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Recently I was sitting at my favorite smoothie joint, Real Juice on Southport, and I recognized someone I knew sitting with her friend and her friend’s newborn and toddler.  After introductions, my friend told her friend she should talk to me about her 3 years olds multiple ear infections.  She replied, “So, THAT REALLY is […]

As the holiday season rolls around, ideas of jingle bells, presents, and perfectly-decorated trees might be dancing in your head. But, if you’re like many Americans this holiday season, anxiety and stress over the holiday season might be filling your mind instead. And if you’re dealing with holiday stress, trying to shop for everyone on […]

Are you blaming your pain and poor health on your bed, work chair, or picking up your kids? You didn’t sleep funny! Every week in our office, I will hear one of our patients say something like,” I must have slept funny last night.” When someone says this, it’s most likely because they went to […]

1). Get outside: amongst all therapies that have ever been studied (including during the Spanish flu pandemia) and the one that nobody disputes is the importance of fresh air and Vitamin D. Go for a bike-ride (my dad bought one for himself at age 72!), for a run, or find a distant forest and get […]

Are you blaming your pain and poor health on your bed, work chair, or picking up your kids? You did not sleep funny! Every week in our office, I will hear one of our patients say something like,”I must have slept funny last night.” When someone says this, it’s most likely because they went to […]

Prep time: 30 mins Cook time: 20 mins Total time: 50 mins Serves: 3-4 Ingredients 2 tablespoons cooking fat (butter, olive oil, coconut oil, etc.) 2 garlic cloves, minced 1lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cubed in small pieces (or chicken thighs, if you prefer) ½ yellow onion, chopped 1 cup button mushrooms, roughly chopped 12-15 […]

Chiropractic Principle #1- The Major Premise A Universal Intelligence is in all matter and continually gives to it all its properties and actions, thus maintaining it in existence. This week I have decided to really get into the chiropractic philosophy, the focal point of chiropractic philosophy is the 33 principles and I decided to talk […]

This past week we have had two great success stories on the war against vertigo. Vertigo by definition is dizziness characterized by a sensation of whirling motion, either of oneself or of external objects. Vertigo is often caused by damage or disease in the inner ear. We had a young girl who has been experiencing […]

This year, more than any other, I’ve seen younger and younger, particularly women, suffering with Bell’s Palsy.  This is a common medical diagnosis, where symptoms include a drooping of the face muscles.  Chiropractic adjustments, usually to the upper cervical (neck) spine helps resolve these symptoms in most cases.  The sooner someone starts care when they […]

Oh, IT JUST COMES and GOES doctor. One of the most common phrases I hear from new patients is that their problem or pain just comes and goes, so it’s not that big of a deal.  These people are what I call “MINIMIZER”.  Another example would be, “Oh, I just take advil for my migraines […]