If you live in Anchorage, you most likely enjoy some sort of winter sport. Whether it is downhill skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, ice hockey, ice skating, or plain old sledding with the kids, winter sports are sure to be a fun…
Chiropractors are perhaps one of the most misunderstood groups in the health care industry. We are sometimes told that our lives must be “easier” since we aren’t “real” doctors or that we make “easy money” for simply cracking backs. Neither…
When you consider that the average person will sleep eight hours a day (or one-third of each day), then that means you spend one third of your life in bed, which translates to about 25 years, then it’s easy to…
There are some things in life you have no control over and just have to learn to live with it. Your height, your skin color, and the color of your eyes, for example (colored contacts not withstanding). However, every day,…
Whether you are talking about your wrist, elbow, knee, or shoulder, tendonitis, and its cousin bursitis are painful and troublesome problems that can affect anyone at almost any age. The pain of tendonitis usually comes on gradually, hurting just a…
We’ve all been there at one time or another. You wake up one morning and go to put on your shirt, but you stop dead in your tracks because your shoulder hurts like a SOB. As you start to rub…
UGH, whiplash. If you have ever had it, you know just how painful this condition can be! If you haven’t had it, consider yourself lucky. If you know someone who is suffering from this right now, this article will be…
If you have ever sprained your ankle or strained your back, you know how terribly painful these conditions can be. For those not involved in the medical field, the words sprain, and strain are often used interchangeably, even though they…