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Sitting with anything less than great posture is bad for your back, neck, spine, and in some cases even your hips and joints. Below, Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center provides a quick guide to ensure you’re sitting with correct posture.

1.) Sit with Shoulders Back

Sit with your shoulders aimed back, with your shoulder blades flexing a bit inward instead of sitting with your shoulders hunched forward, which is terrible for your back and your neck.

2.) Both Feet on the Ground

Try to sit square in your chair with both feet evenly on the ground to ensure even weight distribution. You’ll want your knees to rest slightly below your hips.

3.) Sit with Your Back Straight, Looking Straight Ahead

Obviously you’ll want to sit with your back straight and with your head facing straight forward, especially if you sit for long periods in front of a computer screen.

It’s a great practice to switch it up at work, too. Make sure you stand and stretch to get some variety in your day and to give your back, neck, and joints relief from sitting in a single position for long periods of time. You can also invest in accessories for your work area, like footpads and elevating desk converters that your back, neck, feet, and joints will surely thank you for.

If you experience lingering back pain even while practicing perfect posture, contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today to schedule your consultation. We’ll get to the bottom of the issue.

Neck pain can come as the result of an injury or it can come as a result of the actions we perform on a daily basis. Your neck pain might be due to muscle strain, spine misalignment, stress, or even your workplace setup.

Below, Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center goes over a few ways to deal with and even prevent neck pain.

Strengthen Your Neck

Your neck contains important muscle groups that need to be exercised and strengthened in order for your neck to be protected and insulated from your daily grind. There are a number of exercises and exercise apparatuses that can help you strengthen your neck. Consult with your local chiropractor for best practices, techniques, and products available.

Stop Skimping on Your Stretch Routine

Stretching is an integral part of your wellness plan. Make sure that you stretch your neck out daily to ensure proper range of motion, mobility, and in order to avoid injury.

Change Your Workplace Setup

If you’re able, convert to an elevating desk so you can switch positions throughout the day. Make sure that your monitor is positioned slightly above eye level to ensure you keep proper posture throughout the day.

Another great way to get rid of your neck pain is to get friendly with your local chiropractor in Milpitas, CA. Contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center to schedule your consultation today!

When we work out hard we tend to feel it the next day, whether it’s muscle soreness or stiffness. We might even feel the pains of an injury from engaging in improper lifting technique, or even from tripping on a raised piece of concrete as we’re running in the bustling city streets.  

It’s important to work out intelligently, but it’s also crucial to recover intelligently as well. Below are a few tips to boost workout recovery, so you can get back to your routine.

Stay Hydrated

Staying hydrated helps your body function properly and keeps you from getting dehydrated, which can result in cramps, headaches, and more. Failing to properly hydrate yourself post-workout also disrupts protein synthesis involved in rebuilding your muscles, which can be slowed down significantly and subsequently delay recovery time.

Do Yoga

Yoga is a great way to decompress and unwind after a workout. It’s great for your entire body, including your back, neck, spine, and joints — all of which take a beating during a workout.

Eat Healthily

Eating healthy foods and limiting yourself from indulging in junk food and soda will help ensure your workout recovery is speedy and efficient. 

Another great way to boost your workout recovery is to visit your local chiropractor. Contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center to schedule your consultation today!

Going back to school can be stressful business, but the scenario always goes off better when you and your child know what to expect and go in prepared. Below are a few easy, breezy lifehacks that will help you and your child make sure that the back-to-school adjustment goes off without a hitch.

Plan All the Meals

Try to plan out breakfast, lunch, and dinner and make sure to incorporate clean, whole foods anywhere you can. Avoid processed foods that require your body to spend a considerable amount of energy in order to digest. We are what we eat, so eating plenty of veggies and clean protein will bring out the best in your little one.

Limit Screen Time

Encouraging your child to spend a little more time being active and outdoors never hurt anyone. More and more studies are showing that spending massive amounts of time in front of the computer and TV can be harmful to your health in multiple ways.

Start Healthy Habits Now

Early to bed and early to rise makes kids healthy, wealthy, and wise and such. Think of this time as an opportunity to lay a solid foundation for your child. Get them practicing esteemable behavior with a little discipline and some positive reinforcement along the way. You got this!

Chiropractic treatments are another great way to get the best out of your child. We’re not over here simply to help people get over back injury — we do a lot to keep our patients of all ages healthy and in the game for the long haul at Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center. Give us a call today to schedule you and your child’s initial consultation.

As we age our bodies tend to be less effective at doing certain things. Even though we’re less able to perform rigorous tasks without experiencing adversity, pain, or even injury, we still push ourselves to those same limits we were able to reach when we were younger.

Many patients we see at Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center experience back injuries, including throwing their backs out.

When our backs go out, it’s a pretty helpless feeling, but chiropractic treatments are designed to help you endure and even treat back injuries that occur as we age.

If your back has gone out recently, it’s a good idea to schedule a consultation with a chiropractor in your area. Chiropractic adjustments will help your body function at optimum capacity, treat pain and discomfort the drug-free way, and help you avoid future injury.

Contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today to learn more about how chiropractic adjustments can help you live a more comfortable, healthy, active life.

Eating intelligently is of paramount importance in maintaining a healthy life and achieving longevity. Below, Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center goes over a few ways to improve your overall nutrition and start experiencing an immense amount of health benefits today.

Eat Your Vegetables

Making sure that you eat your vegetables is crucial in living a healthy lifestyle. Vegetables are packed with nutrients that will help fuel you throughout the day.

Cut Down on Sweets

Try to limit yourself to sensible dessert. Dark chocolate and organic peanut butter is a healthy alternative to, say, chocolate cake. Try to get your sugar fix from fresh fruit.

Think About When You Eat

Don’t eat past 8pm if you’re going to bed around 10 for better sleep and improved digestion.

Eat Clean, Whole Foods

Staying away from processed foods will help your GI system stay functioning at optimum capacity. Once you’re eating healthy, you’ll really start to notice any time you deviate from your diet, because you’ll likely feel pretty awful when you eat junk food once your body no longer craves it.

Contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today to learn more about how chiropractic treatments can be the ultimate companion to a healthy diet in the aim of achieving a healthy lifestyle.

Did you know that chiropractic can serve as an amazing antidote to an active lifestyle that includes a rigorous martial arts discipline? Many MMA fighters and martial artists have close relationships with their chiropractor to boost recovery and serve as a drug-free pain solution.

Below are a few key ways that chiropractic adjustments benefit martial artists.

It’s Good for Your Joints!

Chiropractic is good for your joints, which take a serious toll during the repetitive drills covered in martial arts. Your knees, ankles, shoulders, and elbows are susceptible to wear and tear, not to mention pain and injury.

It’s Good for Cognitive Function

Chiropractic treatments have been shown to improve communication from the brain to the rest of the body. Your spine is interconnected to the nervous system and can get seriously jammed up during the daily grind, not to mention at the dojo.

Improved Immune System

You might come into contact with germs at the dojo. Chiropractic treatments have been shown to improve the digestive system and the immune system, which will help you stay consistent with your training.

If you have any additional questions about how chiropractic treatments benefit martial artist, contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today.

We take our bodies for granted until they start reminding us that we need to take care of ourselves. Our back and spine are crucial to our wellness and our mobility in multiple ways. At any stage in the game, it’s a good idea to start being more mindful of the daily pressure you put on your back, not to mention start utilizing activities, methods, and techniques that will help strengthen your back and save you from costly injuries down the road.

Below are a few ways to start saving your back today.

Get Active

When you’re at the gym, make sure that you engage your core muscle groups, not to mention engage in lifts that help strengthen your back, which will make your back feel strong and ready for whatever you have coming.

Recover Intelligently

Engage in active recovery, which can include a day of yoga or a nature hike instead of binge-watching Netflix on the couch. You’ll get something done while giving your body the time and space it needs to recover. 

Perfect Your Posture

If you’re walking around or sitting with bad posture, now is the time to correct that problem. Sitting with good posture will help strengthen your back and make you feel better day-to-day.

Chiropractic treatments are also designed to help provide drug-free pain relief, not to mention help you avoid injuries down the road, not to mention treat the injuries you’re living with today. Contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today to schedule your consultation.

Have you ever thought to yourself that there’s just not enough time in a day to get done what you need to get done? Trust us, you’re not alone. That’s why we decided to give our patients and readership some educational information about how one can be more productive on a daily basis.

Read on for a few easy tricks to tweak your lifestyle so you can start completing more of your daily tasks.

1.) Exercise

This might seem counterintuitive since you have so many things going on. However, by taking an hour to exercise, whether it be hitting the weights, running, or even something like Muay Thai training, you’ll get your endorphins flowing and you’ll feel better day-to-day. You’ll actually start to notice when you don’t get a workout in because your energy and positivity levels will seem low.

2.) Break Your Day Down By Hours

Try to start breaking your day down hour-to-hour. You’ll start to see pockets of time where you might not be efficient. You might set aside an hour to get something done that only takes 20 minutes, then be frivolous with the rest of that hour. By doing a self-audit you’ll be forced to see where you can be more efficient.

3.) Stop the Party

We get it, people like to go out. But you don’t need to spend your time in late-night bars anymore. Think of an hour spent in a bar — unless you’re working — as an hour wasted. When you start saying “No” to “The Party” you’ll see that your energies are far better spent in other areas of your life.

Chiropractic treatments are a great way to unlock new potential in yourself as well. Contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today to learn more.

When it comes to weight training, doing it correctly is as important (if not more important) as doing it often. Below are a few best weight training practices and a few bad habits to try to avoid.

Do: Warm Up

Warming up is important, whether you do it for 10-20 minutes or for an entire hour. Warming up makes your muscles and joints more pliable. Shoot around a basketball before you hit the weights — it will improve your recovery and performance.

Don’t: Overload Weight

We get it, you want to be strong. However, by racking on the weight you’re going to be putting a ton of pressure on certain areas of the body — usually the back and various joints. Go lighter in weight and higher in reps to ensure optimium longevity.

Do: Focus on Technique

Technique and practicing good form are more important than lifting maximum weight. By focussing on achieving perfect technique you’ll also minimize joint damage and focus on the muscle groups you intend to.

Don’t: Overwork Yourself

You might be tempted to go hard right out of the gate, but by executing measured, precise workouts that don’t leave you sore in the morning will help you stay active and stay in the game.

Contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today if you’d like to learn how chiropractic care can be the perfect compliment to weight training. We have a long track record of keeping those even with the most active lifestyles healthy and well!