Healing Chronic Shoulder Pain
Healing Chronic Shoulder Pain Created in Newsletter Library, Chronic Conditions As we get older, years and decades of mechanical stress may lead to deterioration of joints, ligaments, and tendons. This degenerative process, commonly known as arthritis, primarily affects weight-bearing joints such as the hips and knees and those found in the lumbar spine. The shoulder, […]
Heart Disease Is Still Number One!
Heart Disease Is Still Number One! Created in Newsletter Library, Chronic Conditions According to a recent report, cardiovascular disease claims more lives worldwide than any other disorder.1 Diseases of the heart and blood vessels, including coronary artery disease, are responsible for more than 4 million deaths in Europe each year2 and almost one-third of all deaths worldwide. […]
High Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure Created in Newsletter Library, Chronic Conditions We all know someone with high blood pressure (HBP), possibly a beloved family member or a lifelong friend. This common problem affects one in four American adults.1 An alarming 75% of patients with type 2 diabetes also have HBP.2 High blood pressure is particularly dangerous because, for […]
ACL Injury and Chiropractic
ACL Injury and Chiropractic Created in Newsletter Library The knee is a hinge joint and stability is provided by the large thigh muscles (the quadriceps and hamstrings), the cartilaginous medial and lateral menisci, the medial and lateral collateral ligaments, and the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments. The cruciate ligaments are located within the knee joint […]
Your Computer and You
Your Computer and You Created in Newsletter Library, Life-Work Balance Windows and Mac users actually do have one thing in common – computer ergonomics issues, namely, pain.1,2 Beyond the usual hardware and software gotchas we deal with on a daily basis, the real bottom-line question is, “how to play nice with my computer”. Doing computer work […]
Chiropractic Care for the Young and the Young at Heart
Chiropractic Care for the Young and the Young at Heart Created in Newsletter Library, Staying Young Children and adults are the same but different. Most kids want to play all the time, but they also are required to go to school. Most adults would prefer to play all the time – relax, go to the […]
Yellow Light Go Very Fast
Yellow Light Go Very Fast Created in Newsletter Library, Pregnancy & Parenting In a classic scene in the classic 1984 movie Starman, the extraterrestrial Jeff Bridges tells the human Karen Allen that, yes, he does know how to drive. Starman has just blasted through a traffic light changing to red, other vehicles crashing in his […]
Spring Forth!
Spring Forth! Created in Newsletter Library Spring is arriving. The days are getting longer, the air is fresher, and the sunlight is brighter. Flowers and bushes are beginning to bloom. Tree sap is running and there are new baby animals in the world. In short, the world is being renewed and, if we choose to, […]
Pregnancy, Parenting, and Lower Back Pain
Pregnancy, Parenting, and Lower Back Pain Created in Newsletter Library, Pregnancy & Parenting You’re pregnant! Congratulations! Your body’s changing-wondrously, marvelously. One unexpected and unwelcome change may be lower back pain. Recent studies suggest that two-thirds of pregnant women experience lower back pain.1 These statistics seem reasonable. The weight of the growing baby, plus the weight […]
Standing Tall
Standing Tall Created in Newsletter Library Young peoples’ bones stop growing by approximately age 20, somewhat earlier in women and somewhat later in men. Long bone growth, that is, in the arm, forearm, thigh, and leg, ceases later and smaller bone growth, that is, in the hands, feet, and spine, ceases earlier. In essence, you’re […]