P90X Seattle Chiropractor Challenge Update: Celebrate a Cheat day

Well, since Thursday I have only been able to get in one day of exercise. That was a few hours of playing street hocket on Saturday afternoon. The best thing is, I am feeling great while playing, and the best is still to come. I am quite sore still the next day, but I feel it might have more to do with my hydration levels, and possibly lacking some supplementation and protein intake. With our...

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Riskier Back Surgeries on the Rise Due to Kickbacks

Riskier Back Surgeries on the Rise Due to Kickbacks

The information seen in this recent article I read on Yahoo really comes as no surprise to this chiropractor. It is common sense that riskier surgeries raise costs of treatment. This is how costs are determined in medicine. The more complicated and riskier the procedure the more it costs. However, the article also reveals some things I knew existed in the pharmaceutical industry, but I really...

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Shout Out to Queen Anne Businesses: Betty

Shout Out to Queen Anne Businesses: Betty

It is amazing that my family and I have called Seattle home for nearly 20 years.  I was walking down Queen Anne Avenue today thinking about how my life had changed since we moved here, which led to thinking about how the face of Queen Anne Hill has changed and stayed the same. Over the last two decades many businesses have come and gone, and I would love to share with you some of my favorites. ...

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Patient Speaks Her Truth About Chiropractic

I recently came across a letter written to the editors of The Chicago Reader, written by a woman who is speaking the amazing truth about her experience with chiropractic. “To the editors: As an adult who spent her childhood and adolescence in an overmedicated fog, I feel I must respond to James Beebe’s extremely narrow-minded and arrogant letter on the subject of chiropractic [July...

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Back Pain Results: Study Compares Chiropractic to P.T. and Back Education

Back Pain Results: Study Compares Chiropractic to P.T. and Back Education

A study complete in January, 2010 published in the Clinical Rehabilitation Journal studied the benefits of chiropractic adjustments to physical therapy, and back education. The results showed that chiropractic adjustments(manipulation) group showed the greatest improvement from an individual treatment. “Spinal manipulation was associated with higher functional improvement and long-term...

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