Archive for the ‘whole body health’ category
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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November 19, 2010
[originally published in KCN, December 2010]
“If you cut a piece of steak, put iodine and a bandage on it and even give it a shot of Penicillin… will the piece of steak heal itself?” That’s the question my Mississippi chiropractic colleague recently posed in an article of his. The answer, of course, is obvious enough for a child to answer. The answer is no.
And yet as obvious as this answer is, as a society we don’t take it to heart.
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Categories: chiropractic 101, healthy living, whole body health
Tags: adjustment, Anchor Chiropractic, B. Reed Howie D.C., chiropractic, chiropractic adjustment, Chiropractic Philosophy, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, healing, health, healthy living, Kingston, Kitsap, medications, nervous system, over the counter medication, prescription drugs, prescription medication, spinal adjustment, subluxation, vertebral subluxation, vertebral subluxation complex
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October 29, 2010
[originally published in KCN, November 2010]
Every day in the practice of medicine doctors prescribe their patients “off label” medications. And while some might confuse the term “off label” with “generic,” it really is quite different. In fact, according to a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine, as many as one-fifth of all drugs are prescribed off label.
Basically, what this means is that the doctor has found a use for the medication other than its “on label,” or intended, purpose. Examples of this include antiseizure medications to treat migraines, antidepressants to treat certain types of pain, and antianxiety medications to treat nausea. A classic example of off label drug use is that of Rogaine. Many are unaware that Rogaine is actually a blood pressure medication — a blood pressure medication that doctors (and their patients) soon found had an interesting side effect: hair growth in balding men.
As common as the practice of off label prescribing is in medicine, it’s my contention that something very similar is practiced in chiropractic. And while “off label chiropractic” isn’t actually a term… it should be. (more…)
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Categories: adjustment, chiropractic 101, healthy living, podcast, subluxation, whole body health
Tags: adjustment, Anchor Chiropractic, back pain, chiropractic, chiropractic adjustment, chiropractic manipulation, chiropractic manipulative therapy, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, low back pain, lower back pain, neck pain, nervous system, off label drug use, on label, pain, spinal adjustment, spinal manipulation, spine, subluxation, vertebral subluxation, vertebral subluxation complex
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September 24, 2010
[originally published in KCN, October 2010]
“My husband and I are having difficulty conceiving… can chiropractic help?”
This is a question that I hear in my office from time to time, and my answer, I’m happy to say, is that it’s very possible!
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Categories: adjustment, children, chiropractic 101, chronic, healthy living, infants, maintenance care, pregnancy, subluxation, visceral conditions, whole body health
Tags: adjustment, Anchor Chiropractic, artificial insemination, chiropractic, chiropractic adjustment, chiropractor, conception, difficulty getting pregnant, Dr. Thomas Lamar, fertility, health, in vitro fertilization, infertility, Kingston, Kitsap, spinal adjustment, subluxation, vertebral subluxation, vertebral subluxation complex
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August 20, 2010
[originally published in KCN, August 2010 / cartoon provided by TomLamarCartoon.com]
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Tonsils. Appendix. Gallbladder.
Quick! What do these three body parts have in common?
This was the question I recently posed to my patients. I heard many answers: from “These are organs I no longer have,” to “They are all vestigial body parts.”
Here’s my take. Apparently, some healthcare providers consider these “spare parts,” and they are often removed by surgeons as an extreme form of symptom treating. And while I’d never argue against removing, say, an appendix that was ready to burst, I do wonder why it escalated to a point in which its removal became medically necessary.
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Categories: myths, visceral conditions, whole body health
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, appendix, back pain, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, gallbladder, health, immune system, Kingston, Kitsap, nervous system, surgery, tonsils, vestigial body parts
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