CHIROPRACTIC NEWS
Wearables for Chiropractic
by Brent Hearn • SETTING: A front porch. YEAR: 2050. Grandson: Hey, Pawpaw? What kind of smartwatch did you have when you were my age? And what kind of apps did it have? Grandfather: Smartwatch? Ha! We’d never heard of such. Back when I was a boy,...
Summertime (or Anytime) Sun Tips
by Brent Hearn • Though it may seem like spring just “sprung,” summertime is right around the corner. Along with family vacations, watersports, and various camps for the kids comes a rise in temperatures. According to the National Oceanic and...
Tech and Chiropractic
by Brent Hearn • The topic of tech pops up now and again in this blog, but it’s been a while since we’ve written specifically about how various technologies have pushed the chiropractic field forward. (Check out Chiropractic in the Modern Era from...
Blood Sugar Regulation 101
by Brent Hearn • If you’re one of the umpteen-zillion people who have at one point or another tried to shed some weight (don’t quote us on that number), you may have learned a couple of things: It can be very hard. It can be even harder to keep it off....
Fun Facts About Bones and Joints
by Brent Hearn • The human body is a mind-bogglingly complex machine. The way its many components (usually) work together in harmony to keep us breathing, thinking, and living is a marvelous thing to behold. The human body is also pretty weird. These...
Don’t Believe the Fitness Myths
by Brent Hearn • For most (read: pretty much all) of our posts, we like to delve into a topic that we find relevant to your health, citing a variable number of sources along the way. In this post, however, we’re going to veer into new territory and...
Eat Your Way to Healthier Joints
by Brent Hearn • Maybe it comes on without warning. You’re in the middle of a routine workout—and not a particularly strenuous one—when you feel a twinge in your elbow that proceeds to nag at you for weeks. Or you’re climbing the stairs at your...
Tips for Healthy Vision
by Brent Hearn • Benjamin Franklin once noted that nothing is certain except death and taxes. You could make a pretty good argument for adding “an eventual need for corrective lenses” to that list. Maybe it was just too many words; Ben probably...
Leg Length Discrepancy
by Brent Hearn • Perhaps you’ve suspected—or been told—at some point by someone (a physician, chiropractor, coach, for instance) that you or your child have “one leg shorter than the other.” Or maybe you’ve noticed a limp or “hitch” in your or your...
Tips for Trips- Prepping for Your Flight
by Brent Hearn • For many, air travel is cause for excitement. It can mean a much-anticipated vacation or a long-overdue trip to see loved ones for the holidays. Even traveling for business can be something to look forward to; a work conference in a...
Chiropractic Considerations for Arthritis
by Brent Hearn • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 53.2 million people have arthritis. That’s 21.2% of all adults. One in five—slightly more than one in five—deal with some form of the disease. Those numbers are...
Puzzles, Games, and the Aging Brain
by Brent Hearn • Can puzzles and games improve cognitive abilities in aging brains? It depends. If you find that rather tepid answer discouraging, it’s completely understandable. After all, we’d all like to think we can beat the odds when it comes to...