Healthy News - March 2020

Using Minster 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!” A study of over-60 year olds stated that 29.2% of them used complementary health alternatives in the last 12 months: herbal therapies, chiropractic and massage topped the list. 60% of those folks reported that it was “important” for keeping their health and well-being. They reported that it improved their overall health, and they felt better. They had an enhanced sense of control over their health. They said these types of interventions made it easier to cope with their health problems. (1) Today more than ever, we in Minster are all in need of a better sense of control over our health and well-being. Your Minster chiropractor is your partner in good times and hard times, for young folks and elders! Come see us soon. Meanwhile, 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 incorporating the gentle Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management partners with a patient as he finds a way to regain a sense of control of his life when neck pain robbed him of sleep.

Correcting Minster vitamin D deficiency increases the immune system to ward off disease and even depression.

TIP OF THE MONTH: Take Vitamin D

A healthy body counts on a healthy, well-functioning immune system. Vitamin D plays a beneficial role in supporting a health immune system and aids fight challenges to it. Air pollution is a challenge as it can elicit undue immune responses: infection, cancer, auto-immune conditions. Inhaled air pollution usually lands on respiratory mucosa and has an effect on the respiratory system. (The news is filled with talk about the respiratory system today.) Vitamin D supplementation is one strategy research suggests may enhance the immune system to fight 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 are very aware that vitamin D deficiency is an extensive problem. All are working to find ways to deal with it and answer the questions “How much vitamin D should I take a day?” and “How best do we make sure everyone gets that?” (5) Let us talk about this at your next chiropractic appointment and set a plan to increase your vitamin D level and let your body to ward off health-compromising problems.

CONTACT Minster Chiropractic Center

Schedule your next Minster chiropractic appointment today with Minster Chiropractic Center. Your Minster chiropractor is your partner on your health path offering chiropractic treatments and tips - like supplementing with vitamin D - to follow at home to cope mentally and physically when pain, stress and depression bother you. Minster Chiropractic Center is privileged to be your – and your elders’ - health partner.