June is here again, and Complete Chiropractic recognizes June as Scoliosis Awareness Month – as usual, it’s an important opportunity for us to reflect on the importance of ongoing developments in scoliosis treatment as well as to advocate for further research. Critically, scoliosis awareness month is an opportunity to raise awareness of scoliosis, and, the… Read more »
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Stretch Your Way to Better Health
Stretching is a simple and effective way to keep your body in good working order, but it’s also often an often overlooked element of self-care. Motion = Medicine Your body, above all else, is a movement machine, and in a very real sense Life is motion. “Motion = Medicine”…. “Motion is Life” …..“Motion is… Read more »
Acute Neck Pain and Chiropractic – New Research!
At this point there’s a sizable body of research suggesting that Chiropractic care is an effective way to treat persistent neck pain in particular – but how about acute neck pain? Types of Neck Pain Neck pain, like most forms of spinal pain, comes in two varieties – these are chronic (or lower level,… Read more »
Hey you, look up! A posture challenge for you!
Regular readers of this, or really, any, chiropractic blog will know that we spend an awful lot of our time cautioning people to keep their heads up and try to avoid the “head forward” posture which causes so many problems. Today, we present you a challenge!! A bowling ball and a toothpick… The average… Read more »
How Heavy is that Backpack?
On our blog we’ve often mentioned how overloaded backpacks are responsible for more back pain than we’d even like to think about, every single year – we’ve also often mentioned how important it is to ensure that children’s backpacks are both ergonomic and within a safe weight limit – some new research, however, has suggested… Read more »