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Category: General Chiropractic

Feb 10, 2022

Why Does My Neck Hurt?

Neck pain is common. 70% of people or more will likely experience neck pain and/or impairment in their lifetime, and evidence indicates that number is growing. We live in a world where it’s increasingly common to have our heads at unnatural angles as we rely on screens that are either below or above our natural…

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by Timothyin General Chiropractic, Pain Management0
What Desk Jobs Do to Your Spine (and How to Fix It)
Jan 15, 2022

What Desk Jobs Do to Your Spine (and How to Fix It)

Desk jobs are often viewed as comfortable, low-risk occupations that are easy on the body. After all, you stay all day indoors. You don’t have to move heavy objects or operate dangerous equipment. What could go wrong?  A lot, it turns out.  Our bodies are not designed to sit all the time. We’re meant to…

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by Timothyin General Chiropractic, Wellness Tips0
Aug 16, 2021

Chiropractic Isn’t a Placebo

Ongoing pain is never enjoyable. Even a continual stiff back or minor headache can serve as a constant distraction and bring down your day. When trying to alleviate aches and pains, many people turn to ibuprofen, Tylenol, or similar medications. While these can prove effective at providing temporary relief, they don’t treat the source of the problem.  They can also cause…

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by Timothyin General Chiropractic, Pain Management0
May 20, 2021

Chiropractic Care After a Car Accident

A recent study by Esurance found that 77% of drivers have been involved in at least one accident. In other words, you’re likely to experience a car accident sooner or later. Roughly half of car accidents in the US result in injuries. While injuries such as cuts and broken bones are easily identifiable, other bodily damage can go unnoticed for some time.  If you’ve been involved in a car…

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by Timothyin General Chiropractic, Pain Management0
Mar 19, 2021

Importance of Water for Chiropractic Care

Importance of Water

Water and Chiropractic CareWater is one of those quintessential parts of our lives that many of us fail to recognize the lack of as being a problem. You may think that if you drink plenty of water based beverages like soda, sweet tea, or even coffee, that you are taking in enough water to satisfy your body. Unfortunately this is not the case. Most of these kinds of beverages will actually dehydrate you more! Not only is this a problem for your everyday living, but will also cause your common muscular pain or joint pain to return quicker, and thus need attention more often. 

Chiropractic is known for its conservative care to resolve such pain and functional problems, but without proper water intake results can be more limited. As Chiropractors in Savage, MN, we know firsthand just how important water is to overall health and wellness. 

Why do we need water?

Why does our body need water? Sure it is the most flavorless drink we are told to consume, but it is also the most important. It is likely that you have heard that anywhere around 60%-70% of our body is made up of water, but even our brain is made up of upwards of 85% of water! We are basically cucumbers with stress! But on a serious note, imagine if you will that your water intake is decreased over a period of time; your brain, organs, muscles, and your joints which includes all the tendons, ligaments, and structures like intervertebral discs (those things in-between each bone in your spine) are lacking appropriate levels of water… and their function and support begins to fail.

Effects of Not Enough Water

 Because of your lack of water the joints in your body begin to lose support and fall out of position and soon the pain begins. Next thing you know, you’re calling Watkins Family Chiropractic to see Dr. Josh or Dr. Aaron, fixing up the joints in your body so the pain will go away. After a professional adjustment, some stretching and/or stability exercises, you do start to feel better but you remain prone to flare-ups and re-injury. If your body is running at full hydration, all the structures and functions of your body are more likely to maintain a proper homeostasis, ie- you will feel better more often!

Fully Hydrated

Your intervertebral discs are at full height, your joints are gliding back and forth with ease, and your muscles aren’t cramping up on you while working at the office. Your thinking is sharper, your super information highway known as the nervous system is firing at the speed of light, and you are running at peak performance. Because of this, you aren’t in constant pain, and that professional adjustment at Watkins Family Chiropractic has stayed just the way the Doctor wanted it to, all because you treated your body to the best treatment of water you can! Sounds great doesn’t it? Sometimes simple changes can make a world of difference.

How Much Water

Well now you’re asking yourself, how much water is enough? How can I make it easier to get enough of that water throughout the day? Now that is a simple answer – drink half of your weight in ounces each day! Real easy math, divide your bodyweight in pounds, by 2. So if you weigh 190 lbs: 190/2= 95. If you can drink 95 ounces of water a day, guess what- goal achieved! 

You are now successfully hydrated, feels phenomenal doesn’t it? 

But sometimes it’s so hard to remember to drink water, or even track how much water you have drank throughout the day… Sure there is that new “smart” bottle that connects to your phone and gives you a whole bunch of data, but no one needs that! Just find a nice water bottle, glass or metal preferred, that has measures on the side to let you track your daily intake. It might help to make goals by a daily timeline, for example: with water by the bed, drink a full glass when first waking up, drink another full bottle before lunch etc.

 Also if you have a bottle with you everywhere you go, it’s so much easier to just grab that bottle and throw back some life improving liquid all day long! Quench your thirst, and hydrate your body the way it was meant to be!

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by adminin General Chiropractic, Wellness Tips0
Dec 9, 2020

Create A Healthy Work From Home Space

This year, office workers that were used to the typical commute to and from the office had to quickly adapt to a temporary remote working situation. So, many home offices were improvised with dining tables, laptops, uncomfortable chairs, or kitchen counters. As the temporary working situation became more permanent, Watkins Family Chiropractic saw a surge…

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by adminin General Chiropractic, Pain Management, Wellness Tips0

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