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Does your Doctor Follow the 2017 Guidelines for Low Back Pain Treatment?

Published by Dr. C.J. DeFabio, D.C. | March 18, 2017

Chiropractic Treatments for Lower Back Pain Western medicine is notoriously known for addressing the symptoms of low back pain, the pain itself, without actually dealing with the problem at its roots. In the event of low back pain, painkillers, narcotics and muscle relaxants are typically prescribed, as well as anti-inflammatory drugs, but the result is often the same, chronic back problems that never go away. If the actual reasons for low back pain are not…
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Nutritional Support for Your Musculoskeletal System

Published by Shannon Ford OT/L, IMP-2M | September 7, 2016

Nutrition for Muscles Focuses on Total Health & Wellness Many people believe that chiropractic adjustments are all there is to chiropractic treatment. But nothing could be further from the truth. Proper nutrition, for one, is as integral an element of the chiropractic model of wellness and health as spinal adjustments or any other forms of treatment. There are many foods, herbs, vitamins, and minerals that give your body what it needs to heal the musculoskeletal…
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Want Healthy Muscles And Bones? Start By Increasing Magnesium Consumption

Published by Dr. C.J. DeFabio, D.C. | September 6, 2016

Want Healthy Muscles And Bones? Start By Increasing Magnesium Consumption Magnesium does a little bit of everything, making it an essential mineral in the human body. Those who don’t have adequate magnesium concentrations are likely to suffer from a wide range of ailments that could easily be treated, if the problem was addressed at its roots. Sadly, the greater majority of people in the Western world suffer from a magnesium deficiency, forcing health practitioners to…
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Guidelines for Choosing a Quality Nutritional Supplement

Published by Shannon Ford OT/L, IMP-2M | August 19, 2016

Guidelines for Choosing a Quality Nutritional Supplement Chiropractic treatment often involves more than the manual manipulations you receive from your chiropractor during a session. It also involves lifestyle changes (or rather: improvements) that can help enhance and maintain the benefits received in a chiropractic session throughout your day-to-day life. One such lifestyle change that might come up for you is in the area of nutrition. Your chiropractor might recommend certain dietary changes and/or the addition…
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What is Qi and Meridians?

Published by Dr. Marlena Siroki, DACM, L.Ac. | August 19, 2016

What is Qi (pronounced “Chee”)? Qi (also seen to as “Chi”, “Ki”, and “Ch’i”) is the active energetic principle that forms part of every living thing It is the intangible but very real spiritual energy or life force underlying all living beings. Though it has no literal translation in English, it is most closely translated as “breath” or “air” or “vapor”, and often referred to as “energy flow”, “cosmic energy” or “life force”, Qi regulates a person’s…
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