St. George Chiropractic News
Too much Tylenol can have an accumulative, damaging effect on your liver and brain.
I’m very sympathetic to people who suffer from chronic pain or chronic recurring pain. However, people need to realize the damaging effects that Tylenol has on your liver and brain. It’s a common thing for people to desperately overdose on Tylenol when having an episode of pain. But, this can create an acute toxicity that [...]
Read moreYour body’s ability to self regulate and heal itself.
“The wisdom of the body is responsible for 90% of the hope of patients to recover. The body has a super wisdom that is in favor of life, rather than death. This is the power that we depend on for life. All doctors are responsible for letting their patients know of this great force working [...]
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Headaches, stiffness between the shoulders, and numbness in the arms: Do you have T4 syndrome?
One case presentation that I commonly see in my office is one called the T4 Syndrome. People who have T4 syndrome are often middle aged women. The symptoms of numbness or tingling in both arms arise at night, and throughout the day, they have stiffness, even trigger points in the muscles in the upper back, [...]
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Chiropractic Care can be a Healthy Alternative to America’s Prescription Drug Overdose Epidemic.
I just read a news story this morning that goes in line with a Centers for Disease Control press release that says that Americans are taking too many prescription drugs. Apparently we are in an epidemic of people taking way too many prescription pain pills, overdosing on those pain pills, and even dying from the [...]
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5 Ways to Relieve Neck Tension at the Office.
If you’re like most people, as you sit at your desk getting work done, your neck muscles will invariable tense up. Here at Lloyd Chiropractic and the Innova Pain Clinic, I have Dr. Andrew White to give me a chiropractic adjustment to set my muscle tension back to 0, and to straighten me out. It [...]
Read moreChiropractic program for scoliosis.
Scoliosis is when the spine has curves that aren’t part of the normal front to back curves in the spine. In an adult that has scoliosis, the curves of scoliosis are well fixed by the ribs that also have adapted to the curves. It’s hard to make changes in these curves, and spinal manipulation alone [...]
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The Divided Brain: The difference between the right and left brain.
You use to hear about the difference between the right and left hemispheres of the brain a lot more than you do now. People use to really simplify the actions and the functions between the two. For example, they use to tell you that the right brain is good with art while the left brain [...]
Read moreBrain injuries after a car crash.
My colleague Trent Artichoker, a chiropractic physician in Denver, pointed out how common brain concussions are after a car crash. A whiplash injury where you are rear-ended is known as a cervical acceleration-deceleration (CAD) injury. This leads to a group of injuries and symptoms called “whiplash associated disorders” (WAD.) Colloquially, we call this a whiplash. [...]
Read moreCommonly misused words on the internet.
Not chiropractic related, but I recently ran across this list of commonly misused words in written language. It’s important to be a well-rounded learner in any field, and the English language is no exception. http://www.copyblogger.com/commonly-misused-words/
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Other Names You Might Hear to Describe Thoracic Outlet Syndrome.
When you have pain in the neck, and that comes with pain, numbness or tingling in your shoulders, arms or hands, you might have thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS.) You see, once the nerves leave your neck (cervical spine), they can be compressed by the nearby muscles or other bones. When your nerves become pinched, they [...]
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