Archive for the ‘chiropractic 101’ category
August 14, 2009
[originally published in KCN, February 2000]
Today it is becoming more and more accepted by the health care community and public at large that chiropractors are great back doctors. I would agree. The scientific literature certainly supports our primary method of treatment for back pain, and more insurance companies are covering our services for it. Considering our history of long uphill battles to gain “acceptance” as a viable health care profession, it is understandable that we might be drawn to settle into this “comfortable chair” of being labeled as back pain specialists. But to do so would really be undermining the true potential that the art, science, and philosophy of chiropractic has to offer. (more…)
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Categories: adjustment, chiropractic 101, chiropractic history, colic, headache, healthy living, low back pain, sciatica, subluxation, visceral conditions, whole body health
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July 3, 2009
[originally published in KCN, October 1999]
This is a test. For next 700 words, this newspaper, in conjunction with your local chiropractor, will be conducting a test of the Emergency Chiropractic System. This is only a test. Beeeeeeeeep… (more…)
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Categories: chiropractic 101, home test
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractic self exam, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, home test, Kingston, Kitsap, leg length test, pain, posture, range of motion
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June 12, 2009
[originally published in The Higher Source, March 1997 and then KCN, September 1998]
I recently received a book from my mother. It was the new and controversial “diet” book, The Zone, by Barry Sears, PhD. Although grateful for the gift, I was a bit perplexed. I, out of everyone in my family, was the last one that needed to think about dieting. (more…)
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Categories: chiropractic 101, healthy living, nutrition
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, healthy living, Kingston, Kitsap, optimum health, The Zone Diet
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June 5, 2009
[originally published in KCN, July 1999]
You could say it was business as usual at my office the other day. The day was playing out like most any other day. In other words, I was having a great day! Three patients were comfortably seated in the reception area enjoying their reading selections, while I was helping a patient reschedule her next appointment. And then it happened… Kerplunk! Everyone froze. What was that? The noise had come from my treatment room. A troubled look came over my face, for no one was in the treatment room. I slowly made my way towards the area from whence the sound had come as my patients waited, wide-eyed with anticipation. As I peered around the wall, I quickly spotted the noisy culprit. (more…)
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Categories: chiropractic 101, maintenance care, nutrition
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractic tuneup, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, eating right, exercise, health, health maintenance, healthy habits, healthy living, Kingston, Kitsap, nutrition, posture, proper posture, rest, sleep, spine, spine model
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May 22, 2009
[originally published in KCN, June 1999]
Crack! Pop! Click! Crunch! These are but a sampling of the many descriptors the public associates with the chiropractic profession in general. Sure the words are onomatopoetic and fun to say, but they really do not do the chiropractic profession justice. For these words are merely describing a typical “by-product” of our core method of treatment: the chiropractic adjustment. (more…)
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Categories: adjustment, chiropractic 101, subluxation
Tags: adjustment, Anchor Chiropractic, audible, cavitation, chiropractic, chiropractic adjustment, chiropractor, click, crack, crunch, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, pop, snap, spinal adjustment, subluxation, vertebral subluxation complex
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May 8, 2009
[originally published in KCN, April 1999]
As a chiropractor, going to dinner parties and other social functions can often be an interesting experience. Invariably, one of the guests, upon learning of my degree, will announce for all in the room to hear, why he would never need my professional services, as he proceeds to make a public display of theatric proportion, “cracking” and “popping” every joint his spine has to offer — an auditory performance that would certainly make Orville Redenbacher green with envy. (more…)
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Categories: adjustment, chiropractic 101, subluxation
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractic adjustment, chiropractor, cracking your back, cracking your neck, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, hypermobile joints, hypermobility, Kingston, Kitsap, self adjustment, self manipulation, spinal adjusting, spinal adjustment, spine, subluxation, vertebral subluxation complex
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March 16, 2009
[originally published in KCN, August 1998]
Our neighbors to the north have recently been shown a way to save millions, if not billions, of dollars each year on their health care, thanks to a comprehensive report presented earlier this year by Canadian health economist Pran Manga, PhD.
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Categories: chiropractic 101, cost effectiveness, finances
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, Canadian health care costs, chiropractic, chiropractic cost effectiveness, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, health care costs, Kingston, Kitsap
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March 9, 2009
[originally published in KCN, July 1998]
As my daughter, Paige, enters into her eighth month of life, it’s not uncommon for people to make a joking remark, here and there, that she has “wonderful posture” and “appears to be well adjusted” — of course that’s what you’d expect from a chiropractor’s child, right? Then the same people will ask with a concerned look on their face, “You don’t really adjust her spine do you?”
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Categories: children, chiropractic 101, subluxation
Tags: ADHD, allergies, Anchor Chiropractic, asthma, bed wetting, children, chiropractic, chiropractor, colic, Dr. Thomas Lamar, ear infections, headaches, health, kids, Kingston, Kitsap, learning disorders, subluxation, vertebral subluxation complex
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