What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a form of health care that is based on the understanding that good health is dependent on a normally functioning nervous system. Your brain runs your body, how your brain communicates with… Read More
What Does A Subluxation Do To Me?
The first component deals with the joints (vertebrae) of our spine. The vertebrae are out of proper alignment, which leads to increased stress on the joints, discs and ligaments. It creates a reduced range of motion in our spine and a loss of balance… Read More
Pain, Subluxation, and Chiropractic
According to a recent survey, individuals suffering from severe back pain or muscle pain are reportedly getting little relief from the drugs they take and are dissatisfied with the medical attention that they get… Read More
Sports and Athletics
Chiropractic can give your athletic endeavors an edge. That’s why you’ll find chiropractors as “team doctors” for professional, college, high school, elementary school and public teams. That’s also why .. Read More
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), also called “repetitive trauma disorder” or “overuse syndrome” (OS), occurs when the median nerve of the wrist is irritated… Read More
Shoulder, Arm & Hand Problems
Your brain “talks” with the rest of your body through a vast communications system mostly made up of nerves. Some nerves go straight to their destination and others first form nerve networks called a … Read More
THE SAFEST HEALTH CARE PROFESSION
As some people may have heard in the media of the past, there is a small group of medical professionals who claim that chiropractic care can cause a cerebral vascular accident (stroke) from adjusting a person’s neck… Read More
Injured At Work!
Many people seem to have misconceptions about their rights for chiropractic care if they are injured at work and they are looking for the care to be covered under WSIB (Workers Safety Insurance Board)… Read More
For Skeptics Only
“I don’t believe in Chiropractic” While chiropractic is unique and different, it certainly is not something that you have to “believe in”. Chiropractic, like gravity, works whether you believe in it or not. Chiropractic …Read More
Ritalin and ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)
Today’s world seems to have a large portion of our children on mind-altering drugs like Ritalin. Are our youth really in that much health distress that we need to drug them up so often and for so many … Read More
ADHD and Natural Care
The first issue to deal with is the occurrence of ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder). There are numerous children given this diagnosis in our society. One study showed that 1 in 20 children … Read More
Benefits of Chiropractic Care
When I try to give an overview of how Chiropractic care benefits the health of people, I can be long winded. The reason is simply that the list of benefits is a very long one. When people understand that … Read More
What allows a body to heal?
Do we have the ability to heal on our own or do we need outside intervention that will tell our bodies how to heal? These questions are larger in people’s minds now than they were even a decade ago. The results of surveys done all over the world people indicate that people now … Read More
The drug problem!
In the past decade, there has been an obvious shift in society of how one thinks of health care. A few decades ago, there was just a blanket acceptance that drugs and surgery would solve all our health problems. Through numerous surveys … Read More
The Wisdom of the Body!
Are you healthy if you feel good? If you said, “Yes” ask yourself if you ever felt good one day and then came down with a cold, the flu or some other condition the next. You probably felt fine the day before …Read More
Why Should I Return If I’m Feeling Fine?
By the time you have disease symptoms, your body could have been in a state of dis-ease for weeks, months, or even years! …Read More
Headaches
Studies have shown that roughly a third of all people suffer from headaches. The causes of headaches are many; they include such things as spinal misalignment, certain foods, toxic fumes, preservatives and … Read More
Phases of Spinal Care
How long you decide to benefit from chiropractic care is always up to you. If you ask different people why they go to chiropractors you will get different answers. If you ask someone who was relieved …Read More
Whiplash
What causes whiplash? A whiplash injury occurs when the head and neck is thrown very quickly in one direction and then rebounds in the opposite direction. In other words, the head is whipped around …Read More
Our Inner Healing Powers
In every one of us, we have healing powers within that most of us are not aware of. This power is called our innate intelligence. We all believe that our brain runs our bodies, right? If we believe this, we must … Read More
Posture!
Throughout life, we have heard many times over that we should have good posture. The way we stand, sit, and hold our body structure every day ends up determining what stresses are placed on our bodies, especially our spines… Read More
Asthma
Most likely, someone you know is suffering with this condition. It could be your child, a parent, or someone close to you. There are thousands of Canadian children and adults afflicted with this breathing… Read More
Warning signs of an unhealthy spine
Numerous times in the past, people have asked if there are ways for people to check family and friends at home to see if they have an unhealthy spine. There are ways to get a general idea. This will not lead to a … Read More
Accidents and trauma
If you have been in an accident or suffered a trauma, you need to have your spine checked by a Chiropractor for subluxations. During the accident, any subluxations that were created in your spine often remain in …Read More
Sciatica and leg pain
The sciatic nerve is the longest and largest in the body. When it is inflamed, this condition is called sciatica. Not all leg pain is sciatica, but most all sciatica involves leg pain. Sciatica sufferers often have … Read More
Why Children need Spinal Check-ups
“Chiropractic care for my child? Why? His back doesn’t bother him.” How often chiropractors have encountered parents who appreciate the importance of regular checkups for their child’s teeth, hearing, eyes and ears but draw a blank when it comes to a… Read More
Pregnancy and Chiropractic
Can pregnant women get help from chiropractic care? Pregnancy can be a time of joy and exciting anticipation, yet for some the experience is coloured by pain, discomfort and illness. This is often because pregnant women undergo many structural and hormonal changes that affect… Read More
Infants Need Chiropractic
All infants need a healthy spinal column. All babies need to have their spines checked by a Doctor of Chiropractic for the presence of vertebral subluxations or spinal nerve stress… Read More