Canterbury Chiropractic

Playing with Stress - Weekly Sticky Pro Playing with Stress According to Dr. Hans Selye, the father of stress and disease theories, "...it's not stress that kills, it's our reaction to it." In essence, your health is influenced more by your inability to manage the tensions of Life rather than avoiding them all together. Our bodies take ex...

Enough to Put it Out... - Weekly Sticky Pro Enough to Put it Out… A glass of water can put out a small flame, but it won't put out a forest fire – it’s the right tool, but not nearly the right QUANTITY to get the job done. The same can be said for the amount of Chiropractic care you may need for your particular problem. The purpose of f...

Avoiding the Train Wreck - Weekly Sticky Pro Avoiding the Train Wreck Medical preventative care focuses mainly on the early detection and treatment of disease. Their thinking - if you catch a condition in its earliest stage (i.e. breast cancer or diabetes), you have a better chance of managing it. Although that rationale bears some truth, it l...

More Than a Knot - Weekly Sticky Pro More Than a Knot Are those knots in your muscles back again? You just had a good massage, and you REALLY felt great after. But you wish that feeling would last for more than just a day or two. Maybe there's something you can do to make your sessions have a longer, lasting effect. Muscles that suppor...

The Right Key - Weekly Sticky Pro The Right Key You’ve tried stretching, went to physical therapy and faithfully did all the exercises they prescribed. But still your spine feels tight, rigid and locked up. In your case, Chiropractic may hold the right key. Unlike the gross manipulative therapy done by PT's and osteopaths, or the ...

Checkers vs. Chess - Weekly Sticky Pro Checkers vs. Chess There's a vast difference between playing chess vs. playing checkers. In checkers, the best moves yield immediate results... a piece is jumped or a king is crowned. With chess however, the best moves aren't made for simple instant gratification, but well thought out for the benefi...

A Subluxation in the Oven - Weekly Sticky Pro It takes time, patience and effort to make a perfect souffle'. Mix up the ingredients, pre-heat your oven to 425 and let them bake for the appropriate time - at an EVEN TEMPERATURE. You wouldn't go back and forth turning the heat up, down, off and on again as it tries to rise. Consistency of environ...

Wash Me... - Weekly Sticky Pro Wash Me… What would happen if you didn't clean your house for a few weeks? Your furniture would get pretty dusty wouldn't it? The same can be said for you, if the dirt in your Nerve System isn't cleaned up on a regular basis. The 'dirt' we're talking about is Vertebral Subluxation (a Chiropractic ...

Chiro-Jenga - Weekly Sticky Pro Chiro-Jenga If Life was a game of Jenga, stress would be the act of sliding out one puzzle piece after another, until your entire 'tower of health' topples over. Unexpected car repair bill - slide out a block. Emergency call from your kid's school nurse - slide out another one. Slip down a few stair...

Drive Through Health - Weekly Sticky Pro Drive Through Health In today's fast paced world, 'instant' trumps process. Drive through windows and quick fixes are prized in cultures where instant gratification rules supreme. Unfortunately, these principles don't work so well when it comes to your health. It takes time for a good diet to reflec...

A Better Healthcare Game Poor Rudolf, the enthusiastic little reindeer with the quirky glowing nose - no one wanted to play with him because he was different...

Subluxation Tuesday Thanksgiving is over, so let the shopping stress begin! Millions of people worldwide will spend the next several weeks in a buying frenzy...