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Understanding the Nervous System: Your Body’s Master Communicator

The nervous system is one of the most complex and vital systems in the human body. It’s responsible for coordinating everything you do — from breathing and walking to thinking, feeling, and healing. Often called the “master control system,” the nervous system plays a central role in your overall health and well-being.

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What Is Preventative Chiropractic Care - And Why It Works

When most people think of visiting a chiropractor, it’s usually after something has gone wrong — back pain, neck stiffness, headaches, or an injury. But what if you didn’t have to wait until discomfort struck? That’s where preventative chiropractic care comes in. To keep good results from chiropractic care you have to then take on the next step. 

At Foresight Chiropractic, we believe in a proactive approach to health. Preventative chiropractic care isn’t just about reacting to pain — it’s about staying ahead of it.

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How Stress Affects Your Spine - And How to Fight Back

We get it—life is stressful. Whether it’s looming deadlines, juggling family responsibilities, or managing the unexpected, stress has a way of creeping into every corner of our lives. But did you know that chronic stress doesn’t just affect your mood and mental health—it can also take a serious toll on your spine?

At Foresight Chiropractic, we believe that understanding how stress impacts your body is the one of the first steps toward fighting back and reclaiming your health. Let’s take a closer look at the connection between stress and spinal health—and what you can do to protect yourself.

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Neck Pain and Screen Time: How to Fix Your Posture

Chiropractors specialize in identifying and correcting spinal misalignments that can result from poor posture. Regular chiropractic adjustments help restore proper alignment, improve joint mobility, and reduce tension in the muscles surrounding the neck and shoulders. Many patients find that consistent care not only alleviates pain but also increases their awareness of posture throughout the day.

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Finding Migraine Relief

Spinal misalignment can contribute to migraines and headaches. The Atlas (also known as the C1) vertebra is the top bone of the spine, and this little two-ounce bone plays a crucial role in supporting the head and allowing its movement. Shaped like a ring, the atlas enables the nodding motion of the head and connects the skull to the spine. Its proper alignment is essential for overall spinal health and nervous system function. It is like the top link in a chain--whichever way the Atlas (C1) is tilted, the rest of the spine is affected. If the Atlas has been misaligned from birth, trauma, falls or injuries, the entire spine can be misaligned.

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How to Fix Your Posture

Hunching forward not only makes us look older but also affects our overall health. The head weighs between 11 to 15 pounds—essentially like carrying a bowling ball on top of your seven neck vertebrae. The top bone, known as the Atlas or C1, is the most movable bone in your spine, allowing you to turn your head in all directions. Despite its critical role, the Atlas itself weighs just three to four ounces!

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Is Your Sleep Harming Your Health?

You are how you sleep. Both in quality and quantity. The better you sleep, for the appropriate amount of time, the healthier you will be.

Sleep is vital for good health. The evidence is overwhelming that insufficient sleep contributes to a variety of unhealthy conditions including diabetes, depression, obesity and cardiovascular disease. Poor quality sleep is also attributed to an increase in worksite accidents and automobile accidents.

While the quantity of your sleep – 8 hours, on average, is important, the quality of your sleep is even more vital to your overall health. Your body needs sleep to heal and rejuvenate and to help you handle stress and manage pain more effectively.

When it comes to lower back pain, how you sleep can make a big difference in how you handle it.

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Specialized Chiropractic Care

Not all Chiropractic techniques are equal. Atlas Orthogonal Upper Cervical Specialists undergo specialized training to precisely identify and correct misalignments of the Atlas vertebra. This is achieved through advanced techniques that involve:

  • Precise and Gentle Adjustments: Using detailed X-ray analysis, specialists perform highly accurate adjustments to the Atlas. This method avoids the popping or cracking often associated with traditional chiropractic adjustments.

  • No Popping or Cracking: The adjustment technique is so gentle that many patients are surprised to discover the effectiveness of the procedure. Many individuals experience immediate improvements in range of motion, and relief from tension, discomfort, and migraines.

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Healing Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) With Chiropractic

Atlas Orthogonal Chiropractic adjustments may benefit TBI patients in several ways:

  • Improving Blood Flow: Misalignment of the atlas can restrict blood flow to the brainstem and spinal cord, reducing oxygen and nutrient supply. Adjustments aim to restore proper alignment and improve blood flow to the brain.

  • Reducing Inflammation: TBI can cause inflammation, which may damage brain cells and impair function. Atlas Orthogonal Chiropractic adjustments may help reduce brain inflammation, potentially protecting brain cells and improving function.

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Best Treatments for Chronic Inflammation

Chronic inflammation was neither talked about nor understood until recently. However, the same conclusions have been drawn from thousands of new research studies: Cellular inflammation may either cause or increase aging and disease within the body. The good news is that these studies are shedding light on which lifestyle choices and foods cause inflammation so that we can better understand how to eliminate and/or reduce it.

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Healing and Preventing Ear Infections

Any sort of ear problem, especially with a child, can be extremely painful. There are millions of cases each year where a patient will present the symptoms of otitis media, or an ear infection. This happens to be the most common illness that will impact both babies and young children, being the top reason for pediatric visits, accounting for 35% of all visits.

Before resorting to another round of antibiotics, families are exploring natural, less invasive treatments for earaches and other childhood illnesses. Chiropractic care is gaining popularity as a preventative measure and treatment option. Chiropractic treatment helps mobilize drainage in the ear, allowing the body’s immune system to clear infections and reduce the likelihood of future occurrences.

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Anti Aging With Chiropractic

Our body is in a constant struggle for survival, facing daily assaults from harmful free radicals. Fortunately, it has an incredible system of self-healing that allows it to withstand damage and rebuild what has been compromised.

Chiropractic care has been shown to be a powerful method for stabilizing and enhancing the body’s self-healing abilities. The central nervous system plays a crucial role in this process, as it controls all functions and healing within the body.

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Stopping Migraines With Chiropractic Care

The innovative and groundbreaking use of upright MRIs to research the effects of spinal misalignments on migraine headaches, neck and back pain, and blood flow is shedding new understanding on the role that misalignment of the spine plays in causing and exacerbating these concerns.

Migraine sufferers often experience neck pain, which is a common symptom of spinal misalignment. When the vertebrae located at the base of the skull are misaligned, central nervous system functioning is impacted. Misalignment can also damage nerves and soft tissue, causing pain and stiffness in the neck and body.

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The Best Chiropractic in Gilbert, AZ

Chiropractic is the philosophy, science, and art of finding and correcting interference to the nervous system. The central nervous system communicates with, controls, and coordinates all other systems of the body, protected by the skull and vertebral segments. Interference and stress to the nervous system decrease the body’s ability to heal and repair itself.

Walking on or pushing on a person's back until you hear cracking and popping is a dangerous method for attempting to relieve back or neck problems. The popping noise is typically caused by gas bubbles being released, which does not resolve issues of subluxations or misalignment and could cause more harm than good.

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