Chiropractic entries

Mental Attitude: Risks For Quitting College. 40% of students in the US fail to get a bachelor’s degree within 6 years at the college where they began. Surprisingly, events such as a death in the family and students’ failure to get their intended major did not have a significant influence. The critical event with the [...]

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a very common complaint often associated with repetitive motion related jobs. There are 9 tendons traveling down the arm from the elbow that “merge” or come together in the relatively tight carpal tunnel, kind of like when 4 lanes of traffic suddenly narrow into 1 lane. We all know what [...]

Mental Attitude: It Could Be In Your Head. Your emotional response to challenging situations can predict how your body responds to stress. People with high levels of anger and anxiety showed greater increases in a marker of inflammation than those who remained relatively calm. This could help explain why some people with high levels of [...]

“Were does the pain come from?” is probably the most commonly asked question we hear as las vegas chiropractors and frequently, the patient is not told the answer to this simple question. The problem is, the question is not so simple. This is because there are many structures in the low back that share a [...]

Mental Attitude: Delay Alzheimer’s! Mastering a second language seems to delay getting Alzheimer’s as bilingual patients did not contract Alzheimer’s until 5 years later than monolingual patients. Even if you’re not bilingual, there are other ways to exercise the brain like word games, crosswords, word search. Ellen Bialystok, York University, Feb 2011 Health Alert: Too [...]

Mental Attitude: Cognitive Disorders. Seniors (age 85 and older) were most likely to report one or more cognitive disorders, such as senility or dementia (18.4%) compared to seniors ages 75-84 (6%) and seniors ages 65-74 (1.1%). The average annual health care expense for seniors reporting one or more cognitive disorders totaled $15,549 a year, compared [...]

Mental Attitude: Lets Talk. People are attracted to, date, and marry people who resemble themselves in terms of personality, values, and physical appearance. A new study finds people who speak in similar styles are more compatible. The study focused on words called “function words,” words that show how those words relate (words like the, a, [...]

Mental Attitude: Who Has The Highest Stress Levels? A workplace’s key employees may be at the greatest risk of experiencing high stress levels. 18% reported their job was “highly stressful.” The odds of having high stress were greater if workers were managers or professionals, if they thought their poor job performance could negatively affect others, [...]

Mental Attitude: Empathy Improves Care. Doctors showing clinical empathy to patients can improve their satisfaction of care, motivate them to stick to their treatment plans and lower malpractice complaints. Empathy is the ability to understand another’s experience, to communicate and confirm that understanding with the other person and to then act in a helpful manner. [...]

When patients present with neck pain, they always ask, “where is the pain coming from?” Of course, this can only be answered after a careful history and thorough evaluation is completed, which is what we do in this office. Let’s take a closer look at what this involves. The History: This includes a careful description [...]