gradual progress toward increased strength and cardiovascular fitness. But even if we’re really doing smart exercise, injuries may happen.
Chiropractic . . .
Is lifting weights going to give me the best result? Maybe I should concentrate on running – that will really help to strengthen my heart. What about yoga – everyone says yoga is good for flexibility. All of us, at one point or another, . . .
It’s well-known that one-third of American adults are overweight and an additional one-third are obese.1 In addition, 17% of U.S. children and adolescents are obese.2 Worldwide statistics are similar. These facts are strongly associated with . . .
For many of us, the practice of meditation seems like a totally foreign notion. In an era of full-time, morning-to-night distractions and distractibility, the concept of quietly sitting with nothing else to do seems impossibly ridiculous. Why would . . .
Your body’s awareness of where it is in three dimensions is critical to your ability to function effectively in the world. This awareness depends on proprioceptors. These specialized nerve endings are part of your nervous system – your . . .
Most of us like to think of ourselves as young: young in heart at least, if not actually young in years. But is it possible to stay “forever young” in terms of health and wellness? Of course, probably no one would want to remain forever . . .
Your body is very smart. For many problems involving pain, all your body needs to heal itself is a freely functioning nerve system. The goal of chiropractic care is to enable such normal functioning.
How do you know whether your pain needs to be evaluated . . .
Which type of exercise is right for me? Is lifting weights going to give me the best result? Maybe I should concentrate on running – that will really help to strengthen my heart. What about yoga – everyone says yoga is good for flexibility. . . .
Most of us like to think of ourselves as young: young in heart at least, if not actually young in years. But is it possible to stay “forever young” in terms of health and wellness? Of course, probably no one would want to remain forever . . .
Recent discussions in the scientific literature are focusing on monitoring and possibly improving cardiovascular health in children. There’s been a lot of conversation and a lot of controversy. An article in the Journal of the American Medical . . .
Not all back problems are created equal. One person may have been working on a home improvement project and injured her back while simultaneously bending and twisting. Another person may have developed back pain as a result of a vehicular collision. . . .
Every driver knows that you can’t get to your destination with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake. For safe, efficient travel you switch smoothly between these two pedals and you reach your goal effectively. But simple machines . . .
Hidden physical “gotchas” can slow us down even when we’re eating high-quality, nutritious food and doing regular vigorous physical exercise. You drop your keys, bend over to pick them up, and all of a sudden you’ve hurt your . . .
Good health happens by intention. A very few people will enjoy good health no matter what they do. For everyone else, healthy behaviors are required to be well over the long term.
We want good health to be seamless, that is, we don’t want to be . . .
Regular chiropractic care and consistent, healthy nutrition represent two powerful lifestyle choices for people interested in supporting their long-term health and well-being.
These life-affirming action steps work together to give you more energy, . . .
Regular chiropractic care supports all your exercise activities. The converse is true as well. Regular exercise helps support chiropractic care.
In order to get the most out of the valuable time we spend exercising, we want to ensure that our musculoskeletal . . .
Most people now know the importance of exercise in daily life. The benefits of exercise range from improved strength, balance, and agility to deeper, more restful sleep, improved outlook on life, and heightened levels of creativity. Of course, there’s . . .
Plenty of people go through plenty of suffering trying to lose weight. But why does it have to be that way? Surely there’s some discipline involved, but the process can actually be empowering and personally fulfilling. Weight loss doesn’t . . .
One of the biggest problems in our society today is diabetes. What many people don’t know is that there are two types of diabetes, (Type I and Type II). If someone has Type I diabetes, it means that they have a problem with the pancreas producing . . .
As with the rest of our physical selves, we don’t think about our bones until something goes wrong. Bones are just there, under the surface and unseen, normally never taking up space in our conscious thought processes. Trauma, of course, can . . .
At the time most Westerners were not familiar with meditation in any form. The Maharishi introduced a simple method that has become well-known and popular over the years. Meditation is even more important to our health and well-being in the 21st century . . .
The condition of fibromyalgia creates many challenges for a person with this disorder. These challenges often go far beyond the characteristic chronic pain which alone can be potentially debilitating. Those with fibromyalgia have pain in many locations . . .
Chronic knee pain is notoriously difficult to treat successfully. Persons with these problems often become discouraged as they shuttle from specialist to specialist, from rheumatologist to orthopedic surgeon to physical therapist to acupuncturist and . . .
How do you determine whether your life is going well? Whether you’re happy and fulfilled vs. merely going through the paces? Whether you’re growing and developing as a person vs. merely expressing more of the same old, same old? In short, . . .