Increase Your Strength

Increasing your strength means boosting 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.

Why Won’t Your Body Heal Itself?

January 2, 2021 by dean collins Leave a Comment

Lifestyle factors and healing If you have a chronic health problem why won’t your body heal itself? Your body won’t heal properly because there are likely aspects in your lifestyle that don't support your body's healing mechanisms. To clarify, here are some examples of lifestyle factors that interfere with your body's ability to heal and function well: Chronic mental stressPoor SleepingLack of exerciseSitting too muchEating crappy foods Your body won’t heal properly because there are … [Read more...]

Can Your Body Heal Itself?

December 14, 2020 by dean collins Leave a Comment

Are you struggling with low back pain, headaches or another physical problem? Or perhaps your energy levels are low or your strength has decreased? Whatever the health issue, understand that for most health problems your body has the power to heal itself. Many people struggling with a chronic health problem get stuck believing in the current health model that health comes from an “outside source". They believe that in order to heal they need to take a drug or pill or have surgery to … [Read more...]

Managing Stress Helps Chronic Low Back Pain

March 4, 2020 by dean collins Leave a Comment

In a previous article, on how Exercise Helps Chronic Low Back Pain I discussed the importance of moving, exercising more, and sitting less to help chronic low back pain. I was inspired to write this article about a patient who made drastic changes to his lifestyle in order to get his health back and have a happier life. In his case, managing his stress was key to helping him overcome chronic low back pain. There are many causes of chronic low back pain, but an often overlooked cause is … [Read more...]