Your Posture Can Affect Your Breathing
YOUR POSTURE CAN AFFECT YOUR BREATHING Poor posture, especially when seated, compresses the chest and limits breathing. An overly curved upper back (kyphosis) and rounded shoulders can depress the sternum, restricting rib cage expansion. Chiropractic Care can help improve posture and spinal function, giving your rib cage room to move and your lungs space to […]
Fix the Scroll Slouch
Fix The Scroll Slouch Bring the screen up Raise your phone or computer closer to eye level to reduce neck strain Break the bend Avoid staying in one position too long. Stand up, stretch and reset often Stack your posture Keep your ears over your shoulders, shoulders relaxed and chin from drifting forward. Move more […]
Neck and Back Pain From Stress
77% of individuals report experiencing physical symptoms related to stress, such as muscle tension and pain in the neck, shoulders and back, Chiropractic Care can relieve tension in the muscles and spine, reducing physical symptoms of stree.
Preventing Text Neck
Preventing Text Neck Some 83 percent of American adults own cell phones and three-quarters of them (73 percent) send and receive text messages. Text messaging users send or receive an average of 41.5 messages per day, with the median user sending or receiving 10 texts daily. As technology advances, allowing us to do more tasks […]
Memorial Day
Memorial Day Memorial Day, as Decoration Day gradually came to be known, originally honored only those lost while fighting in the Civil War. But during World War I the United States found itself embroiled in another major conflict, and the holiday evolved to commemorate American military personnel who died in all wars. For decades, Memorial […]
Newsletter
The Purpose Of Pain If you have backpain, headaches or other muscle and joint pains or know of someone who does, making the pain go away is a major goal. But what is the purpose of pain? It turns out there are some very important reasons why we are equipped to sense pain. Dorland’s Medical […]
Preparing Fore (!) Golf
Preparing Fore(!) Golf After shutting down in the spring due to COVID-19, many golf courses have since reopened to a boom in activity. It is easy to understand why: golf is an outdoor sport where social distancing comes fairly easy. However, the usual “traps” remain: many avid golfers contort their bodies into oddly twisted postures, […]
Exercise The Easy Way
Exercise The Easy Way Many years ago, Americans walked regularly throughout their day. Today, we are lucky if we can reach 3,000 steps in one day. As a country, we are not getting enough movement in our daily lives. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to take a lot of time or effort to incorporate exercise into […]
Health Tips For Gardeners
Health Tips For Gardeners As springtime approaches, weather warms up and leaves turn green, many people will spend more time outside planting bulbs, mowing the lawn and pulling weeds. Gardening can provide a great workout, but with all the bending, twisting, reaching, and pulling, your body may not be ready for exercise of the garden […]
Chiropractic Care For Disc
Chiropractic Care and Back Pain: Non-invasive Treatment for Bulging, Ruptured, or Herniated Discs Discs give the spine motion; we are constantly using our discs. Move your back from side to side, you can visualize the give and take of the discs between the vertebrae. Without these discs, your spine couldn’t function and move. Intervertebral discs […]