Oct 20, 2011
How Chronic Pain Can Affect Your Family, Friends and Relationships Chronic pain affects many aspects of life. It can impact a person’s ability to work, be productive, and to function. In turn, it can affect them emotionally, physically, financially and socially. This...
Oct 18, 2011
Backpack Safety – Parents are the Best Advocates Children make over 10,000 backpack-related visits annually to emergency departments or physicians. The daily stress of carrying a backpack on one shoulder has been shown to alter a child’s posture and gait. Despite this...
Oct 13, 2011
Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJ) Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJD or TMD), or TMJ syndrome, is an umbrella term covering acute or chronic inflammation of the temporomandibular joint, which connects the mandible to the skull. The disorder and resultant...
Oct 11, 2011
What Is Acupuncture? Acupuncture is one of the primary treatments used in the practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine. According the TCM, acupuncture promotes the body’s healing abilities by regulating the flow of Qi (vital life energy in the body, pronounced “chee”)...
Oct 6, 2011
What Is Acupuncture and How Does it Work? Acupuncture uses needles to stimulate points on the body that are responsible for different organs and diseases related to those organs. Acupuncture promotes healing by relieving pain, reducing inflammation and stimulating...
Oct 4, 2011
Chiropractic Treatment of Headaches Headaches can range from annoying to debilitating and their cause can be benign or life threatening. The majorities of headaches are benign and are caused by dehydration, muscle spasms, stress or vertebral misalignments. It is...
Sep 29, 2011
Chiropractic Treatments for Migraines and Cluster Headaches Few of the millions who get occasional headaches have it as bad as the migraine sufferer. Far from being a minor annoyance these headaches can ruin lives. The migraine is a special type of headache-a vascular...
Sep 27, 2011
Are You At Risk For Osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a disease of low bone mass and reduced bone strength that affects 10 million Americans over the age of 50. Another 34 million have decreased bone mass (osteopenia) that puts them at risk for osteoporosis. Each year...
Sep 22, 2011
Another summer is gone and we send our kids back to school. On the school supplies list, the first item is, usually, a backpack. But is this very useful item damaging our children’s spine and posture. The backpack itself it may be innocent but when we load it with...
Sep 20, 2011
Yet another summer is gone and we send our kids back to school. On the school supplies list, the first item is, usually, a backpack. But is this very useful item damaging our children’s spine and posture. The backpack itself it may be innocent but when we load it with...
