Pull Weeds, Not Your Back! Created inNewsletter Library,Injury Rehab & Prevention As springtime approaches, weather warms up and leaves turn green, many people will spend more time outside planting bulbs, mowing the lawn and pulling weeds. Gardening can provide a great workout, but with all the bending, twisting, reaching and pulling, your body may not…

Proprioception – Making Your Body Smarter Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips We usually don’t think of our bodies in terms of their being “smart.” For example, we walk to the corner store without giving a single thought to the complex mechanics involved in getting there and back. But behind the scenes there’s plenty going on and…

Principles of Posture Created inNewsletter Library,Breaking Bad Habits Long ago and far away, a fourth-grade teacher told a student to “stand up straight – you look like a pretzel”. The unthinking adult only offered criticism. The child was left to try to unkink himself in the ways that probably caused more structural damage. Most of…

Prepare for Winter Sports Activities Created inNewsletter Library When snow, ice and frigid weather blast into town, watch out, says theAmerican Chiropractic Association (ACA). Winter recreational activitiesand chores can pose problems for the outdoor enthusiast whose body is notin condition. Winter sports like skating, skiing and sledding can causepainful muscle spasms, strains or tears if…

Pregnancy, Parenting, and Lower Back Pain Created inNewsletter Library,Pregnancy & Parenting You’re pregnant! Congratulations! Your body’s changing-wondrously, marvelously. One unexpected and unwelcome change may be lower back pain. Recent studies suggest that two-thirds of pregnant women experience lower back pain.1 These statistics seem reasonable. The weight of the growing baby, plus the weight of the…

Planning for Success Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips Every successful athlete knows that a plan is necessary to reach the highest levels of performance. How many practice sessions are needed each week, what kinds of things to work on during each session, how much rest to get, how much and what kinds of food to eat,…

Bottom Line: Low back pain is the number one reason people worldwide visit their doctor and miss work. If you’ve dealt with it in the past (or maybe even right now), you know back pain can change your life in an instant. Not being able to enjoy hobbies, difficulty in your ability to work, and…

Peeling the Onion Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness In the language of statistics, health is a continuous variable. A person’s health can be expressed as an infinity of values ranging from abundant well-being to terminal states approaching death. If health were a discrete quantity you could assign a number to it. You could say that someone had…

Paying the Mortgage Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness Whether we rent or own our home, all of us pay some form of monthly living expenses. Even if we have paid down a mortgage and own our home outright, we still pay monthly utility bills in order to keep our homes functional and livable. We also pay property…