Baseball/Softball: Shoulder Pain  First off, I’d like to let everyone know that I’ve been a loyal Royals fan since birth. My dad and I had season tickets in the 90s and went to just about every game, and so I just wanted to say that it feels good to replace all those faded blue T-shirt-Tuesday-T-shirts with newer World Series Champions gear! Now, for all you avid baseball and softball players, I’ve got some great news when it comes to relief from your shoulder and/or elbow pain. In fact, one of the biggest reasons I became a chiropractor in the first…

Most common headaches are not life threatening and can be treated successfully with conservative care such as chiropractic care. These common headaches include: migraine headache, tension headache, cervicogenic headache, and cluster headache. Any one of these headaches can dramatically ruin the quality of a person’s life; it is the job of the chiropractor to ask you the right series of questions in order to diagnose the correct headache and give you the most effective treatment and advice. Migraine Headache There are two general types of migraine headaches, migraine with aura and migraine without aura. Examples of auras include: zig-zag lines, flickering lights,…

DIET SODA SIDE EFFECTS: WHY YOU SHOULD AVOID IT I’m going to start off by proving that digestion begins with the mere thought of food. To prove my point, imagine you have a giant lemon in your hand and you cut that lemon in half. Now, imagine you squeeze that lemon and drink all that juice at once. If you’re human, that should make you pucker up just a bit. That sensation is the result of your brain telling your body to start releasing digestive enzymes in preparation for eating the lemon. By knowing that digestion is more complex than what…