Health Tips entries

Tweet Have you ever wondered how to relieve mid-back pain and tightness?  Here’s a quick and easy exercise you can perform at home that can help relieve tightness in the mid back (thoracic spine) and help put motion in the joints of your vertebrae.  All you need is a simple foam roller and some floor [...]

Tweet Temporary Pain Relief is often touted by drug manufacturers, and while these drugs can often relieve inflammation, they are often fraught with danger.  So, what is a solution you can trust to not only relieve your back pain, but solve it for good? My clinic and staff have a variety of non-surgical and non-pharmacological [...]

Tweet Here is a simple exercise that you can do at home with no equipment. It works the biceps femoris, semimembranosus, semitendinosus muscles. The purpose of this exercise is to increase knee strength and muscular endurance. By doing this exercise you can have the benefits of improved stability, functional strength and injury prevention. Begin lying [...]

Tweet Here is a simple exercises that you can do at home with no equipment. It works the multifidus, erector spinae, transverse abdominus, oblique muscles. The purpose of this exercise is to Increase low back strength and muscular endurance. By doing this exercise you can have the benefits of Improved stability, functional strength and injury [...]

Tweet Body: Here is a simple exercise that you can do at home with no equipment. It works the areas related to the shoulder such as deltoid – anterior, deltoid – lateral, pec major – clavical head, and coracobrachialis muscles. The purpose of this exercise is to Increase shoulder strength and muscular endurance. By doing [...]

Tweet Here is a simple exercises that you can do at home with no equipment. It works the multifidus, erector spinae, transverse abdominus, oblique muscles. The purpose of this exercise is to Increase low back strength and muscular endurance.  By doing this exercise you can have the benefits of Improved stability, functional strength and injury [...]

Tweet As people age, bone strength and muscle elasticity and tone tend to decrease. The discs begin to lose fluid and flexibility, which decreases their ability to cushion the vertebrae. Pain can occur when, for example, someone lifts something too heavy or overstretches, causing a sprain, strain, or spasm in one of the muscles or [...]

Tweet The age old question, when do I use heat and when do I use ice?…Using these therapies at home will speed up recovery from an injury and help to reduce pain when used properly. Rule of Thumb: For the first 72 hours following an injury, or the onset of pain, use ice. This can be [...]

Tweet Knee pain is one of the most common problems next to spinal conditions of the musculoskeletal system.  There are three categories – problems of the knee can be classified under: 1.    Trauma – injury to the knee (sports etc…) 2.    Arthritic changes in the knee 3.    Poor mechanics or overuse of the knee Trauma [...]

Tweet Have you ever wondered why allergies affect some people and not others?  What causes allergies and how can you inhibit their agonizing effects? Your immune system works to keep you 100% natural, organic, unadulterated, you! It recognizes and destroys bacteria, viri, pollutants, dust, pollen, drugs, tumors, debris and artificial substances (metal and plastic, however, [...]