Bottom Line: Low back pain is the number one reason people worldwide visit their doctor and miss work. If you’ve dealt with it in the past (or maybe even right now), you know back pain can change your life in an instant. Not being able to enjoy hobbies, difficulty in your ability to work, and…

Peeling the Onion Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness In the language of statistics, health is a continuous variable. A person’s health can be expressed as an infinity of values ranging from abundant well-being to terminal states approaching death. If health were a discrete quantity you could assign a number to it. You could say that someone had…

Owning Your Health Created inNewsletter Library,Breaking Bad Habits 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 Association1 argued that universal screening of children could result in…

Osteoporosis: Not Just An Elderly Disease Created inNewsletter Library It used to be that osteoporosis was considered a disease that affectedonly the elderly. We particularly associated osteoporosis with older womenwhose backs were slightly hunched over or those who could no longer standup straight. Today, the truth is that an estimated 20 million Americanwomen suffer from…

One, Two, or Three Miles? Created inNewsletter Library,Staying Motivated Even experienced exercisers sometimes find it difficult to know how much to do. For the beginner this uncertainty represents a significant stumbling block. Fortunately well-established guidelines and protocols exist to provide assistance to all exercisers, regardless of your skill level. In general, the beginning exerciser requires…

New Year’s Resolution – Find Out Whether Chiropractic Care Is Right for You Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips It’s early January – a New Year – and you’ve decided this is going to be the year you actually fulfill your list of New Year’s resolutions. This is going to be the year you finally start taking…

New Beginnings Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness The time is always right to begin returning to good health. Regardless of whether your issues involve weight, exercise, diet, blood pressure, diabetes, or chronic pain, now is the time to begin taking action on your own behalf. You are not alone. Literally hundreds of millions of people worldwide have…

Neck Pain: Chiropractic Can Help Created inNewsletter Library Who hasn’t had neck pain at one time or another? What’s more, many of us have experienced on-going neck troubles at some point during our lives. Looking at humananatomy, it’s no wonder pain strikes us so often in this vulnerable area. While the neck structure gives us…

Mission Possible Created inNewsletter Library,Staying Motivated Everyone knows what he or she “should” do to obtain good health. But the mere knowledge of what we should be doing is never enough. If we’ve not been in good shape for some time, if we can’t remember the last time we did any meaningful exercise on a…