- Dining Out? How to Order Healthy
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Choosing a Restaurant:
It's important to understand what's on the menu when you eat out. You can eat healthy if you know what to look for. Many restaurants offer delicious meals that are low in saturated fats, trans fats and cholesterol. Best of all, many restaurants will prepare food to order, all...
- Optimal Well Being and How Exercise Impacts Your Health
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What is wellness and how can it be approached? Wellness is a concept of incorporating the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of a human being. Wellness can be approached from at least two related perspectives: Prevention and Holism.
Prevention is the practice of behaviors that minimize the risk of lifestyle...
- Weight, Low Back Pain, and How a Chiropractor Can Help You
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Carrying extra body fat, especially in your waist area, can put you at a higher risk for muskoskeletal problems and health problems. Too much body fat can lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and low back pain.
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- Are Pain and Inflammation Preventing You From Exercising?
Don't let aches and pains prevent you from exercising and losing weight. Performance Plus Rehabilitaiton Center is now offering a new, non-invasive, non-surgical technique that effectively treats soft tissue pain. The Graston technique complements our tradtional Chiropractic and Physical Therapy care. Dr. Becky Wells, a Doctor of Chiropractic with Performance Plus is certified in the Graston Technique.
The symptoms we...
- Eat Breakfast: Lose Weight
Eating breakfast helps you start the day feeling full rather than hungry. After sleeping all night your stomach is empty and your body is in a fasting state. The prolonged fasting that occurs from skipping breakfast can increase your body's insulin response, which in turn increases fat storage and weight gain. Eat a good filling...
- Exercise and Depression: How Exercise Boosts Your Mood
I recently read an article in the newspress about how small amounts of exercise can boost health. I agree with this. It's amazing how many health benefits go along with exercise. I'd like to focus on specifically how exercise affects our mood.
Depression symptoms often improve with exercise. According to the Mayo Clinic, the links between anxiety,...
- Treatment for Soft Tissue Pain
Treating soft tissue for injury and pain is nothing new. At Performance Plus Rehabiltation Center in St. Joseph, MO spinal manipulations have always been used as an effective way to treat soft tissue pain, but now we are enhancing our treatment with the use of the Graston Technique. Dr. Becky Wells, a Doctor of Chiropractic...
- The Importance of Strength Training to both Athletes and Non-Athletes
Strength training is wise for any athlete to perform during his or her off season. Performance Plus Rehabilitation Center Director Dr. Allyn Smith says when done correctly, strength training provides significant functional benefits and improvement to overall health. For both the athlete and non-athlete strength training increases bone density, strengthens muscles, tendons and ligaments, improves...
- Control Your Diabetes with Exercise
Performance Plus Rehabilitation Center believes you can control your diabetes by exercising and eating healthy. PPRC Clinic Director, Allyn Smith DC, says exercise has the ability to control diabetes by reducing the severity of the disease and the risk of long term complications.
Diabetes is a condition where the body has trouble taking glucose from the...
- What do Pumpkins and Chiropractors have in common?
They both reduce inflammation. Here at Performance Plus Rehabilitation Center, Clinic Director, Allyn Smith, DC says many patients feel pain due to inflammation. There are natural ways to reduce inflammation such as receiving chiropractic treatment for your aches and pains as well as eating healthy food. Pumpkins are considered a superfood and are rich in...