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Testimonials about Spinal Decompression and the DRX 9000
I am 64 years old and I had a miracle happen in my life.  I was in a lot of pain in my lower back for many years and I didn’t know that I had two herniated discs. 

How does Chiropractic work?  Chiropractic works because you are a self-healing, self-regulating organism controlled by your nervous system.  Millions of instructions flow from your brain, down the spinal cord and out to every organ and tissue.  Signals sent back to the brain confirm if your body is working right. Improper motion or position of the moving bones of the spine, called a subluxation, can interfere with this vital exchange by irritating nerves and compromising the function of affected organs and tissues.  Specific spinal adjustments can help improve mind/body communications.  Health often returns with improved nervous system control of the body.

Have you tried everything? Have you ever heard this statement from a doctor? “We’ve tried everything we can, Mrs. Jones. You’ll just have to join the crowd who lives everyday with your ailment.” But, has everything really been tried? Maybe everything medically speaking has been tried, but have alternative approaches been tried?

You wake up in the morning and your big toe is killing you.  Your toe is swollen and feels like it’s on fire.  The weight of your blanket even feels intolerable.  “Did I injure my toe?” you ask yourself.  You don’t recall any injury.  These are typical symptoms of an attack of gout.

Holiday food and drinks are not just an assault on the waistline; they can also attack your teeth.  Everyone knows sugars are commonly associated with dental cavities.  Other carbohydrates, especially cooked starches, such as in pasta or chips, may also damage teeth, although to a much lesser degree.

Here we are, already about to enter this year’s flu season.  No one wants to get the flu of course, but I know that no matter how hard I try, it seems I usually end up getting it.  In fact, every year five to 20 percent of Americans suffer from the flu.  If you’re young and healthy, your best bet is the flu shot.  This vaccine reduces your chance of getting the flu by 70 to 90 percent.

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 However, many are reluctant to face this change because they are operating on an out-of-date paradigm, typically envisioning a musty, run-down “old-folks home” as the only option. And 50 years ago they might have been right. But retirement communities are much different now and they aren’t the only alternative either. While the senior housing market is vast and ever changing, below is a brief summary of the most common options for people to understand and explore as they thinking about making a lifestyle change.

Nearly everyone experiences dry skin at one time or another however, the winter months can be especially brutal to your skin.  Knowing some of its causes can help in prevention and treatment.  Most of my client complaints regarding dry skin do come in the winter, when low humidity and home heating take a toll on the stratum corneum, the paper-thin outer layer of the skin.

In the aftermath of the fires many Southern Californians are breathing toxins daily.  While it is encouraged to stay indoors and avoid exercising outside, we cannot totally avoid exposure to these pollutants.  Oriental medicine takes a holistic approach towards one’s health and well-being and included in this is diet.  Some easy ways to help detoxify the lungs from these pollutants includes eating more pears, plums, tomatoes, oranges, strawberries, kiwi, papayas, lemons, carrots, yams, spinach, onions, celery, garlic, mushrooms, walnuts, peanuts, almonds and drinking green tea.  These foods are known to fortify the lung channel.  Drinking more water is also helpful, especially drinking one eight-ounce cup in the morning before breakfast as well as before and after bathing. 

Country’s Leading Back Care Retailer Offers Over 300 Specialty Products
Santa Clarita is about to take a major step forward when it comes to relieving back, neck and sleep-related discomfort with the Grand Opening of a new Relax The Back specialty store, located in the Gateway Village shopping center at 28301 Newhall Ranch Rd on the corner of Rye Canyon and Newhall Ranch Road, across from LA Fitness and Smart and Final.

The body is made up of over 200 bones and it is this framework, or skeleton, that supports and gives shape to the body while it protects the vital organs.  Contrary to a common misconception, bone is a living substance.  In fact, bone is one of the most active tissues in the body.  By a process known as remodeling, bone is constantly being broken down and rebuilt.

If you have dust or a particle in your eye, you feel pain whenever you blink and sometimes you can’t even open your eyes without tears.  If you get this kind of dust in your eyelid or eyeball, you still have the pain even after you get rid of it.  Especially in the case of a mote on your black spot in your eyeball, it might cause infection through the mote spot, so you have to remove is as soon as possible.

Surgeons dramatically overestimate the effectiveness of surgery.  Specifically, surgeons predict at least moderate improvement for almost all patients undergoing back surgery, yet nearly 40 percent of patients experience little or no improvement one year after their operation.  These findings are from a just published study in the journal Spine.

Quantum experiments have proven that when we change our thoughts and our minds we change the state of matter itself.  Everything starts with our minds including our thoughts effecting our feelings, which effect our energy and behavior and in turn effects our actions.  It’s amazing to see when our thoughts are in a positive place everything else follows.  But the real work starts with getting to that place.  One might ask, “How do I get there when I’ve been so conditioned to thinking and functioning a certain way?”

If your mood, energy level and motivation decline in November, but bounce back to normal in April, you may have seasonal affective disorder (SAD), one expert says.
“SAD is thought to be related to a chemical imbalance in the brain brought on by lack of light due to winter’s shorter days and typically overcast skies,” says Dr. Angelos Halaris, chief of the psychiatry and behavioral sciences department at Loyola University Health System.

As we approach the season of giving, we face the challenge of picking gifts that will have impact.  Before we choose, we need to identify our true objective.  People give out of obligation, desire to please or impact, to open doors or solidify relationships, to create memories or to show feelings.  Without focusing on our objective, our results can be inconsistent.

Welcome to the beginning of the holidays, a joyful time for many, but a painful time for some seniors who’ve lost loved ones, or who are feeling neglected and isolated.
As the owner of Home Instead Senior Care for Santa Clarita and the Antelope Valley, I have the very good fortune of being able to take part, for the second year, in a corporate-founded community-based program called Be a Santa to a Senior, a wonderful way for people to come together to make seniors’ wishes come true.

Healthy teeth affect nearly every aspect of our lives, even our professional image.  However, according to a survey released by the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) and Oral-B Laboratories, many Americans are neglecting to take care of their smile during the workday.  More than 1,000 full-time employed adults ages 18 and older were asked about oral care habits and the importance of a healthy smile at the workplace.