LAVACA COUNTY
CHIROPRACTIC
‘Healthy Living’
The Brain + Spine Connection
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Every thought and movement in your life occurs through your brain and/or spinal cord – which together are referred to as your central nervous system.
The spinal cord carries nerve signals from the brain to other parts of the body and receives sensory input from the body and transmits that information back to the brain. Your spinal column is the armor that protects your spinal cord as it travels down through your body and branches off into the nerves that power that brain-body connection.
Every moment, millions of messages are moving along your spinal cord to maintain the necessary balance between your brain and body you need to function. Ensuring your spine as a whole is feeling and functioning at its best is important, and we’re here to help.
Recent research has shown that our hands-on chiropractic adjustments can positively impact the chemistry of your brain!
(more…)How to Stretch Your Way to Better Health
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Life is motion. “Motion is lotion” for your body. You get the idea. The point is that moving every day is crucial to your overall health and wellness, and stretching (and knowing how to stretch properly) is an important part to making sure you’re moving well.
The truth is, stretching is an often overlooked element of self care. That’s a big part of why we teach stretch therapy in Hallettsville, TX. Many of us think the need to stretch applies only to athletes or that we need to commit to yoga for stretching to help us.
This simply is not true. Consider this. When you wake up in the morning or stir from a nap, what’s the first thing you tend to do? Stretch! It’s almost as if your body is trying to tell you something, isn’t it? Incorporating stretches and exercises that focus on flexibility into your daily routine, whatever it may be, can help your body maintain the ability to move through its full range of motion without pain.
(more…)The Surprising Link Between Posture and Depression
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Posture can either work for or against us. Each day we’re learning more and more about new health conditions associated with prolonged sitting, ill-positioned technology, and even furniture that may have been repurposed to suit the frantic requirements levied at the start of the pandemic. It’s obvious that it’s never been more important to find the best posture for working at our computers.
We’re also learning more about how emotions, posture, and pain sensitivity may all be influenced by each other to some degree. In fact, posture and depression may be connected. Consider this. Have you ever been able to tell someone’s mood just by how they walked into a room? We all have! It’s a great example of how our posture and attitude are connected.
Within seconds you can look at someone and tell whether they are confident or happy. Posture can influence mood and vice versa for a number of reasons. Let’s take a closer look at posture and depression.
(more…)Postural Stress: The Link Between Tech Neck and Pain
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It’s certainly true your genetics can contribute a lot to the levels of postural stress you experience, but so can many of the small decisions you make each day. You’ve probably seen an article or two floating around the web about the relationship between tech neck and pain.
Did you know that many of us spend 2 hours or more per day on our smartphones and 5 hours or more on our computers? That adds up to thousands of hours year after year after year of you keeping your neck “stuck” in an awkward position!
Take a moment right now and check… Is your head creeping forward as you read this? If your chin is tucked down and your ears are in front of your shoulders, you are in the forward head posture called tech neck. You may have also heard this posture referred to as “text neck.”
Driving a car, working on the computer, and using a tablet or phone all usually result in this less-than-ideal posture. Over the past few years, the number of people experiencing headaches and tech neck and pain has exploded.
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