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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. 1. Seated Thoracic Extension: Being seated near the edge of a chair. Place your hands behind

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 could not only impact treatment options and patient education, but when this arises in a legal case it can impact the

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 method for cervicogenic (from the neck) headache. This is a very common form of headache pain, and from a chiropractic perspective, very easy to treat. With the

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, Eugene Chiropractor, has been using a scan device from Footmaxx to analyse patient’s foot biomechanics for the past 15 years.

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 long-term neurodegenerative consequence of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury (rTBI) was originally termed “punch drunk syndrome” in boxers; it is now known

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 down, the lungs are able to expand and fill with air. Breathing with your diaphragm along with breathing through your nose, is

Nutrients APRIL 2, 2020; VOL. 12; NO. 4 William B. Grant, Henry Lahore, Sharon L. McDonnell, Carole A. Baggerly, Christine B. French, Jennifer L. Aliano, Harjit P. Bhattoa. This study cites 157 references. BACKGROUND: Neither UVB from the sun or supplemental vitamin D3 are the active form of vitamin D; both forms require a healthy

  Evidence that Vitamin D Supplementation Could Reduce Risk of Influenza and COVID-19 Infections and Deaths     Nutrients April 2, 2020; Vol. 12; No. 4 William B. Grant, Henry Lahore, Sharon L. McDonnell, Carole A. Baggerly, Christine B. French, Jennifer L. Aliano, Harjit P. Bhattoa. This study cites 157 references.     BACKGROUND: Neither

  Vitamin D, RDA, COVID-19 and You!   Many of you may not be aware of the growing research on the relationship between low levels of vitamin D and COVID-19 severity.   The importance of vitamin D with respect to immunity, cancer, neurologic diseases, joint pain, autoimmune disorders, depression, just to name a few, is

Inflammation Resolution: A Dual-Pronged Approach to Averting Cytokine Storms in COVID-19? Cancer and Metastasis Reviews May 2020 Dipak Panigrahy, Molly M. Gilligan, Sui Huang, Allison Gartung, Irene Cortés-Puch, Patricia J. Sime, Richard P. Phipps, Charles N. Serhan, Bruce D. Hammock. These authors are from the Harvard Medical School and the University of California, Davis. SOME