If you’re looking to stay fit then one of the best ways of maintaining or improving fitness is to play sports. Many of us like the idea of being fitter, not getting out of breath while climbing stairs and being a size or two smaller in the clothing department, but going to the gym or [...]

If you are frustrated you are getting heavier and your clothes are getting tighter through the years despite trying every diet and exercise program available, maybe you aren’t addressing the cause/root of the problem. Maybe your body’s oil filter(liver) is clogged. Maybe your fat-burning hormones are not working. Maybe you have chronic pain or an [...]

Sports Physiotherapy-The New Sports Science Physiotherapists are now expanding their techniques and approaches to sports injuries with a new method of treatment called sports physiotherapy. Except for massage, it involves teaching sportsmen on the easy way to prevent sports injuries and providing first aid to wounds due to sports. Full time athletes will of course [...]

The peripheral nerves are bundles containing many individual nerve-fibers, and are similar to telephone cables carrying many individual wires. There are two basic types of nerve-fibers–motor and sensory. The motor fibers carry electrical impulses outward from the spinal cord to the muscles, causing them to contract. The sensory fibers carry electrical impulses inward from the [...]

There are several steps to take when considering a chiropractic adjustment. First, consider whether Chiropractic is you best option for you and your health. Here are a few items to consider: 1. Chronic pain in your joints, muscles or head hasn’t improved with traditional medical treatments. 2. Your job requires you to sit for long [...]

When a nerve is pinched in the neck’s spinal column, pain can be such a prominent symptom that more subtle, but diagnostic, aspects are overlooked. By way of background, the spinal cord in the neck is connected to the nerves of the arms through pairs of spinal nerves. These spinal nerves, also known as roots [...]

Low back pain or lumbago is a common musculoskeletal disorder affecting 80% of people at some point in their life. The can be either acute, sub-acute or chronic in duration. Chiropractic care involving spinal manipulations is considered a safe, efficient treatment for low back pain. Chiropractic is a health care system devoted to the non-surgical [...]

Due to health care education, more people, who are over forty, those born in 1946 to 1964, commonly known as the 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 [...]

Almost 87% of the overall body protein of the mammals is comprised of collagen which happens to be a natural skeletal protein. The skeletal and the connective tissues draw their main structural support from it. The skin, muscle, tendon and the bone all have fibers of collagen woven together to constitute a frame-work thereby making [...]