Foot pain is rough. If you stop to think about it, each foot is a complicated mechanical structure, each with 26 bones, 33 joints, and more than 100 muscles, tendons, and ligaments. If even one bone misaligns, it could impact the entire foot. We need our feet, so that is not good news. When there is a misalignment at the…
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Numbness, Tingling, & Pain Down Your Arm
Numbness, tingling, and pain down the arm are some of the most common reasons for people to search for a chiropractor, and Dr. Brandon Harshe explains why chiropractic helps with these particular problems so well.
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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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Grocery Shopping the Perimeter of the Store
What Jack LaLanne meant was to avoid sugary, high fat foods that may lead to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and every other serious disease that we in western society need to worry about. The more raw fruits and veggies we eat, the better we will feel. A good rule of thumb is to do the bulk of your grocery shopping…
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The Rumor Metaphor & Your Nervous System
I remember a funny phenomena from my childhood that often took place in school. You probably do, too. It was something called a rumor. You know… you tell one person something, and by the time it gets back to you it’s something else. It happened all the time to people I knew and even to myself. Probably happened to you once…
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Health & Vitality Whether They Like It Or Not!
I grew up a very sick kid. Chronic bronchitis, asthma, and horrid allergies to name a few. My mom constantly fed me this asthma medication, and that allergy shot and flu shot, and this steroid, and that inhaler or breathing treatment, and this Robitussin MD and Dimetapp, and the list literally goes on and on and on… It wasn’t until…
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“Walking is a Man’s Best Medicine.” – Hippocrates
The healthy benefits of walking are the following: -increased cardiovascular and pulmonary (heart and lungs) fitness. -reduced risk of heart disease and stroke. -improvement of conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, joint and muscle pain or stiffness, and diabetes. -stronger bones. -improved balance. -increased muscle strength and endurance. -lowers body fat. How do you incorporate walking into your…
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The Truth About the Chiropractic Adjustment
We chiropractors are used to misconceptions. Like the following: “Yeah, but won’t I always need an adjustment after I get adjusted once?” My answer to this misconception? Not only yes, but you will want to! Think about it. If you want to learn how to play the piano, you don’t practice one time and play elaborate concertos the next day.…
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The Cramped, Twisted Truth About Traveling
Traveling is brutal on the human body, but especially the spine. Traveling involves a lot of sitting, whether you are driving a long distance, flying, or taking a train. Sitting naturally puts your body into flexion i.e. bent knees, bent hips, slouching low back, hunching shoulders, and a lot of forward head posture. In this day and age of desk…
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iHunch aka Forward Head Posture
iHunch is the newest nickname for forward head posture aka iPosture, poking chin posture, wearsie neck, computer neck, text neck, and dowager’s hump. This follows up on the last post where I talked about being in flexion for too long. By flexion I mean sitting, hunched forward, with the shoulders rolled forward, and the head drooped and chin jutting forth.…
