What Makes It So Different?
 The focus of traditional health care is on germs and blood. Chiropractic is different. Chiropractic produces results by helping your nervous system work the way it should.  An emphasis on blood overlooks the role of the nervous system, which controls your blood, your blood pressure and millions of other details. 
 Chiropractic care focuses on your spine because it is the most vulnerable part of your nervous system. 

 Doctor's don't heal. The very best doctors remove interferences to your healing ability. That's the purpose of chiropractic.  Today's chiropractic doctor is well educated and passes stringent licensing examinations before earning the right to practice.  Chiropractic is the natural choice for those who want to be their best while avoiding drugs and surgery.

It's a scientific fact that your brain, spinal cord and the rest of your nerves control every aspect of your body. Hinder the vital nerve links between your brain and your body, and ill health can result. A common source of interference comes from the moving bones that encase the "information super highway" of your spinal cord.  These subluxations can produce a variety of health problems.  Nerve pressure can cause numbness, weakness or the under-performance of organs and tissues. Or, spinal misalignment can cause nerve tissue to stretch, chafe or become irritated. This can distort nerve messages between your body and your brain. The result? Hyperactive organ function, high blood pressure or even pain. 

 The medical approach puts chemicals into your bloodstream to artificially change the way your body works. Laxatives to speed up elimination. Antacids to reduce stomach acid. Besides the fatal mistakes, side effects and possible kidney damage, drugs often ignore the real cause of the problem.  Instead, the focus of chiropractic care is on the integrity of your nervous system.  A thorough examination helps locate areas of nervous system compromise. The moving bones of the spine are common culprits. Then, specific chiropractic adjustments help reduce these interferences. The intent is to restore your body's ability to regulate and heal itself. Without drugs. Without surgery.  Chiropractic is simple. It's natural. It honors the wisdom of your body. And it has helped millions enjoy relief and better health for more than a century.

The fitness boom was launched in America in the early 1980s by a small group of celebrities, including Jane Fonda, who recognized the importance of exercise for long-term health and well-being.

Although their methods were flawed, their vision was important. Over the past 30 years the notion of fitness as a valuable end in itself has persisted in the public consciousness. But for the most part, people do not take action on their own behalf in this critical area.

In a typical scenario, a person will finally decide to begin a plan to shed the 30 or more pounds of excess weight he or she has been carrying around for too many years to count. In a whirlwind of activity, the person joins a gym, buys a pair of snazzy cross-trainers, stylish new workout shorts, and tank tops, and even purchases 10 grueling sessions with a personal trainer. After this initial burst of enthusiasm, the typical fitness-seeking person will lose interest in 30 days. Health clubs across the globe rake in their profits from new member initiation fees, knowing full well that most new gym members discontinue their efforts within four to six weeks.

But fitness matters. And from an even broader perspective, lifestyle matters. In 2007, heart disease, cancer, cerebrovascular disease (including stroke and hypertension), and pulmonary disease accounted for more than 60% of the 2.4 million deaths in the United States.1 It is now well-recognized that each of these diseases and conditions is specifically a lifestyle disease. With respect to cancer, less than 10% of cases are due to an inherited condition. The rest are a result of lifestyle choices such as smoking, excessive alcohol consumption. overweight and obesity, and lack of exercise.2

With respect to your long-term health, one key action step is to engage in regular vigorous exercise. If you haven't exercised in many years, daily walks are a good way to begin your life-long exercise program. Start with a modest 10-minute walk and build up over six to eight weeks to a daily 30-minute walk. Once you're walking 30 minutes a day, gradually increase your daily pace. When you've achieved a quick 30-minute daily pace and can maintain your schedule comfortably, you may begin to alternate strength-training workouts with your walks.

Fitness is not only a critical lifestyle enhancer, it is also a state of mind. People who are fit want to stay fit. A person who becomes fit usually discovers that he has begun to choose healthy food rather than junk. Frosted doughnuts, candy bars, and twisted ropes of raspberry-flavored sugar lose their allure and appeal. Organic trail mix, organic apples, and protein smoothies become preferred snacks. Persons who take on a fitness lifestyle find themselves losing weight, naturally and easily. No stress-inducing diets. No drastic weight loss. The pounds just fall away because the person is exercising regularly and eating a healthy diet.3

Now-fit people never want to put that weight back on again. The healthy lifestyle becomes the preferred lifestyle.

1Xu J, et al: Deaths. Final data for 2007. Natl Vital Stat Rep 58(19), May 20, 2010 2Kirkegaard H, et al: Association of adherence to lifestyle recommendations and risk of colorectal cancer: a prospective Danish cohort study. Brit Med J October 26, 2010 (Epub ahead of print) 3Brietzke SA: A personalized approach to metabolic aspects of obesity. Mt Sinai J Med 77(5):499-510, 2010

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Here is why you need to stick to your daily walking routine or to start walking from today itself:

1. It's Easy to Start: To start off with walking, all you need is a pair of walking shoes. You can walk anywhere (in a park, your terrace, or on the treadmill) and anytime (in the morning, noon, evening or even late at night after your dinner). Start with 10 to 15 minutes and then increase the time gradually.
2. Improves Your Spirit: Walking improves your spirit, mood and breaks you free from stress. A study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine showed that students who walked regularly had lower levels of stress than the couch potatoes, who did little or no exercise at all. Walking and other exercises help you in inhaling more oxygen while facilitating the release of endorphins, the feel good hormones.
3. Boosts Your Brain: It is a known fact that exercise of any form helps in improving our physical and mental ability and alertness. A study conducted by the National Council of Aging concluded that walking 45 minutes a day makes a person sharper in terms of his mental ability.
4. Helps in Reducing the Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke: Walking for 30 to 45 minutes daily helps in improving blood circulation while regularizing the heart beat. It also helps in improving the good cholesterol level (HDL) in the blood while decreasing the bad cholesterol (LDL), thereby performing an overall protective function.
5. Helps in Maintaining Blood Sugar Levels: Walking for 45 minutes in the morning helps a diabetic individual to control his blood sugar levels. Walking on specific times helps in different manners. For example, walking for 10 to 15 minutes after your meals helps in decreasing the postprandial blood sugar whereas walking for 30 minutes or more in the late evening hours helps in controlling the fasting blood sugar level by controlling the overnight hepatic output of glucose (the glucose produced by the liver).
   
   Walking is not only beneficial for the diabetics, but it also helps in cutting down the risk of developing diabetes in those individuals who are prone to the illness. A study conducted by the School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh discovered that walking for 30 minutes a day cuts diabetes risk for overweight as well as non-overweight men and women.
6. Prevents Erectile Dysfunction: Walking briskly for at least two miles (3.2 km) every day is known for reducing impotence in men. This has been established in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the effect was more prominent in middle aged men as well as in diabetic men.
7. Reduces the Risk of Cancer: Walking has been beneficial for those who are undergoing cancer treatment. It improves their chances of recovery and survival. Walking improves the feeling of hunger in these patients and helps them in developing some interest in their eating. Walking also helps in reducing the risks of various cancers like that of the breast and the colon. A paper presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Orlando suggested that walking improves the survival of those suffering from breast cancer while helping in reducing the overall risk strikers of cancer.
8. Helps in Weight Maintenance: Whether your motive is to lose or gain weight, walking is one kind of exercise which can help you in both the situations. Walking when followed with a controlled diet helps you in losing weight. Walking pumps up your metabolism and you can expect to lose inches of fat. It is a healthy aerobic exercise which also helps you in maintaining your weight once your goal is achieved.
9. Walkers have Long Lives: A Honolulu based heart study conducted on 8,000 men found that walking just for two miles (3.2 km) a day cuts the risk of death by almost 50 percent. The risk of death due to cancer was found to be even lesser. Some other studies also had similar findings. So walk your way to a longer life.

What does it take to get started with walking? Some motivation and a pair of walking shoes! Right? Get some friends with you as your walking partners. Walking in a group is such a fun! And enjoying an evening tea in the company of your friends after a session of evening walk will be more refreshing!


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If you have spent any time in the office at all, you realize that I do not adjust you the same way every time you come to the office.  You also realize that I do not adjust the same areas every time I adjust you.  I’m sure you realize that there are many different areas I could adjust and that the combination of possibilities is enormous.

What you may not realize is that there are many different ways a subluxation could be adjusted depending on the chiropractic technique that I judge would be best for you.  It should be obvious to you that we would never use the same technique on a healthy 25 year old man that we would use on a 3 month old infant or one of our senior citizen patients.  Everyone is adjusted in a way that is best suited for them and we have the ability to change techniques to customize our adjusting of you.  In fact, there are 3 major types of chiropractic adjustive techniques for me to choose from.

One approach is based on the bone and its misaligned position in the spine.  These techniques require us to actually move the spinal bone from where it is towards where it should be.  Sometimes this type of adjustment is done by hand and sometimes with an instrument.  Sometimes it is performed with a quick motion and other times a special table is used.  In all cases, the approach we use is the one that is both most effective and most comfortable for the patient.

A second type of chiropractic technique is more muscle based.  These approaches require us to place you in a very specific position prior to the adjustment so that the muscles are doing more work and we can, in turn, do less and accomplish the same result.

A third category of chiropractic technique is more subtle than either of these other approaches for people who require a very soft-touch approach.  Even though bone is not moved in the adjustment directly, these techniques are very effective in assisting you to move the bone through your activities of daily living.

Our desire is to get the best results with the least strain on either of our parts.

Maybe you've never heard of subluxations.

That's OK.

There probably was a time when you'd never heard of AIDS or Alzheimer's.

You have more than 200 bones in your body. Whenever two bones come together at a joint, there can be movement.

Since joints in your spine are so close to your spinal cord and nerve roots, too much or too little joint motion can have serious effects.  If spinal bones get "stuck" and don't move right, they can irritate or chafe delicate nerves.

If a joint moves too much, spinal bones can press against adjacent nerve tissue. This can interfere with the vital "life force" transmitted over your nervous system that helps keep your brain in touch with your body. 

The result is the vertebral subluxation complex, or more simply, a subluxation.  More than bones and nerves are involved. Muscles can become too tight or too weak. Discs, ligaments and other connective tissues can become inflamed. Bone spurs and arthritic degeneration can set in.

How do we take something that’s known and place it in the center of our consciousness and culture?
I’m taking about optimal health, alignment, balance, strength, flexibility, performance and potential.
As we move through the last few weeks of May, I found myself contemplating our current health consciousness which is in a state of crises. I couldn’t help but think we could be doing things better and more efficiently.

Unless we are in some kind of mystical state, our focus or consciousness isn’t strongly attached to our core or our health consciousness.

Pain or illness does an amazing job at getting us reconnected to our core, back into present moments. When your back “goes out on you” and sends you to the floor due to physical, emotional, or chemical stress, you’ll do whatever it takes to stand up. And once you stand up….take a stand and make yourself stronger than ever before so you minimize the chance of buckling again so you can perform at your best.

A shift occurs as you move toward strengthening and connecting to your core. When you visualize the “best version of you,” a trajectory is formed to help you see where you are and where you need to go.  Keeping this shift on a daily basis is the focus on many different types of practices.  From religious and even to a Cross Fit lifestyle.

You may be asking yourself, “What are the steps that form this trajectory from where I am to where I desire to go?” Innately you have the answer. Normally it comes during random periods. For me it happens after a chiropractic adjustment, a yoga class, during or after mediation, or during a quiet moment while walking on the beach. You’ll sense a spark or a “hit” of that something special. The key is to act upon “that hit.” That’s how you progress along the trajectory of health.

When you get the “hit,” step back and ask yourself why you aren’t expressing yourself maximally.

Look at the 3 T’s: Past and current TRAUMAS, TOXINS, and negative THOUGHTS.
    Examine your habits.
    Visualize yourself in a misaligned state and then in an aligned state.
    Be in an aligned state, which is the “gold standard” at the end of your trajectory.

Most of us have a innate resistance to bad habits.

Most of us know that eating donuts will probably make us sicker than healthier.   But most don't realize how "really" unhealthy and suicidal the donut is.  The more you learn and truly know, the easier the decision become.

Your journey to wellness doesn’t have to be a struggle.  It can be fun as well as transforming. All you require is a vivid visualization of who you want to be and the will power and courage to get there.

Start from within, start from the healing capacity of your body, start with the nervous system.

Eat Right

Food affects our energy on many different levels. Don't eat enough and you'll feel tired; eat too much and you'll feel sluggish. The types of foods are also key; even a small meal that's sugar- or fat-heavy will weigh you down (literally and figuratively), while the same portion size bursting with complex carbs, lean protein and vital nutrients will provide you with fuel for the entire day.

Move Right

People who don't exercise consistently may claim that it would only "wear them out"; people committed to consistent exercise recognize that while the workout itself may leave them exhausted, their energy levels actually soar over the long term. That's because movement is life, and the more you move, work your muscles, and build strength and vigor, the more energy you have.

Think Right

Stress is like a siphon draining gas from your car's tank; sooner than later, you're running on empty. When the weight of the world is on your shoulders, your body shuts down. Chronic stress can affect virtually every organ system, putting a tremendous strain on your body. Even your immune system can be affected, increasing your risk of getting sick. And when you're sick, you're usually tired.  Dangerous Daily Stress is not eating, moving and thinking in a congruent manner to support life.
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