Explaining Chiropractic To Children.
How should you explain chiropractic to children? Explaining chiropractic to children is much easier than you’d expect. You just have to know the right questions to ask and the right terminology to use. Don’t let your knowledge of what you think chiropractic is, get in the way of explaining it to your kids. Always tell the truth. You don’t need to tell your kids that the chiropractor is a doctor. Just call them the chiropractor. Kids associate needles, injections, bad tastes, medication, gagging on tongue depressors, cold stethoscopes, and a bunch of other things that medical doctors do, with “going to the doctor”. Chiropractors do none of these things. In fact, the chiropractic exam with a pediatric chiropractic specialist is often fun and feels good. Don’t talk to kids about scoliosis. The idea of “curves in the spine” may conjure up images of The Hunchback of Notre Dame or an otherwise scary looking person. 8 times out of ten, even parents don’t fully understand scoliosis, kyphosis, lordosis and other spinal curves. ASK THIS: Do you know what controls your entire body? The brain controls your body. Can you wiggle your toes and take a deep breath? What controls that? That’s right,...
read morePreventing Back Pain.
Preventing Back Pain At Home Is Easier Than You Think. Back pain has a handful of primary causes: Spinal misalignment and joint compression. Nerve compression or pinching. Strained muscles ligaments and tendons. Arthritis in the joints of the spine and pelvis. Bulging, herniated and ruptured discs. Wear and tear of all of these structures. Download The Healthy Back EBook Now! While it is true that chiropractors like myself can help do damage control, maintain and optimize all of theses structures and their relationships with one another, you can also help them with efforts at home. A decent amount of prevention can be done with a few simple tools and a little bit of effort. Even something like taking the wallet out of your back pocket may dramatically reduce your risk of back pain. In addition to the tools in this FREE E-BOOKLET, preventing back pain involves keeping your weight down, staying active, getting plenty of sleep and keeping your stress level down. Preventing back pain is so much easier than fixing the underlying problems that cause it. The prevention of back pain is cheaper too. Chiropractic maintenance and care are much less expensive than more invasive medical treatments, but nothing is...
read moreSearching For A Healthcare Community?
Not Into Modern Day American Factory (assembly line) Healthcare? Maybe it’s time to join a healthcare community. Amazon is great for buying electronics and kitchen equipment, but is that kind of shopping what you want when looking for a doctor? A healthcare community is an office that takes a drastically different approach to your healthcare. It is an environment that people choose to get the care that they need but with the feeling of having it delivered to them at home, by friends, even family who care more about them and their lives than they do about the business of healthcare. The following paragraph was copied from LinkedIn: Entrepreneurs should think small, says Nassim Taleb. The scholar and author argues that as companies grow, entrepreneurs lose touch with the people they aim to serve. “The minute you’re dealing with faceless people, you have different ethical rules prevailing, and effectively most people lose their humanity,” he told LinkedIn’s Dan Roth. So often we hear from patients that they are looking for something different but they haven’t known where to find it. They don’t want to feel taken advantage of, they want to feel like a person, not a...
read moreWhat Are Your Symptoms?
What Do Your Symptoms Mean? Migraine Whiplash Neck Pain Shoulder Pain Back Pain Hip Pain Headache Sciatica These are the top reasons people call us for help. These diagnoses are symptoms of an underlying problem. Sometimes the root of the underlying problem is something serious, but more often these are symptoms of wear and tear on your body. Chiropractic care may help you resolve these symptoms and the underlying issues that have caused them. We are lucky as humans to have a built in security alarm. Your symptoms always mean that there is something going on, whether serious or not. Pain and dysfunction NEVER happen for no reason. There is always a cause and the effects are the symptoms. Often compared to the oil light in your car, the symptom is the fire alarm, the carbon monoxide alarm, or other warning signal to get out or get help. When you feel one of these pains, you need to decide how you want to deal with it. Let’s use the warning light on your car for this example. Once symptoms appear (oil light), you can choose to put electrical tape over the light and it will no longer bother your eyes, or...
read moreZen and the art of chiropractic table maintenance.
Maintenance Matters. The Chiropractic Table Repair Man Any machine that gets used on a regular basis, whether it’s your car, a furnace, a chiropractic table or human body, it needs maintenance to stay in the game. We are a small local office with a big heart and we get big results for our patients. We also focus locally on supporting businesses that give back to the community, are honest, caring and give you the time and energy that you need. Just like us. Peter West is the owner of the business Chiro Table Care. He lives in Portland and has been maintaining and repairing the tables at our office for years now. Now that his business is registered, he’s ready to help anyone with a chiropractic or medical table in need of service or repair. I have known Peter for years and he’s an honest, hard working engineer with the skills to not only fix your table but make it better. He optimizes the function of your table with his chiropractic table repair and maintenance. Just like you do with your patients. Whether you are a damage control chiropractor that works on symptoms and sends people on...
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