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Chiropractic
Chiropractic care is a natural method of health care that has been helping patients just like you for over 100 years. It's based on the premise that good health and mobility rely on a normally functioning nervous system and a healthy spine.
Chiropractic allows the body to heal itself by re-establishing communication between the brain and every tissue and organ in your body. This improves skeletal, muscular and nervous-system disorders without the use of expensive drugs and surgery.
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Massage Therapy
Chiropractic care and massage therapy are a perfect blend. You benefit from massage as it improves circulation, enhances joint and muscle function, increases metabolism and promotes the healing process.
Massage is a term describing a variety of techniques using the hands to stimulate and sooth soft tissues of the body for therapeutic purposes. Massage is useful in many conditions from injuries sustained in auto accidents, work-related injuries, improper ergonomics, stress/tension build up in the muscles. Massage therapy can increase blood and lymph circulation while breaking up scar tissue between muscle fibers. Massage is useful to stimulate body relaxation, reduce swelling, increase range-of-motion and mobilize muscles.
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Nutritional Support
Nutrition complements the hands-on, total-person approach to care that is chiropractic. Americans don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables. According to a 2007 study conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, not only are most adults not eating enough of the fresh stuff to satisfy regulations set by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA)--that is, two daily servings of fruit and three of vegetables—but there is no indication they plan on doing it anytime soon.
The report found only 11% of adults met the guidelines during the 1999 to 2002 study period, and among them approximately 62% did not consume any whole fruit servings. And that number was down when compared to the previous data acquired between 1988 and 1994.
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