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Understanding the Graston Technique

Does time really heal all wounds? When it comes to soft tissue injuries, the answer is “No.” And in fact, even when wounds do heal, they usually don’t heal as strongly as the uninjured tissue surrounding them. This is why many people experience the same injury, ache or pain over and over again through the [...]

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Headaches and Chiropractic

If you have a headache, you’re not alone. Nine out of ten Americans suffer from headaches. Some are occasional, some frequent, some are dull and throbbing, and some cause debilitating pain and nausea. While commonly occurring, that doesn’t make headaches “normal” and there are many good options for treatment and prevention. What do you do [...]

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Choosing The Cleanse That’s Right For You

Spring is just around the corner and along with the flowers and butterflies comes the notion of cleaning. Time to dust the corners, shake the rugs and shed the winter layers. When you hear “spring cleaning”, most of you are thinking house cleaning but others might be thinking detoxification and body cleansing. Spring is the [...]

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Making Fitness a Reality

Spring is around the corner, and the nicer weather is just coaxing us to get outside and be active! Perhaps you made a commitment (or a New Year’s resolution) that this would be the year to get physically fit. Are you struggling with a plan? Let’s look at how to get physically fit and what [...]

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Temporomandibular Joint Disorder

“As a chiropractor I use Myofascial release techniques, muscular re-education and chiropractic manipulative therapy to get great results increasing jaw range of motion, decreasing pain levels and eliminating clicking and popping. I understand all too well the importance of a well-aligned bite, night guard and overall good oral health to help treat and prevent TMD. [...]

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Don’t Let Sleep Issues Keep You Up At Night!

How well are you sleeping? Your sleep is an important health indicator so it’s important to determine if a disruption in sleep patterns is an isolated incident or a symptom of something more serious. In today’s busy world, most people believe that feeling tired is just part of life and something they have to deal [...]

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Prostatitis, Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy, and Prostate Cancer

Prostatitis Men commonly believe that they won’t have to think about their prostate until well into their 50′s but this doesn’t hold true with the problem of Prostatitis. This is a disease of young men and can affect men in their early 40′s. Prostatitis simply means an inflammation of the prostate gland and can be [...]

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The Truth About Thyroid Hormones & Their Functions

  The Truth About Thyroid And How it Affects Us A typical Thyroid check in a doctor’s office will assess TSH only and no other hormone. This has been standard practice for many years. It used to be that when we saw a low TSH, it would suggest a hyperthyroid patient and a high TSH [...]

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The Physiologic and Metabolic Effects of Thyroid

Bone metabolism, gastrointestinal function, glucose metabolism, thermoregulation, progesterone & estrogen metabolism, and homeocysteine levels may all be affected when Thyroid hormone is imbalanced. This is only a small list of how Thyroid works on the intricate areas of our body and how one hormone can lead us to a lack of health. Bone metabolism and [...]

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Allergy or Sensitivity? How to Tell the Difference

When any substance enters the body, it is recognized as either foreign or self. If the substance is tagged as foreign, the body’s immune system will shift into attack-mode to protect us. This becomes a problem when our immune system attacks something that is either not harmful or something we are often exposed to. Trees, [...]

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