I recently separated my ribs via Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and here is my assessment on the healing process and how chiropractic is helping me.
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Workplace Stress and Your Health
Stress is the cause of virtually all symptoms and diseases we as humans experience. Be it environmental stress, mental or emotional stress, or physical stress, too much of it and the body cannot adapt properly. Once that happens, bodily systems get overloaded by having to take up the slack for other malfunctioning systems. Kind of like robbing Peter to pay…
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Is Uncomfortable the New Comfortable?
We don’t learn and grow when things are great. We don’t improve when everything is perfect. We don’t reach success when everything is smooth sailing. In fact, to achieve that success, the only way to do so is to experience adversity and overcome it. Through that process of overcoming adversity is the only way we will learn what wasn’t working…
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My AZBJJ State Championship 1st Round Loss
In the spirit of being transparent, I’m posting my first round loss at this year’s AZBJJ state championship on June 24th. After rewatching this match, it’s painful to see all the missed opportunities I had and mistakes I made, but that’s how you learn and improve in Jiu Jitsu! The last few seconds of the match got cut off, but…
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Slow Down and Pace Yourself
Sometimes what’s needed most in our busy world is to slow down and do less, not speed up and do more.
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My First Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Competition!
This past Saturday, March 18 was my first Jiu Jitsu competition and it was a lot of fun! It was the Winter Compnet competition at Desert Ridge High School in East Mesa. Despite being 44 years old, I competed in the regular adult division because I wanted to see where I stood. It was about what I expected. My first…
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Your Tilted, Twisted Pelvis and the Low Back Pain it Causes
Everyone who comes into my office for low back pain has a tilted, twisted pelvis. In fact, just about anyone who goes into any chiropractic office for low back pain has a tilted, twisted pelvis The pelvis works as one giant mechanism, consisting of two pelvic bones and the sacrum. Each pelvic bone is actually three smaller bones fused together:…
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Your Elbow and Numbness & Tingling in Your Hand & Fingers
Numbness and tingling down one or both of the arms is a pretty common symptom in a chiropractic office, and can often be correct by an adjustment to one or more vertebrae in the lower part of the cervical spine (neck), sometimes even a misaligned first rib. Further down the arm—like the forearm, wrist, hand, and fingers for example—and numbness…
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Regarding TMJ Disorder or TMJ Dysfunction
Temporomandibular joint disorder, more commonly known as TMJ disorder or TMJ dysfunction, is a dysfunction of the jaw, characterized by pain or tenderness of the jaw, and pain in one or both of the temporomandibular joints, sometimes radiating to the ear. It can be accompanied by clicking, occasional or frequent loud popping, and can even lock up at times, making…
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Foot Pain, Ankle Pain, & Chiropractic
We have all experienced pain in our foot or ankle at some point or another, whether it’s plantar fasciitis or a sprained ankle, etc. But did you know you can get your feet and ankles adjusted? It’s true! I adjust a lot of feet and ankles on a daily basis. If you stop to think about it, each foot is…
