Medical

Frequently, when a customer purchases a chair from us and I go to their home or office to set it up for them, most of the time their workstation is wrong. 

Did you know there are over 400 systemic diseases that can be seen in our eyes?  High blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol and some tumors can be diagnosed by your optometrist.  Simple sparkles in vision could be signs of migraines or even a stroke.  Do not take your eye exams lightly.  Annual eye exams are needed to check the health of your eyes.  Children’s eyes are just as important as adult’s eyes.  The first recommended eye exam for children is six months of age according to the Optometric Association.

Think of the great things you’ve passed along to your kids: sense of humor, charm, style, wit, — the list could go on and on of course!

There are a lot of myths about aging, three of which are the worst because they can keep us from aging successfully.

What is a Bunion?  A bunion is an enlargement of the joint at the base of the big toe that forms when the bone or tissue at the big toe joint moves out of place.  Since this joint carries a lot of the body’s weight while walking, bunions can cause extreme pain if left untreated.  The following is a brief description and complications of a bunion deformity:

Dr. Elloway was born and raised on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada.  He remembers going to school in a horse and buggy.  The educational style was British, where the teacher had a couple of straps in her desk, one large one and one small one.  There was no doubt the kids knew if they didn’t listen or if they misbehaved, they would get one of those straps.  Dr. Elloway attributes his listening skills to those early days and it actually served him well all through college and into his career.  Even today, he is one good listener.

The stomach is the one of the organs that most people treat lightly.  They only think of it as a place where swallowed food stays and flows downwards.  On the contrary, for doctors it is the most difficult organ to cure.  For example, heart and liver transplants have been practiced widely and relatively become successful so far.  However, it has been unsuccessful in the stomach transplant procedure.  We can tell how sensitive of an organ the stomach is.

Are you one of those people that begin every year by making a New Year’s resolution that is all too soon forgotten?  Do you always promise that this year you will work on your health by joining a gym or by going on some crazy diet? After all, everyone knows that it is important to take care of your health.

Doctors of chiropractic think of pain as the body’s way of signaling a deeper health concern.  They don’t consider pain an isolated problem requiring a drug solution.  Like a car’s dashboard warning light, pain alerts you to issues needing attention.  The big cover up: what’s wrong with painkillers.  Treating pain with medication is like taping over a car’s warning light, you no longer see the warning, but the problem remains and will only further deteriorate without attention. 

Every $1 spent on fluoridation saves $120 in dental treatment costs.  The proper amount of fluoride from infancy through old age helps prevent and control tooth decay.  Fluoride exposure during the ages when teeth are forming (from birth through age 8) can also result a range of changes within the outer surface of the tooth called enamel fluorosis.  Enamel fluorosis is a hypomineralization of the enamel surface of the tooth.  Clinically, this appears as a range of cosmetic changes varying from barely noticeable white lines or spots to pitting and staining of the outer enamel layer.

As America ages, more and more elderly people every year are faced with the need to make a lifestyle change.  However, many are reluctant to face this change because they are operating on an out-of-date paradigm, typically envisioning a musty, run-down “old-folks home” as the only option.

Whether you’re a child carrying a heavy load of books or school backpack, or a back pain patient recovering from surgery, the message is the same.  Spine health is crucial and should be addressed at every age level.

Hypno Energy — Our expertise is bridging hypnosis with the latest energy-based healing therapies like Pranic Healing, EFT, Psych-K, and Sound Therapy.  The new year marks time and space on a linear scale and many search within to reflect resolution at a conscious level.  To help provide a new year with a conscious effort to create a more purposeful life, we are offering a mini self-help package combining two powerful tools for the price of one, which includes hand analysis session, hypnosis session and follow-up take home CD for a limited time only.

Sight, speech and sound are some of the blessings we often take for granted until we start to lose them.  Even then, we think we can go on without any assistance until one day something makes us realize we do need to seek help.  I realized my hearing loss was starting to interfere with my family and co-workers.  I was asking people to repeat themselves, sometimes more than once.  It got pretty embarrassing and I felt I could no longer fake it or pretend I was understanding.

Detoxification is a treatment made popular because toxins have become a part of our everyday lives.  To compound the problem of our toxic environment, we have refined away much of the nutritional value of our food supply, replacing it with artificial colorings, preservatives, flavorings and conditioners, alcohol and smoking.  This poor quality diet, combined with extensive use of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture, may have predisposed many of us to experience a kind of “internal” pollution.  Internal pollution occurs when unhealthful bacteria overcome the healthful bacteria in the intestinal tract.

The game of golf is visually demanding, entailing a wide variety of vision conditions during play such as lining up a shot, reading a putt, following a ball in flight, judging the terrain and surface changes as well as recording the score on a card.  Traditionally golfers had difficulty with no-line or progressive addition lenses (PAL). 

Breast MRI is an exciting new technology that will soon be available at Tower Imaging Valencia as part of our already comprehensive array of services.

The issues that affect women of today are complex.  One very personal issue is that of urinary incontinence.  Urinary incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine.  This problem is often thought to be a usual and expected occurrence especially as age progresses, therefore, it is not a frequent topic of discussion.