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Welcome to our blog, where you'll find a treasure trove of valuable resources, engaging videos, and helpful content to help you get well.
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Sunshine Vitamin
We need exposure to the sunshine vitamin on a daily basis for 10-15 minutes directly on our arms and legs. Even consuming foods abundant in Vitamin D still hasn’t helped mitigate our society’s ...
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Cervicogenic Headaches
I know headaches and migraines very well. In fact, I became a chiropractor because chiropractic helped me get rid of my headaches and migraines. Cervicogenic headaches are those that ...
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Lifting Floor to Waist 101
Stop ‘Lifting’ with Your Knees If you are someone currently dealing with a low back injury (disc bulge, sciatica, or degenerative disc disease), lifting by squatting down with your knees (squat ...
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Power Smoothie
Want a delicious, nutritious, whole food snack or meal replacement? Try this “Power” smoothie my wife has perfected. Here is what you are getting in this smoothie: Blueberries ...
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Sit-ups Are BAD For You
Sit-ups used to be the gold-standard for working out your ‘abs.’ And for some people they may still be appropriate – think high level athlete, sport-specific training, or ...
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Your 60 Pound Head?
More than ever before, forward head posture (FHP), ‘text neck’, and ‘shneck pain’ are becoming a regular presentation in my Newmarket chiropractic clinic. More alarming is that this is ...
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Shoulder Pain or Neck Problem?
Do you have shoulder pain that just won’t go away? You have exercised it, rehabbed it, stretched it out, and even iced it regularly, but…it’s still there. Some days it feels ok, and ...
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Cervical Kyphosis
Cervical Kyphosis Treatment in Newmarket It has been long known that poor spinal alignment and posture leads to a host of neuromuscular problems – headaches, neck and back pain, sciatica, and ...
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How to “Hold” Your Alignment
There are dozens of things we do on a daily/weekly basis that cause stress on our spines, pushing our posture and alignment ‘off’. These daily repetitive habits can produce a situation where ...
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