by Dr. Betty Stasinos | Mar 12, 2017 | Active Health News, Chiropractic, pain-relief
Hip Muscles Maintain Leg Alignment One very important job of your hip muscles is to maintain the alignment of your leg when you move. One of the primary hip muscles, the gluteus medius, plays an especially important stabilizing role when you walk, run, or squat. The...
by Website Administrator | Dec 26, 2016 | Chiropractic, Uncategorized
Photo courtesy of planetc1(CC ShareALike)Chiropractic is the largest, most regulated, and best recognized of the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) professions. CAM patient surveys show that chiropractors are used more often than any other alternative...
by John Panopoulos | Dec 13, 2016 | Active Health News, Acupuncture, Chiropractic, pain-relief
A Chiropractic Diagnosis: Spinal Degeneration Your spine is made up of 24 individual vertebra stacked on top of each other. To allow for flexibility and movement, there is a cushion, or “disc,” in between each pair of vertebra. As we age, these discs can wear,...
by John Panopoulos | Oct 8, 2016 | Active Health News, exercise, functional-medicine
It has been assumed for many years that in women, after approximately 35 years old, there is a slow but continuous decrease in bone density. However a very interesting finding was that more than 50% of the oldest female (athletic) competitors even at age 80 still had...
by Dr. Betty Stasinos | Oct 8, 2016 | Active Health News, Chiropractic, pain-relief
Neck and back pain affects more than two-thirds of adults at some point in their lifetime. A new Gallup study of 7,645 adults shows that Americans are now more likely to trust chiropractic than pain medications for managing back or neck pain. Some 71% of patients who...
by John Panopoulos | Aug 14, 2016 | Active Health News, Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Chiropractic - Rehabilitation, pain-relief
How does spinal manipulation compare to other therapies? Take this into consideration… A randomized controlled clinical trial compared medication, needle acupuncture and spinal manipulation for managing chronic spinal pain. The highest proportion of early recovery was...
