Have you ever given birth at home? More and more women these days (including many of our patients) are choosing to give birth at home, away from the lights, medicine and hospital procedures that go on when you give birth in a hospital. A recent study looked at how home birth is growing in popularity […]
This is an expansion of a post I put on Facebook recently: Isn’t it interesting how some things can seem so logical to one person, yet to another person it is illogical? Have you ever had someone disagree with you on something you fully understood and believed in? Well in this profession, this seems to […]
“In the United States, at least 9% of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD, and are taking pharmaceutical medications. In France, the percentage of kids diagnosed and medicated for ADHD is less than .5%. How come the epidemic of ADHD—which has become firmly established in the United States—has almost completely passed over children in […]
Do you know a child with ear infections? Are the parents frustrated with the repeated use of antibiotics? Do you want to see the research on it? While it’s hard to do placebo controlled studies in chiropractic, there are published papers on the success between the decrease in symptomatology associated with ear infections and the […]
Cancer. It scares all of us. I’m sure everyone knows someone who either has cancer, who’s possibly died from cancer or who has it in the past. What would you do if you had cancer? Have you thought about it before? Recently there was some controversy regarding Angelina Jolie having a double mastectomy because she found out […]
Four days before the marathon, in the middle of adjusting someone, I felt a sharp pain in my low back, and I suddenly could not standup. My interns took over, adjusting everyone the rest of the afternoon. By the following morning, my husband had to help me into a standing position. I was in tears […]
I am angry; really, really angry. I am sad, very sad. I am talking about the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday and it bothers me deeply. These bombings affected pretty much everyone. It affected every runner out there. It affected every Bostonian.And I happen to be both, so I am doubly hurt. Yes, […]
Wait, how did that happen? I didn’t do anything! I didn’t feel a pull, I didn’t fall, and I didn’t really do anything. However, at this point, I can barely run. It’s sort of like “sleeping funny” I guess, I’m not sure. Five weeks from today (on May 5th), I have plans to run my […]
Have you ever known someone who had a drinking problem, a drug problem, or a smoking problem? Is it okay to have one drink or a few drinks or none at all? Is it okay to be taking prescription drugs but not illegal ones? Either way, these addictions can be very difficult to break, not […]
So how many of you have ever lifted a 10-pound dumbbell, or even a 5-pound one, or a 25-pound one? What if you tried to run with it or walk up & downstairs with it, how much harder would it be? What if you had to clean your house holding onto that dumbbell? Then before you […]
