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by wlpdrpat | Jul 1, 2022 | Health Articles, Newsletters, Office News
Posture and Depression
Research shows that poor posture or abnormal spinal alignment can take years off your life and create stress associated with mental depression and other disorders! So if that doesn’t tell you posture is important, what does?
For over a century, chiropractic care has been improving posture and function. As you continue through your care in our office, you will notice drastic improvements in your posture as well as your overall health, including your mental attitude. There have been many studies relating posture to physical and mental health.
Depression
Researchers found that people who were depressed experienced an improved mood after changing their posture to be more upright. In one study, sixty-one men suffering from mild to moderate depression were chosen to sit with their usual or upright posture. In addition, changes in facial expression, fatigue, and speech were assessed.
Results
Those who assumed better posture had less fatigue compared to those keeping their usual posture. Also, the upright group exhibited less negative affect and lower anxiety. Developing good posture habits can help you feel more confident, energetic, and happy. If you’re slouching as you read this, pause and pull your shoulder blades back and together, relax your
shoulders down away from your ears, and look up. The more you work on it, the easier it will get, and simple changes like this can result in a noticeable difference in how you feel day in and day out. (1, 2)
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Jun 2, 2022 | Health Articles, Newsletters, Office News
What Is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is the most popular drug-free, non-surgical, natural, scientific, and philosophical healing art in the world. From infancy to the elderly, millions of people have found their health restored by chiropractic care.
Imagine healing without drugs and surgery! Your body has an amazing healing ability; the job of your chiropractor is to ensure that your healing potential is as close to 100% as possible by freeing your body of deep stress – the subluxation.
Subluxation is a physical distortion of your spine and structural system that stresses your nervous system and weakens your muscles, bones, ligaments, tendons, and discs. Sometimes subluxations result in pain and stress, and sometimes subluxations are pain-free. Chiropractors spend thousands of hours in chiropractic school learning to locate and correct (adjust) subluxations.
Do you have any subluxations in your body? Do your children? Does your spouse? Come in for a chiropractic evaluation and discover why millions of people visit their neighborhood Doctor of Chiropractic every year.
It’s sad when people are dependent on drugs, especially painkillers. While a blessing to those suffering, painkillers do not correct the cause of the pain, can cause addictions and have serious side effects and adverse reactions.
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | May 6, 2022 | Health Articles, Newsletters, Office News
Are You Adapting?
What Is Adaptation?
Have you ever coughed or sneezed? Did you ever have a fever? Do you sweat when hot? Shiver when cold? Do you get out of breath after you run? Do you get hungry? Thirsty? Do you run from danger?
What Are These Questions About?
Adaptation. Adaptation is your ability to respond to changes in the environment physically and mentally, internally, and externally to maintain your balance or homeostasis (a word coined by the great American Physiologist Walter Cannon. (1))
Adaptation is terribly complex and can involve all your organ systems. Therefore, it is of supreme importance. Your ability or inability to adapt can make the difference between health and sickness, even life and death.
Some of the ways you adapt are by ridding your body of toxins (coughing, sneezing, fever) other ways you adapt is by utilizing oxygen and food for energy, digestion, ridding your body of wastes, and hundreds if not thousands of other day-to-day functions you probably don’t think about. You don’t have to. Your body’s wisdom takes care of your many needs. Simply put, the better you can adapt to change, the better off you are in every aspect of your life.
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Mar 1, 2022 | Health Articles, Newsletters, Office News
Why Is Your Nervous System Important?
The goal of chiropractic is to locate and correct subluxations to release stress from your nervous system. Why is that important?
Your Very Important Nervous System
Without it, you’d be in the ultimate sensory deprivation tank – not be able to connect with anything or anyone not seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, or moving. You’d be completely alone inside yourself. It’s your connection to your inner and outer worlds – to all your body parts. You need it so all your body parts (billions and trillions of them) will work together in a coordinated, harmonious manner.
Your nervous system is made up of your brain, spinal cord, cranial nerves, and more! You’ve got billions of nerve fibers – and they make up the most powerful communications system in the universe – and it’s inside you.
A healthy nervous system is needed for your entire body and mind to work at its optimum. A subluxation is a distortion in your body structure and stresses your nervous system, and interferes with its function. This interference can cause disease (body-mind-energy malfunction), and dis-ease can, in time, result in disease. Your Doctor of Chiropractic is an expert at locating and correcting (adjusting) subluxations helping your nerve system/communications system function without interference. The result is an improved function in every system of your body.
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Feb 1, 2022 | Health Articles, Newsletters, Office News
What Are Your Resolutions?
This is the time of the year many of us set and forget resolutions we made to improve ourselves. More exercise? Meditation/, Lose weight?
A fascinating way to get rid of a bad habit is not to try to change it: just observe it. You might find this amazing, but just observing a bad habit without judgment can be very healing.
The key is not to judge yourself! Accept yourself and love yourself, and you’ll tap into healing potential. Be good to yourself. You are human and have weaknesses and strengths. Accept yourself. You were put on this earth for a reason even if you don’t know why,
Is it really possible to change a habit? According to a study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, it takes 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit. So be patient with yourself. (1) Accept yourself as you are, and you’ll release lots of energy and have more and more healing.
The great thing is that you can start right now! A little self-acceptance and compassion go a long, long way.
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Jan 1, 2022 | Health Articles, Newsletters, Office News
Get Some Sun
The Benefits of Sunlight
Want better sleep and a better mood? Get some sun. What is more natural than sunlight? When the sun is out, try to get as much of it as you can. Go for a walk (especially with friends). Numerous studies show that sunlight is good for your natural circadian rhythm, so you’ll feel sleepier at night and feel more awake during the day.
All energy on earth (except for volcanoes) is from the sun. All life on the surface of our planet depends on sunlight. A new study has found that getting enough natural sunlight each day could help reduce insomnia and improve mood. This study was published in the Journal of Affective Disorders and involved over 400,000 people.
The coauthor Sean Cain writes: “In this study, we observed that the greater time spent in outdoor light during the day was associated with fewer depressive symptoms, lower odds of using antidepressant medication, better sleep, and fewer symptoms of insomnia.”
Greater time in outdoor light was also associated with lowered odds of lifetime major depressive disorder and better outcomes across a range of mood and sleep measures. Additionally, too much light at night throws off your circadian (day-night) rhythm. So stop staring at artificial screens late at night. (1)
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