Archives for the ‘Chiropractic’ Category

Life in the Fast Lane

By admin • May 1st, 2009 • Category: Chiropractic, Features, Uncategorized

This is a guest post by Dr. Richard Barwell.
While on route to my home in Cocoa Beach, Florida from the busy city of Atlanta, Georgia, I found a source of stress in my life. Other drivers!!! This comes as no surprise to my dear wife and frequent traveling companion. Now I have to admit that [...]



Grasping the Facts about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

By admin • Apr 27th, 2009 • Category: Chiropractic, Health Highlights, Uncategorized

 
 
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a painful condition involving the hand and wrist.  Symptoms often include numbness, tingling, weakness, or muscle-wasting in the thumb and index finger.  The fingers may also have a tendency to feel swollen, although no swelling is present.  All of these symptoms are attributed to an irritation of the median nerve [...]



Sciatica – It Can Be A Real Pain in the Butt

By admin • Apr 9th, 2009 • Category: Chiropractic, Features, Uncategorized

Sciatica is a condition which is characterized by pain originating in the lower back or buttocks with symptoms traveling down one or both legs.  It is known as sciatica because it resembles a condition that could be caused by an irritation of the sciatic nerve.
The sciatic nerve is a large collection of nerve fibers [...]



Can chiropractors help babies with infantile colic?

By admin • Mar 27th, 2009 • Category: Chiropractic, Health Highlights

For both mother and child, infantile colic gives them something to cry about. 
According to medical experts, infantile colic can be defined by the “rule of three”: crying for more than three hours per day, for more than three days per week, and for longer than three weeks in an infant who is well-fed and [...]



Breast Cancer and Mammograms

By admin • Feb 24th, 2009 • Category: Chiropractic, Health Highlights

Evidence of Innate Intelligence?
A report recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s Archives of Internal Medicine (Arch Intern Med. 2008;168[21]:2302-2303) makes quite the finding. Breast cancer rates increased significantly in four Norwegian counties after women there began getting mammograms every two years. In fact, according to background information in the study, the [...]



Why is Alignment Important for Overall Health?

By admin • Feb 22nd, 2009 • Category: Chiropractic, Features, Uncategorized

Part II – Energy
Alignment Affects Energy
Have you ever felt chronically fatigued? Have you ever felt that a workout was harder than expected? Perhaps an ‘easy’ 5km run felt more like it was a ‘tough’ 10km? You may not know it, but you could have been experiencing an alignment problem – and this may have [...]



The connection between Probiotics and your Immune system

By admin • Feb 9th, 2009 • Category: Chiropractic, Uncategorized, nutrition

This is a guest article written by Robert L. Lawrence, MEd, DC, DACBN
Your digestive system is more than a tube you put food in one end and waste out the other. Your digestive tract is home to more than 400 different species of life forms totaling about 100 trillion bacteria. These bacteria, yeast and fungi [...]



Why is Alignment Important in the Body?

By admin • Jan 5th, 2009 • Category: Chiropractic, Health Highlights

 
If we look at the body and compare it to a simple machine, we can see that it has many similarities:  it has moving parts that are designed for locomotion (ie. joints, muscles and ligaments), a fuel-distribution system providing energy to the system (circulation and digestion), an on-board computer to regulate all these systems (brain), [...]



In this New Year, improve your life

By admin • Jan 5th, 2009 • Category: Chiropractic, Personal and Professional Strategy, Take Action

Personal and Professional Intentions Worksheet
Planning for 2009
Amy M. Green, Certified Executive Coach

As you think about the coming year, what changes in your personal and professional lives would you like to create? Are you thinking about your health, work and finances? Would you like to improve relationships, build your business or perhaps increase your philanthropic [...]



Free Lunch for the Doctors?

By admin • Nov 18th, 2008 • Category: Chiropractic, Health Highlights, News, Uncategorized

The Journal of the American Medical Association researched back in 2006, the issue of a possible conflict of interest between the pharmaceutical industry and doctors. I found the results to be quite startling. They found that doctor’s who took free samples, accepted research grants, and or honorariums, all significantly increased their prescriptions of the [...]