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Here’s How to Recover from Whiplash Injuries Naturally

Bottom Line: Your spine is a long chain of bones, discs, muscles, and ligaments that extend from your skull down to your tailbone. The cervical spine (your neck) is designed to support your head and protect the nerves that go out to your face, shoulders, and arms. Postural changes, arthritis, and sudden injuries are a…
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3 Common Manifestations of Delayed Pain After a Car Accident

Bottom Line: If you can walk away after a car accident without any catastrophic injuries, you should certainly consider yourself lucky. But there is something important we want you to commit to your memory right now. Even if you feel ok after exchanging information and speaking with the police, it is always a good idea…
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Got Whiplash? Here are 3 Big Reasons to See Your Chiropractor

Bottom Line: Whiplash is the term used to describe the injuries that occur as a direct result of a forceful, uncontrolled, and rapid back and forth motion of the neck. These injuries can occur during sports, slip and fall, or auto accidents. Most of us have heard of this type of injury. Most of us…
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How to Prevent Sciatica Pain

Bottom Line: As we discuss how to prevent sciatica pain with our sciatica patients, we often notice that many of them will make the comment that they don’t know how they hurt their back when they start receiving treatment. And that’s a completely logical statement to make. It’s easy to understand how lifting a heavy…
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The Top Causes of Sciatica Revealed

Bottom Line: Here’s something that might surprise you as you dive into the top causes of sciatica. Sciatica is not a condition, disorder, or diagnosis in and of itself. Sciatica pain can be described as dull, achy, sharp, or shooting pain in the lower back and hip, buttock, and leg on one side of the…
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What You Need to Know About Sciatica

Bottom Line: Let’s dive right into what you need to know about sciatica. To understand what sciatica is, it helps to think of sciatica more as a set of symptoms than a condition. When you hear someone say they “have sciatica,” what they have is pain, numbness, or tingling that starts in their low back…
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Postural Stress: The Link Between Tech Neck and Pain

Bottom Line: While it’s true that your anatomy can contribute to the levels of postural stress you experience, so can many of the small decisions you make each day. You’ve probably seen an article or two floating around the web about the relationship between tech neck and pain. You may have even seen an uptick…
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Improving Your Posture to Keep Your Spine Healthy

Bottom Line: Spending more time on the couch, at your computer, and on your mobile devices has probably led you to visit Google to search for ways to start improving your posture a time or two. Those searches have probably also left you wondering… what exactly is posture? Well, posture is the position that your…
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How to Stretch Your Way to Better Health

Bottom Line: Life is motion. “Motion is lotion” for your body. You get the idea. The point is that moving every day is crucially important to your overall health and wellness, and stretching (and knowing how to stretch properly) is just as important to making sure you’re moving well. The truth is, stretching is an…
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The Surprising Link Between Posture and Depression

Bottom Line: Posture can either work for or against us. Take it from the leading posture correction specialist in Framingham. Each day we’re learning more and more about new health conditions associated with prolonged sitting, ill-positioned technology, and even furniture that may have been repurposed to suit the frantic requirements levied at the start of…
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