Posted tagged ‘chiropractic’
February 26, 2010
[originally published in KCN, March 2010]
Torticollis. While it might sound like a strange Italian dish, it’s not. Imagine waking up one morning with your ear pressed to your shoulder as if cradling a telephone receiver. The only problem is, there is no telephone to be found — only an unrelenting, painful neck spasm with absolutely no ability to bring your head back to any semblance of socially accepted posture. Most would agree, it’s a pretty disturbing situation to find yourself in. Thankfully, in most cases, the “fix” for torticollis can be as simple as a visit to your local chiropractor. (more…)
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Categories: adjustment, children, infants, neck pain, subluxation, whiplash
Tags: acute torticollis, adjustment, Anchor Chiropractic, aquired torticollis, Botox, cervical dystonia, cervical spine, chiropractic, chiropractic adjustment, chiropractor, congential torticollis, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, neck pain, spinal adjustment, subluxation, torticollis, vertebral subluxation, vertebral subluxation complex, wry neck
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February 19, 2010
[originally published in KCN, May 2001]
Ten percent dead? What? Now before you stop reading, hear me out. It’s interesting if you stop to think about it: dead or alive. Pretty much an all or none proposition. Right? Well, maybe not. What about instead of being completely alive, you were partially dead? What would that feel like? What might some of your symptoms be? While we all can understand the concept of being alive, and all have a firm grasp on the concept of being dead, the notion of being somewhere in between might be a new one for us.
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Categories: chiropractic 101, chronic, healthy living, maintenance care, subluxation, whole body health
Tags: achiness, Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, headache, headaches, health, Kingston, Kitsap, lack of energy, low back pain, lower back pain, nervous system, pain, spine, stiffness, subluxation, symptom, vertebral subluxation complex
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February 12, 2010
[originally published in KCN, May 2001 / cartoon provided by TomLamarCartoon.com]
Did you know that chiropractic can be extremely effective at treating headaches? Not a lot of people do, and from the looks of things, that’s just fine with some. However, a much anticipated headache evidence report released by Duke University earlier this year might help to reverse this troubling trend. Ironically though, with the events that led up to this point, I don’t think we as a chiropractic profession were expecting to contend with a headache of our own.
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Categories: chiropractic history, headache, TomLamarCartoon
Tags: AHCPR, Anchor Chiropractic, cervicogenic headache, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, headache evidence report, health, Kingston, Kitsap, migraine headache, tension headache
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February 5, 2010
[originally published in KCN, April 2001]
Ever wonder who my biggest competitor is? No, it’s not the chiropractor across town or the ones in our neighboring cities. And it’s not even the medical doctor next door or the physical therapist across the way. No, my biggest competitor is you! Well, not you personally, but the chiropractic “baggage,” if you will, that you have managed to stuff in your cranium. We all have a lifetime of attitudes, perceptions, and opinions about our health and how we must take care of ourselves, and unless we have resided on some tropical island for most of our lives, we probably have a pretty attractive set of chiropractic “luggage” stored between our ears as well. The question you need to ask yourself, is who helped you pack your bags?
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Categories: chiropractic 101, myths
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractic misperceptions, chiropractic myths, chiropractic television commerical, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, medications, OTC, pharmaceuticals, prescription drugs
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January 29, 2010
[originally published in KCN, February 2010]
As our nation waits on pins and needles for our elected officials to craft a “health-insurance- plan-for-everyone,” those who are super-excited by this proposition need to understand that it will not be “free.” We will all directly and indirectly pay for it. You can be sure of that. And the scary thing is, we are looking to the federal government to craft this utopian health insurance plan… when their track record in the insurance business is down right lousy. Can you say “Medicare?”
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Categories: finances, health care reform, legislation, Uncategorized
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, government health care, health, health care reform, health insurance, Kingston, Kitsap, national health care reform
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January 22, 2010
[originally published in Kitsap News Group’s 2010 Balance Sound Fitness and Health Guide, January 29, 2010 / cartoons provided by TomLamarCartoon.com]
As we look to our elected offiicals in D.C. to come up with a health care plan we all can agree on, something tells me that the 2000-plus page storybook they are pushing needn’t be so long. At the risk of oversimplifying the matter, there is much wisdom to be gained from a childhood story we are all familiar with — and one that is considerably shorter: “Goldilocks and The Three Bears.”
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Categories: health care reform, legislation, TomLamarCartoon
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, government health care, health, health care reform, health insurance, Kingston, Kitsap, national health care reform, TomLamarCartoon
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January 15, 2010
[originally published in KCN, March 2001]
“The Department of Defense is on record [regarding the commissioning of Doctors of Chiropractic in the Armed Forces to provide chiropractic care] as opposing such action…. To employ chiropractors, who have a limited and narrowly focused scope of practice, is believed to be a manpower and financial expenditure that would be of little benefit to the beneficiaries of the military health care system.” Besides, as the statement points out, “The treatment of musculoskeletal ailments…is currently well covered by physicians and physical therapists.”
So goes a statement that’s all too common to the ears of our profession — this one was issued in 1991 by the then Secretary of Defense, Richard Cheney’s Deputy Assistant Secretary, Edward Martin, M.D.
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Categories: chiropractic history, military
Tags: air force, airman, Anchor Chiropractic, armed forces, army, chiropractic, chiropractor, coast guard, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, marines, military, national guard, navy, private, sailor, soldier
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January 1, 2010
Our much anticipated “radio-style” chiropractic podcast is now on! “Tune it in” at SpinalColumnRadio.com, and listen to Dr. Lamar talk about the topics he writes about here on this blog.
This "Old-Fashioned Radio Microphone" icon will take you directly to the podcast the article is about. This one will take you to "Episode 000"
Keep an eye out for the “Old-Fashioned Radio Microphone” icon in the articles appearing throughout our Blog, as they will link you directly to the Spinal Column Radio podcast for that article’s topic.
Click on the the microphone icon in this post to go directly to our very first episode entitled “Episode 000 — podcast chiropractor for hire!” In this episode you will learn the who, what, and why of Spinal Column Radio.
It’s fun, informative, and thought-provoking — all at the same time…. “infotainment” at its finest!
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Categories: podcast
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, podcast, Spinal Column Radio, SpinalColumnRadio
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