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Back Pain-Upper/Neck
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Common Conditions Treated, Back and Shoulder Pain
Most neck and upper back pain is caused by a combination of factors, including injury, poor posture, chiropractic subluxations, stress, and in some instances, disc problems.
Most people do not realize how much they move their neck during the day until they are unable to do so. The degree of flexibility
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Back Pain-Lower
Category:
Common Conditions Treated, Back and Shoulder Pain
The low back can withstand tremendous forces without injury. However, if the low back is out of adjustment or has weakened supporting muscles, something as simple as taking a bag of groceries can cause a low back injury.
Eighty percent of people suffer from back pain at some point in their lives. Back
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Hall of Shame Ingredients
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Eat Well
Sugar
When you eat or drink sugar the sudden energy surge your body experiences is followed by an insulin surge that rapidly drops the blood sugar level-so two hours later, you feel famished and tired. To keep an even keel, replace simple carbohydrates with complex ones so the absorption is more controlled
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Hall of Fame Ingredients
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Eat Well
Healthy Oils
There are many healthy oils, such as olive oil, sesame seed oil, flax seed oil, grape seed oil and canola oil. To maximize their health benefits good oils need to be used properly. Keep it in a dark bottle or in your refrigerator-that's how to keep it healthy so it doesn't go rancid. Healthy
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Prosperity Consciousness
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Spiritual
Einstein reputedly divided people in two groups, those who believe we live in a friendly universe, and those who don't. Brilliant in its simplicity, it points out the fundamental basis of wellness psychology - that a well mind knows that we live in a friendly universe, brimming with opportunity and potential,
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Personal Growth
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Mental
The end product of wellness psychology is ongoing personal growth. Rather than a psychological treatment for a mental or emotional condition, wellness psychology leads someone from wherever they are to wherever they want to go mentally and emotionally. Instead of stopping therapy when the symptoms resolve,
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Choices & Decisions
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Physical
Scientists tell us that much of our self-talk is negative, so learning to be kind and supportive in your mental chatter is a direct step toward a well mind. Practice saying constructive things to yourself, like "I'm a good person, today's going to be a great day, I can do this," simple stuff like that.
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Aging & Longevity
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Physical
People who practice wellness typically enjoy their lives and want them to last as long as possible. That's why the wellness mindset usually accompanies other constructive, healthy lifestyle habits. By adopting positive behaviors like: eating well, exercising, saying affirmations, developing healthy self
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Wellness Coloring Book
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Wellness4Kids
Wellness In Space Cover Page
Mac's First Visit
Mac's First Adjustment
Healthy Back Tips with Mac & Family
Exercise Tips with Mac & Friends
Mac's Healthy Lifestyle Certificate
Download Entire Wellness In Space Coloring Book
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Printable Games & Puzzles
Category:
Wellness4Kids
Help Mac Find His Way to the Chiropractor!
Help Mac Find His Way to a Healthy, Balanced Meal!
Help Mac Find His Way to the Playground!
A Visit to the Chiropractor Word Search
Mac's Chiropractic Word Unscramble
Mac's Cosmic Chiro Crossword
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Posture
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Health & Wellness, Life in Motion
The ancient Japanese art form of growing Bonsai trees is fascinating. Bonsai trees are essentially normal shrubs that have been consistently stressed in a particular way for a long time to create a posture which would never be found in nature. Depending on how the tree is stressed while it grows, it
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Movement
Category:
Health & Wellness, Life in Motion
Imagine waking up one morning with a frozen shoulder where you couldn't move your upper arm more than a few inches in any direction. How much would that impact your ability to do your job? How much would that affect your ability to drive your car or even to dress yourself? How much would that affect
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Relationship with Self
Category:
Health & Wellness, Healthy Thinking, Get Positive
Your relationship with your self is the most important relationship because as they say wherever you go there you are. Wellness begins with "being" well first and then is about "doing" things to be well. If you do not address who you are being than just doing things will not make you well. A simple way
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Positive Affirmations
Category:
Health & Wellness, Healthy Thinking, Get Positive
We function a lot like computers: Garbage in produces garbage out, while great stuff in produces great stuff out. We talk to ourselves far more than we talk to others. In fact, most experts agree that about 80 percent of all conversations we have are with ourselves. All too often, we talk to ourselves
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Muscle Relaxation
Category:
Health & Wellness, Healthy Thinking, Relaxation Techniques
The goal of progressive muscle relaxation is to reduce the tension in your muscles. First, find a quiet place where you'll be free from interruption. Loosen tight clothing and remove your glasses or contacts if you'd like. Tense each muscle group for at least five seconds and then relax for at least
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Heat Therapy
Category:
Therapies & Techniques, Therapies
Most people have used heat at one time to sooth normal aches and pains — such as the use of a hot bath, a heating pad or even an old-fashioned water bottle.
Even today, these types of heat therapy play an important role in chiropractic practice to increase circulation and relax the muscles. At the
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