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When it comes to our habits, some may be more healthy than others. However, some habits can be downright counterproductive to living a healthy and happy life. Below, Barton Chiropractic Clinic goes over a few bad habits that may be sabotaging your progress in life.
1.) Stop Making Excuses
When it comes down to it, you're always going to have an excuse to do something you don't want to do -- like, say, going to the gym, going for that run, waking up a half-hour earlier to meditate. But, the truth is, there are too many reasons to mention here why you should be doing these things as much as you can. Stop telling yourself why you can't and just start doing the things you know you need to do to stay well.
2.) Stop Eating for Instant Gratification
Instead of eating for mouth pleasure, consume food to fuel your body and brain throughout the day. If you're craving fast food, it might just be because you're not craving the idea of spending the energy to make a healthy meal at home. Again, stop making excuses and start eating healthy to gain some serious health and productivity benefits.
3.) Treat Your Body Well
Think of your body as a vehicle. You want to keep all the parts and components in good working order to ensure the entire vessel runs and works properly, not to mention lasts you for the long haul. Try things like yoga, exercise, and chiropractic treatment to unlock positive results.
Contact Barton Chiropractic Clinic today to schedule your consultation in order to learn more about chiropractic treatment and how it can fit into your new positive and healthy lifestyle.
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Your spine is an intricate entity that makes up your back and your neck, and the activities we engage in on a daily basis are constantly putting stress on your spine -- which means, in effect, your neck and your back.
Below are a few measures you can take that will help ensure your neck and back both work at optimum capacity, which will play a huge role in your overall wellness.
Strengthen Your Neck and Back
Your neck might be one of the last things you think about working out, but it's important to strengthen your neck -- it supports your head after all. Strengthening your back is just as important, ensuring your spine has proper support.
Stretch Like a Boss
Make sure that for every workout session you endure that you have a rigorous stretch routine planned for after. Mix it up by taking a yoga class, or at the very least incorporate yoga poses into your stretch routine.
Visit Your Local Chiropractor
Visiting your chiropractor is essential in ensuring your neck and back are properly aligned. When your spine becomes misaligned, your brain doesn't work as well, and your GI system, immune system, and respiratory system can become compromised. Contact Barton Chiropractic Clinic today to schedule your consultation and learn how chiropractic treatment can be the perfect companion to your wellness routine.
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Sometimes products and systems we have no choice but to use on a daily basis may not be designed with our health and wellness in mind. That's basically what ergonomics tends to attempt to address.
Ergonomics has to do with a scientific discipline that is concerned with understanding interactions which occur between people and these additional elements that make up a system. Ergonomics might also be considered a profession which applies principles, methods, theories, and data, taking all of these elements into consideration, then designing products and systems that optimize your well-being -- not to mention overall system performance as a whole.
Ergonomics Can Help You At Work
There are all sorts of work-related stress and injuries that can occur, which ergonomics attempt to address, ultimately helping reduce your chances of falling victim to tissue or skeletal damage, not to mention overuse and repetitive motion.
Ergonomics and Your Chiropractor
Your local chiropractor should be able to recommend products and practices that will optimize your health and lower your risk of injury. Your chiropractor can also provide treatments that help optimize your body, not to mention offer drug-free pain relief for everyday wear and tear.
How to Recognize the Signs and Symptoms of Stress or Injury
If you're experiencing any of the symptoms mentioned below, it's time to consult with your local chiropractic care specialist.
- Persistent Pain (Especially if Severe and Getting Worse)
- Radiating Pain
- Numbness or Tingling of Extremities
- Improper Sleep
Contact Barton Chiropractic today to learn more about how our treatments can benefit you on a daily basis. We have a long history of keeping our patients healthy and happy.
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If you're human, chances are you've felt tenderness, soreness, and tightness in a concentrated area of your body -- which to the layman is called a "Muscle Knot." Muscle knots can cause an immense amount of discomfort and disrupt your daily routine.
Below is more information about how chiropractic treatments can help relieve muscle knots and get you back to work and back in the game quicker.
Causes of Muscle Knots
Muscle knots can come about due to stress, poor ergonomics, joint problems, sleep disorders, bad eating habits, dehydration, fatigue, improper lifting technique, bad posture, and more.
Chiropractic vs Muscle Knots
Chiropractic adjustments and treatments are designed to go to work on the back, neck, joints, muscles, and even the interior systems of the body, helping you feel more functional and comfortable along the way, whether you're healthy and well or working through an injury.
Chiropractor in Homewood, IL
Barton Chiropractic Clinic offers treatments which provide drug-free solutions to problems like muscle knots, back pain, joint disorders, and even more exotic problems like insomnia and GI issues. Contact us today to schedule your consultation to learn more about how our treatments can enhance your life and improve your wellness.
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In this day and age, there seems to be a healthy (and sometimes not so healthy) suspicion when it comes to just about anything. There's even still discourse going on about whether or not the world is round. So, just the same, there's obviously going to be some discourse as to whether or not chiropractic treatments are a viable option to help people get (and stay) healthy and well.
Below are a few reasons to give chiropractic treatments a shot that even the most doubtful critic can appreciate.
1.) It's Low Risk
Cost of chiropractic treatments can generally fit any budget, your visit will be around an hour, and you don't have to undergo any sort of anesthesia. Chiropractic treatments, as a result, represent an extremely low-risk treatment avenue for patients of all ages!
2.) Chiropractic Aims to Get to the Root of the Problem
Whether it's pain in your upper back, low back pain, neck pain, leg pain, headaches, sinus problems, not to mention other symptoms you're experiencing, chiropractic aims to recalibrate the body to help you perform at optimum capacity. All a chiropractor wants is to provide you with drug-free solutions that work.
3.) All You Have to Lose is Pain
Chiropractic treatments are designed to have you feeling better and functioning more effectively, plain and simple. Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to reduce overall pain without drug intervention, not to mention treat back, neck, and joint pain, as well as provide relief for conditions like insomnia and depression.
Contact Barton Chiropractic Clinic today if you're interested in scheduling a consultation.