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Healthy Spines Through Smart Sleeping

February 15th, 2012

Spinal health is critical to general physical wellbeing. Like a mast on a ship, the spinal column directs and controls movement. Its stability is vital, and its maintenance is a constant task that needs to be consciously addressed each day. One need not scan medical journals for studies and statistics on the back, the importance of a high-performing spine is known, the task now is to ensure its health.

Many individuals do not have the time or energy to be working on their spine during the course of the day, this is just as well, your best chance at improving spine and back health is to learn to sleep the spine-healthy way.

Well known advice from physicians suggests that humans should give themselves six to eight hours of sleep per night. There is a school of thought that says that one may catch up on their slumber at a later time and make up for sleep deficits incurred during a night of sleeplessness. To be clear: be it from work or play, slumber lost is not slumber that can be “made-up.” » Read more: Healthy Spines Through Smart Sleeping

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?

Chiropractic For Back Pain

November 22nd, 2011

Introduction to Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic is a continuously growing practice of non-invasive procedures used to alleviate pain and headaches. It is a healthcare approach focusing on the relationship between the body’s structure, specifically the spine, and the body’s functions. Practitioners may use a variety of approaches, but primarily they perform adjustments to the spine with the goal of correcting alignment problems and encouraging the body’s natural ability to heal itself. Misalignments in the spine can interfere with the flow of energy needed to support health.

The term chiropractic itself comes from the Greek words cheir (hand) and praxis (action) to describe treatment done by hand or hands-on treatment. Today, chiropractic in the United States is considered to be a Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Some chiropractic procedures can even be traced back to ancient times. Chiropractic is based on three key concepts:

  • The body has an ability to heal itself
  • The body’s structure, especially the spine, and the body’s functions are closely intertwined and this relationship affects overall health
  • Treatment aims to rectify this relationship between structure and function enabling the body to do what it does naturally, heal itself » Read more: Chiropractic For Back Pain