Chiropractic

Disk Biochemistry

Proper joint motion helps remove wastes and fluids from the disks of your spine and improves the flow of proper nutrients into the disk. It is important to understand that the disk does not have a direct blood supply, and disks only stay healthy with motion. With lack of motion there is decreased oxygen, glucose, sulfates, and proteoglycan content, all of which are essential for disk health.

~ Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 1992 ~

Standard Medical Care and Chiropractic

Compared to those who received standard medical care (SMC) alone, military personnel (ages 18-35) with back pain who received chiropractic care in addition to SMC showed significantly  more improvement in both decreased pain and increased physical function.  Note: This particular study did not include a group of patients who only received chiropractic manipulative therapy.

 Spine, October 2012

Less Sleep Linked To Weight Gain

In a study setting, people who didn't get enough sleep consumed more calories per day than normal sleepers. It can't be stressed enough that sleep is very important for everyday life. Not enough sleep can affect almost every aspect of everyday life. 

~ SLEEP, July 2013 ~

Chiropractic

Drop That Blood Pressure!

Patients who had upper thoracic chiropractic adjustments showed statistically significant decreases in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Placebo and control groups demonstrated no such changes. 

Journal of Manipulative Physiological Therapeutics, 1988

Citrus

Eating Citrus Reduces Stroke

Women who consumed the most citrus were less likely to have an ischemic (clot-related) stroke than women who consumed the least. Researchers attributed the benefit to compounds in citrus called flavanones, which may reduce inflammation and improve blood vessels function. Other substances in citrus, including potassium, may also play a role. 

Stroke, February 2012

Positive Mental Attitude

8 Tips to Help Create A Positive Mental Attitude

By: Declan OFlaherty

Remember that you are powerful

• What we are is far greater, far superior, far more important, and far more mysterious than our conceptual mind tries to define. This is why we are far more powerful then we think we are.

Choose to embrace life

•  Take the first step before more time gradually passes by while you stand still stagnating. Your choice. Your life. Your responsibility. Your power.

Realize that you get to control your reactions

• We have the power because our inner world (cause) affects the influence we allow the outer world (effect) to have on us. 

Know that no one is better qualified

• Stop identifying with other people's opinions and become aware of how you see yourself. Nobody knows you better than you do. 

Believe that you are more than enough

• If you focus on what you have, and not on what you lack, you will always have enough, because you will always be enough. 

Love yourself

• Be yourself. Love yourself completely and accept everything that you are. You are beautiful. Believe it, and most importantly, remind yourself often. 

Stay cool

• We are responsible for our own action, regardless of how rude other people may act. Remember: you are the who loses in the end, if you lose the lesson.

Journey well

• We know life is about the journey and not the arrival. We don't need to arrive if we accept that we are already here. 

 "A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."

~ Tom Stoppard ~

Exercise

15 Minutes of Exercise!

A study which included several hundred thousand people between 1996 and 2008 found that a mere 15 minutes of exercise a day can increase your lifespan by three years! Those who exercised at least 15 minutes a day also had a 14 percent reduced risk of all-cause mortality.  Lancet, August 2011