Archive for the ‘adjustment’ category
May 31, 2013
[originally published in KCN, June 2007]
Have you ever played the game Word Association? You know, the game where someone says a word, and then the next person responds with a word that has some sort of association with it. For example, if I said “dog,” you might say “cat.” If I said “chiropractic,” you might say “back pain” or “spine.” What you probably wouldn’t say is “blood pressure” — unless of course your name happens to be George Bakris, M.D.
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Categories: adjustment, visceral conditions
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, blood pressure, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, Kingston, Kitsap
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May 17, 2013
[originally published in KCN, June 2011]
On a flight home, chiropractor Kevin Donka settled into his seat. Behind him was a mother with her baby.
As the flight took off, the baby — as many will — began to cry. The mother did everything in her power to quiet the little one… but to no avail. The child simply would not calm down. And then something happened that every parent fears while flying — the child’s cry catapulted to a full-tilt shrill. Again, the mother tried and tried but the child could not be comforted.
At about minute ten of the full-blown wail, Dr. Donka began to think to himself, “Maybe I should offer to help. Maybe there is something I can do.”
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Categories: adjustment, children, chiropractic 101, infants, inspirational
Tags: airplane baby crying, Anchor Chiropractic, BJ Palmer, chiropractic hospitals, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, Kevin Donka DC, Kingston, Kitsap
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April 19, 2013
[originally published in KCN, September 2005]
Ever think you’ll see the day when you’ll visit your friendly M.D. and have him roll up his sleeves and adjust your spine instead of reaching for his prescription pad? Don’t hold your breath — they’ve already studied the possibility.
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Categories: adjustment, low back pain
Tags: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, AHCPR, Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, Kitsap, medical doctors adjusting
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January 15, 2013
[originally published in KCN, April 2002]
Onions and chiropractic? A new culinary delight? Perhaps. But the reality is that when most people finally show up in a chiropractor’s office their spine resembles an onion. The symptom (usually pain) that eventually drives them to our offices is all too often an overt warning flag of a problem that has persisted for quite some time. Like the layers of an onion, neglected spines are virtually layered with a history of stress and injuries — making the chiropractic experience akin to that of an archeological dig. What surprises a lot of people, is that the neck or back pain they’re experiencing as an adult, could have stemmed from the time they fell off the changing table as an infant, the fender bender Mom got into when they were a toddler, or the fall they took off their bike as a youth. Or perhaps, they never had a fighting chance — perhaps their “onion” can be peeled back to an event we all share in common: birth.
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Categories: adjustment, children, chiropractic 101, infants, injury, neck pain, pregnancy, subluxation
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, birth, birth trauma, childbirth, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, forceps, Kingston, Kitsap, Logan's Story, SIDS, vacuum extraction
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August 22, 2011
[originally published in KCN, November 2011]
Every once in a while a health care study comes out that makes you stop and say…
“Now why didn’t someone think of doing that earlier?”
Well, such a study recently hit the pages of the prestigious medical journal Spine. (more…)
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Categories: adjustment, chiropractic 101, chronic, healthy living, low back pain, maintenance care, whole body health
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, maintenance care, spinal manipulation, spine
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July 29, 2011
[originally published in KCN, August 2011]
After practicing nearly fifteen years, I am still honored and humbled when asked to adjust a newborn. The other day I adjusted a three-day-old.
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Categories: adjustment, children, chiropractic 101, chiropractic philosophy, healthy living, infants, maintenance care, pregnancy, subluxation, whole body health
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, birth trauma, bowel movement, chiropractic, Chiropractic Philosophy, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, infant, infant adjusting, Kingston, Kitsap, meconium
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July 25, 2011
[originally published in KCN, May 2011]
In the 1950’s the islanders of Borneo, specifically the Dayak people, were stricken with a major malaria problem. Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is mostly part of Indonesia. In their efforts to help, the World Health Organization came up with a solution that was simple, straightforward, and, in hindsight, stupid: (more…)
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Categories: adjustment, chiropractic 101, chiropractic philosophy, chronic, headache, healthy living, low back pain, maintenance care, mid back pain, neck pain, subluxation, whole body health
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, Borneo, chiropractic, Chiropractic Philosophy, chiropractor, DDT, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, Operation Cat Drop, parachuting cats, WHO
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January 31, 2011
Just as the dip stick tells us when it's time to add oil, so too the spinal check tells us when its time to adjust. Of course, in both cases we always have the option of forgoing these proactive checks and waiting for breakdown!
[originally published in KCN, February 2011]
If you are waiting for pain to dictate how often you should see your chiropractor —or whether or not to see one in the first place — you’re waiting too long. Because without a spinal check from a chiropractor, you simply don’t know if your spine needs to be adjusted — as there is no reliable way to truly know. Spinal misalignments often crop up and cause little to no pain. And while this might not seem like a big deal, it is when you realize that these off-kilter vertebrae are slowly sapping the health of the body by robbing its effectiveness to function correctly. (more…)
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Categories: adjustment, chiropractic 101, chronic, headache, healthy living, low back pain, maintenance care, mid back pain, neck pain, subluxation, whole body health
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractic adjustment, Chiropractic Philosophy, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, low back pain, lower back pain, neck pain, nerves, nervous system, pain, spinal adjustment, spinal check, spinal misalignment, spine, straw that breaks the camel's back, subluxation, vertebral subluxation, vertebral subluxation complex
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