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How Chiropractic Care Can Help Relieve Your Migraines by Restoring Nervous System Function

How Chiropractic Care Can Help Relieve Your Migraines by Restoring Nervous System Function

Dr. Joshua Gelber2024-11-22T16:14:32-05:00

If you’re reading this, you’re probably struggling with migraines and looking for a solution that actually works. I’m Dr. Joshua Gelber from Annex Family Chiropractic in Toronto, and I’ve seen many patients find relief from migraines in an often overlooked way: by focusing on restoring your nervous system function. What Are Migraines and How Do They Affect Your Nervous System? Migraines are more than just bad headaches. You might also experience nausea, sensitivity to light and sound, and even visual disturbances. While the exact cause of migraines isn't fully understood, they’re believed to be linked to abnormal brain activity that affects [...]

How Chiropractic Care Can Help Relieve Your Migraines by Restoring Nervous System FunctionDr. Joshua Gelber2024-11-22T16:14:32-05:00

Finding Relief: How Chiropractic Care May Ease the Effects of Stress

Finding Relief: How Chiropractic Care May Ease the Effects of Stress

Dr. Joshua Gelber2023-09-29T11:20:01-04:00

In our busy lives, stress often becomes a constant companion, affecting us in various ways. It's important to understand how ongoing stress, whether physical, emotional, or chemical, can impact our health. Over a long enough time frame, with these stressors, spine and joint distress are unavoidable. This blog explores how chiropractic care can help alleviate the effects of stress on our neuromusculoskeletal system, including its positive impact on the nervous system. The Impact of Stress Stress can take many forms and have wide-ranging effects on our well-being, including leading to chronic inflammatory conditions such as fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, and more. Physical [...]

Finding Relief: How Chiropractic Care May Ease the Effects of StressDr. Joshua Gelber2023-09-29T11:20:01-04:00

Mental Health: How Chiropractic Affects Your Parasympathetic Nervous System

Mental Health: How Chiropractic Affects Your Parasympathetic Nervous System

Dr. Joshua Gelber2021-11-05T14:11:17-04:00

Our minds and bodies affect each other in a beautiful cycle that sometimes gets unbalanced. Chiropractic care and other natural self-care can positively affect both mental and physical health at the same time. As life gets busy with activities and holidays, we want to take a moment to remind you to take care of yourself, and share practical tips on how you can do that! Parasympathetic State and Mental Health Your autonomic nervous system has a big effect on your mental health. It has two main responses, sympathetic and parasympathetic. Let me explain why that’s important. The parasympathetic response is also [...]

Mental Health: How Chiropractic Affects Your Parasympathetic Nervous SystemDr. Joshua Gelber2021-11-05T14:11:17-04:00

I Dared Him To Answer This

Dr. Joshua Gelber2021-09-10T17:21:09-04:00

As we (hopefully) turn the corner toward spring, more and more folks will be gearing up to shed those unwanted winter quarantine pounds. So I challenged a personal trainer friend of mine and asked him: “If you had just a few minutes to transform someone’s fitness forever, and you could never speak to that person again, what advice would you give them?” Here’s the 4 gems he answered with: 1. Try not to do too much too soon. Waiting rooms are full of weekend warriors who injured themselves or fizzled out by going hard when their bodies simply weren’t ready. Sometimes [...]

I Dared Him To Answer ThisDr. Joshua Gelber2021-09-10T17:21:09-04:00

This Made Me Think Of You

Dr. Joshua Gelber2021-02-17T20:03:26-05:00

Allow me tell you a quick personal story. On Valentine’s Sunday, my son Hayden made a trip to the hospital for a few chin stitches, after a run-in with a pole during tobogganing. Now don’t worry – Hayden is ok, and enjoying the return to school almost as much as his exhausted parents! Aside from a big band-aid altering his jaw opening “comfort”, he was himself again just a few hours later. (Kids bounce back so fast, don’t they?) But when the dust finally settled after our hectic day, my chiropractor’s brain finished connecting a few dots…and it prompted this note. [...]

This Made Me Think Of YouDr. Joshua Gelber2021-02-17T20:03:26-05:00

7 Habits to Increase Your Energy

Dr. Joshua Gelber2021-01-28T13:21:04-05:00

If you’d like to know some simple ways you can have more energy as soon as today, then you’ll want to pay close attention to this list. The following 7 habits are part of the M.O. of almost all the world’s most high-energy people. And, since I’m on this same quest to reduce parental fatigue, I thought it was worth sharing! Enjoy! 1. Go to sleep earlier. Sleep is one of the founding pillars of health. Few things will do more for your energy, mood, and mindset than improving the amount of quality zzz’s you get each night. Try my 30 [...]

7 Habits to Increase Your EnergyDr. Joshua Gelber2021-01-28T13:21:04-05:00

Your Most Important Ritual For Working From Home

Dr. Joshua Gelber2020-09-29T15:00:45-04:00

Before we get into today’s content, a correction.In last week’s email I added an image of my new adjusting tool, the Accustim. However, depending on what email provider you’re with, this may have landed in your inbox instead as a description vs an actual image. Oops! Sorry about that. Here is, in fact, what it looks like: I promise it’s far less intimidating than it appears. 😉 One of the takeaways of that email was how the repetitive woodpecker-like action of the Accustim helps “interrupt” and repeat the manual touch of your chiropractor so the neurologic feedback is more consistent throughout [...]

Your Most Important Ritual For Working From HomeDr. Joshua Gelber2020-09-29T15:00:45-04:00

How Your Core Controls Your Stress (New Study)

Dr. Joshua Gelber2020-09-09T21:40:16-04:00

I’ll dive into the results of this fascinating new study in a minute. But first, some context: The stress response in your body is carried out by your adrenal glands. Parked on top of the kidneys, these little guys pump out wads of adrenaline when we need it for ‘fight or flight’ – when I describe your HRV (heart rate variability) test results, this is the sympathetic (left side) dominance I refer to. Critical in life or death situations, there isn’t much in modern life that requires it. Yet most of the time our stress responses are running in the background, keeping [...]

How Your Core Controls Your Stress (New Study)Dr. Joshua Gelber2020-09-09T21:40:16-04:00

We Can’t Let Fear Win

Dr. Joshua Gelber2020-08-18T21:38:28-04:00

Here’s an interesting fact for you. Did you know that multiple studies show gastrointestinal (GI) issues are one of the hallmarks of autism? In 2012, researchers at the National Institute of Health noted that 92% of children with autism show GI distress. The CDC estimates that children with autism are 3.5 times more likely to suffer chronic constipation or diarrhea. It’s been proposed that the link is due to pathogenic gut bacteria. These tend to overgrow (and overpower) the good gut bacteria. In one study, UWO researcher Dr.MacFabe was able to produce autism-like symptoms in rats by injecting them with a fatty acid produced [...]

We Can’t Let Fear WinDr. Joshua Gelber2020-08-18T21:38:28-04:00

The Truth About Self-Compassion

Dr. Joshua Gelber2020-08-04T21:37:35-04:00

Have you ever tried telling yourself to do just five minutes on the treadmill? What almost always happens? Once you’re there…you keep going! This is partly psychological; it feels silly to get off after five minutes when you’ve already gone through the trouble of hitting the start button. But it is also physiological; in those five minutes all of your body’s processes wake up. Your muscles and brain are almost instantly better oxygenated as your breathing and your circulation increases. And as you persist, your movement becomes easier. Exercise also stimulates production of BDNF, a crucial brain chemical that reshapes the synapses. In [...]

The Truth About Self-CompassionDr. Joshua Gelber2020-08-04T21:37:35-04:00

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