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Ventura Chiropractor Weekly Sticky: Clean Garbage Cans Don’t Attract Flies

Published on October 17, 2012 By Dr. Steven Alff

Ever notice that flies like to congregate around dirty, neglected garbage cans? You don’t usually see them swarming near clean ones. The same can be said for germs, bugs and viruses. Germs are like flies… they’re opportunistic. Give them a dirty place to settle and they’ll multiply. Provide a weak host and they’ll take advantage. [...]

Chiropractor Weekly Sticky: Chiropractic’s Cradle

Published on June 25, 2012 By Dr. Steven Alff

Newton’s Cradle is a simple device that demonstrates the laws of momentum with a series of swing- ing spheres. The progression of many health problems can be described in a similar, sequential manner. A small slip, fall or bump nudges your spine out of alignment and produces stress in your Nerve System called a Subluxation. [...]

Chiropractor Weekly Sticky: Why Adjustments Don’t Heal You

Published on June 18, 2012 By Dr. Steven Alff

If you were the unfortunate recipient of a nasty cut, you know what it’s like to get stitches. With a little local anesthetic and some skilled suturing, your cut looks much cleaner. After a few days when the stitches come out, you barely notice there was even a wound. So did the stitches do the [...]

Brown Spots in Your Lawn

Published on May 3, 2012 By Ventura Chiropractor

Chiropractor Weekly Sticky: You’re proud of your lawn.  You water it, feed it on schedule and try to keep the neighborhood kids off of it.  But you missed a few spots with the fertilizer spreader and now dull, brown patches where the grass was STARVED of potential growth energy begin to show.  A similar situation [...]

Tips for Creating a Successful Organic Vegetable Garden Anywhere

Published on May 1, 2012 By Ventura Chiropractor

(NaturalNews) There is nothing like enjoying the fruits of your labor, literally! The seeds you just planted turn out as little shoots and flowers until they grow into bulbs and finally young little things waiting for their weaning. Picking the tomatoes and leafy greens you’ve been waiting to grow for weeks, can give you a [...]

Relaxation and Meditation: As Crucial to Health as Diet and Exercise

Published on April 19, 2012 By Ventura Chiropractor

Here is our Ventura Chiropractic Weekly Health Alert: (NaturalNews) You gotta relax, man. Life in 2012 means a degree of stress, for just about everyone. Our bodies and minds can take a lot of abuse, but its all too easy to get into a negative cycle, and just keep sinking. You don’t sleep well, you [...]

Unwind with Chiropractic

Published on April 17, 2012 By Ventura Chiropractor

Here is our Ventura Chiropractor Weekly Sticky: Ever feel ‘wound up’ from the stresses of life? You feel tight and distorted, like a rubber band that’s been twisted to the brink of snapping? That tension you’re feeling isn’t in your head… it’s actually in your Nerve System. The constant, never ending stress of life builds [...]

Treating the Bark vs. Adjusting the Cause.

Published on April 11, 2012 By Ventura Chiropractor

Here is our Ventura Chiropractor Weekly Sticky: You walk into your Chiropractor’s office, hop on a table and point to where it hurts. But the Chiropractor adjusts a totally different part of your spine… not even close to where you feel the pain. Why is that? There’s an old saying that goes when you step [...]

8 Well-Meaning Workout Strategies that Backfire

Published on April 9, 2012 By Ventura Chiropractor

Here is our Ventura Chiropractic Weekly Health Alert: You have the best intentions with your workouts, and you’re following your exercise plan to the T. But did you know sometimes even the best intentions can go awry? As reported by Shape magazine, there are eight things you may be doing wrong with your workout—things that [...]

New Study Shows Exercises and Chiropractic Care Beat Drugs for Neck Pain

Published on April 4, 2012 By Ventura Chiropractor

Here is our Ventura Chiropractic Weekly Health Alert: According to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and funded by the National Institutes of Health, medication is not the best option for treating neck pain. After following 272 neck-pain patients for 12 weeks, those who used a chiropractor or exercise were more [...]