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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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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Some Thoughts on the Power of Meditation
Meditation is a huge part of my life. I have overcome a number of mental, emotional, physical, and financial challenges through the power of meditation. It’s a way for me to calm down the noise of the world, to be no body, no thing, nowhere, in no time and in no place, except for in my mind where I can…
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The 1 Thing You Should Not Do First Thing in the Morning
We all have stress. Parental stress, marital stress, financial stress, career stress, tax stress, stress over the state of the world, etc. It can really weight us down if we’re not careful. I’m a big proponent of using meditation to aid us in managing our stress more effectively. But there’s one thing we can all do every single morning that…
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5 Ways to Balance Your Mind, Body, & Soul During Social Distancing
If you’re like me, the buzz words coronavirus, pandemic, social distancing, quarantine, lockdown, and toilet paper have become very tiresome words indeed. So, I won’t go into any detail over them. I will, however, talk about some things we can all do to restore some balance to the mind, body, and soul during this unusual time period. 1.) Read. And…
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Don’t Let YOU Down!
When a patient steps into my office, that chiropractic adjustment doesn’t end until that patient is noticeably better and I have done all I can to balance the spine by removing a vertebral subluxation (misalignment of the C1 and/or C2 vertebra). Restoring proper balance to the spine, which removes pressure from the nerves and allows the body’s innate intelligence to…
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DIY Gentle Cervical Home Rehab
If you’ve followed me on social media for a little while, you know that I talk about reversing the amount of flexion our bodies undertake on a daily basis, i.e. sitting hunched in front of a computer or staring down at the phone for long periods of time. I won’t get into ergonomics like I have in the past, but…
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Black History Month in Chiropractic
Black history in the chiropractic profession is a very obscure subject. 95% of what I’m sharing here, I only learned in the last two days. I found these tidbit both interesting and eye-opening. Hopefully you do, too. Enjoy! 1.) Harvey Lillard was an African American owner/operator of a janitorial business in the Ryan building in Davenport, IA where DD Palmer…
