Archive for May, 2010

We’ve all heard stories about someone who was crippled or even killed by a Chiropractor. Sometimes we’re even warned by our family doctor not to let our Chiropractor adjust us as it may cause a stroke. Even the L.A. Times recently called the safety of manipulation into question. Just how safe is chiropractic treatment? What [...]

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Cryotherapy refers to a variety of cold applications that can be used in multiple ways to effectively treat sports injuries. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages with some applications for the treatment of acute injuries and some for chronic injuries.Cryotherapy can be used for a number of therapeutic purposes including the treatment of: [...]

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The human body is unique, the most complex organism in the world and every aspect of the body down to the tiniest microscopic cell reveals that the human body is fearfully and wonderfully made. The human body has 206 bones and there are 230 moveable and semi-moveable joints in the body. Joints are structures where [...]

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Sport is quite important  to our active lifestyle, but sports and exercise sometimes can  cause injuries. And it can happen as a result of: 1) Not warming up properly before exercising more vigorously. Before you start to any kind of sport, the first thing you must keep in mind, and that is to warm up yourself. [...]

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What is it? Due to various factors such as stress, age, bad posture, etc. joints can become fixated. Fixated joints can be painful, and they create tension in nearby muscles. Joint mobilization involves improving mobility in these areas that currently have less than normal movement. Joint mobilization helps to release these compressed joints and relax [...]

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Stop Eating Processed Sugar: First, let us give sugar its due.  When we eat any sort of carbohydrate, from pasta to bananas to spinach, our bodies break it down into glucose, a form of sugar.  Glucose is the basic energy supply that keeps us running.  So, we need sugar to live.   But notice that it [...]

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WEIGHT LOSS I have had my share of battling with weight loss. Dieting or changing your eating habits can definitely be a pain, but I guess it’s just like everything else in life when it all boils down to it, how bad do you want change? I have never been obese, but a little overweight [...]

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More and more people, who are over forty or those born in 1946 to 1964, commonly known as baby boomers, are realizing the benefits of taking up sports or exercising in a gym. This is well and good since exercising regularly severely cut the risks of contracting aging and obesity related potentially killer diseases such [...]

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We have long ago given up the tendencies of fighting for food and snatching large pieces of meat with our teeth, and chewing bones is also not looked upon as a good manner but still jaw related issues still create a lot of problems for us. In fact, ailments affecting the jaw bones can lead [...]

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