The neck is the most flexible part of your spine and just like any other area of the body, movement exercises and good posture are important to maintain its health. Neck pains can be brought on or aggravated by how you treat this vital structure. We often neglect our neck when it comes to exercises, focusing instead on our legs or heart. So try these helpful hints and incorporate them into your daily routine. Moving your neck slowly through all...

Whiplash pain can be much different from other types of injuries. When a car accident is severe, the pain will come on right away. If the injury produces a mild or moderate sprain, sometimes it takes a few days for the pain and inflammation to reach its maximum. Sometimes it is stiffness that is the primary symptom and the person notices this in the first few weeks after the accident. The delay in pain is often seen in low speed collisions where...

This article came out last year but is worth revisiting. Experts: Sitting Too Long Can Be Deadly. The key point is that sitting for extended periods of time is bad for your back and bad for your health. The solution is to take frequent breaks, every 1-2 hours. We do alot of our stretching automatically, which is good. Even better is to program it into your computer or phone schedule as a pop-up reminder to ‘stretch’. Starting a good...

Spinal stretching is essential to proper spinal hygiene. Just like we brush and floss our teeth daily, we need to stretch our back and neck daily to loosen the joints and stretch the muscles that support the spine. Your Daily Stretching Program 1. Stand with feet shoulder length apart. Begin to bend forward to touch your toes. Feel all of the individual vertebrae flexing a few degrees until you are flexed forward as much as possible. Remember to...

What is chiropractic? Chiropractic is a branch of the healing arts based upon the understanding that good health depends, in part, upon a normally functioning nervous system (especially the spine, and the nerves extending from the spine to all parts of the body). “Chiropractic” comes from the Greek word chiropraktikos, meaning “effective practice by hand.” Chiropractic stresses the idea that the cause of many disease...