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In case you get a flat, the temporary "donut" in your trunk is meant to get you off the road and to the nearest service station for proper repair ASAP.  Manufacturer's instructions warn you to take it slow and easy when driving on them - those tiny tires aren't designed to withstand the load of normal driving.  But regardless of that warning, you've probably seen some idiot speeding down the highway on one, oblivious to the potential risks. Some people treat their health that way.  When they get an injury or a health problem they mask their symptoms with 'spare tire' medication, all the while continuing the activities that [...]

#27 – Dropping 420 lbs on your head at the Olympics. Can you imagine gold medalist weight lifter Matthias Steiner's next Chiropractic visit… 'hey doc, my neck’s sore and I’ve been getting these bad headaches. Think it could be my pillow?”  The father of Chiropractic, D.D. Palmer recognized 3 ‘T’s as being the major cause of nerve interference (aka Subluxation): Trauma, Toxins and Thoughts. The first 'T' is pretty obvious, but many patients overlook the last two. TOXINS come in the form of pesticides, artificial additives in our food, cigarette smoke and the most common of all, pharmaceuticals (yes, drugs are foreign to the body and put added stress [...]

  1. The approximate onset of chiropractic care (date) September 2011.   2. The problems, symptoms or ailments you were troubled with prior to chiropractic care: Mainly pain in the upper neck region leading to headaches and discomfort while sleeping and during neck straining activities such as reading or studying.   3. The number of weeks, months or years you had these problems: Was on and off for about a couple months. 4. The number of doctors seen and the type of drugs taken (if any) for these problems: None.   5. The extent to which your normal life was interrupted [...]

… do you have to eat it for the rest of your Life?  The answer is obviously no, unless your parents still have an iron grip on your diet.  No one can force you to do something that's good for your health and your Life if you don't want to. If you don't want to renew that gym membership, go to yoga classes or reduce your stress with meditation, that's up to you.  Don't feel like watching your sugar intake or taking your vitamins, the choice is yours to reap the benefits or face the consequences.  And the same goes for your Chiropractic care.  That rumor [...]

“To manifest and achieve abundance, you must achieve congruence- a condition where all parts of you are in alignment. The three key parts you must align are desire, belief, and self-acceptance.DESIRE- you must want it BELIEF- you must believe that you can have the life of your dreams.SELF-ACCEPTANCE- you must believe that you deserve success.”Dr. Gilles Lamarche , DC

If your hand was taped in one position for years, and someone cut the tape off and tried to move it, what do you think would happen?  Your hand would snap back to the position it was stuck in for all that time.  But with repetition - normal movement and alignment can be restored.  The same goes for your spine. When vertebrae are misaligned and stuck chronically over time (subluxated), supporting muscles and ligaments tend to 'hold' them in that position.  The first time a Chiropractor tries to adjust it, just like the taped hand, the vertebrae may shift back to the old position it was stuck in.  That's why 'one and done' rarely works [...]

"I love the key word here: Choice.  This article may hit home for many readers, that some of our actions are simply a "go with the flow" response, rather than a pure choice to be confident, happy, and emotionally successful" ____________ We tell ourselves, sometimes, that living a transformed life isn’t  that important, that it’s enough just to get by. We get wrapped up in our own concerns, particular points of view, or positions, and the idea of getting ourselves to a place where things can be great seems too big an undertaking. If somebody had a magic powder to come [...]

Stress is just a word, neither good nor bad.  It can be a great impetus for action. Think “stress” and adrenaline starts pumping, energizing the entire body.  Only when prolonged or carried to an extreme does chaos ensue.  Stress is an attitude, an illusion, our reaction to something we think is askew.  When we want things to be other than they are we create stress for ourselves and those around us.  Challenges take us out of our comfort zone, provide interesting opportunities and encourage growth.  In The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff writes, “Working in harmony with life’s circumstances, Taoist understanding [...]

Two hours and 30 minutes: It makes up less than 2 per cent of the total minutes in a week. It’s one-third of the typical workday. It’s even 44 minutes shorter than the movie Titanic. Two hours and 30 minutes also happens to be the recommended amount of time adults should spend being physically active each week. But as a report published last week in the prestigious journal The Lancet makes clear, few of us are meeting that goal – and it’s doing serious damage to our health. How much damage? We are literally dying because we don’t move enough. The report [...]

A friend suggested I look at a website called longform.org. It’s a good site, beautiful even, a clear, simple site, which collects new and old pieces of magazine feature writing, non-fiction articles, according to Longform, “that are too long or too interesting to be read on a web browser.”   And I like it very much. Even if its existence is, in a strange way, symbolic of nearly everything that makes me depressed about today’s atrophying newspaper and magazine culture. When “longform” becomes such a rare and special thing that it requires its own website to be easily findable, it feels [...]