Category: Spinal Health & Wellness
Free to Do What Matters Most: Age, Weight and Your Joints
Maintaining a healthy weight can help keep your blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels within desired ranges according to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, also reducing your risk of cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. But working toward a healthier weight offers another benefit says one doctor of chiropractic, especially as you […]
Musculoskeletal Health Plays Important Role in Healthy Aging
As comedian George Burns once observed, “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” Burns, who lived to be 100, shared the sentiment of others who believe aging should not be an obstacle to a full and happy life. Yet chronic conditions and disability are common culprits that can rob the […]
Feeling Stressed? Simple Strategies Can Help
Although occasional stress can help improve our focus and performance, living with chronic stress can backfire by causing anxiety and depression. Stress can also have an impact on our musculoskeletal system, causing muscles to become tense and leading to conditions such as tension-type headaches and low back pain. We can better manage stress by understanding […]
Health Disparities Create Added Challenges for Those in Pain
Chronic pain impacts an estimated 20% of Americans, but it disproportionately affects certain groups, including older adults, women, veterans, adults living in poverty, and people in non-metropolitan areas, among others.1 This is an example of health disparity, a growing concern among chiropractors and other healthcare professions. In honor of National Chiropractic Health Month this October, […]
Simple Movement Strategies to Combat Chronic Pain
By Justin Brumfield, DC If there was a magic pill to eliminate pain forever, we would all take it. Until that day, there are simple strategies you can use to help manage your chronic pain. Simple, such as finding daily movement strategies that lessen your pain and enable you to keep doing what matters most. […]