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The Importance Of Sleep

The importance of sleep has never been more relevant with technology and our busy lives having a detrimental effect to our sleep time and quality.

Chiropractic Care and Mental Health

Did you know that a survey of 34,000 people found that many who receive chiropractic care said that it helps improve their sleep and reduce stress?

Lower Back Pain

Scientists have worked out that at any one time, over 500,000,000 people are suffering from low back pain and it is now the leading cause of disability worldwide.

Ear Infections in Children

Ear infections that last for a long time are more common in kids who are a little older and these are often called glue ear or otitis media with effusion.

Growing Pains

We’ve all heard of growing pains right? But did you know that what we call growing pains aren’t actually associated with growing? They’re not actually growing pains at all.

The Prefrontal Cortex - Revisited

Did you know that this super-important part of your brain, the prefrontal cortex, is the most vulnerable part of your brain to the negative impacts of stress?

Safety of Chiropractic for Children and Babies

Before babies are born the pressure they’re under in mum’s uterus can cause changes in the way their bones move and fuse together and can influence the shape of their skull.

Break The Pain Cycle

Did you know that pain is created in your brain to let you know that something is not ok within your body? Feeling pain is good because it is actually helpful and informative.

Chiropractic Care and Migraines

Did you know that 1 in 6 people in the world experience migraines regularly? The World Health Organisation consider them to be the most debilitating of all neurological disorders.

The Opioid Epidemic

Did you know that heroin was produced by pharmaceutical companies as an alternative to morphine, because it was causing too many problems with addictions and overdoses?

Handbrake in Your Brain

Does it sometimes feel like you don’t have the strength that you usually have and like someone’s put the handbrake on your muscles? It could be the handbrake in your brain.

Reaction Times

How you react to a situation can be really important in many ways from helping to prevent accidents through to reaching your optimal potential on the sporting field.

Monitor your Health (HRV)

Most people know that having a healthy heart rate is very important. You don’t want your heart to beat too fast and you don’t want it to beat too slow.

Adjustments Increase Strength

Doctors and scientists are constantly looking for new approaches to help stroke survivors and one possible intervention that might help stroke patients is chiropractic care.

Chiropractic and Breastfeeding

Only about 1% of women exclusively breastfeeding when their baby is 6 months old which is the recommended time that women are advised to try and breastfeed for.

Keep Your Spine Moving

The ancient Greeks knew that movement and physical exercise was good for your brain. Modern scientists have also shown that it is one of the keys to promoting a healthy brain.

A Baby to a Chiropractor?

Chiropractors see babies to help improve spinal function to improve their brain’s ability to process what’s going on in their body and give them the best possible start in life.

Cost Effectiveness of Chiropractic

The cost of care can often factor our decisions about our healthcare. Sometimes people will suffer in pain because the are worried that they just can’t afford the care they need.

Chiropractic and Pregnancy

Did you know that about 75% of pregnant mums suffer from pain in their back or pelvis while they are pregnant which is why they seek chiropractic care to help them.

Maintenance Care

About half of the patients that visit their chiropractor do so because they want to maintain their health and well-being, This is what we call maintenance care.

Stress Affects your Health

If you have experienced a traumatic event, the experience could have affected your health and well-being as stress impacts your brain in a very specific way.

Chiropractic and the Jaw

Did you know that the the way your spine works influences the function of your jaw? A research team look at what happens to jaw strength immediately following an adjustment.

Chiropractic and Golf

An inch in golf can be the difference between winning and losing. That’s one reason professional golfers will do everything they can to help them search for the perfect swing.

High Blood Pressure

If you’re stressed out and/or you are not looking after yourself, a healthier lifestyle and getting your spine checked by a chiropractor can help you function at your best.

Visiting a Chiropractor

When you first see a chiropractor, you might wonder how often you need to visit. It depends dependent on your condition and their recommended care plan.

Who sees a Chiropractor?

More and more are now going to see a chiropractor, but you may be surprised to know exactly why chiropractic care is becoming so much more popular.

Cerebellum Function

Did you know that chiropractic spinal adjustments can change the way your cerebellum functions? The cerebellum is known as the ‘little brain’ within your brain.

What is that Popping Sound?

If you have been adjusted by a chiropractor you may have noticed a strange popping sound. Don’t worry – it is just the formation of gas within a joint.

Mild Spinal Dysfunction

Ear infections that last for a long time are more common in kids who are a little older and these are often called glue ear or otitis media with effusion.

Chiropractic and Headaches

Headaches are a sign that something is not right. Your brain will create for you the sensation of pain if it thinks there is something wrong or if there is a potential problem.

Spinal Function Impacts Brain Function

After years of research we know that spinal function impacts and changes brain function. Scientists call the changes that happen in our brains neural plastic changes.

Evidence Based Practice

Healthcare should be based on research, the experience of your provider, and your wishes and values. You deserve to know the scientific facts about your health care.

Pain and the Immune System

Research studies have shown that the way you feel pain all depends on what’s going on for you – and most importantly – what you think and feel about the situation.

Impact of Neck Pain

Did you know that people with neck had poor communication between their neck and their brains which meant that they weren’t as good at controlling their sense of balance.

Pain is our Alarm System

When your brain get particular messages in a specific pattern, it decides for you to make you feel pain to warn you that something might not be right, that you may be in danger.

Understanding Chronic Pain

Chronic pain is the second-most common reason people see a doctor and miss work. More than one-third of people with chronic pain become disabled by their pain to some degree.

Pain is Created in Your Brain

Did you know that the scientists now know that the feeling of pain is something your brain decides that you should experience – if it believes that there is a problem?

Safety of Chiropractic Care

Some people think that chiropractic adjustments might be harmful or dangerous. We review the research literature on this topic to see what the science actually says.

The Prefrontal Cortex

Scientific studies have shown that chiropractic adjustments can change the brain – the most likely taking place in an area of the brain called the pre-frontal cortex.

Adjustments improve Strength

Do you work out at the gym wanting to get strong? If you do you may be fascinated to know about this study, because the way your spine works actually influences how strong you are.

Chiropractic Care and Bedwetting

As parents you would have discovered that your child occasionally wet their bed at night, but usually this is something they grow out but for some kids this does not happen.

Chiropractic Techniques

If you have visited different chiropractors you probably noticed there were some differences. Chiropractors can study and learn many different techniques.

Chiropractic Helps Posture

Did you know that people who have bad posture usually end up with neck pain or headaches and people with neck pain often have additional breathing problems associated with it.

Chiropractic & Colic

Apart from being stressful, colic can be a cost to our society in terms of healthcare resources. The good news is there are some things that you can do to soothe your baby.

Chiropractic reduces Falls Risk

As we age our risk of having a fall increases. Falls are the leading cause of injury related hospital admissions and deaths in older people – and it’s becoming a major problem.

Chiropractic for Older Adults

Chiropractic care can be great for older adults. Research shows us that it can really make a difference to your health, function and quality of life as you age.

Chiropractic can make you less clumsy

Research studies have shown that improving the function of your spine can not only help your brain see what’s going on in your spine but what’s going on in your arms.

Improve Muscle Activation

Did you know there is a stack of scientific research that has demonstrated chiropractic care can positively affect many different aspects of health and function?

Symptoms are the tip of the Iceberg

If you are visiting your chiropractor today because you have a symptom, such as pain, it is important to understand that troublesome symptoms don’t appear out of thin air.

Chiropractic Affects your Brain

Your brain receives information about your body from the environment and your organs. The muscles in your body are also sensory organs.

How the Brain Perceives the World

Did you know that your brain and central nervous system are constantly changing? It’s amazing – from one day to the next your brain is not the same.

The Beginners Guide to Chiropractic

In this first introductory video we explore what chiropractic is all about, and how it works, then we briefly explore the evidence informed effects of chiropractic care.

Standard Process Supplements

Standard Process has consistently championed the cause of whole food supplements, offering a beacon of hope for those seeking genuine nutritional solutions.

5 strategies for stopping an anxiety attack in its tracks.

If you struggle with acute or chronic anxiety, you are not alone, and you are not powerless. There are many strategies you can employ to stop an anxiety attack in its tracks. Here are just a few.

How to arm yourself with positive thoughts for a happier, healthier life.

Most of us wait around for life and our circumstances to give us moments of amusement, happiness, joy, and gratitude, but what if I told you that you can take charge of how you feel and give yourself these moments every single day?

Breathe your way to better health.

Research is beginning to reveal that breathing is something everyone should be paying more attention to! There are important connections between poor breathing--from respiratory disorders, sleep apnea, and open mouth breathing--and processes of disease development. There are also clear connections between the practice of diaphragmatic breathing and positive benefits--like reduction in stress, negative affect (bad feelings), and anxiety.

A protein in the gut may help explain why some people can’t tolerate gluten

The immune system. It protects us against infection and bad bacteria. It helps us fight unfriendly invaders. It gets us back on our feet. But in a world full of new chemicals and substances--things our ancestors never encountered--our immune system can be triggered easily and frequently, and it can actually be what makes us sick.

Decoding egg labels

With so many different labels and terms used to describe eggs--cage-free, organic, free range, etc.--it can be hard to figure out which carton to buy at the grocery store. Here’s a breakdown of what those labels actually mean.

Meet your microbiome: understanding your risk for dysbiosis.

Our bodies are home to a flourishing world of microorganisms that assist with all the important functions and processes that keep us alive: the microbiome. The microbiome starts to become populated with microorganisms at birth, and it develops and changes with us throughout our lives. Learn about the influencing factors that can change your microbiome.

The real reason it’s so hard to quit eating sugar.

There’s a reason it’s so difficult to quit eating sugar and processed foods, why you can’t seem to stop thinking about it when you try, and why so many of us give in after a day or two--and it’s not just because they taste delicious!

Healthy Living: Where do I start?

Have you ever wanted to start your journey to healthy living, but felt too overwhelmed to even start? Then this article is for you!

Using what we know about the gut to treat depression.

Modern science has finally answered a question that has eluded researchers for centuries: what causes depression to develop? Understanding this vital etiological question has hampered clinicians in effectively treating this crippling, sometimes life-threatening mental illness that plagues 16 million Americans a year. The answer might surprise you, and it will revolutionize the way doctors treat depression from here on out.

Nutrition and detoxification.

Over the last century, massive leaps in industrial progress have streamlined just about everything we do; insecticides have allowed us to control vector-borne diseases; synthetic plastics and chemicals have revolutionized nearly every industry; breakthroughs in pharmaceutical science have completely changed the way we treat disease.

Chiropractic is about the whole body, not just the spine.

Chiropractic care has a different level of impact for each person. For some people, it’s life changing; it loosens the grip of chronic pain, promotes faster healing from injury, keeps you moving well longer and later in life, and transforms posture. For others, it doesn’t appear to do all that much.

Understanding the science behind chiropractic treatment.

“Labelled an alternative health care option by many, or even ‘pseudoscience’ by some, chiropractic often exists on the fringe of healthcare. It is little understood, frequently criticised, and continues to survive by virtue of the overwhelmingly positive results chiropractic patients experience first-hand all over the world.” -Dr. Heidi Haavik, The Reality Check: A quest to understand chiropractic from the inside out

Toxins are everywhere. Here’s what you can do about it.

Synthetic chemicals permeate our world and touch every aspect of human life: the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the clothes we wear, the products we use--it’s impossible to avoid them. These chemicals have given us the power to exert control over nature in a way that’s never been seen before and has led to breakthroughs in areas like disease control, sanitation, and world hunger.

Adaptogenic herbs and stress.

Everyone encounters stress in their lives. You know the feeling: your palms start to sweat, your heart races, your muscles tense, your breath quickens, and you feel supercharged. These feelings come from the combination of hormones released in the body when encountering a stressor--hormones that set off a cascade of biological events that almost instantaneously prepare you to react with a fight or flight response.

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