A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book – Irish Proverb

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Taylor - Chiropractor Brighton

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Yes, Chiropractic is different!  Different because Chiropractors do not use drugs or surgery – they remove interferences to the nervous system super highway to allow the body to heal itself naturally, as nature intended.

In the process, people sometimes use words to describe what Chiropractors do – however you can -

• “Pop” a cork
• “Crack” a joke
• “Fix” a flat tyre
• “Treat” a child
• and
• “Cure” cement

but Chiropractors ADJUST the spine!  Thank you Bill!

THIS IS THE CHIROPRACTIC DIFFERENCE!

Consult a Chiropractic Life Chiropractor and experience the power of an adjustment!

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Helen Taylor - Chiropractor Brighton

Chiropractors Brighton and Hove

The Observer on Sunday reported that modern life is creating a generation of weaklings.  According to their research, children are becoming weaker, less muscular and unable to do physical tasks that previous generations found simple.

Our philosophy at Chiropractic Life is to Eat Well, Move Well and Think Well and keep the nervous system free of interference through regular spinal maintenance, which gives you and your children the best possible chance of obtaining true health.

Research published in the child health journal Acta Paediatrica highlights health problems affecting children,  caused by the new digital age which has lured our children away from outdoor pursuits and activities that are so vital to building bone and muscle strength and endurance and while not doing that, actively sitting at a computer, play station or  mobile device with head down and forward and often with the spine slumped compromising the flow of vital energy.  A childs body is still developing and many hours spent in the wrong position hails health problems for the future.  As the twig is bent, so grows the tree!

Previous research has all ready shown that children are becoming more unfit, less active and more sendentary, and in many cases heavier.  Added to the decline in physical fitness and strength building activities of children, is the added burden of the increase and consumption of fast foods.   Combine this with what children are actually watching and doing with their minds, it is no surprise we have unhealthy, unhappy children, teens and now adults! – eat well, move well, think well!

At Chiropractic Life our desire is to help you and your family not just survive but thrive, and a healthy nervous system is vitally important to achieving this – spinal fitness is incorporated in “moving well” – since so much of modern day living involves around sitting (which places up to 60% more stress on the spine).

Because of modern day living, Chiropractic care should not be viewed just as an option but a vital part of your health care plan.

Consult a Chiropractic Life Chiropractor to achieve the health you deserve and desire.

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Helen Taylor - Chiropractor Brighton

Chiropractors Brighton

I came to chiropractic life about five years ago  after many years of back pain! I tried numerous other treatments to help me with my pain but nothing seemed to help!

As a personal fitness trainer I live a very active lifestyle and am always on the go and need to be pain free so I can get on with my job.

Chiropractic life have allowed me to do this and now I don’t even consider myself to have any back problems.

I would recommend anyone to chiropractic life if they are suffering with any kind of pain or want to prevent it from occurring in the future.

Many thanks
Johnny Jarvis.
www.JohnnyJarvis.co.uk
www.hypoxi-brighton.com.

Footnote from Chiropractic Life:  Check out Johnny’s websites above – he’s the man to call to get you on the road to “moving well” and giving you the support and exercises you need -  and of course he is well aware of the need to protect your spine!

Chiropractors in Brighton and Hove

A study has found that children spend more than fifty three hours a week on cellphones, ipods, video games and computers – more than your average work week! As parents ourselves, we have watched as children have become more and more attached to their digital devices, even to the point of walking down the street – heads down, texting their friends.  Take a look around the bus, children mostly on their mobile phones – heads down!   Have a look at children (and not just children) everywhere people have their heads down much of the time texting or reading something on their phones.  Since children’s spines are still growing and changing – eventually hardening at about age twenty, they are especially vulnerable for -  “as the twig is bent, so grows the tree”. We are heading for a generation of people with forward head posture!  The human head weighs between eight and ten pounds and represents approximately 8% of the total body mass. In a neutral (perfectly balanced) position the head feels as if it weighs nothing, however for every one inch the head moves forward away from the neutral balance posture, the head feels as if it’s weight has doubled. This is due to the effects of gravity and the stress placed on the neck muscles and cervical spine.

In a Kaiser Family Foundation survey of 2,002 people ages eight to eighteen, it showed that young people spend seven hours and thirty eight  minutes using media in a typical day! That’s up six hours and nineteen minutes from the previous decade – so not only are children spending all this time with their digital friends, they are generally not active and not moving either – so there is double damage happening.  The problem remains because  the electronic world is here to stay, it is important, even imperative that parents realise what is happening before it is too late.

Posture influences many body functions. “Spinal pain, headache, mood, blood pressure, pulse, and lung capacity are among the functions most easily influenced by posture.” As the head moves forward all measures of health status are significantly reduced.  Rene Cailliet, Director of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Southern California, concluded that forward head posture can add up to thirty (30) pounds of abnormal leverage on the spine, reduce lung capacity by as much as 30%, which can lead to heart and blood vascular disease. He determined a relationship between forward head posture and the digestive system as well as endorphin production affecting pain and the experience of pain.

We also need to be concerned about electromagnetic fields from all these electronic devices…and the fact that none of these activities typically involve exercise.  Dr McMinn says that since he began in practice back in 1976 he has observed a changing picture in regard to childrens’ posture with many problems relating to forward head carriage -  and it has happened quickly without society really being aware of it.

The old saying an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure is especially true in relation to poor posture.

The time to have your children checked by your Chiropractor is NOW!

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Glenn Fredericksen – Chiropractor Brighton

Chiropractor Hove

Chiropractic Life has teamed up with Curves ladies gym in Portland Road to bring you this very special offer.  Why wait until the New Year?  Curves has an Open House 29/30th November.

Chiropractic Life will be there!!

Most people who own a car have it serviced regularly.  Most people who drive a car put the correct fuel in the fuel tank.  Most people who own a car treat it like it must last forever, but most people give scant concern to the vehicle we were born to inhabit for the rest of our lives!

Imagine if you didn’t service your car, didn’t put the correct fuel in the tank and didn’t get the wheels aligned during an MOT!  Wheels come out of alignment and cause wear and tear on the tyres which if left uncorrected may even cause a blow out!

Misalignments of the spine left uncorrected cause wear and tear (degeneration) too and also prevent the body from working the way nature intended.  Misalignments prevent clear messages from travelling from brain to body and body to brain which over time begins to show as dis-ease.

Putting oil, or water or orange juice in the fuel tank of your car would have it’s problems too!  When we put food in our body which is not healthy our body won’t work so well either!

Washing and polishing the car and running it regularly to keep the battery charged up are also things that preserve our cars.  Our body is no different – it responds well to being cared for and taken for a run too!

When your car wears out you can replace it, but when your body wears out – where are you going to live??

Does it make more sense to service your car or your body?????

Call us for your MOT!

Chiropractic Life, 88 Portland Road, Hove BN3 5DL  -  Phone 01273 208188

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• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Glenn Fredericksen - Chiropractor Brighton

Chiropractors Brighton

I have been seeing Richard since 2006 whenever back pain occurred and the treatment was always successful.  Recently however, I experienced severe pain in my hip and my leg and I was informed by my GP that the problem was “shredded nerves” and that the only treatment was pain killers for the syndrome!  The pain was particularly severe and the pain killers only temporarily relieved the symptoms.

After several Chiropractic adjustments from Richard I am now almost free of pain and once again am able to play golf and get on with my life. ~  with thanks from Michael Ford

If you are looking for alternatives to drugs, Chiropractic is a drug free approach to health which removes interferences to the nervous system, allowing the body to heal itself naturally.

Unleash your full potential – have a chiropractic check up today!

Chiropractic Life, 88 Portland Road, Hove BN3 5DL  -  Phone 01273 208188

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• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Glenn Fredericksen - Chiropractor Brighton

Recently I was discussing a health issue with a patient who told me that her GP had said – “It’s just your age, my dear, and you will have to learn to live with it!”  The lady believed what she had been told!  We have heard this phrase mentioned many times by other patients and friends who on being told this go on believing it to be true.  Fortunately, this is rarely the case – that is is just age!  Weren’t both sides of the body born at the same time??  Why wasn’t the other side of the body hurting from old age as well?  It is more often and more likely to be the nervous system responding to interference.    It seems ridiculous to assume that “it is just old age” when both sides of the body are the same age!!!!

At Chiropractic Life we have many elderly patients who have discovered they “don’t have to learn to live with it” and if you or someone you love have been told to learn to live with it we urge you to consider getting the opinion of your Chiropractor!

Visit our clinic for a personal consultation with one of the Doctors of Chiropractic  to find out if your nervous system may be causing your pain.   Chiropractic Life is passionately committed to your success and provides specialized care for many health problems not commonly associated with the spine.

CALL NOW to schedule your free (no obligation) consultation to see if we can help you.  You’ll be glad you did!

Chiropractic Life, 88 Portland Road, Hove BN3 5DL  -  Phone 01273 208188

Join Chiropractic Life on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/chiropracticlife

Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton

Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton

Dr Glenn Fredericksen - Chiropractor Brighton