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Your Feelings and your Health: The Heart and Brain Connection
Brain Health Chiropractic Essential Mind

Your Feelings and your Health: The Heart and Brain Connection

Most of us have been taught in school that the brain and nervous system controls every organ in the body...
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New Year, New you: How To Make People Notice You (and Actually Like You)
Chiropractic Posture

New Year, New you: How To Make People Notice You (and Actually Like You)

So it is a new year, have you made any changes to your life? Since you are reading this, you...
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Avoiding Disc Risks for Injury-free Holidays
Posture Spinal Health

Avoiding Disc Risks for Injury-free Holidays

Christmas may be the most wonderful time of the year, but it is also a time of stress and injury...
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Doorway Stretches: Best Stretch To Fix Rounded Shoulders
Chiropractic Exercise

Doorway Stretches: Best Stretch To Fix Rounded Shoulders

Rounded shoulders has a negative impact on both appearance and health. By unconsciously training the body to be hunched forward...
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Spinal Curves: What is the ideal shape of the spine?
Chiropractic Posture Spinal Health

Spinal Curves: What is the ideal shape of the spine?

Your spine is one of the most important parts of your body. It is composed of vertebrae or spinal bones...
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Good Driving Posture: Do You Sit Correctly In Your Car?
Posture Spinal Health

Good Driving Posture: Do You Sit Correctly In Your Car?

Have you considered the ergonomics of your driving posture? If you're frequently changing the position of your rear view mirror,...
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Active Sitting: how to sit better, for better health
Exercise Posture Spinal Health

Active Sitting: how to sit better, for better health

Movement is life. Our body needs movement for it to thrive. Without movement, the body will stagnate and die. History...
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Mobility Problems? Try This Thoracic Foam Rolling Exercise
Chiropractic Exercise Posture Spinal Health

Mobility Problems? Try This Thoracic Foam Rolling Exercise

One of the common problem areas especially for those who work in an office, is the thoracic spine. Prolonged sitting...
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Choosing the right pillow for you
Chiropractic Posture Spinal Health

Choosing the right pillow for you

Choosing the right pillow matters because nothing will start your day off better than a restful night's sleep. Considering we...
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How To Read In Bed Without Hurting Your Neck
Chiropractic Posture Spinal Health

How To Read In Bed Without Hurting Your Neck

But while the activity of reading in bed is good for your brain, it doesn’t always mean well for your...
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That terrible habit of sitting on wallets
Brain Health Chiropractic Essential Mind

That terrible habit of sitting on wallets

Many people, especially men, place their wallet in their back pocket. Why not, right? It's the main purpose of a...
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Chiropractic A Key Role In Back Pain Relief and Drug Use Reduction
Chiropractic Media Release

Chiropractic A Key Role In Back Pain Relief and Drug Use Reduction

Media Release: NZ Chiropractors Association Date: 15th May 2019 The efficacy of chiropractic in managing low back pain and its...
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The Aging Brain: How to Reverse Cognitive Decline
Brain Health Spinal Health

The Aging Brain: How to Reverse Cognitive Decline

It is no surprise that at some point of our life, our cognition and other mental abilities will start to...
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How to Safely Achieve your New Year Fitness Goals
Chiropractic Posture

How to Safely Achieve your New Year Fitness Goals

How to Safely Achieve your New Year Fitness Goals How time flies— It's a brand new year again! Welcoming another...
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Your Health Is The Best Gift You Can Give Yourself
Posture Spinal Health

Your Health Is The Best Gift You Can Give Yourself

Christmas, as we all know is one of the busiest time of the year. We scramble for office deadlines, last...
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Why Do Health Problems and Injuries Recur?
Chiropractic Spinal Health

Why Do Health Problems and Injuries Recur?

Many people believe in the idea that “If it’s not broke, there's no need to fix it”.  Oftentimes, after the...
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Designer Bags, Smartphones and High Heels Could Affect Your Health
Chiropractic Media Release

Designer Bags, Smartphones and High Heels Could Affect Your Health

Media Release: NZ Chiropractors Association Your choice of handbag and how you carry it may be affecting your health long...
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Spring is the Perfect Time to Start Walking
Exercise Media Release

Spring is the Perfect Time to Start Walking

Media Release: NZ Chiropractors Association Spring is the Perfect Time to “Just Start Walking” Say New Zealand Chiropractors The longer...
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Chiropractic: Drug-Free Way To Tackle Back Pain
Chiropractic Media Release

Chiropractic: Drug-Free Way To Tackle Back Pain

Date: 24th June 2018 Media Release: NZ Chiropractors Association, "Slew of New Evidence That Chiropractic Is The Drug-Free Way To...
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Ideal neck curve looks like a banana
Chiropractic Posture Spinal Health

Ideal neck curve looks like a banana

Do you know that the ideal neck curve is shaped like a banana? Yes... our neck needs some curve! We...
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