Vertigo ranges from somewhat common to very common, with the National Institute of Health estimating 20% to 56% of the population experiencing vertigo each year. Vertigo is a sensation of spinning dizziness, the kind that feels as if the room and/or your surroundings are swirling around you. It is common in the elderly and in pregnant people. It is common…
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Why Sciatica is Such a Pain in the Butt
Sciatica is one of the most debilitating conditions anyone can experience. It can also be one of the more complicated conditions anyone can experience because of the extreme pain involved. What is sciatica? Sciatica most often arises from a pinched nerve in the lower lumbar spine, or the low back. This is significant because the sciatic nerve is formed by the…
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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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Movement is Life
Take one look at the recovery process for people undergoing hip or knee replacement surgery. Doctors and nurses have joint replacement patients up and walking the very next day after their surgery! So what’s the best kind of movement to do? Well, it could be anything. Anything that increases your vitality, your heart rate, your mood, etc. Walking, pilates, yoga,…
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2 Grocery Shopping Hacks to Make You Break Out into the Carlton Dance!
I mean, c’mon, who doesn’t want to break out into the Carlton Dance when their favorite produce is on sale?! Fruits and veggies are nothing but nourishing for the human body, cost nothing to produce because they grow naturally, and don’t require preservatives and additives. Yet, the unhealthiest junk food with the most ingredients in the stores that only PhD…
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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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Regarding 40+ Year-Olds’ New Year’s Resolutions
It’s never too late to improve our health by getting in shape. However, the body tends to protest getting in shape the older we become. This has become very apparent to me since turning 40 last year. The legendary Jack LaLanne scoffed at the idea of warming up in the gym, further explaining that you don’t get time to warm…
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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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Not Merely a Misalignment
A misalignment of the C1 or C2 is known in chiropractic as a vertebral subluxation, or simply just a subluxation. What makes a misalignment of C1 and C2 a subluxation and not merely a misalignment is that either vertebra can cause stress and tension on the ligaments inside the spinal canal. Along with pressure on the nerves exiting the spinal…
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Chiropractic & the Holiday Season
Life doesn’t pause for any of us during the holidays. Yet, if you just glance at any form of media (print media, social media, big screen, and small screen), you would think that life takes a month-long hiatus from Black Friday to Christmas Day to spend too much money, eat too many Christmas cookies (and food in general), sleep too…
