Healthy News - March 2020

Using Sitka chiropractic care as one complementary health alternative improved patients sense of well-being and control of their health.

CHIROPRACTIC: ONE WAY TO FEEL BETTER AND GAIN A SENSE OF CONTROL

“Listen to your elders!” An analysis of over-60 year olds discovered that 29.2% of them used complementary health alternatives in the past year: herbal therapies, chiropractic and massage topped the list. 60% of those folks wrote it was “important” for maintaining their health and well-being. They stated that it boosted their overall health, and they felt better. They had an enhanced sense of control over their health. They said these types of interventions created an easier way to cope with their health problems. (1) Today more than ever, we in Sitka are all in need of a stronger sense of control over our health and well-being. Your Sitka chiropractor is your partner in good times and hard times, for young folks and elders! Make your appointment soon! In the meantime, taking this sensible advice from the CDC in this time of the coronavirus pandemic is a good idea, too, as they are all things within our control when so much around us isn’t. (2)

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Chris DeVeau on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. His presentation explains how chiropractic care integrating the gentle Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management partners with a patient as he discovers a way to regain a sense of control of his life when neck pain robbed him of sleep.

Correcting Sitka vitamin D deficiency boosts the immune system to ward off disease and even depression.

TIP OF THE MONTH: Take Vitamin D

A healthy body needs a healthy, well-functioning immune system. Vitamin D supports a health immune system and aids combat challenges to it. Air pollution is a challenge as it can cause extreme immune responses: infection, cancer, auto-immune conditions. Inhaled air pollution usually lands on respiratory mucosa and influences the respiratory system. (The news is filled with talk about the respiratory system today.) Vitamin D supplementation is a strategy research suggests may enhance the immune system to resist such invasion. (3) Vitamin D is reportedly beneficial to improve and keep clinical depression at bay due to its homeostatic, immunomodulatory and neuroprotective roles. (4) Many from government, research and industry around the world recognize that vitamin D deficiency is a big problem. They are working to find ways to deal with it and answer the questions “How much vitamin D should I take daily?” and “How best do we make sure everyone gets that?” (5) Let us talk about this at your next chiropractic appointment and make a plan to increase your vitamin D level and permit your body to ward off health-compromising problems.

CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka

Arrange your next Sitka chiropractic appointment today with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka. Your Sitka chiropractor is with you on your health journey offering chiropractic treatments and tips - like supplementing with vitamin D - to do at home to cope mentally and physically in times of pain, stress and depression. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is privileged to be your – and your elders’ - health partner.