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You might not know much about your local neighborhood chiropractor, but they can do a lot more for you than just correct a tweak in your back, neck, and your spine. A chiropractic care specialist worth their weight in gold will be able to provide chiropractic adjustments that will help you in your wellness protocol in more ways than one.

Read on to learn more about some of chiropractic care’s versatility as an overall wellness treatment.

It’s Good for Your Brain

The communication channels between your brain and the rest of your body can get all jammed up, which makes your neurological response time slower, resulting in what some circles call “Dim Bulb”. In this life, whether you’re at work or at play, it’s important to be firing on all cylinders, so to speak, and regular chiropractic adjustments can help get you there!

It’s Good for Your Digestive System

Your GI system is vital to your mental wellness, not to mention how you feel physically as well. Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to improve GI functionality, boosting your digestive health.

Chiropractic Care Reduces Overall Stress

Chiropractic treatments have been shown to significantly reduce stress and anxiety when treated regularly. Those who incorporate chiropractic into their wellness routine also often achieve more restful sleep.

Any of these health benefits sound good to you? Learn more by calling O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic today to schedule your consultation.

Have you ever heard that expression “you’re only as healthy as your spine?” Okay, maybe you haven’t, but it’s a common expression in the medical community. Your spine is inextricably linked to your mobility, not to mention your neuro functionality.

Below are a few ways to keep your back and your spine in mind, which will help with boost mental clarity and overall wellness.

Lose Some Extra Weight

If you’re not at your ideal body weight, this means that you’re putting stress on your back and your joints. Losing that extra weight will help reduce overall wear and tear.

Engage Your Core

This summer, make sure to rock climb, paddleboard, and engage in exercises that incorporate your core stabilizer muscles (think of it as your torso). It’s a great way to build your back, which will help you avoid injury.

Perfect Your Posture

Whether you’re at work or in the car, try to sit with perfect posture. This will help your back, neck, and spine.

Visit Your Local Chiropractic Care Specialist

Visiting your chiropractor on a somewhat regular basis will help you give the back the correction and drug-free pain relief it needs to reduce tension and improve mental and physical wellness. Contact O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic today to learn more about how our treatments can help you be a better you!

Did you know that chiropractic care can offer an entire host of benefits to children? It’s true, chiropractic care is not just for adults or those who experience a back injury.

Below we provide a quick, easy primer on chiropractic care as it relates to children, an age group that experiences tension and growing pains, more than at any other age.

Chiropractors are able to successfully identify and treat problematic subluxations quickly. This will improve your child’s overall health, increase their range of motion, boost flexibility, and even help them avoid injury.

Common conditions that chiropractic care can help children with include:

• Ear infections
• Digestion Problems
• Allergies
• Asthma
• Colic
• Sports-Related Injuries
• Headaches
• Earaches
• Irritable Behavior
• Moodiness
• Sleep Problems

Chiropractic care has been shown to be beneficial in the treatment of ADHD, Asperger’s, and autism spectrum disorders, too.

If you’d like to learn more about the ways that chiropractic care can benefit you and your child, contact O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic to schedule your consultation.

O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic takes personal stock in the health of each and every one of our patients, even when they leave the doors of our offices. We provide innovative chiropractic care treatments that help our patients both treat and avoid pain and injury the drug-free, all-natural way, but we also provide education to our patients that help them live better, happier lives.

Read on for a few tips that serve as mere suggestions that can be a gateway to a happy, healthy summer.

1.) Stay Active

Try to stay off the couch this summer. Give yourself fitness goals and make sure you get outside as much as you can. But be sure to avoid direct exposure to the sun. Cover your skin and use sunblock. Retreat to the shade when things get too hot.

2.) Stay Hydrated

Make sure you drink half your body weight in ounces of water. If you live in a hot, dry area this serves especially true. Drink more than half your body weight in ounces of water if you’re an athlete.

3.) Visit Your Chiropractor

Visiting your chiropractor for adjustments and other wellness services will help you address injury and pain the drug-free way. Chiropractic treatments will also help you avoid injury, so you can have more fun in the sun (while protecting yourself from harmful UV rays, of course). Contact O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic to schedule your consultation today.

O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic believes in staying current with our patients outside of our practice. A big part of that is making sure that our patients are reaching their 2019 health and wellness goals.

Read on for a few ways to check in with yourself as we move from Q2 to Q3 of 2019 in order to make sure you’re able to achieve this year’s goals.

Are You Feeling Well?

If you’re making good choices, you should be experiencing health benefits like increased energy, increased positivity, and increased mental alertness. Proper diet, rigorous exercise, and engaging in active recovery through yoga and chirorpactic care will make you feel great on a daily basis.

Where Can You Improve?

Do an honest spot-check on yourself. Are you walking the walk when it comes to your wellness? Chances are there are more than a few areas to improve in, whether that be strength training, cardio, yoga, or staying up on your chiropractic adjustments.

What Do You Need From Yourself Moving Forward?

In order to achieve your 2019 wellness goals, what do you need from yourself today? If you’re staying active, maybe it’s a recovery day in store for you. If you’re ready to start the week strong, then it’s time to get after it.

If you have any questions about how our chiropractic care treatments can benefit your health and wellness, contact O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic today.

It’s true that Memorial Day weekend many of us use to get out to the beach — for many of us it’s the early indicator of the summer season to come.

However, instead of doing the traditional drink-a-thon, maybe it’s time to think about having a healthy Memorial Day weekend. Below O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic goes over a few ways to stay well on Memorial Day.

1.) Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate

Long periods out in the sun, being active, and maybe even having an adult beverage or two can seriously dehydrate the body. In lieu of a cold brew, maybe opt for a 12-ounce glass or bottle of water. Try to drink half your body weight in ounces.

2.) Paddleboard

If you have the opportunity, do something active in the water. Paddleboarding is a great way to engage your core.

3.) Eat Well

Try to eat plenty of veggies and fruits. Maybe opt for fish or chicken instead of red meat. Try not to go too heavy on carbs or processed sugars.

If you have any additional questions about how you can stay healthy 24/7/365, contact O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic today.

Cryotherapy is one of the many wellness treatments we offer at O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic. Cryotherapy provides a multitude of health benefits that can only be experienced to be believed.

Below we go over a few health benefits and ways you can optimize your health through cryotherapy at O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic.

Treat Pain and Discomfort

Cryotherapy offers a drug-free solution to pain and inflammation. Cryotherapy has also been proven to heavily reduce pain in arthritic patients.

Eliminate Headaches

Cryotherapy has been shown to treat headaches and migranes by cooling and numbing nerves in the neck region.

Treat Mood Disorders

Cryotherapy incorporates and utilizes ultra-cold temperatures which can cause physiological hormonal responses that boost your mental health. The release of adrenaline, noradrenaline, and endorphins can all have a positive effect on patients who have been experiencing anxiety and depression, and other mood disorders.

If you’d like to learn more about how you can optimize your health though innovative cryotherapy treatments or our many additional chiropractic care services, contact O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic today to schedule your consultation.

Incorporating yoga into a busy daily routine can be no easy task. Those of us who work 40+ hour weeks and spend a significant amount of time in traffic, it can seem impossible.

Below O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic goes over a few easy ways to make yoga a part of any daily routine.

Get Yoga in at Work

Although high-level companies have been incorporating team stretch routines for decades, some even having yoga rooms in-house, you can still get your yoga in on your own at work. If you work at a desk you can research a few yoga poses that are work-suitable. Your cohorts might even start to join you.

Do Yoga at Home

Set aside a small corner of your home where you can do your daily practice, even if it’s only for 10 minutes a day. Your body will give you a huge thanks among many other health benefits.

Spring for Yoga Classes

Yoga classes will plug you into a community of like-minded people, not to mention help you sharpen your yoga skills, making you more effective when you yoga alone.

Chiropractic care is also a wellness-boosting practice that can be added to any routine for multiple health benefits. Contact O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic to schedule your one-on-one consultation today.

Did you know that most back injuries occur when we’re doing the stuff we do every day?

It’s true. Usually, it’s the job we work at 40 hours a week, the bed we sleep in (hopefully somewhere close to 56 hours a week), or the exercise and day-to-day activities that we engage in that put us at most risk to sustain a back injury. However, mostly, the wear and tear our backs sustain is going to come predominantly from our jobs, even those jobs that we might think have us at less risk.

1.) Office Job

Sitting in a stiff chair at work staring at a computer screen is probably one of the worst things we can do for our neck and spine, especially if our desk and screens are not set up the right way, having us stare anything but straight ahead. This is especially true if we’re not engaging in perfect posture.

2.) Professional Mover

Lifting heavy objects for a living is going to put a strain on your back no matter which way you slice it. Professional mover is going to be likely one of the hardest jobs on your back. Make sure you wear proper safety gear and engage in proper lifting technique and observe all safety protocols.

3.) Landscaper

Landscaping, roofing, and laying tile or brick are all going to be extra hard on your back. Most manual labor jobs are going to put a lot of strain on your back, neck, and joints.

If you’re experiencing pain related to your job or related to an injury you sustained, contact O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic today.

At O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic we provide services that correct the spine and help open our patients up to a whole new quality of life. Another part of what we do is provide information and education to our patients that will help them boost their wellness on a daily basis.

Below are a few foods and beverages that you can easily do without that are seriously affecting your health, resulting in cognitive dysfunction, inflammation, and more.

1.) Bagels

This one might be hard to pass up when you’re in a rush in the morning, but bagels don’t really have a lot of nutritional value in and of themselves. If you’re going to make the argument that you put a lot of healthy stuff on it you could easily put that healthy stuff on a healthier bread or even sliced cucumber and tomato.

2.) Orange Juice

Orange juice is very high in sugar content and sends your body into a shock of sorts because you’re not getting any of the fiber associated with eating fruit. Even in smoothies, try to make them veggie dominant, with very little fruit. If you must add fruit, add fruits high in antioxidant, like berries. Bananas are also a good choice, though you’d be hard-pressed to find banana juice.

3.) Milk Chocolate

Once you switch to dark chocolate, try milk chocolate again and you’ll taste how much sugar is packed in there. It will feel practically sinful. Sugars can boost inflammation in the body, which can lead to all sorts of conditions, like diabetes, certain types of cancers, and even Alzheimer’s.

4.) Salty Peanuts

You might think you’re eating healthy when you eat that entire can of salty peanuts, but you would be wrong. There’s tons of sodium and the wrong types of fats. Instead, opt for raw almonds and walnuts, which are healthy brain food and will help you get your clean protein fix.

5.) Sodas

Cutting sodas from your diet is one of the best things you can do for yourself on this list. Sugars are packed with sodas and flavor additives and are harmful to your teeth and your body. Instead, opt for sugar-free substitutes or mineral water.

Chiropractic care is another great way to boost your wellness. Contact O’Connor Family Wellness Chiropractic to schedule your one-on-one appointment today.