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How to Increase Muscle Strength Naturally
AMIT (Advanced Muscle Integration Therapy) is a revolutionary advancement in sports medicine and chiropractic care. It is based on an understanding that when a muscle is overloaded beyond that which it can sustain, it can either inhibit (shut down) neurologically or it can tear.
When muscles get inhibited, they tend to stay inhibited, which creates imbalances and areas of instability throughout the body, according to Gilbert chiropractor Keith Lavender, a certified AMIT practitioner. Joint and muscle pain is the result. The AMIT process “awakes” and re-integrates inhibited muscles into the nervous system, removing pain and increasing physical performance.
How To Influence Your Genes
The Science of Epigenetics is showing us how our mind and nervous system controls everything. Do you want better health, better performance, and more control over your life? It IS possible!! At Foresight Wellness Center we offer you options to improve your health and your life.
What if you could slip on a headset, lie down in a cool and comfortable room, close your eyes and relax - and then achieve a deep, meditative state of being?
Can An Early Dinner Help Improve Health?
In recent years, it’s become increasingly clear that your body simply isn’t designed to run optimally when continuously fed. If you eat throughout the day and never skip a meal, your body adapts to burning sugar as its primary fuel, which down-regulates enzymes that utilize and burn stored fat. As a result, you start gaining weight, and efforts at weight loss tend to be ineffective.
Relieve Chronic Pain Without Drugs
Managing chronic pain can be a serious challenge. While there are many invasive or drug related treatments, few people know the benefits chiropractic care can have on reducing long term pain.
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.
Are Your Household Cleaners Harming Your Health?
Common household products are harming your hormones and overall health. These harmful substances are known as endocrine disruptors—chemicals that interfere with normal hormone function. Often derived from petrochemicals, these compounds accumulate in body fat cells and persist in your body for years, leading to imbalances in your natural hormone levels.
Are Energy Drinks Helping or Killing Your Health?
The popularity of energy drinks is increasing dramatically, especially with young males age 18 to 34. Users report experiencing increased cognitive performance, more physical energy and enhanced mood after consuming them. On the other hand, the evidence points to numerous harmful physical and psychological effects of energy drinks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lock Jaw and Chiropractic
Can precision Chiropractic care help treat lock jaw? Absolutely. We’ve healed our patients lock jaw without invasive procedures. 100% gentle, natural and safe.
Creating Healthy Habits for Kids
Today, kids are getting less and less activity as they are spending more and more time on screens. These shifting lifestyle patterns have massive impacts on the physical, mental and social health of your child. Lets talk about a few ways to fight back against unhealthy lifestyle shifts today.
Why You Should be Worried About Your Circulation
Our blood flow– critical to health and vitality – can slow down for many reasons, including stress, toxicity, age, medication, injury, illness, food, environment and sedentary lifestyle. When this happens, less oxygen is created, less toxins are removed, fewer nutrients are delivered absorbed, and less metabolic waste is eliminated.
Thumb and Wrist Pain Treatment with Chiropractic
The use and overuse of technology – especially mobile technology including cell phones and laptop computers -- has a growing list of health consequences. When working on the Internet, computers and cell phones, good ergonomics and/or good posture is almost impossible to maintain. An increasing number of health problems are associated with this rapidly expanding practice.
To alleviate thumb and wrist pain related to technology use, consider these simple tips:
1. Take Frequent Breaks: Short breaks of a few seconds can help reduce muscle fatigue from prolonged device use, especially in less-than-optimal positions.
2. Build Breaks into Your Routine: Avoid back-to-back phone calls and take a few minutes to relax your muscles in between. Set an alarm for 15 minutes to remind yourself to get up and move around while using a laptop.
3. Regular Spinal Check-Ups: Learning correct spinal hygiene exercises and maintaining good posture can mitigate the negative effects of our electronic lifestyle. Dr. Keith Lavender, a Board Certified Atlas Orthogonal Chiropractor, offers precise, gentle care for all ages, including nutrition and exercise counseling.
Professional Massages, Designed for Optimal Health
Our experienced and highly-rated massage therapists are dedicated to enhancing your health through personalized techniques tailored to your specific needs. Massage therapy is an excellent way to de-stress and promote overall well-being.
Chiropractic Care to Reduce and Prevent Aches and Pains
Do you have aches and pains, imbalances, or perhaps a “back problem” that may actually be a “health problem”? Many spinal issues can create the appearance of uneven leg lengths and postural abnormalities, leading to aches and pains.