“Well, maybe it’s just degenerated. I mean, we all get old.” I hoped that my mouth was gaping open, and I attempted to swallow my shock. I was 26-years-old, in shape and healthy, but I had such severe shoulder/upper back pain that sneezing was horrible and I had trouble lifting my baby from her crib. …
Do babies need chiropractic adjustments ? Even parents who are regular chiropractic patients may ask this question. Alex’s birth couldn’t have gone better or smoother. Born a week before his due date, he was 7lbs 12oz, breathed well and nursed well from the get go. Yet even a good, easy birth is an athletic event for …
Picture a safety pin. Yes, like an old fashioned diaper pin, or the save-me-I-don’t-sew pin you used in college. A closed safety pin is a simple analogy of how your nerves carry messages from your brain to your body and back in a loop from your body to your brain. The body in this state …
What would you guess to be the third leading cause of death in the United States? You might say, cancer, heart disease or diabetes. You’d be wrong. New research estimates that as many as 440,000 patients die in hospitals from preventable harm, says John T. James PhD in A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms …
How far can you be stressed before you crack? How much stress can your body handle? In an article on CicleofDocs.com, (titled Cracking The Code To Breakthrough Health) Chiropractor and Dr. Gentempo said, “Lifestyle stress has three dimensions, physical (how you use your body), biochemical (what you put into your body) and psychological (the mind/body …
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(This is part one of two blog posts exploring stress and its affect on our health. This is an overview. Next Monday we will take a more philosophical look at why stress cause dis-ease in our bodies.) I am stressed. You are stressed. And we seem to take pride it in sometimes, even making it …
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Most of us would like to be more active. We might never feel the weight of gold medal as the national anthem plays, but we can definitely take steps to achieve personal goals in fitness and athletics. One can assume that to run a half marathon for the first time, you would need dedication and …
The key component to any major decision that you make in life is the amount of research and education that you acquire. In the Age of information, ignorance is a choice. – Donny Miller The most valued thing in life, is health. But “health” is ambiguous and overused in today’s culture. Dr. Dopps specializes in specific …
You may associate having scoliosis, or a curvature of the spine, with wearing a body brace/casts or needing physical therapy. It doesn’t seem like a great leap of the imagination to think that this sideways curve could be helped by chiropractic care, which adjusts the spine. All over the world, we see examples of the …
Thankful For CHIROPRACTIC! STUDIES REVEAL EFFECTS OF SPINAL NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION… In 1975 Seth Sharpless, a researcher at The University of Colorado, did a study on the effects of compression at the level of the nerve root. His finding was that only 8-10mmHg of pressure can have profound effects and result in significant conduction block …
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