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You might have heard myths and rumors about what to do if you’re trying to induce labor. Going on a gnarly hike might be one you’ve heard. Some doctors even suggest that having intercourse can induce labor. However, acupuncture remains a treatment that even medical professionals are starting to consider as a viable assistant to a smooth-going childbirth process.

The Facts Are Not Quite In

Medical professionals generally agree that there simply is not enough evidence to support the viability of acupuncture when it comes to inducing labor, however, studies have suggested a causal link. One University of North Carolina study found that women who received acupuncture were more likely to go through labor without medical or surgical intervention. 70% of women who received acupuncture went into labor on their own while only 50% of those who received standard care went into labor on their own.

Acupuncture Stimulates the Body

If you receive acupuncture while pregnant, there’s a good chance certain areas of the body will be avoided due to their stimulating effects. During labor induction, these sensitive areas are now incorporated, which can inspire the body to go into labor sooner.

Acupuncture is Win-Win

Even if your acupuncture session doesn’t quite send you into labor that night or the following day, you’ll achieve a more restful night of sleep as a result and be more comfortable and relaxed during this key stage of motherhood.

Contact Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope if you’d like to know more about how chiropractic treatments and acupuncture can help you during pregnancy.

Whether you get your screen time in with your smartphone, tablet, TV, laptop, or personal computer (or, more likely, some combination of all of these things), chances are you’re putting strain on your body just as much as your eyes.

We generally hold our phones low in our hands and crane our neck downwards to read texts and articles, which puts a tremendous amount of strain on your neck and your back.

Sitting in front of the computer for long periods of time, even if you’re sitting with perfect posture will also put strain on your neck and your spine, making it compress, much like a spring experiencing pressure.

Chiropractic adjustments are a great way to relieve excessive hours:

• Looking at our cellphones
• Staring at the computer
• Sitting in awkward positions 
• Hauling around backpacks
• And more!

Chiropractic adjustments also help relieve pain and tension due to lack of upper body exercise and core engagement. 

If you’d like to learn more about how exactly chiropractic adjustments can help set your back, neck, and spine up for success, contact Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope. Chiropractic re-alignment might just be the drug-free, all-natural solution to a variety of your problems and ailments.

At Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope we would like to remind our patients and readership that, as we start to head into the tail end of September, it’s actually a great time to assess how this year’s wellness goals are going. How are you stacking up to the original goals you set out for yourself?

How Do You Feel?

If you’ve been staying up on exercise, nutrition, as well as engaging in effective recovery methods like yoga and chiropractic treatment, you should be feeling increasingly better. As you fine-tune your routine, zero in on the foods and beverages that you’ve noticed get great results for you nutritionally. In yoga we know the moves that feel great, so let’s explore those more than the ones we can tell put undue pressure on areas of the body. The same should be true with your fitness routine.

Where Can You Improve?

When it comes to the mind, body, spirit, work, and familial aspects of our lives, there might be some areas where we are noticeably slacking. Let’s focus on improving in these areas while making sure that it doesn’t come at a detriment to the other aspects.

Schedule An Appointment with Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope!

Seeing your chiropractor as Q3 of 2019 comes to a close is a great way to assess how your body is doing since you’ve been on your active wellness routine. Schedule your appointment today. We have a long track record of keeping our patients healthy and well.

Maybe you’ve never heard the expression “You’re only as healthy as your spine” but just because you’ve never heard the expression doesn’t make it any less true. As a matter of fact, your spine is incredibly important when it comes to motion and movement, not to mention communication between your brain and the rest of your body.

If your spine is out of whack, that means that all sorts of problems can start to occur, including but not limited to back pain, neck pain, leg pain, insomnia, dim bulb, GI problems, compromised immune system, and more.

Below are a few ways to keep your spine healthy.

Engage Your Core

When you’re exercising, it’s important that you engage your core muscle group. Sure, it might not be as fun or as sexy as working more popular muscles like the arms and chest, but you’ll start to feel amazing after a few workouts. Eventually, your body will start to feel bad when you don’t engage your core during workouts.

Hydrate

Water is to humans what engine oil is to automobiles. Making sure that you drink the requisite amount of water each day will have your body, brain, and spine working at optimum capacity.

Visit Your Local Chiropractor

Visiting your local chiropractor will help ensure that your spine is in line at all times. Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to provide an immense amount of benefits including drug-free pain relief, increased range of motion, improved immune system and bodily functionality, increased cognitive function, and more. Contact Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope today to schedule your consultation.

Millions of Americans are in various types of pain, pain which is often treated with prescription medicines that simply mask symptoms instead of treating underlying problems effectively. If you’ve recently experienced an injury or are living with pain of some sort, it’s understandable that you might be interested in drug-free pain relief, especially in the face of today’s opioid crisis.

Below are a few ways to treat pain without resorting to medication. Drug-free pain relief is at least worth consideration, where prescription medication might be looked at as a last resort.

Chiropractic Treatments

Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to provide drug-free pain relief for problems related to the back, neck, spine, legs, and joints. Continuous treatment can help relieve chronic pain (like rheumatoid arthritis).

Yoga and Meditation

Many of our pains are related to daily wear and tear that we undergo from our jobs and our chosen activities. Yoga and meditation are both great ways to relieve the body and brain from the day’s events.

Breathing and Mindfulness Exercises

Your body has a built-in pain relief system that is strengthened by controlled breathing exercises and engaging in mindfulness exercises. Instead of using medication to numb yourself, explore your own ability to sit with (and even dissolve) various pains before considering drug intervention.

Contact Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope to schedule your consultation if you’re living with pain that you think might be alleviated from all-natural, drug-free chiropractic treatments. We have a long track record of keeping our patients healthy and well. 

Keeping a healthy diet is one of the foundational practices of living a healthy life. If you combine a healthy diet with chiropractic treatments, you’ll unlock untold health benefits, including drug-free pain relief, improved cognitive function, increased flexibility and range of motion, not to mention improved immune system.

Below are a few ways to quickly improve your diet.

1.) Eat Good Food or Don’t Eat

If it comes down to either eating fast food or not at all, choose the not at all. There is not a whole lot of nutritional value. It’s best to hold off until you can eat clean, whole foods.

2.) Eat Smaller Portions

Eat smaller portions for easier digestion. Eating 5 smaller meals is preferable to 2-3 throughout the day.

3.) Eat for Fuel

Think about what you eat and what it does for your nutritionally. Try to only eat things that are good for you.

4.) Eat the Color Wheel

Try to eat all of the colors of the color spectrum, green, purple, blue, red, orange, etc. You’ll find yourself eating innovative salads, healthy vegetables, and clean whole foods as a result.

5.) Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate

Staying hydrated is of paramount importance in maintaining a healthy balance. Drink half your body weight in ounces of water.

Contact Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope today to learn more about how chiropractic treatment along with a balanced diet can improve your overall wellness.

Those who practice martial arts, whether it be Muay Thai, boxing, MMA, wrestling, and other forms for combat sports stand to gain a tremendous amount of benefits from chiropractic treatments. Read on for a few ways that chiropractic benefits martial artists.

Drug-Free Pain Relief

Martial arts hurt when it comes right down to it. Whether you’re taking shots directly, blocking, or even throwing effective shots, you’re putting a tremendous amount of pressure on your spine, which results in a tremendous amount of wear and tear on your back that can certainly result in pain. Chiropractic is an effective form of drug-free pain relief.

Boost Mental Clarity

Chiropractic treatments will help improve your mood, boost cognitive function, not to mention improve your hand-eye coordination, which will help make you more effective in your training.

improved Range of Motion

Chiropractic treatments help improve your range of motion, which will help you throw more effective kicks and help your overall movement while training and sparring.

If you have any additional questions about how chiropractic treatments can benefit you, contact Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope today. We have a long track record of keeping a diverse set of patients healthy and well.

Does your child or do your children seem a little more tuckered out and lethargic than they normally should? Is your child getting anything less than their requisite 8 hours of sleep on a nightly basis? Whether your child is suffering in the classroom and outside of the classroom or not, chiropractic care remains a viable treatment option that will help your child with strength, mobility, cognition, and more.

Below are a few ways that chiropractic treatments will help your child get amazing results in the classroom and in their extracurricular activities.

Promotes Good Sleep

Chiropractic care has been shown to help regulate sleep and even reduce insomnia symptoms.

Boosts Immunity and Circulation

Chiropractic adjustments help reposition the spine correctly, which also helps the body’s circulation in the long and short term. Chiropractic treatments have also been shown to help those who pursue it was a treatment avoid sickness, which will help keep your child in the classroom.

Enhances Cognitive Function

Chiropractic treatments have been shown to promote better communication between the brain and body, not to mention have your body and brain firing on all cylinders.

If you have any questions about how chiropractic care can benefit your child, contact Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope today to schedule you and your child’s consultation.

Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope provides chiropractic treatments which help patients living with a variety of illnesses and conditions, including vertigo. 

What is Vertigo?

Vertigo is characterized by extreme dizziness that usually occurs during a sudden head movement. There are many theories as to why vertigo occurs, which include inner ear problems, problems with the sensory nerve pathway,  and more.

Vertigo Causes

Vertigo can be brought on due to sudden impact or injury, misalignments, problematic dietary habits, and a number of other factors.

Can Chiropractic Help Improve Vertigo Symptoms?

Studies have shown that continuous chiropractic treatments can help improve vertigo symptoms and also improve balance, reduce headaches, and reduce dizziness. Chiropractic treatments are being shown more and more to help with problems far beyond back and neck pain.

Contact Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope today if you believe you can benefit from chiropractic care. We have a staff on hand waiting to put our focus on you.

When it comes to fitness or even athletics, skill games, or anything that we might practice with an aim to get better at, there are often times when we hit a plateau, which can seem like we’re at a stalemate of sorts. Working through these plateaus is paramount to getting past them. The worst thing you can do is quit. Below are a few ways to break past your plateau.

Give it a Rest

Maybe if you’re trying very hard at something it’s time to lay off it for a while. Oftentimes, when we take a break from something or even walk away from a problematic project for a small amount of time, we come back with fresh eyes and new perspective.

Practice Perfectly

Take lessons or learn from an expert in your field if you’re looking to improve at a skill, game, etc. Their awesomeness is sure to rub off on you and propel you to new heights.

Learn Something New

If whatever you’re practicing or trying to get better at seems boring or that you’re no longer interested, learn something new, whether it has to do with what you’re practicing or not. Learning a new skill or a new facet some something you already are familiar with will unlock new channels in your brain.

Chiropractic care is also a great way to break through any physical or mental hurdles you might be facing. Contact Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope today to schedule your consultation and learn more.