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My grandma died suddenly.  She had been in fairly good health, until she choked on a piece of meat, went into a coma and was gone in a week.  Many of you have a similar story of a loved one who was suddenly taken from you.
We don’t usually know how much time we have on [...]

What is the first thing you do when your ‘check engine’ light comes on?

Ignore it for awhile?
Call the mechanic?
Cover it up with a piece of black tape?

What is the first thing you do when your head or back starts hurting?

Ignore it for awhile?
Call your medical doctor?
Call your NUCCA doctor?
Cover it up with Tylenol or other [...]

It’s amazing what we get used to.
Some people deal with pain daily and think it’s normal.  Some people don’t know how to find relief.
Some families live in a small home with everyone sharing rooms and other families live in mansions where there are plenty of extra rooms or even wings of the house that are [...]

If you suffer from seasonal allergies, you’re likely dealing with more symptoms this year than usual.
Don’t lose hope! There are things you can do.
Everyone in the same area is exposed to most of the same allergens, yet not everyone responds in the same way. Some have severe symptoms, some lesser, and some have [...]

Possibly. It depends on several factors.

1. X-rays.

If you are going to have x-rays, you definitely need to tell your chiropractor that you’re pregnant, so that the risks and benefits can be reevaluated and so that precautions can be made for radiation exposure to the baby.  You will most likely [...]

I was at the NUCCA conference last week and, as always, I was inspired.  I wanted to share some of my inspiration with you. 
There were many things I learned in the three day conference.  Some of them were technical skills: details of taking films, analyzing films and adjusting patients.  These were perhaps the most obvious [...]

Have you been suffering with pain for months or years?
Have you tried many things and then given up?
Are you continuing to try new methods for pain relief?
Are you frustrated, down-hearted, depressed or apathetic?

Chronic pain is sometimes difficult to solve, but you already knew that.  Nerve fibers that transmit pain signals are called nociceptive nerve fibers.  [...]

Many people wrongly assume that one upper cervical chiropractor is the same as all other upper cervical chiropractors. This is not true.
What does “upper cervical” mean?
“Upper cervical” is not a technique. It refers to the upper part of the cervical spine, the top part of the neck. It refers to the first one or two [...]

* Do you tend to fall over or bump into things easily?
* Do you have poor posture?
* Have you tried to stand up straight only to slouch again once you stop thinking about your posture?
Unless you’re consciously thinking about standing up straight, your brain will automatically tell your body to stand a certain way. Even [...]

If you have ever experienced sciatica, you know how it can throw off your game. Sciatica is pain from the sciatic nerve in the leg. The symptoms are numbness, tingling and sharp pain from the back, buttock and into the lower extremity (calf and possibly into the foot) along the posterior (or rear) and lateral [...]