Whiplash Fast Facts

Whiplash Fast Facts

Did you know…

• There are many ways, besides car accidents to get whiplash? Car accidents are the most common cause of whiplash, but they can also occur due to a slip and fall or playing a high impact sport like football.
• It doesn’t take much force for whiplash to occur? Whiplash injuries can occur at speeds as low as 5-10 mph. While cars may be built to sustain the force of another vehicle, our bodies are not. The severity of the injury depends on if you were properly restrained, so be sure to always wear your seatbelt!
• Symptoms are not always immediate & go beyond just neck pain? Although you may feel fine after an accident, it may actually take hours, days, or even weeks for symptoms to develop. Neck and shoulder pain are the most common symptoms related to whiplash injuries, however, other symptoms may include:
  • Headache
  • Dizziness
  • Fatigue
  • Difficulty swallowing, concentrating, or sleeping
  • Blurred vision
  • Nausea
• The risk of whiplash injuries increases with age? As we get older, our movement becomes more limited, our muscles lose flexibility and strength, and our ligaments aren’t as stretchy. So when our neck whips back and forth during an accident, there’s more potential for damage. Additionally, the elderly and people who already have neck problems (such as arthritis) may experience more serious whiplash injuries.
• Chiropractic care can help? We manage whiplash injuries with careful and precise neck adjustments. Sometimes, ice and rehabilitative exercises are used to address the injured neck, shoulder muscles, and joints. The goal of chiropractic care is to restore spinal movement; improving function while decreasing pain and inflammation.

 

We always recommend that you come into the office immediately for an examination if you have been involved in an accident. Even a minor fender bender can produce injuries. The earlier you are treated, the better your chances for a fully recovery!

If you or someone you know has been involved in an accident, give us a call and get on our schedule!

605-332-9235

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Third Annual Costume Contest

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We discovered today that, due to their new privacy settings, Facebook DOES NOT notify a business when users have tagged their business page onto their individual posts!

This means that if you would like to submit a photo of your Halloween costume to get entered into our 3rd Annual Costume Contest, you will need to post the photo onto our page directly, or send it to us in a private message.

Sorry for any confusion! We hope to see lots of great Halloween costumes!

Massage Special

September Massage Special

 

Now through the end of the month you can enjoy a one hour massage with

Royal Table Massage for only $47!

 

 

Massage is a great way to relax your muscles and relieve pain and stress caused by daily living.
We highly recommend giving it a try!

 

 

Royal Table Massage is open 7 days a week, with morning, afternoon, and early evening appointments available. Give Kelcey a call to reserve your spot on the schedule!
605-332-9235

 

$47 for One Hour!

Expires 9/30/14

 

 

 

Lucky 13!

Our Top 13 Tips for
a Better and Healthier You!

Eat Breakfast

There’s no better way to start the morning than with a healthy breakfast. Include lean proteins, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.

Make Half Your Plate Fruits and Veggies

Fruits and veggies add color, flavor, and texture. Plus, they add vitamins, minerals, and fiber to your plate.

Watch Your Portion Sizes

Try using smaller plates, bowls, and glasses to help you keep your portions under control.

Be Active

Regular physical activity lowers blood pressure and helps your body control stress and weight.

Fix Healthy Snacks

Healthy snacks can sustain your energy levels between meals

Get to Know Food Labels

It’s important to understand what the numbers in the “Nutrition Facts” panel really mean to ensure a healthy lifestyle.

Get Cooking

Cooking at home can be healthy, rewarding, and cost-effective.

Stay Smart while Dining Out

The key is to plan ahead, ask questions, and choose foods carefully.

Enact Family Meal Time

Research shows that family meals promote healthier eating.

Banish Mealtime Boredom

Try new and creative ways to add more fruits and veggies to your meals.

Establish & Plan Your Health Goals

Your health goals are easier to reach when your path is paved with sound advice and easy-to-follow steps that fit into your daily routine.

Drink More Water

Our bodies depend on water for just about everything: regulating body temp; transporting nutrients and oxygen to cells; carrying away waste products; and more.

Get Regular Chiropractic Care

Regular chiro care can help you feel better, move with more freedom, and stay healthier through your lifetime. Ultimately, the goal of chiro care is to restore the body to its natural state of optimal health.



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10 Tips to Boosting Your Immune System

 

Give You Immune System a Boost
10 Helpful tips to give your immune system a boost
this cold and flu season.

                Cold and flu season is here, but with the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, you may not be giving your immune system its best chance at fighting off infections. Thankfully, there are some simple everyday tips to avoid getting sick and to give your immune system a boost.  With the holidays just around the corner, you will definitely want to do everything to boost your immunity.

1.       Decrease/Eliminate Stress: Stress hurts your body in many ways, but it has the most significant effect on your immune system. When we’re stressed, the immune system’s ability to fight off antigens is reduced. That is why we are more susceptible to infections.

Stress can also have an indirect effect on illness as it is associated with all manner of bad habits (coping strategies), for example smoking, drinking alcohol to excess, poor diet due to lack of time, lack of exercise for the same reason, lack of sleep etc.

2.       Laugh: The saying goes that laughter is the best medicine, and there's truth to that. Laughter releases dopamine and other feel-good chemicals in the brain, all of which can help decrease stress.

3.       Adopt a Healthy Diet: Try to eliminate processed foods from your daily routine. Not only are processed foods hard on your body, they don’t provide you with the energy or nutrients your body needs to fight infections. Instead, opt for plenty of colorful fruits and veggies paired with lean proteins!

4.       Drink Water: One of the most popular and beneficial subscriptions for healing is to drink plenty of liquids. And by liquids, we mean water. Water is absolutely essential and critical for all cell functions in your body. When someone is dehydrated they produce Histamines, which are the mucus promoters in your body. So dehydration causes mucus, inflammation, and swelling. We want to be fully hydrated. All of the time, not simply sometimes!

5.       Rest: Been running around like crazy to finish your holiday shopping and now, all of a sudden, you're sick? Well, that's your immune system getting its revenge. The immune system requires a lot of energy to work. When you notice that you’re tired, your appetite is suppressed, and you’re low on energy, your body is diverting energy to your immune system. Instead of taking drugs so you can rush off to work, listen to your body and get some rest. Stay home, stay warm, allow your body to use the energy to feed your immune system, and get healthy. When you sleep, your body is rebuilding new, healthy tissues. Staying up late only slows down this process.

6.       Move: Regular exercise appears to have the advantage of being able to jump-start the immune system, and that can help reduce the number of colds you get. With exercise, the number and aggressiveness of certain immune cells, such as the ones called natural killer cells, increase by as much as 50% to 300%. If you exercise regularly, this temporary increase can help make the immune system more efficient at destroying intruders that cause illness such as colds.

7.       Eliminate Sugar: Even if you’re drinking fruit juice, it’s more than likely that is chalk full of sugar. To put it simply, sugar can cripple your immune system. Sugar compromises the immune system because it lowers the efficiency of white blood cells for a minimum of five hours.

8.       Stay Positive: Researchers aren’t exactly sure why, but studies have shown those with more optimistic attitudes feel sick less often and/or recover from sickness more quickly than those who think more negatively. They believe that a person with a positive mind-set has an easier time clearing their head and reducing stress in their life.

9.       Let Your Body Fight: Your immune system will get stronger and smarter if you let your body fight. If you interfere and suppress it with prescription drugs because it’s more important for you to be comfortable rather than healthy, your body will get weaker and not be able to defend itself properly in future attacks.

10.   Receive Regular Chiropractic Care: The nervous system controls and coordinates the entire body including all of the immune organs. Subluxations or misalignments of the spine can interfere with messages sent to immune organs, making you more prone to illness. When you receive specific adjustments by a chiropractor, you are giving your body the chance to operate at optimal levels. Additionally, chiropractic care can help reduce the effects of stress on your body, indirectly giving your immune system a boost.

 

If you think you’re coming down with the cold or flu, or know someone who is seemingly always sick, be sure to give our office a call and find out more on how we can help!
605-332-9235



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