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Is your child’s backpack too heavy? Safety guidelines from a DC

Chiropractic Economics

It’s straining your back on one side and can lead to lots of chronic back issues like scoliosis!” Scoliosis can worsen over time and often leads to back pain in adulthood if left untreated. I’m seeing kids’ postures really affected because they’re trying to compensate for their backpacks being so heavy.

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Adolescent posture assessment

Chiropractic Economics

Recent studies indicate a multimodal approach to adolescent posture corrections proves the traditional chiropractic marketing slogan. “As Depending on the definition of weak posture, the literature indicates that up to 65% of adolescents aged 10-18 have postural weakness, which is believed to lead to neck and back pain as adults.

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How a Chiropractor Can Help with Scoliosis

Imperium Health Center

If you deal with scoliosis, you’ve probably wondered what options are available to help treat your symptoms and ease any discomfort. If you’ve ever wondered what a chiropractor can do for someone with scoliosis, read on to find out more about types of care, treatments, and benefits. The curve can occur either to the left or right.

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Combating forward head carriage

Chiropractic Economics

Evaluating patient posture has been an essential tool in chiropractic care for decades, and it provides us with necessary information about how well the body is adapting to trauma, stress and the influence of gravity. It’s also interesting to note posture analysis was used to promote the chiropractic profession. Posture is important.

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How To Improve Your Posture

Oviedo Chiropractic

Good posture doesn’t just give you confidence. Here are some tips for how to improve your posture. Having poor posture can pull joints out of alignment, stretch soft tissues, and even crowd your organs. Having poor posture can pull joints out of alignment, stretch soft tissues, and even crowd your organs.

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Pelvic obliquity through the chiropractic lens

Chiropractic Economics

Charting a course for correcting pelvic obliquity seems like a task for a Chiropractic 101 class when considering its simplest definition: “A postural abnormality occurring when the pelvis tilts to one side.” The most common postural distortion of the pelvis is anterior translation.

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Pelvic obliquity through the chiropractic lense

Chiropractic Economics

Charting a course for correcting pelvic obliquity seems like a task for a Chiropractic 101 class when considering its simplest definition: “A postural abnormality occurring when the pelvis tilts to one side.” The most common postural distortion of the pelvis is anterior translation.