When It Comes to Five-Year-Olds, Banking Takes on a Whole New Meaning
Trying to keep up with an active five-year-old can be draining from time to time. If you have an active child of this age, or if you’ve ever been around one for any length of time, you may have found yourself hoping that the kid would just sit still for a minute or two. But, [...]
Chicago Chiropractor Believes That A Balanced Lifestyle Can Benefit Good Health and Longevity
Just the other day I found an article on sciencedaily.com how caffeine reversed memory loss in aged mice bred to develop symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. The article started with the tease that “Coffee drinkers may have another reason to pour that extra cup.” It continued by reporting on back-to-back studies published online July 6 in [...]
Chicago Chiropractor Offers Heel to Toe Foot Pain Relief
We all know that movement is good for the whole body, right? From our head to our toes, our good health is determined by how much physical activity we get on a regular basis. So, why do so many people suffer from aches and pains in their feet? After all, aren’t our feet made for [...]
Chicago Chiropractor Explains How Chiropractic Management Can Improve Asthma Symptoms
Today, as never before, more and more Americans are suffering from asthma. It is one of this country’s most prevalent and costly diseases. In fact, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, each day 40,000 people are absent from school or work because of asthma; 30,000 people undergo an asthma attack; 5,000 people [...]
Chicago Chiropractor Asks: Are You Among the "Typing Wounded"?
If you sit for extended periods at a computer, you may be experiencing lower back pain, upper back pain, and/or neck pain that also radiates down one or both of your arms generating additional pain, pins and needles, or numbness. Neck and shoulder pain are, in fact, the most common upper-extremity musculoskeletal problems among computer [...]
Chicago Chiropractor States That, Despite Your Age, You Have a Lot to Gain From Physical Activity
Chiropractors, like me, agree that “motion is life.” We, humans, were designed to walk, to run, to dance, and to move all the muscles of our body for our entire lifespan. So, naturally, it follows that we either “move it or lose it!” Our aging “Baby Boomer” population is discovering just how true this cautionary [...]
Get Active Again One Step at a Time
You may have read on this website, or elsewhere, about recent studies that have shown that physical activity is requisite to getting and staying healthy, especially as we age. But, if you’ve been inactive for awhile, even the idea of exercise might seem “exhausting.” The best way, then, to approach this much-needed addition to your [...]
New Report Gives Chiropractic Highest Ratings
I just read about a recent Consumer Reports survey of its readers that I, as your chiropractor, found “highly satisfying.” The survey, which included 14,000 Consumer Reports subscribers, found that “hands-on” therapies, led by chiropractic care, were the top-rated treatments for people suffering from back pain. In fact, chiropractors were given the highest “satisfaction with [...]
You Can Eliminate Allergy Misery Once and For All!
Allergies can make our everyday life a misery. Unwelcome symptoms like itchy eyes, a runny nose, sneezing, or a skin rash can occur from a simple walk in the garden, a play date with Fluffy, a seafood pasta, or even something as small as a nut. To make things worse, for some of us allergic [...]
Don't Let PMS Get You Down
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) disturbs an estimated 90% of women, at one time or another, and nearly 20% of those women afflicted undergo severe to debilitating symptoms. Telling a woman that her PMS is “just in her head” can be not only just plain dangerous, it’s also just plain incorrect! There are physiological origins of PMS [...]