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“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest the patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”    ~ Thomas Edison Disease, sickness and pain can be prevented if the body is functioning in it’s ideal state.  From the time that we are born until the time we die, the body is in constant motion, even when at rest. The cells of our body are constantly dying and being replaced by new, healthy cells.

Fibromyalgia, a condition most often marked by pain in the body’s soft, fibrous tissue (muscles, ligaments and tendons), an inability to sleep well, chronic fatigue, and depression, has been described as an epidemic.  In fact, it has gone from a condition that many in the medical community denied even existed (Some conventional physicians still deny that the disorder exists. Instead, they attribute symptoms to emotional or psychological causes.), to one for which the drug companies have now seized as an opportunity to develop prescription treatments.

Dr. Peter Adams at Life Mission Chiropractic in Jacksonville shares this information from Maximized Living. The obstetricians and gynecologist are figuring out that a bad spine affects your organs!  AM J Obste  Gynecol 200 Dec, 183  (6)  1381-4; discussion 1384 In this study, they took 363 patients who had some type of female organ problem and they measured their lumbar curve (lower back)

This is Dr. Rob Bates again. The last several weeks we’ve talked about the different stresses on the body, the physical stresses, the chemical stresses, and the mental stresses, and when the body can’t adapt to such stresses, it will break down.

We’re here to talk about the major causes of disease, which will interfere with your innate intelligence to express itself.

Remember when your mother used to tell you to chew your food?  She was really onto something.  But like so many gems Mom gave us, we didn’t all listen, and many of us still don’t see her wisdom, even as adults.  Sure, we all know we need to chew our food enough to get it down without choking, but most people don’t realize the importance of really chewing your food properly.  It’s perhaps hard for some to believe, but the truth is, a simple change to your eating habits – correctly chewing your food – can have tremendous benefits to many areas of your life.  Seriously.  Here are a few: 1.

Torticollis is a condition where a joint or disk is injured and you can’t move your neck.

Doctors of Chiropractic are health care professionals who specialize in musculoskeletal and nervous system conditions and the impact they have on a person’s overall health .

The following 8 tips for returning to daily activities after a car accident are only for educational purposes and are not medical advice.  These tips assume that there was not major trauma damage, unhealed fractures, severe whiplash or other complicating factors.  Please seek the professional advice of a physician if you feel that you have been injured in any type of accident.   Chiropractors have been found to be helpful in evaluating and treating auto accident related injuries. Avoid sitting in one position for long periods.