So summer is almost here and with it more time for fun in the sun. While getting sun is important for our bodies to create vitamin D, there is an amount of sun that is too much. When you use…
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The Best Sunscreen
Tagged with: Environmental Working Group, EWG guide to sunscreen, sun exposure, sunscreen, Vitamin D
Posted in Injury Prevention, Wellness
Posted in Injury Prevention, Wellness
Battling the Effects of Arthritis
If you are battling the effects of arthritis as, the majority of the US population is, you are doing it wrong. Osteoarthritis (OA), commonly referred to as just arthritis, affects 52 million Americans according to the CDC. OA is also…
Tagged with: activity, Arthritis, arthritis treatment, Chiropractic, Exercise, fitness, Geneva Chiropractor, Osteoarthritis, sedentary, strength training
Posted in Exercise and Fitness, Injury Prevention, Wellness
Posted in Exercise and Fitness, Injury Prevention, Wellness
Chiropractic care for premature newborns
My oldest son, Zachary, was born three months early at 28 weeks. He weighed 2 pounds 7 ounces and had a lot of difficulty getting off of the ventilator due to infections that were not controlled well. At three…
Chiropractic care may have an effect on brain function
It has been well understood that chiropractic spinal manipulations have an effect on body functioning including neurological function. The question has been how exactly does this happen. There are studies that have found response in nerve tissue to spinal manipulations…
Healthy New Year
For the month of January we are bringing back our Gift of Health Certificate to help you encourage your family and friends to have a healthy new year in 2015. For the cost of $50, the bearer of this certificate…
Tagged with: back pain Geneva IL, Chiropractic, chiropractor, Geneva BStrong4Life, Geneva Chiropractic, Geneva Chiropractor, Geneva IL, Spine Care, Staker Chiropractic
Posted in Local Events, Wellness
Posted in Local Events, Wellness
Vitamin D Deficiency Predicts Cognitive Decline
The findings of a recent study published in the journal Neurology indicate that vitamin D deficiency predicts cognitive decline. The evidence that Vitamin D is important for our health is overwhelming. Those who still deny Vitamin D supplementation is important…
Tagged with: 25-HydroxyvitaminD3, Cognitive decline, Dementia, Geneva Chiropractic, Geneva Chiropractor, Vitamin D, Vitamin D deficiancy, Vitamin D Study
Posted in Nutrition, Wellness
Posted in Nutrition, Wellness
High Carbohydrate Diet Is Associated with Dementia
Carbohydrates are a huge dietary problem in our country. Our diets are too unbalanced, we eat too much carbohydrates for the amount of healthy fat and protein we ingest. This is mostly due to the push in the 1970’s to…
Tagged with: Alzheimer, Alzheimers Risk, Carbohydrate, Cognative Decline, Dementia, Dementia Risk, Fats, High Carbohydrate Diet, Nutrition, Preventing Alzheimers, Preventing Dementia, Protein
Posted in Nutrition, Wellness
Posted in Nutrition, Wellness
Smartphone Use Tied to Poor Posture
It really has been wild how fast the use of smartphones have grown. While there were other attempts at adding a phone to the PDA’s of yesteryear it was the first IPhone in 2007 that was the first successful smartphone…
Tagged with: back pain Geneva IL, Chiropractic, chiropractic biophysics, chiropractor, chronic back pain, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Geneva Chiropractic, Geneva Chiropractor, Low Back Pain, neck pain, Poor posture, Posture, Smartphone Use, Spine Care, Staker Chiropractic
Posted in Back Pain, Exercise and Fitness, Neck Pain, Wellness
Posted in Back Pain, Exercise and Fitness, Neck Pain, Wellness
Treating Dowager’s Hump
The posture most associated with aging, Dowager’s Hump can be known as Buffalo Hump, Hunchback, and the technical/medical term hyperkyphosis. Any way you call it treating Dowager’s hump can be important for your health and physical well being. For the…
Tagged with: Back Pain, back pain Geneva IL, BStrong4Life, Buffalo Hump, Chiropractic, chiropractic biophysics, chiropractor, Dowgers Hump, Geneva BStrong4Life, Geneva Chiropractor, Hyerkyphosis, kyphosis, Low Back Pain, Low bone mineral density, old person posture, Osteopenia, Osteoporosis, Osteoporosis Prevention, Posture research, Posture treatment
Posted in Back Pain, BStrong4Life, Exercise and Fitness, Neck Pain, Wellness
Posted in Back Pain, BStrong4Life, Exercise and Fitness, Neck Pain, Wellness
Steps to Boost your Immune System
The cold and flu season lasts from October to May were we live in the northern hemisphere and while these are the colder months of the year the temperature outside has little to do with the risk for getting sick.…