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January Newsletter: The Role the Feet Play in the Kinetic Chain of the Body
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Got back pain? Your feet could be to blame.
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January Newsletter: Why You Should Visit Your Chiropractor This Winter
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Is a visit with the chiropractor on your winter calendar?
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Jaw Pain? You May Have TMJ
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Could your jaw pain mean that you have TMJ?
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July Newsletter: How Chiropractic Care Can Treat Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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Could a visit to the chiropractor relieve your painful carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms?
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July Newsletter: How Your Chiropractor Can Help Relieve Migraines
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Wondering if chiropractic treatment could ease your migraine pain?
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June Newsletter: Chiropractic Care for Whiplash
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Suffering from whiplash? Chiropractic care could ease your neck pain.
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June Newsletter: How Your Chiropractor Can Help with Knee Pain
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Have you considered chiropractic care for your knee pain?
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June is Scoliosis Awareness Month
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Could your back pain be related to scoliosis? Find out what causes the condition and how it can be treated.
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Just Try Walking
Category: Newsletter Library, Exercise & Fitness
While some fitness enthusiasts relentlessly seek out the latest, trendiest exercise crazes, many others are returning to good, old-fashioned walking to help them feel great and get into shape. Whether enjoying the wonder of nature, or simply the company of a friend, walking can be a healthy, invigorating
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Keep Moving During National Chiropractic Health Month
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Do you know how you'll be celebrating National Chiropractic Health Month this fall?
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Keeping Athletic Kids Healthy & Fit
Category: Newsletter Library, Kid's Health
In today's age of health and fitness, more and more kids are involved in sporting activities. Although being part of a football, soccer or Little League team is an important rite of passage for many kids, parents and their children could be overlooking the importance of proper nutrition
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Key to Senior Fitness: Chiropractic Care, Healthy Lifestyle
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Over the hill at age 65? Ready for the rocker at 70? Not these days. Americans are living longer and making more of their later years. One key is exercise. "Perhaps the most debilitating influence in people's health as they age is a sedentary life," said Dr. Jerome McAndrews, national spokesperson
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Knee Pain
Category: Common Conditions Treated, Body Pain
Knee pain is common in people of all ages. It may start suddenly — such as after exercise or an injury. But it can also develop over time, starting out as minor discomfort. Chiropractic care for knee pain includes first identifying the underlying cause of the pain, which could be an injury, mechanical
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Learning From History
Category: Newsletter Library, Mind-Body Connection
Whether we're driving a car, riding a bike, or trying to record a spare at our local bowling alley, our musculoskeletal system bases its decision-making on past history, that is, what it has learned before. Drawing on years of experience, recorded deep within our muscle memory, we're able to avoid an
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Left-Handers Day
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Left-Handers Day Left-Handers Day, celebrated on August 15th, was launched in 1992 by the Left-Handers Club, an organization based in the United Kingdom. Since then, Left-Handers Day has become a worldwide event and social media phenomenon. Around the world, approximately one in ten persons is left-handed.
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Let the Flu Go Around You
Category: Newsletter Library, Illness Prevention
Since mid-Fall TV commercials have been trumpeting the horrors of the "flu season". "It's never too soon to begin fighting this year's bug" they blare. Public health announcements urge us to get our "yearly flu shot", as if this is something we've got permanently scheduled in our Blackberries. All the
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Lifestyle Matters
Category: Newsletter Library, Healthy Tips
The fitness boom was launched in America in the early 1980s by a small group of celebrities, including Jane Fonda, who recognized the importance of exercise for long-term health and well-being. Although their methods were flawed, their vision was important. Over the past 30 years the notion of fitness
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Lines of Force
Category: Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
Most chronic joint-related problems involving the hip, knee, and ankle1,2 can be successfully managed with conservative treatment. Surgery for such conditions is typically a last resort and frequently does not work out well. Revision (repeat) procedures are common and represent a failure of appropriate
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Living With Pain
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Chronic disease is a major problem in U.S. health care. More than one-third of Americans have one or more chronic diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. The personal costs to patients and families are often severe, daily, and ongoing. The economic costs to society are almost $1 trillion
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Locally Grown, Organically Grown - You Are What You Eat
Category: Newsletter Library, Nutrition & Healthy Eating
There is much wisdom in the saying "you are what you eat", but food today is not the food of yesterday. We need to actually work at getting the amount of nutrients that's going to help keep us healthy and well. Our genetic heritage was not designed for an urban environment. Our digestive systems, for
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Lowering the Risk Factors of Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Disease
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We're in the middle of several deadly epidemics in the United States. Obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are affecting more and more people every year. Recent statistics show that two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. Thirty percent of American children are obese. Approximately 21 million
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Making the Grade
Category: Newsletter Library, Breaking Bad Habits
The recent school year has long been over, but the echoes of learning, striving, and achieving persist. We may, if we choose, apply these remembrances of ourselves when we were in school to the circumstances of our health and well-being. We all want good health for ourselves and the members of our families,
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Man and Machine
Category: Newsletter Library, Mind-Body Connection
Is a computer like a human brain or is a human brain like a computer? When machines allow us to extend our abilities, are we enhancing our humanness or becoming more machine-like? What are the meaningful distinctions between humans and machines and how do these impact our daily pursuits of health, well-being,
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Managing Your Symptoms
Category: Newsletter Library, Illness Prevention
Most of us are procrastinators. We let things go until the last minute. Papers, magazines, and books pile up on the desk until the process of finding what we're looking for resembles an archeological dig. Our garages look like our desks. Stuff fills the garage just like stuff covers the desk. Eventually,
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Manual Technique
Category: Therapies & Techniques, Techniques
Manual therapy, also known as manipulative therapy, is a physical treatment primarily used by chiropractors to treat musculoskeletal pain and debility. How Does Manual Therapy Work? This form of physical therapy takes a hands-on approach rather than using devices or machines. When a chiropractor uses
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March Newsletter: Chiropractic Care for Neuropathy
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Do you have neuropathy? Chiropractic could have the answer to your pain.
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March Newsletter: Chiropractic Care for Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (Runner's Knee)
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Struggling with runner's knee pain? Chiropractic care can ease your kneecap pain.
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March Newsletter: How Chiropractic Helps Patients with Scoliosis
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Could chiropractic treatment help your scoliosis pain?
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March Newsletter: The Key Differences between Chiropractors and Osteopaths
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Not sure if you should see an osteopath or chiropractor?
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May Newsletter: Is Your Spine Ready for Summer?
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Would you like to avoid back pain this summer?
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May Newsletter: Your Chiropractor Can Help You Recover from Sports Injuries
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Suffering from a sports injury? Find out how chiropractic can help.
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May is National Correct Posture Month
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Could poor posture be the source of your back pain? Making a few changes during National Correct Posture Month could help ease your pain.
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Migraine Headaches
Category: Common Conditions Treated, Chronic Condition Relief, Headaches
About 36 million Americans suffer from the debilitating headaches known as migraines, according to the Migraine Research Foundation. Women between the ages of 25 and 55 are the likeliest victims. Migraine headaches can last anywhere from a few hours to three days, drastically compromising individuals’
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Mind and Matter
Category: Newsletter Library, Mind-Body Connection
Scientists and philosophers have pursued the notion of mind for thousands of years. [Of course, being able to think about the mind's origins and place in the universe presumes having a mind, but that's a separate piece of this puzzle.] Regardless of mind's origin, we are well aware that the human mind
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Mission Possible
Category: Newsletter 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 consistent basis, and if we've added more pounds over
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