Fibromyalgia (FM) is a condition associated with tight, sore muscles but no one REALLY knows where FM comes from or why it picks on certain people and not others. Some feel it’s caused by lack of sleep, specifically deep sleep, eventually resulting in chronically tight muscles. Others theorize it’s the underlying stress of a person’s…
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Treatment Recommendations For Carpal Tunnel Syndrome – Chiropractor in Springfield
Carpal tunnel syndrome is one of the most common causes of pain, loss of work, and work related disability in the United States. It affects approximately 50 per 1000 persons in the general population and the average lifetime cost of carpal tunnel syndrome (including medical bills and lost work time) is estimated to be about…
Weekly Health Update – Chiropractor in Springfield, VA
Weekly Health Update Week of: Monday, June 13th, 2011 Courtesy of: Todd P. Sullivan, DC (703) 912-7822 Mental Attitude: Stress And Cellular Health. University of California San Francisco (UCSF) scientists report psychological stress leads to shorter telomeres – the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes that are a measure of cell age and thus,…
Weekly Health Update – Chiropractor in Springfield, VA
Weekly Health Update Mental Attitude: Poor Eating Habits Can Cause Depression. The ingestion of trans-fats and saturated fats increase the risk of suffering depression, while ingesting olive oil appears to protect against depression. Participants with an elevated consumption of trans-fats (fats present in artificial form in industrially-produced pastries and fast food, and naturally present in…
Natural Anti-Inflammatories (Let Thy Food be Thy Medicine)
Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine (ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC)1, is quoted as saying, “Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our…