When I returned to town on Sunday night, I found on my doorstep an excellent article from Wednesday’s Chicago Tribune. It outlined a study from the University of Chicago Medical Center that found that “At least 2.2 million older adults in the U.S. take medicine in combinations that could trigger dangerous drug interactions, causing gastrointestinal […]
Do you want to be your best, or do you have to be your best? As we move into 2009 with our respective vision of what life has in store for another year, many of you may be at the brink of another failed New Year’s Resolution. One of the more common questions I like […]
Many of you have heard us speak about the need to both reduce the stress in your life, and to enhance the ability of your body to handle stress. You may have listen and thought, “Yeah, I get it, but how?” Of course, you already know the answer: exercise, healthy eating, living purposefully, being under […]
We absolutely love it when patients bring articles and clippings from newspapers and magazines about health in to us. This week we received two articles one from the Sun-Times and one from the Tribune discussing the same thing: the fact that alternative medicine use is one the rise here in the US. In fact, nearly […]
As a chiropractic office that sees a large number of kids, we are often asked by new patients, “How does chiropractic care help babies and children? I thought you guys treated back pain.” While it is true that we do help people who have back pain, chiropractic care is much more than just that, especially […]
The Body as a Machine If you compare your body to a simple machine, you see that it has many similarities: Moving parts designed for locomotion (i.e. joints, muscles, and ligaments), A fuel distribution system providing energy to the moving parts (circulation and digestion), An on-board computer to regulate all these systems (brain), An electrical […]
It’s that time of year again… the Ravenswood Run is Sunday, April 26th! Last year we had 30 brave souls brave the elements in March and April to train for a great experience. We ran through snow, rain, and sleet on Saturday mornings, but we made it. Many personal goals were met. Some just wanted […]
Welcome to McKinley Chiropractic’s Run Club and the 2009 Ravenswood Run 5K!!! We are very excited to welcome back all of last year’s participates and looking forward to working with all the new ones. The race is Sunday, April 26, 2009. Those of you who have participated in a race in Chicago know that it […]
Welcome to our Run Club 5K Training Program. This program is designed to increase your speed and stamina, preparing anyone from beginning to intermediate runners achieve your goals in completing a 5K race. The training program will work like this: you will pick two speeds, Speed 1 (S1) and Speed 2 (S2). Speed 2 is […]
Welcome to McKinleyChiroTV. We’ll be posting highlights from events, video podcasts on current health topics and trends, content from guests, and more, all with the aim of bringing the very best health information to you, our patient. This week we’re going to get started with a simple, but very important question….”What is Health?”