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How Does Chiropractic Help Increase Range of Motion and Flexibility?
When we’re younger, it’s easy to take our extensive range of motion and flexibility for granted. But as we age, a number of health conditions and the cumulative effects of wear and tear can affect...
What Are Steroid Injections and When Are They Appropriate?
Steroids are organic compounds that are produced naturally in the human body. They’re also produced by other animals, plants and fungi. Within humans, steroids are used to produce several different...
Chiropractic Care Improves Pregnancy-Related Pelvic Pain
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD), commonly referred to as pelvic pain, is a condition that is growing more common among pregnant women, either due to increasing...
What Does it Mean to Be “Double Jointed” and is it Dangerous?
If you have ever seen a contortionist in a circus or know someone who can bend their thumb back far enough to touch their wrist, you have seen an example of someone who is double-jointed. However,...
Chiropractic Adjustment Can Lower Blood Pressure
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in three American adults has high blood pressure. This serious condition can lead to an increased risk of stroke and heart...
What Exactly is a “Broken Back”?
The general description “broken back” can be applied to so many different types of spinal injury—ranging from the unnoticeable to the severe—that it doesn’t say much about what’s actually happened....
How to Improve Your Bone Health at Any Age
Childhood is the ideal time to build strong bones. However, there are always things you can do—even as an adult—to help keep your bones healthy. And it’s particularly important to do these things as...
High Blood Pressure Facts and Fiction
High blood pressure (hypertension) is widespread, affecting approximately 25% of the population. If the condition remains untreated, it can lead to more serious health problems such as heart...
Why We Shrink as We Get Older
If you’ve ever noticed that the car ahead of you in traffic seems to be driving itself, there’s a good chance that the person driving it is elderly. Shrinking in height as we age is quite normal,...
Why Having Good Posture Matters and What You Can Do About It
How many times did we hear from our parents when we were children, “sit up straight”? Our parents were not telling us to do this merely to keep us from looking like a boiled noodle. Good posture is...
What is “Brown Fat” and How is it Different from “White Fat”?
While many of us struggle to keep the amount of fat in our bodies to a minimum, there is one type of fat that we may want to encourage more of. Brown fat (also called brown adipose tissue) is our...
The Latest Research on Restricted-Calorie Diets
The notion that a restricted-calorie diets can increase our lifespan has been around since an experiment that was done on rats in 1934. During this experiment, rats were fed a diet that contained an...