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Heavy backpacks and spine health

It may seem that, as each day passes, your child’s backpack seems to get heavier and heavier as they begin to accumulate more and more work.However, you and your child may not have considered the pain and strain this accumulation of school work may be caus...

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Text Neck

Why are Smart Phone Users Seeing Chiropractors More?Even Smart Phone Users Develop “Text Neck” and See Chiropractors MoreSmart phone users hold their head in an anterior forward flexed position for hours a day. This position takes the normal lordotic cervi...

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Low Back Pain and Sciatica Non- Surgical Treatment

Chiropractic is an effective non-surgical treatment for Low Back Pain and SciaticaLow back pain and Sciatica are the number one reason today people are out of work. Chiropractic has been rated the most effective means of treatment for resolving lower back ...

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Concussion, Traumatic Brain Injury and Chiropractic

The role of Chiropractic in Concussion and Traumatic Brain InjuryThe topic of concussion, traumatic brain injury and head injury, has been on the news a lot lately. If you watch the news, you may get the impression that the topic mostly relates to NFL foot...

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Car Accident Injury

How do car accident injuries occur?Injuries sustained from car accidents affect the soft tissues that hold you in place. When your car is impacted by an object or another car, your head (which weighs 10-15 pounds) is thrown around. When this happens, the s...

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Low Back Pain Relief and Correction- “The Personal Trainer Analogy”

Changing your low back pain and the GYM AnalogyChanging, and then maintaining, your spine is comparable to changing your body appearance and muscles with a personal trainer.Suppose you wanted to lose 30 pounds in a few months. You decide to hire a personal...

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Neck Pain, Low Back Pain, Headaches and The Broken Bone Analogy

Sam fell and severely fractured his arm. He was driven to the emergency room where the doctor examined and x-rayed him. Determining that the arm was broken, the doctor put his arm in a cast, in a position for it to heal. In a few days, Sam felt much better...

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Neuropathy/ Peripheral Neuropathy and Chiropractic

Neuropathy/ Peripheral Neuropathy and ChiropracticA growing number of patients coming to see Dr. Fred Schofield at Atlas Chiropractic are suffering from Neuropathy or Peripheral Neuropathy. Often they have been given the diagnosis as a catch all, when conv...

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Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury from WhiplashConcussion and mild traumatic brain injury http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001802/ commonly results from whiplash sustained in an automobile accident. Dr. Fred Schofield at Atlas Chiropra...

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Headaches

One of the most common complaints we see in chiropractic offices is headaches. There are different causes of headaches. Its origin may be traumatic, inflammatory, neurologic, psychologic, vascular, endocrine, metabolic, neoplastic, degenerative, deficiency...

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LOW BACK PAIN AND THE APPROPRIATENESS OF CHIROPRACTIC

Back pain occurs in up to 80% of adults at some point in their lives and is one of the leading causes of visits to physicians. Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on low back pain, the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading co...

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It’s back-to-school-time – How to avoid back pain from backpacks

It’s back-to-school-time – How to avoid back pain from backpacksIts back-to-school-time, which means new backpacks for our patients. Although backpacks are a staple amongst school aged children, they can also pose a serious health threat. Atlas Chiropracti...

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