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Turkey Business
It’s not too early to think about Thanksgiving and what you’ll be putting on your dinner table. The turkey you buy in the grocery store isn’t exactly what the pilgrims were eating a few hundred years ago. Turkeys are a native bird to America, but today’s grocery store turkeys don’t resemble the wild ones of…
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Safe Spine Tips for Fall Clean Up
It’s that time of year again… endless leaves falling from the sky. The actions of raking, bagging and other fall clean up can set you up for weekend warrior disaster when it comes to your spinal health. Here are seven tips from your favorite chiropractic team to keep you going this fall. Don’t be one-sided! …
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Pain
Our culture has a weird relationship with pain, discomfort, and injury. We have been taught to ignore it, push through it, or bury it. If someone is in pain and can keep functioning (although at a lesser level), we tend to view it as that individual being tough or having a high pain threshold. We…
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Never Give Up!
Never give up. Always look for new ways to help your body heal. The below case study chronicles a US Veteran who was 100% disabled with a 12-year history of debilitating low back pain. After six months of chiropractic care he was able to walk unassisted and complete his activities of daily living! What I…
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National Concussion Awareness Day
National Concussion Awareness Day is this Friday, September 15th. Surprisingly, there have been no scientific studies that have proven a gold standard in concussion treatment. All current recommendations including the Return to Play Guidelines are based on expert opinion, not double-blind-placebo research studies. Some experts recommend rest and dark-room therapy while newer studies say that…
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Black Bean & Mango Salad
Looking for a delicious dish to bring to a summer cookout or your next pot luck? We’ve taste tested this recipe for you and it was a huge hit at our annual Crossroads Family Lake Day. This isn’t a paleo recipe, because beans aren’t a paleo-friendly, but sometimes you just gotta splurge… if you call…
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Don’t Wait
Most of the time when we think about our health, we instantly move our thoughts to the amount of pain we are currently dealing with. If we feel well we deem ourselves fine. Or we imagine how well we’ve felt in generally in our lifetime and label ourselves healthy or unhealthy. The problem with this…
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Fuel Your Day
Let’s talk for a moment about how we start our days. If you’re anything like I’ve been, you probably wake up to your alarm clock with *just* the right amount of time you need to make yourself presentable for work and get a cup of coffee or tea in you before you run out the…
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Lake Day Recap
Hosting a big party takes planning, shopping, cooking and so much loading and un-loading… but the fun, connections made and the opportunity to spend time with our “extended chiropractic family” made it COMPLETELY worth it! Our annual “Lake Day” was a huge success with perfect weather at Wellington State Park and spent with some of…
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The Key to Health, Physical AND Financial
I suppose I am getting older (as we are all prone to do), because I find myself comparing things to years past or thinking that a movie is “fairly new” only to later learn that the movie is like 20 years old! Another thing is that I’m consistently shocked at the cost of everything: gas,…
