Tune Chiropractic From the Doc

If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you likely remember my droning on and on about “chiropractors look for the cause”.  I say it all the time because it’s true.  Only focusing on the obvious is like replacing your tires that are wearing too quickly rather than getting a rotation and balance to get maximum mileage from them.  Often subluxation is causing your issues and being adjusted can do amazing things for your health and wellness.  Other times, something else is causing the subluxation and until the cause is found and corrected, no amount of adjustments is going to fully fix the problem.  Sleep is often one of the examples of this circumstance.  Not getting enough sleep can cause a lot of issues and chiropractic can help with many of them, but until your sleep hygiene is addressed, issues will continue to arise.  From my concern, there are two main concerns regarding your sleep.   Quantity of sleep and quality of sleep (groundbr...

                Mental stress is something we all deal with.   While there are positive and negative scenarios surrounding the source of the stress, our bodies react the same way regardless.   Being chased by a tiger has the same physiological reaction as the first day of your dream job.   Our physiological reaction is a good thing, in fact.   Both from an adaptation perspective and from a biological perspective.   The problem is that we aren’t designed to be chased by a tiger from the moment we wake up to the moment we finally fall asleep.                 “What can be done though?” the reader thought aloud with rapt attention.                 I get it.   There are some stresses that are unavoidable, but there are ways to minimize...

                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...

                So why do some people not seem to need a chiropractor, while others can’t seem to live without one?   How can some people live their lives basically never getting sick, or never seem to be flustered or stressed?                 We seem to need much more help in our society lately.   Mental health issues, cold and flu “seasons”, we’re more obese, and more people seem to need chiropractic care than they did previously.   I’d argue that our whole societal mindset has become such that we are less connected and less healthy in a multitude of ways, but this post, I want to focus on traumas.                 Everyone knows about “throwing your back out”.   They associate it with improper lifting technique and jobs that require m...