Healthy Halloween!
Halloween is a time when many kids go trick or treating, only to stockpile mass quantities of candy – it’s bad for their teeth, bad for their weight, bad for the inner workings of their body, and bad for their psychology too, as sugared-up kids will go into overdrive, act out, and even get depressed […]
September Is… “National Backpack Safety Awareness Month”
It’s back to school time and kids are getting ready to fill up their backpacks. Today, more and more schoolwork is given to kids and as a result, their backpacks get heavier and heavier. The heavier the backpack is, the more unnecessary stress is placed on the child’s spine. This can cause the misalignment of […]
Children Need Chiropractic Too!
Common Questions Asked By Parents about Chiropractic “Which Common Children’s’ Disorders Have Been Linked To Spinal Subluxations?” The most common reason children are taken to a doctor of chiropractic is for correction of spinal misalignments (subluxations) directly linked to some of the most common childhood disorders: earaches, headaches, colic, asthma, bladder control loss, stomach troubles […]
Watch Out!
I don’t know what it is about springtime that brings out the haphazard ways of everyone but accidents are happening all over the place and we all need to pay better attention to what we are doing. I am specifically concerned with children at play and the adults who are driving too fast to see […]
PTA
BACKPACK SAFETY Children’s spines need to be well taken care of during their formative years. This means that they should not be overloaded with heavy backpacks on a daily basis. A recent survey of orthopedic doctors reported that over half of them have seen children with back pain associated with overloaded backpacks in the past […]
Kids Don’t Choose to Smoke
After I dropped my nephew at school last Monday morning I started toward my office and had to spend what seems like forever waiting to turn at the intersection of Georgia Highway 22 and Roberson Mill Road/ 441 Bypass. As most people do, I started looking around at the people in the cars around me […]