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Chiropractic Care During Pregnancy
Chiropractic Care is crucial for keeping the body aligned and maintaining proper function of the neuromusculoskeletal system. Taking stress away from the spinal nerves promotes a healthy body from the inside out. Chiropractic care can help you, and your baby, achieve a healthier labor and delivery in a safe and natural way.
Does Scoliosis Automatically Mean Surgery?
A routine school exam reveals your child has scoliosis. Naturally, you’re concerned...
Can Chiropractic Care Help With Indigestion And Other Gastrointestinal Issues?
Most people know chiropractors treat pain, especially back and neck pain, but they rarely consider chiropractic care and stomach ailments. Can chiropractic care help with stomach ailments? Yes, it can! Dr. Brian Short in Santa Fe, NM knows that proper spinal alignment plays a very important role in overall wellness, including digestion.
Evidence That Plant Protein Is Better for You Than Animal Protein
It’d be great if a burger-a-day diet was healthy. Don’t get me wrong—it’s not the worst. You’ve got protein in there and hopefully some veggies on top and even some fiber from the roll (you used whole grain, right?).
Exercise and Chiropractic Care are Cutting Down on the Need for Prescription Medication
The National Institutes of Health released a study in 2011 that reported that nearly 76 million individuals in the United States suffer from chronic pain, and almost 60% of adults who have pain...
The Thing About Pain
Pain prompts many to take a pill to reduce it or suppress it. But numbing your body with a pain reliever doesn’t make the problem go away. It’s still there. The drug merely fools your body so you can’t feel the warning. With time, the dosage must be increased to quiet your body’s outcry. Besides possible addiction, it can lead to far more serious problems.
10 Reasons to Avoid Sugar
While nutrition experts tend to disagree on a variety of topics, they all seem to agree that we’re consuming far too much sugar. Besides contributing to the obesity epidemic, sugar in its various forms is causing diabetes cases to skyrocket.
Surprising Facts About Chiropractic Care
Therapeutic manipulation of the spine has existed for thousands of years. Chiropractic care as it is currently known began several hundred years ago. Since then, chiropractic care has gained worldwide recognition as an effective primary form of healthcare and patients are reporting positive changes in their health and wellbeing after spinal adjustments. Chiropractor Dr. Brian Short practices...
Posture Correction: Are You Developing “Text Neck?”
The modern age brings a variety of new health conditions that stem from constant interactions with technology. ‘Text neck,’ like many modern afflictions, is a modern condition that refers to the repeated stress, pain and injury around the neck area as a result of excessive or prolonged use of handheld devices.
Chiropractic and Your Sleep Habits
Sleeping and chiropractic care are closely linked because chiropractic care alleviates back pain, a main reason many people don’t sleep well. Contact Dr. Brian Short at 505-660-2080
Treating Neck Pain With Good Posture
When searching for neck pain treatments, one should realize that most cases of neck pain have a postural component as part of the underlying problem...
Preparing for Your First Appointment to the Chiropractor
How to Prepare for Your First Chiropractic Appointment If you’re preparing for your first chiropractic appointment, you must have asked yourself by now, “What is chiropractic care?” A good chiropractor, like Dr. Brian Short, operates on the knowledge that when you give the body what it needs, it often can heal itself. We use...
Chiropractic Care for Infants
Many adults experience the health benefits that chiropractic care has on their function, mobility, and overall health, but did you know that chiropractic care for kids and infants can also help children...
How Chiropractors Treat Back Pain
Back pain is one of the most common afflictions of modern man. Chronic aches and pains in the back can lead to a great deal of discomfort, preventing sufferers from being able to do even the simplest everyday tasks efficiently. Whether your pain is a dull ache when you stand up or constant shooting pain...
Four Surprising Conditions that Chiropractors can Successfully Treat
It’s common today to see a chiropractor for chronic back pain and common aches and pains in the body, but did you know that chiropractic care can be used to improve a wide range of other health conditions? Many chiropractic doctors even specialize in pediatric chiropractic care, which helps maintain optimal health for developing...
