Everyone gets headaches at some time or another in their life—some more frequently than others, and some more intensely than others. Headaches are classified as primary or secondary. Examples of primary headaches are tension headaches, migraines, and cluster headaches. There are a lot of moving parts as to how and why primary headaches occur, but no one-size-fits-all reason that fits…
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Dr. Gonstead Said it Best!
Want to know what kind of chiropractor I am? Want to know how I practice chiropractic? Want to know what kind of chiropractor I had already decided I wanted to be before I ever got into chiropractic school? The answer to all those questions is… The kind of chiropractor Dr. Gonstead described above. THIS is the chiropractor I am, this…
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Chiropractor or Facilitator?
Every time someone gets up off the adjusting table, I hear things like “You fixed me!”, “You healed me!”, “You’re a miracle worker!”, and my personal favorite “You’re a magician!” But, none of that is true. Yes, I am a licensed chiropractor, but the truth of it is I’m just a facilitator. Each of us has an innate intelligence inside…
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No “BACK” Button on the Remote of Life
When we focus on the past, we often succumb to guilt and depression. When we focus on the future, we often succumb to fear and anxiety. How do I know this? Easy. I spent a lot of years with one foot in the past, the other foot in the future, but no feet in the present. What did that leave…
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What Sleep Deprivation Can Look Like
SLEEP is the absolute key to this change. The picture on the left is from early December 2015, late one night at the gym after a very stressful day. Our sixth baby was in the throes of 10 straight months of teething, so January and I weren’t sleeping much at all. Because of this lack of sleep, my mental health…
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3 Simple Tips to Avoid Sleep Deprivation
Being an American means that there is a good chance you aren’t getting enough sleep. Work, finances, and family matters take up most of our time. Add in the hours we spend each day staring at a laptop, phone, or the 4K Ultra HD TV mounted on the wall of the family room, and it’s fair to say we are…
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How Wearing A Purse Can Misalign Your Spine
If you put bricks in your purse to make it as heavy as you can, you might not want to wear it on just one shoulder. I know habits are hard to break and you need your hands free (kind of the point of a purse, right?), but when you put that added weight on one (1) shoulder instead of…
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6 Major Ways One Can Avoid Regular Heartburn
It’s safe to say most of us, or all of us, have had heartburn at some time or another. Pizza, hamburgers, oily pasta dishes, hot dogs, and anything fried may be heaven to the taste buds, but they are H-E-double-hockey-sticks on digestion. And with the popular heartburn medication Zantac being recalled in September due to contamination by a carcinogen known…
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Chiropractic and Numbness, Tingling, & Arm Pain
Numbness, tingling, and pain shooting down the arm are some of the more common reasons for people to go to a chiropractor. Anyone who has experienced the aforementioned symptoms knows what a challenge it is to do even menial tasks around the house. For example… Lifting a toothbrush up to your mouth becomes agonizing when that sharp pain shoots down…
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Treatment Must Go Beyond Lessening Pain, and Find the Root
We have all experienced an achy shoulder at some point in our life. Or numbness and tingling down the arm. If you are active, you might have experienced tendinitis in your elbow. If you sit in front of a computer at work all day everyday, you might be struggling with carpal tunnel syndrome. In early stage pain syndromes, extra strength…
