Asheville Chiropractor Blog
Health and Deli Meats
At Chiropractic Family we have been educating our patients and community in Fairview and Asheville NC community on good healthy eating. Dr. Stockstad has been an advocate for proper healthy eating in Asheville for over 20 years. So you’ve decided to make some positive changes to your diet and you have started to focus on…
10 DANGEROUS THOUGHTS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH
TOP 10 DANGEROUS THOUGHTS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH It will go away, I just have to wait this out! I’ll just take some Medications to deal with the pain. I’m going to be OK because sometimes I feel pretty good! I am just getting older. I can “crack” my own spine and that gives me some…
Workman's Compensation and Chiropractic
In a recent study chiropractic patients demonstrated lower medical expenses, less disability, fewer recurrences, and shorter initial periods of disabilities. The study “Health Maintenance Care in Work-Related Low Back Pain and Its Association with Disability Recurrence,” was published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, April 2011, volume 53. In this study, Researchers compared…
Sources for Vitamin D
Sources of Vitamin D The media keeps saying that we need vitamin D. So where is the best source for getting this seemingly magical vitamin? Well, the fact is that we can get it from natural sources for free. Most people can get enough vitamin D by just getting going outside in the sun for…
Headaches and when to be concerned
Headache – Should I be Concerned The physician should be especially concerned if the patient has any of the following (Silberstein, 1992; Edmeads, 1988): If you are over 50 and have a new-onset of headaches a sudden-onset headache; a headache that is subacute in onset and gets progressively worse over days or weeks; a headache associated…
Spinal Decompression
What to look for in a Non-surgical spinal decompression provider I have been performing non-surgical Spinal Decompression procedures since 2004. The success rate for this procedure has been amazing and often with the worst of cases. Many have been told that surgery was their only hope. It is not a cure-all either as we…