Weight Training Safety Tips
Training with Weights Safely with Chiropractic Care Weight training is a terrific way to maintain and build muscle mass, especially as you age. Strength training, as it’s also called, helps with bone health, metabolism, and cardiovascular fitness. In fact, it’s a crucial part of a balanced fitness regimen that includes flexibility exercises and aerobic activity. However, if not done correctly, then you could injure yourself while training with weights. Full range of motion, proper technique
Stretches to Help Avoid Workstation Injuries and Fatigue
What You Can do to Prevent Injuries at Work Ergonomics is defined as the study of how people work in their environment. Ergonomics also has to do with workplace design factors that are intended to maximize productivity by minimizing employee fatigue and discomfort. While offices and other workplaces and job sites strive for optimal ergonomics for their employees, many still suffer from workplace fatigue and injuries. In fact, according to OSHA in the Ergonomics: The
Questions You Should Ask about Chiropractic Treatment Techniques
Answering Chiropractic Questions With Total Chiropractic Care & Wellness Whether it’s because of back pain, neck pain, headaches, car accident injuries, sports injuries or any other type of injury or body pain, more people are finding both short-term and long-term relief via their chiropractors. Indeed, an increasing number of people are turning to chiropractic care to help them achieve pain relief, improved posture and better overall health. However, if you’re new to the world of
Whiplash and Its Lingering Effects
If you think whiplash is just another word for neck pain, then think again. While whiplash might be called a neck strain or neck sprain, these terms include other types of neck injuries, according to MayoClinic.org. In fact, whiplash is a severe soft tissue injury that occurs when the neck is suddenly thrust forward and backward. Sudden, severe sideways movement of the neck can also trigger whiplash. As a result, muscles and ligaments that support
Chiropractic Approach to Treating Ear Infections
Chiropractic Care: Alternative Ear Infection Treatment Traditionally, chronic ear infections are treated with antibiotics coupled with a watch-and-wait approach. However, prolonged antibiotic use could cause your body to build up a tolerance for these drugs, making it harder for them to work to eradicate the infection – if it is, in fact, bacterial in origin. Many are not. Plus, if the infections are bacterial, then they could become stronger, more frequent and more drug-resistant while
Common Chiropractic Problems & Conditions
Chiropractic Care & Therapy For The Most Common Problems & Conditions Chiropractic care is most commonly used to treat back and neck injuries and associated pain, but did you know it can be used to treats a multitude of other conditions? Being under the care of a licensed chiropractic doctor can help a wide variety of conditions, everything from allergies, headaches/migraines, and asthma to carpal tunnel syndrome, TMJ, sciatica, and fibromyalgia. Here are some of
Chiropractic Care for Leisure Sports: Biking
Common Biking Injuries and How to Prevent Them Whether you’re into mountain biking or cycling, biking on or off road can be beneficial to your overall health. Biking for leisure along a paved trail is an excellent way to spend a sunny afternoon with the family outdoors while getting some exercise. For the more adventurous, mountain biking along a scenic outdoor trail provides an opportunity to explore nature off the beaten path. However, leisure, amateur
Chiropractic Care for Leisure Sports: Basketball
What Basketball Players Should Know about Injury Prevention As fun as a pick-up game of basketball is and as wonderful a sport it can be for cardio and fitness, it can put certain physical strains on your body. And whether you play basketball for leisure or for a team, you can be certain those stresses from either the outside – getting bumped or knocked down – or from internal pressures – to run faster, jump
Chiropractic Care for Skiing & Snowboarding Injury
Skiing & Snowboarding with Chiropractic Care CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR LEISURE SPORTS: Skiing & Snowboarding… What You Should Know about Injury Prevention. Skiing and snowboarding can be among the most rewarding and exhilarating of leisure sports. Nothing, most enthusiasts agree, compares to the excitement of a controlled glide down a scenic mountain trail, and the rush that crisp, cold air gives your senses. But there’s risks and danger in the thrills. Regardless of your skill level,
Chiropractic Care For Leisure Sports: Running
Running with Chiropractic Care CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR LEISURE SPORTS: Runners… What You Should Know about Injury Prevention First of a Series The U.S. running boom is now bigger than ever. Last year, more than 65 million of us–nearly one in every five Americans–engaged in some form of leisure running. Volumes have been written about this new American pastime, but little about how preventive chiropractic care can help keep everyday runners fit and healthy. More