Get Stronger

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Getting stronger means increasing your muscle strength and increasing your resilience. Both are necessary to get you healthy and to keep you healthy.

Benefits of increasing your muscle strength

From a chiropractor’s perspective having good muscle strength keeps your spine stable, improves your alignment and posture, improves your athletic performance, reduces the chance of injuries, and helps improve your balance and coordination. Furthermore, increasing your muscle strength will help you withstand and continue to partake in physical activities around the house like gardening, yard work, home renovations, shovelling, and general house work.

Increasing your resilience

Resilience is your body's ability to respond effectively when you encounter stress. Building up your internal response to a stressful situation can help ensure you heal better and stay healthy.

The following articles explain how you can boost your muscle strength and resilience from treatments like chiropractic care to lifestyle strategies like eating healthier, exercises, sleeping better, and stress management.

Prevent Low Back Pain when Gardening

As a chiropractor and avid gardener, I understand that gardening can take a toll on your low back. Spending hours bent over and digging can lead to severe low back pain. In this post, I will provide you with some tips on how to prevent low back pain when gardening, so you can enjoy your passion without any discomfort. Move more and sit less to prevent low back pain Digging, lifting, and bending over for long periods of time are something you likely aren’t doing on a regular basis … [Read more...]

Chiropractic Care for Children

The other day a new adult patient was surprised I adjusted children and inquired why children would need chiropractic care. I replied, “Injuries and misalignments to the spine can start from birth. Making sure the spine has good mobility and alignment with regular spinal check-ups and chiropractic care, can help kids' nervous systems work better and therefore their bodies will work better. The body becomes stronger and more resilient. Regular chiropractic care for … [Read more...]

Get Stronger Legs with Chiropractic

In the last article, we discussed how pinched nerves in the spine are one of the main causes of weak legs. We learned that pinched nerves can slow down the nerve flow to your leg muscles. To illustrate this, we used the analogy of stepping on the water hose to stop the flow of water. So how do you ‘take your foot off the water hose’ and get better nerve flow to your leg muscles? You get your spine adjusted by a chiropractor that’s how. In this article, we will discuss how to get stronger … [Read more...]

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