9 Ways To Buy yourself time by staying healthy.
Healthcare is all about time. Time can be measured in quality and quantity. We all want more time and we all want it to be the best possible quality time too. For many, that means being active and doing what you love without pain, discomfort or limitations. When you boil it down, healthcare is all about buying you more time. Comfortable time or length of time…of your life. Life saving interventions and medications buy you both and emergency medicine is a great gift of science, study and technology. What many non medical professionals don’t realize is that most emergencies, didn’t have to be emergencies, they never had to happen. They are the result of lifestyle choices and management of our bodies that led to breakdown. You can buy quality of time and length of time by investing in healthy food, activities and preventive measures like chiropractic, before you have to do damage control with medical intervention. Why chiropractic? Because it’s geared toward prevention of decay of the spine and nervous system. Spinal decay and subluxation lead to pain and disability in 80% of Americans. Nerve compromise leads to great pain, dysfunction and disability too. Chiropractic prevents, manages and corrects...
read moreWhat are your standards for “Getting Better”?
How do you know if you are “better”? If you’ve had pain, had an illness or suffer from a chronic health problem, how do you know, how do you measure, success with care and recovery? The simple answer is that it depends on your standards. Most people seek help once they’ve experienced a symptom. A symptom in a healthcare office could range from a low back pain, to incontinence, to blurred vision or sciatica and dizziness. Symptoms are a sign of an underlying problem. You can take medicine to get rid of the symptom, or you can try to correct the underlying cause of the symptom. It’s the difference between patching a hole in your tire with a plug, or replacing the tire. We choose how to alleviate the symptom of an air leak or a back pain. If your standards for your life are what we’d consider lower, one might be happy with pain relief, without correcting or managing the underlying issue that led to the symptoms in the first place. It’s a band aid type solution, like a pain killer, that allows you to go about your day but doesn’t prevent recurrence or future melt downs. If...
read moreTicks In Maine – Sydney’s Perspective.
Ticks in Maine I may not be a Mainer, but I am from the northeast, and never in my life have I been so hyper-aware of ticks as I have been in the past few weeks of living here. I live in downtown Portland, too, and I still eye any patch of grass with unease. But for good reason. I feel itchy just typing about them. The countless potential consequences of a tick bite make the risk of being unprotected completely unnecessary. Those buggers made it through the winter, hiding under all those icy snow piles, and they are back with a vengeance. But, the most important thing to realize about ticks – don’t let fear of disease keep you from enjoying the summertime. Be proactive. Be smart about your life outside and enjoy it despite the reality of these bugs being everywhere. That way you can get out and hike and camp without anxiety. You can still have your picnics and play outside with your dog (don’t forget to protect them too!) Don’t let fear keep you from missing out. Find an all natural tick repellent. Wear conscious clothing – lighter colors, longer legs and sleeves. Tuck...
read moreCHIROVAN!
Win prizes By Sharing #CHIROVAN Every month at Jacobs Chiropractic Acupuncture Center, we like to reward people, patients and non patients, for being engaged in our office community. Beginning last month, Dr. Lou’s “chirovan” has been on the road in all it’s glory. A mobile voice, a beacon of sorts, the chirovan helps people find the healthcare they need. We have created a monthly raffle that rewards 2 lucky winners with gifts to say thank you! How do you get entered to win? Take a picture of the “Chirovan”. Post the picture on social media (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) Use the hashtag #chirovan and tag Dr. Lou with @mainechiropractor Alert us via phone (774-6251) or with email (erin@drloujacobs.com) that you have participated and we will enter your name to win. You may enter as many times as you’d like, just use different pictures in different locations! The chirovan is everywhere! Other ways to be entered to win our monthly drawing(s) include: Referring someone (or yourself) to the office. Checking in at our office on Facebook. Taking a picture with Dr. Lou and posting it on social media. Our office is committed to the best evidence based chiropractic care available and...
read moreEggs Get Cracked, Spines Get Adjusted.
Sydney’s Experience With Getting My “Back Cracked” Hey there! There’s a first time for everything! Before starting here as the new patient coordinator at Jacobs Chiropractic Acupuncture I had no idea what Chiropractic was all about… my dad would go to “get his back cracked” and I thought it was strange, probably painful, and completely unfounded in medical legitimacy. And then I met Dr. Lou and my education has been reminiscent of emerging from a dark hole and into the sunshine. For years I’ve had the knack to get tension headaches and vertigo. My neck and shoulders have always been knotted up with stress. Never once in my attempts to deter these things did I consider something like seeing a chiropractor… because isn’t that just where you go to get your back cracked sometimes? If you threw your back out, or had a fall? Since starting here, I’ve learned that the there’s a clinical term for “back cracking“. It’s called an adjustment and it’s a specific correction of spinal misalignment that leads to removing pressure on nerves. This correction leads to better nerve control of healing and regulation of the body. Your body heals itself! The approach to feeling...
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