Every day we are alive gravity is constantly pulling on our body. This pulling is a stressor to the human body. As we get older the joints, muscles, ligaments and tendons in our bodies tend to weaken and become much more vulnerable to this stress.

Proper alignment and mobility in the joints of the body is vitally important to weak muscle and joints. If any of the bones or joints are not in proper alignment or are not moving well this can create pain (such as low back pain or even headaches), stiffness, weakness, and instability. It is especially important to the aging body to maintain proper joint function. (more...)

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In March, Alternative Complimentary Medicine published a Florida State University study on the results of resistance training and chiropractic on fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome that disproportionately affects women. All of the people who are taking part in the research were women.

The volunteers were split into two groups. Both groups were put on a resistance training program. In English, that means working out with weights. One group was given chiropractic care additionally the exercise program. Strength, functionality and improvement of fibromyalgia symptoms were assessed after 16 weeks. (more...)

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In March, Alternative Complimentary Medicine published a Florida State University study on the results of resistance training and chiropractic on fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome that disproportionately affects women. All of the people who are taking part in the research were women.

The volunteers were split into two groups. Both groups were put on a resistance training program. In English, that means working out with weights. One group was given chiropractic care additionally the exercise program. Strength, functionality and improvement of fibromyalgia symptoms were assessed after 16 weeks. (more...)

alternative complimentary medicine · Chiropractic · chronic pain syndrome · Exercise · exercise regimen · Fibromyalgia · fibromyalgia symptoms · Pain · resistance training program · study

Subluxation is a term that is frequently encountered in chiropractic care, but what exactly is it? To explain, a vertebral subluxation is a vertebra that is not in its normal range of motion. The subluxation causes interference to the nervous system and disrupts its proper function because it is not in its proper alignment.

Serious health problems can result if a subluxation is ignored for long periods of time since they interfere with a primary pathway of the nervous system, the spinal cord. A subluxation is often first indicated through chronic pain, but subluxations are also often present without any pain and will remain relatively undetected for several years until the pain arises. (more...)

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When you happen to be in pain, you just want back ache relief right now. We will get into techniques to minimize your back pain soon, but it’s necessary to first realize the sources of back soreness so you may perhaps prohibit it from reoccurring once again.

There are various items that may well trigger you to suffer from back soreness and quite a few of them you happen to be in control of. One of the major factors people experience with lower or upper back soreness is poor posture. Numerous of us have extremely terrible posture, and just changing the way we sit or stand will have a huge effect on future back difficulties. (more...)

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I would guess that at one point or another you have had some type of pain in your body. This is a pretty safe assumption. I would bet that you have also had some kind of problem that was brought on by something very minor. Let me give you an example. You wake up in the morning and walk into the bathroom and as you go to squeeze the toothpaste out of the tube you drop the lid on the floor. So you bend down to pick it up and zap, lightning sharp pain shoots up your spine and back down again. You try to stand up straight but for some reason it feels like someone is pressing against your back causing you to hunch over and making it impossible to straighten up.

Here’s another typical pain invoking experience. You rush out the door because you are late for an appointment. As you settle into the car you remember that you forgot your keys so you hurry back into the house retrieve them and return to the car. As you start the engine and turn your head to back out of the driveway you feel like someone stuck you with a hot barbecue poker in the back of the neck causing you great difficulty to return your head to a normal position without feeling that searing pain that we all enjoy. So it may not be a toothpaste lid or the turning of your head that provokes you to fall to your knees in agony, but I am almost certain that you have experienced a similar type situation in which the action you performed such not have caused such extreme pain. There are a few different responses to this type of situation. (more...)

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The human body has a natural structure that allows it to perform its daily tasks under the forces of gravity without irritation or imbalance. Because of this structure, we are able to walk, run, stand, and sit with less stress. The natural structure can be seen in our posture. The posture is a window to the form that your spine develops through the stages of growth. As we are born, our spine starts to develop a shape that will give us the stability that our body needs to resist gravity. Initially, we have one curve from being in a fetal position.

As we start to hold our head up, there is a forward curve that forms in our neck. Then, we become more mobile and begin to crawl, which causes our belly to drop down and a forward curve to be formed in the low back as well. This whole process establishes a strong structure for us to be able to stand up and walk and run. When you look at a persons posture who has this structure, from the side, the ears will be line up directly above the shoulders, and the shoulders directly above the hips. From the front, the ears should be level with each other, the shoulders level with each, and the pelvis level. (more...)

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