Family Chiropractor

While most of my clients are not professional athletes, I still regularly see people at varying degrees of physical activity who are looking to optimize their health plan. A modality that is gaining traction, especially among the ranks of Olympic athletes who competed in Brazil this year, is called resistance stretching. While stretching is traditionally…

Pillows are inanimate objects: true, but as far as inanimate objects go, pillows hold a lot of clout when it comes to your health. An ill-fitting pillow may have made the cut when we were younger and our spines more resistant to stiffness and pain. However, as we grow older and the cumulative forces acting…

Asking, “What is happiness,” can unlock a can of philosophical worms that abstract the concept of happiness from reality. Because really, what matters besides the factors that make up your individual happiness? At Family Chiropractic & Natural Healing Center, we believe that health is central to happiness. This is exemplified by the relationship between sleep…

Rest is not best when it comes to healing: in fact, it may be counterproductive to your health plan to recover from any injury involving back pain. Being sedentary while recovering encourages stiffening, which can make both joints and tissues more susceptible to injury. Supportive muscles, especially those in the core, also stiffen and atrophy…

This is the fun part: while water may be the plainest tasting drink, swimming is certainly a spicy form of exercise. The benefit begins when you enter your chosen water body: whether it be a pool, lake or ocean, the downward force of gravity is immediately suspended. This is why we feel relaxed when we…

It’s never too late to start making water your main friend and health ally. Part 1 of incorporating water into your health plan is by just drinking it! Somewhere along the line, humans invented so many, “delicious,” alternatives that we seem to have lost our taste for water. This is an unfortunate circumstance for a…

At Family Chiropractic & Natural Healing Center, one of the overarching complaints we hear relates to a collection of symptoms that includes inflammation of the joints, joint stiffness, and pain. These symptoms usually point to one of the 100+ types of arthritis. Arthritis prevalence is alarming: estimates vary, but some say that 1/5 Americans today…

Chia seeds are the definition of a snack with a punch. Calorie for calorie, there may be no other food that delivers so much nutrition. This is probably what is behind chia seeds rise to prominence, especially in health food communities. From a chiropractor’s perspective, it’s always nice to recognize a healthy snack, especially one…

Sometimes, it is important to remind ourselves of the basics. At our office in Milpitas, we practice the kind of chiropractic that can keep you swinging into old age. We truly believe that a proactive approach to health that includes chiropractic care, diet and exercise can reduce the likelihood of a visit to the emergency…

It has been said that sitting is the new smoking. While there is hardly a way to equate these two things, I can speak on the latter and confirm that chronic sitting is contributing to premature muscular and structural problems in the human body. What is happening when we sit too much:  hip flexors are…