The holiday season is a busy time for everyone. It can often be quite stressful. Work may be busier as deadlines approach and co-workers take time off, which means less people to work on a greater workload. Holiday planning and preparations involving meals, decorations, and family must all be...

Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and psoriasis are examples of autoimmune diseases or disorders. There are many other examples and they all affect your body differently, but they all have one thing in common. Your body is...

If you read last week’s article, you know that seasonal affective disorder (SAD) may be due to a disruption in your circadian rhythm, leading to feeling sad and depressed during the dark days of the winter months. What can you do to combat the depressive symptoms associated with SAD? Here...

Do you find your mood darkening and your motivation to do anything dwindling as the days get shorter and darker? Do you find yourself more irritable, have increased difficulty concentrating, sleep more than normal, or have decreased activity levels? Maybe you become less social, you start to...

If your child has ever experienced ear pain, discharge from the ear, or hearing loss, you are not alone. Many young children suffer from an ear infection at some point. For some kids, it happens often.

It’s uncomfortable for your child and can be distressing as a parent to see your child in...

It happens every year. School starts, the season's change, and your child gets sick. Perhaps it’s just a cough and runny nose. Maybe they are sneezing, possibly even have a fever. Whatever symptoms your child experiences, it’s uncomfortable. For everyone around them. They may be...

Catch Some zzzzzzzz’s

There is nothing cuter than watching your baby sleeping. It can be frustrating when they don’t sleep through the night or when they take hours to fall asleep, like my son lately.

Sleep, especially rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, is important for...

IMMUNE FUNCTION AND CHIROPRACTIC

     Especially at this time of year people are tuned into the fact that a strong immune system is crucial to living a long and healthy life.  We are constantly in an environment that forces us to think of how important our immune...

Nursing Isn’t Always Fun

Mastitis is commonly experienced by breastfeeding mothers and is a common reason for weaning earlier than planned. It is an inflammatory condition of the breast which may or may not be accompanied by infection.

Mastitis can cause breast pain, a lump or nodule,...

Many women, including myself, experience pubic symphysis dysfunction while pregnant. It can cause a shooting pain in the pubic area, and activities of daily living may be difficult. Going up and down stairs, changing position in bed, sexual intercourse, getting up from a chair, bending forward,...

It takes energy to function day to day. We need the energy to go to work or school, exercise, play, and communicate with friends or family. When we are low on energy but still need to function, it can lead to short tempers, meltdowns, and tantrums. If we can use energy efficiently, then we will...