Posts Tagged ‘knowledge’

Enhance Spine Health With Simple, Everyday Easy Ergonomics

February 19th, 2012

If you are putting in more than eight hours of work in your desk bound job for more than a year now, and seldom take work breaks in between, you have probably developed muscle aches and pain on your neck, shoulders, and throughout your back. To enhance your spine health, you need consciously have a good mix of exercise and good sitting habits.

You body will hint to you when you need to begin taking note of the way your sit, the way you slouch in your seat, the type of heels you wear, and literally the lifestyle you lead. Body aches in different parts of the body like neck, shoulders, arms, legs and back can develop from overtime work, bad sitting habits, lack of exercise, and especially a lifestyle of decadence. In fact, even simple lifestyle changes like a new work desk or chair, a new car or a new sofa could literally give you bad body aches. » Read more: Enhance Spine Health With Simple, Everyday Easy Ergonomics

Spine Doctor - How to Choose

December 17th, 2011

Choosing a spine doctor should be a thorough, planned effort. When you have pain that is debilitating and your general practitioner or internal medicine physician can no longer address it, its time to find a specialist. The best kind of doctor will be one that has been referred to you, either by your primary care physician, a friend or family member. But because health insurance plans do not always let you chose the physician you were recommended, you may need to choose from a list. Below are some criteria for how to choose a spine doctor.

Board Certification

For a physician to be board certified in a particular specialty, he or she must undergo an approved education program and evaluation that assesses the medical knowledge, judgment, professionalism and clinical and » Read more: Spine Doctor - How to Choose

What is Chiropractic Medicine?

December 12th, 2011

The various systems of our body are very closely connected to one another, sometimes in ways that aren’t immediately apparent, and oftentimes what happens to one can affect what happens to each part of the body that’s connected.

If you spend any reasonable amount of time studying human anatomy, the future of the human body that is connected to the greatest number of other systems is the human spine.

Chiropractic medicine is the study of the spine, and the skeletal and muscular systems that it affects.

Painful disorders that seemed to originate from other parts of the body may actually be caused by irregularities with spinal alignment. It also doesn’t help that the muscles of the back are often underdeveloped in many people, particularly since so many working Americans spend most of their day sitting down in office chairs. This causes the unprotected spine, and the muscular tissue that surrounds it to be even more vulnerable to injury. » Read more: What is Chiropractic Medicine?