https://youtu.be/C5MLhlEAU2Y Have you been looking for a female chiropractor in Oakland California?I recently ran across an interesting study in the journal of Chiropractic and Manual Therapies. It’s the first of it’s kind to look at the differences in treatment outcomes of patients who have neck pain between female chiropractors and male chiropractors. In this video, […]
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Alright, so, have you ever wondered why foam rolling and stretching and ice all of a sudden seem to stop working for certain injuries? Well I’m going to tell you why. The short answer is that we’ve moved on from a situation where we have a tight muscle, to a situation where you have a
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https://youtu.be/ifdM23Ky1YA The new commercial for Piper Wai Natural Deod0rant got me thinking. Does the aluminum found in antiperspirants really have a link to breast cancer? Or is that just a myth? Here’s a quick summary of the research and my thoughts on the issue. If you are looking for a more natural solution, you may
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Have you ever found yourself thirsty for something besides water on a warm, lazy Sunday afternoon? And maybe you’re avoiding alcohol and its commonly proffered alternatives of sugary soda or juice. It’s too hot for tea, and iced tea takes too long to brew/cool-down. So what do you do? You make a Sunny Sunday Strawberry
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Do you ever have trouble picking music that best reflects your fitness mood? You are all dressed to go for a long walk or run and you’re feeling inspired and energetic…but you just can’t figure out which song to play on your phone or what Pandora station to select that might match those feelings? Or
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https://youtu.be/pNnx7FNlYfs Do you struggle with wrist pain when breastfeeding or with baby holding? Maybe you’ve tried stretching or using a brace, but the pain keeps coming back? In this video I’m going to show you how you can fix your wrist pain so you can get back to breastfeeding and taking care of your baby
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Do you struggle with neck pain when breastfeeding? Maybe you’ve tried heat and ice packs and ibuprofen and nothing seems to help? Eventually you start to dread sitting down for another nursing session because you know the pain will still be there. In this video I’m going to show you how you can fix your
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Diastasis Recti Treatment requires starting with the right diagnosis. Diastasis Recti is a condition in which your most superficial abdominal muscles (rectus abdominus) separate along the midline of the body. The left and right sides of the abs split apart and the connective tissue along the midline stretches and becomes weaker. It most commonly occurs
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It’s often thought that a protruding belly posture is due to weak abdominals. In terms of fixing that faulty posture, it seems logical that if you were to “pull” the belly in by strengthening the abdominals, you would no longer have that protruding belly posture. That’s understandable, and may even be the case with a
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A tendon is what connects a muscle to a bone, thus a lot of force gets transferred through a tendon during activity. There are two types of tendon pathologies aka tendinopathies. Let’s define those before we dive into treatment for tendinitis and tendinosis. Tendinitis: a symptomatic degeneration of a tendon with vascular disruption and inflammatory
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