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As a chiropractor I laud that benefits of exercise to all my patients. In fact, I offer community lectures on the subject because I believe that a regular routine of both aerobic and weight-bearing exercises is important for overall health and longevity. Many of my patients use lightweight dumbbells in their workouts and that’s great. But, it’s important to use them correctly in order to avoid injury. So, I’m happy to pass along an exercise that outlines the proper use of dumbbells, offered by Karen Voight, the creator of a line of fitness DVDs, including “Sleek Essentials.”

• Grasp a 3- to 5-pound dumbbell in each hand and stand with your feet hip-width apart, toes facing forward. Bend your knees and sit back on your heels to avoid putting stress on your lower back. Begin with your elbows bent and tucked in to the sides of your body, palms facing forward.

• Use your abdominal muscles to support and brace your spine as you simultaneously bring your left arm in front of you and your right arm behind you.

• Pause when your dumbbells are at shoulder level and make sure your elbows do not “lock out.”

• Bend your arms and return to the start position. Repeat the exercise, this time extending your right arm to the front and your left arm to the back.

• Continue to alternate arms for a total of 16 repetitions. Rest for 30 seconds and repeat for a second set.

For more information, write Karen Voight

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Chiropractic Marketing

Social Media is the “hottest” topic on the Internet today. If you’ve been thinking about getting on board, but don’t know where the platform is, let’s take a minute to talk about the “Who, What, When, Where, and How” of social media and you, that’s “Who.” Then you can make up your mind whether or not to add Social Media to your chiropractic marketing strategy.

Social media marketing is probably very much like, and entirely unlike, any chiropractic marketing strategy you’ve considered. In the “very much like” category, you wouldn’t try any type of marketing plan without taking the time to understand what you’re doing and what you want to get from it. What are your goals? Once you’re clear about what you want, you’ll be able to use social media to your biggest advantage.

When you are ready to begin your social media effort, but before you start, it will be crucial for you to make sure that you “own your name” on all the social media outlets, which is to say, be certain that your name or the name of your clinic is attainable so that you can use the identical same name on each and every one of the social channels you decide to use. When you’re ready, there’s a service, which is totally free, that can help you with your search. That who is knowem.com. This service will find out where your name is and/or if it’s attainable or not on a substantial number of social media sites.

When you have “captured” all of your social media accounts, the next step is to choose where you want to be active. Because you have a clinic to run and patients to see, starting with only a few social media sites is best and may end up being all you’ll need. That way you won’t get unduly busy in too many channels. How do decide which sites are best for you? Choose the social media site where the most action is, which are facebook, twitter, linkedin, and Youtube

What successful social media activity will do for you is build a true presence in your community. What you should never do “sell” on your social media sites, that means don’t sell your clinic, don’t sell services or products, don’t sell anything! The objective of social media is for you to go out and network with the community. By all means, let them become aware what you do, but do it by participating in the conversation. There is truly no difference between the way social networking works and the way you normally network offline. It is important to be clear on this point, people on social media do not want to be sold to! What might be useful to think of social media sites like a neighborhood backyard barbecue. People are standing around talking about who they are and what they do, and then someone asks you what you do. Or, perhaps you start the conversation by (just) saying, “Hi, I’m Dr. ____. The same kind of interaction applies with social media. Social media sites should be handled the same way you’d “work” offline networking opportunities to promote yourself, i.e., answer the questions and concerns that get potential patients interested in the who that’s you!

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One of the things that you can do to gain relief from your arthritis and back pain is to go to see a San Jose chiropractor. Chiropractors are doctors who concentrate exclusively on therapies relating to the muscular and skeletal system, and arthritis is a joint affliction. Chiropractic care has assisted many people in slowing the process of arthritis by helping their joints to move. Movement is vital for joint health. A good chiropractor is extraordinarily competent in treating back pain, even when it is caused by arthritis

If you have never gone to a chiropractor before, you might be a bit concerned about what is going to occur once you are in the office. It might help to give a quick overview about what you can expect. You will be asked about your medical history, which will probably include a family history of arthritis. The chiropractor will ask about your current lifestyle and may offer explicit alterations that will be advantages in decreasing the inflammation caused by arthritis. And, finally, you will receive a thorough examination. After the examination is complete, the chiropractor will let you know if chiropractic care can help your back pain, as well as relieve your painful arthritic symptoms. At the end of your visit!Then you will be told about the particular treatment you will need.

A chiropractic adjustment relieves pain gently and naturally, and it is a painless process. And, the most wonderful aspect of going to a chiropractor for your back pain and arthritis is that you can feel certain that the cause of your pain is being addressed, and that the relief you experience is not covering up the symptom of pain, but genuinely taking care of the origin of your condition.

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Aah, summertime. Time to head for the beach or a nice sunny park. So, bring out the picnic basket and blanket, the toys and swimsuits, and the sunscreen and tomatoes. Tomatoes!? Yep, that’s what I said. Tomatoes are high in lycopene, an antioxidant, which not only increases collagen in the skin and adds up to fewer lines and furrows, but actually helps to protect the skin again sunburn. According to Prevention Magazine, a recent study found that volunteers that consumed five tablespoons of tomato paste daily for three months had 25 percent more protection against sunburn.

It’s always nice to come across “natural” alternatives to chemical products, isn’t it? And, in this case, it’s a tasty choice. But, that said, it is always a good idea to cover up and protect your skin if you are going to be out in the sun for extended periods. Because, let’s face it, a juicy tomato or pasta marinara can go just so far!

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Advantages of in-house chiropractic internet marketing

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To make the situation worse, for some individuals, and perhaps you’re one of them allergic reactions can go from just plain irritating to dangerous and life-threatening as the air passageway begins to close and breathing becomes labored. This progression of symptoms can commonly cause a state of panic.

In fact, if you have allergies, it may seem that, from time-to-time, your environment is an intensely hostile place and that the world around you is, literally, out to get you!

You may wonder why it is that other individuals seem so unaffected by the environment, while your body reacts, or rather overreacts, to it. It’s a good question. The answer is because some people, like you, have a hyperactive immune system that actually “freaks out” when you come into contact with common substances such as pollen, dander, shellfish, or nuts.

Have you been wondering if your Ventura Chiropractor can help your allergies? The answer may surprise you. A lot of individuals have noticed that they experience ease from their allergy symptoms after chiropractic treatment, even though chiropractic care doesn’t actually treat allergies.

This relief occurs because chiropractic adjustments affect the whole nervous system, including the autoimmune system. When there’s an impedance in the nervous system, along with other problems, the autoimmune system, whose responsibility it is to help you to adapt and respond appropriately to your environment, can become under-active or overactive. In the case of your allergies, the impairment is the latter (it becomes overactive).

Because chiropractic adjustments reduce or eliminate disturbances in the nervous system and bring back balance and harmony to the body, the manipulations bring that same homeostasis to the auto-immune system as well. A strong immune system reacts appropriately to so-called allergens in the environment.

So, as explained above, your chiropractor doesn’t directly treat allergies. You could say, instead, that a decrease in your allergies is simply the by-product of a healthy nervous system. If you’d like to get back into harmony with your environment as soon as possible, make an appointment with Ventura Chiropractor today.

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Corona Chiropractor

Where hip pain relief is concerned, your chiropractor in Corona offers valuable non-invasive, drug-free treatment. Hopefully, it goes without saying that surgery should be a last resort whenever possible. So, before you decide on hip surgery, think about the following questions: Is it out of the question for you to get a good night’s sleep because your hip pain wakes you up in the night? When you get up in the morning, and/or when you get out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it difficult at first to move your legs? Do you feel pain in one or both hips when you cross your legs or rotate or twist your hips? If so, you may have imbalances and alignment problems in your lower extremities that, in addition to causing your hip pain, can eventually lead to degenerative joint disease in your hips if not treated. The good news is that chiropractic treatment can help whether or not degenerative changes have already begun!

It may be true that you’re getting older and your hip joints just aren’t what they used to be. But, did you know that your hip pain and related problems, which normally signal age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be generated by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In many cases, as opposed to being the root cause of your pain, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is more often than not the outgrowth of a past injury (or injuries) to your hips.

Frequently, hip problems have to do with asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion, like walking for instance. If you “pronate” when you walk, with your toes pointing away from your body (like a duck), it is inevitable that you will feel pain in your hips due to the asymmetrical stress on your hip joints as your body attempts to compensate. Fortunately, you can make changes in your gait pattern at any age, and your chiropractor in Corona can help you to do it.

In addition, you may have developed gait changes as the result of an ankle sprain or knee strain, and since “the knee bone’s connected to the hip bone,” these biomechanical changes generate pain in the hip(s). Of course, if not corrected, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, namely, the wear and tear that causes degenerative changes.

Other circumstances that can frequently impact the hip joints are starting a new job or beginning a new sport that necessitates your moving your body in unfamiliar ways. Also, ferrying a child (or grandchild) on one hip can cause hip pain. Even your sitting position or driving for prolonged periods of time on a regular basis can cause hip injury and pain.

Isn’t it good to know that not every pain is caused by “old age,” though we may start to feel more pain as a consequence of the progressive capacity of untreated injuries.

Your chiropractor in Corona will treat our hip problem directly, and as part of your chiropractic management will provide individualized rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also evaluate your gait and may suggest simple pattern changes.

Your hip pain won’t vanish by itself. Hip pain is a signal that there’s an injury that needs treatment. If ignored, there is a good possibility that at some point you will require that hip replacement surgery. So, don’t wait until it’s too late. Your Corona Chiropractor can get you out of pain, get your body back into balance, and help you get to back to enjoying your life again!

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As a chiropractor, it is my professional point of view that surgery should be the last resort for conditions of the back, hips, and knees. Chiropractic treatment is a conservative, non-invasive and drug-free approach to problems relating to the musculoskeletal system. That said, I am also of the persuasion that surgery for most health problems should be a last resort as well. As I’ve said before, there is no such thing as a “minor” surgery. All surgeries, no matter how small, carry big risks. But, not only is surgery risky, there is no “undoing” this permanent attempt at correcting a problem. However, until just a few years ago, I would not have imagined that weigh loss would fall under the “only have surgery as a last resort” category. But, more and more adults are having bariatric surgery or other weight-loss surgery as an attempt to remedy their obesity. Again, surgery is surgery, and this type of surgery has high risks for already “at risk” obese adults. What has been even more disturbing to me is the fact that some parents are opting for surgery for their obese children, even though the risks of bariatric surgery are not only substantial in general, but the long-term safety and effectiveness in children remain largely unknown.

Now, what I am about to pass along will probably fall into the “duh, you think” category for most of us, but in reviewing studies on the “obesity epidemic,” scientists from Britain and the United States  lifestyle changes such as better diet and more exercise should always be the first option, and treatment with drugs should be used rarely. In other words, bariatric surgery, or weight-loss surgery, such as operations to apply gastric bands to limit the stomach size of severely overweight people, should be a last resort.

Yes, it is true that childhood obesity can adversely affect almost every organ in the body and often has serious consequences, including high blood pressure, abnormal blood fats, insulin resistance or diabetes, fatty liver disease, and psychosocial complications, it is also true that parents need education (and perhaps intervention) and schools need to provide better food options and more daily exercise for children, and communities need to support parental efforts as well. No “toys” as a prize for buying high caloric kids meals is just the beginning. In my opinion as a healthcare provider, without education and support, even children who undergo bariatric surgery will continue to crave high caloric foods and still not get the healthy exercise they need.

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Then I got into the specifics for someone his age. I explained that as a person gets older, certain age-related issues almost imperceptibly enter into the fitness equation, and that it was important for him not to “push” himself as hard as he did 20 years ago, even though he may feel that he still can. I told him that moderation would take him a lot farther health-wise than his going at his routines no-holds-barred as he did when he was younger.  I explained that it was also important for him to spend as much of his workout time building strength, flexibility, and balance as he did on general aerobic fitness because maintenance in these three areas would help his body to better deal with such age-related changes such as loss of muscle and balance problems.

I’d suspected all along that his joint pain was likely due to 20 years of repetitive stress, and I suggested to him that after chiropractic therapy had gotten him out of his current pain, it would be beneficial for him to do cross-training and add variation to his aerobic routine in order to prevent overuse problems in the future. And, I warned him to start any new activity slowly, not to overdo it, and to stretch often.

We, humans, are meant to stay active through every phase of our physical life. But, it’s important for us to respect our body at each phase, and to vary our approach to good health as our body changes.

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