Chiropractic Blog

Muscle tension is a byproduct of stress While your brain is on fire, your body feels tight and this feeling perpetuates itself: the tightness and potential pain add further to the stress. This situation necessitates an equally comprehensive response, taking deep breaths while addressing the muscle tension.  When it comes to beating stress, progressive muscle…

The concept is simple: balanced breathing means you breathe in and breathe out for equal amounts of time. But the upside is amazing: there is no quicker way to calm your nervous system, sharpen the mind and reduce stress than by breathing well. Unfortunately, many of us seem to forget how to breathe as we…

And by small, we mean really small: 10 minutes or less at a time with microexercises  Imagine that all you needed to do each day was get your heart rate up for 30 minutes, but the pressures of your job, your commute and home life prevented you from doing even that. For many of us,…

Your emotional state is reflective of your lifestyle. Changes in temperament are reasonable and to be expected when you consider the pressures of adulthood but mood swings are more erratic and disruptive to your well-being. Our lifestyles are a balancing act between genetic predispositions and more tangible lifestyle factors including diet, level of activity and…

Dieting for energy is about balance To be more precise, a diet that gives you energy would see you equally distribute calories throughout all your meals and observe a ratio high complex carbohydrates: medium protein: low (but not no) fat. Too many of us are skipping breakfast and wondering why we don’t function later in…

Fatigue can feel like a syndrome in winter.  And there is a biological reason for this: with less daylight, the body produces more melatonin which makes us feel drowsier than normal. This sets the tone for seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a mood disorder usually experienced during winter time and characterized by symptoms including:  Depression  Mood…

Working out optimally is about working smarter, not harder.  This begins with the warm up- you may be itching to get going, but a few minutes (preferably 15) of gentle stretching will ease your muscles into a state of looseness that will allow for better physical performance, more muscle building and less chance of injury.…

Ice and heat can be an integral part of healing or alleviating back pain. It is a time honored treatment which is readily available in most households; in case of emergency, or in instances of a flare up, many people reach for an ice pack or a heat pack. Ice and Heat is tried and…

Your hips don’t lie: they have a claim for most important joints in the body and their health is essential for human movement. Hips have a lot of muscle mass that attach to them and they perform such crucial roles as conducting forces between the upper and lower body, activating and facilitating the movement of…

A cricked neck or a bad back can cause pain so disproportional to the severity of the problem that all we can do is stay in bed and whine, taking aspirin and waiting for the peak of the pain to subside. While this may be recommendable in the immediate aftermath of an injury such as…