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Season of Giving – Pembroke 2017
November 6th – December 18th Join us as we give thanks for all of our blessings this year. We are thankful for chiropractic, for you our wonderful patients and for the amazing healings that has taken place here. We are also thankful for the opportunities to educate our community and make a positive impact on…
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Health is Not a Destination
My wife, Amanda, and I think the comedian Jim Gaffigan is a pretty funny dude. If you’ve never caught his act, his stand up is on Netflix. He has many bits about being a dad of five kids and the insanity that this entails. We have four kids, so perhaps that’s why we can relate. …
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Comfortably Wrong
At our offices, Crossroads Chiropractic, in Pembroke, Meredith, and Epping we focus on corrective chiropractic care, but people also come to us for advice on various lifestyle and health issues. Often these issues are exactly what you’d expect: weight, exercise, nutrition, quitting smoking, sleeping habits, etc. At the point an individual has decided to…
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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…
