Tune Chiropractic From the Doc

                All this talk of micro-trauma… how about slightly more significant trauma?   If you saw the Facebook post regarding car accidents I shared, you saw that a 5 mph collision can result in injury to the spine and neck musculature.   Does that mean any incident at 5 miles per hour will result in a whiplash-type injury?   Does it mean all accidents that don’t break the magic 5 mile per hour threshold are harmless?   What is a horse shoe anyway? Apple picking would be less fun if you fell out of the tree.  Just saying.                 Here’s the rub:   in a modern car, designed to keep the occupants as safe as possible, a rapid deceleration from 5mph may still result in mild, yet significant trauma and a crash at 20 mph may be harmless... there are many contributing factors that determine sev...

                How concerned with your posture were you when you were a kid?!   I know for some of us, it’s been a while since we were in school and in addition, some have tried to block memories of school entirely; but you didn’t care how you sat in your desk.   I leaned over my desk always.   I sat cross-legged in my chair, classmates would sit with their chair backward (until the teacher told them to sit properly).   We’d lean all over hell with no concern about how it affected our spines.   At least my backpack was always empty…                 We also moved a lot more than our kids do.   We didn’t have Fortnite… or Roblox… or Minecraft… whatever the addiction du jour is.   Our kids may use both straps on their backpacks, but they are stuffed full and weigh too much for our little ones to be burd...