3 Breathing Exercises to Master Your Sleep
3 Breathing Exercises To Master Your Sleep After a long day of work, house chores, and playing with our children, we long for a good night's sleep. But when this is not possible many problems arise: Lack of...
Move it or Lose it!
Joint Health: Move it or Lose It As a chiropractor, I commonly see people with complaints of neck and back pain. Usually I’ll take a set of x-rays to assess what their spine looks like, and sadly, I often...
Concussion and Kids in Sports
Concussions discussion has becoming increasingly common, especially with the discussion about football, particularly among school-age athletes. It has been estimated that there are up to 3.8 million sports-related...
Motor Vehicle Accidents Part 1: Common Spine Injuries
Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVAs) are a common cause of spine injuries. You will often hear specific phrases such as whiplash, herniated discs, and vertebral fractures in relation to neck, midback, and low back pain....
Three Exercises to Relieve Mid Back Pain
Hello all! I have recently had an influx of patients with one problem in common - Mid Back (thoracic spine) pain. I wanted to take the opportunity to share a few exercises to help alleviate some of these symptoms....
Long Term Concussion Effects
For the hundreds of thousands of individuals[1] who suffer from concussion (also called traumatic brain injury) per year, a common question is what the long term effects are from such an injury. Understanding this...
Chiropractic for Cervicogenic Headaches
Recently, and article published in the BioMEd Central Research Notes, July 24, 2017, found that Chiropractic care, specifically Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation, was a safe and significantly effective treatment...
Orthotics For Treatment of Low Back Pain
Very often when someone has Low Back Pain, they don't often consider that their feet, and more specifically their abnormal foot biomechanics, may be playing a role in their Low Back Pain. Dr. Garreth MacDonald,...
Soccer CTE
We have been hearing lots of news recently about something called CTE, concussions and brain injury in NFL players. These findings are consistent with boxers having sustained repeated blows to the head. The...
Diaphragm Breathing
Diaphragm Breathing What is the Diaphragm? The diaphragm is a large, thin, dome-shaped muscle that divides the thoracic (chest) cavity from the abdominal (belly) cavity. As the diaphragm contracts and moves...
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