San Antonio Chiropractor -- When it comes to the Big Three of exercise - cardiovascular, strength training and flexibility - it's pretty clear which one can get overlooked. After all, while we prize cardiovascular and strength training for their role in helping us lose weight, build muscle and get fit, the ...
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Does Driving Aggravate Your Back?
San Antonio, TX -- Back pain often seems to come out of nowhere. One day a person feels fine, and the next is spent in agony. Part of what makes back pain difficult is the fact that so many things in our lives can contribute to it. Many of the possible factors also come from ...
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Can Running Be Hazardous to Your Health?
San Antonio, TX -- Many people wonder whether they should run with a bad back -- particularly if they have degenerative disc disease. What most do not know is that running is the highest impact exercise you can do. The feet alone contain 25% of all the bones in your body, and every time you ...
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Is Your Mattress Causing Your Backache?
San Antonio, TX -- The spine, also called the vertebral column, is a very important part of our body. It is the pathway for transmitting nervous messages from the brain to the muscles and organs of the body ensuring a harmonic and balanced functioning. Since we spend two thirds of our lives in the upright ...
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Posture Alleviates San Antonio Back Pain
San Antonio, TX -- Posture commonly refers to the position of your body when standing or sitting. Good posture can bring to mind images of people balancing ...
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Causes of Back Pain In San Antonio
San Antonio, TX -- The majority of back pain is caused by three everyday stresses: physical stress, chemical stress, and emotional stress. Spinal ...
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Preventing Pregnancy Related Backaches In San Antonio
I began my practice at Barrows Chiropractic Clinic in 1983. At that time, backaches during pregnancy were a common symptom affecting almost half of all pregnant women ...
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Is Your Diet Soda Making You Fat?
For years I have been telling my patients that the diet soda water that they are drinking might not be the best way to go. Of course, it always reminds me of the person who goes to their favorite burger joint, and orders a double ...
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Have You Lost Hope?
Recently, one of my patients who has been with me for many years asked me, “Dr. Barrows, do you think you can help my son, Leonard?” Naturally, I asked what was going on with him. She said he had been suffering with nausea and ...
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Top 5 Ways to Aggravate Your Injury (or better yet, prevent it)!
Today I'm going to present to you some of the most common ways that you can re-injure yourself, or to put it in a more positive light, some of the best ways to prevent re-injury. Some might be of no surprise ...
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