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Michel Tetrault

Shoulder Pain

Posted on 05/15/2013

Masakit ang Balikat! Paul hurt his shoulder while lifting heavy luggage during one of his business trips. Like most men, Paul thought the problem was just a minor thing. You know the expression: “Maybe it will go away.” So months later the shoulder hurt everyday with various activities. Shoulder pain is a common complaint expressed to the Doctor of Chiropractic during a spinal evaluation. Actually there are three categories of shoulder pains: Joint problems Peripheral soft tissue injuries General discomfort or tension…

Massages That Go Wrong

Posted on 05/14/2013

There are well understood benefits of getting a massage on a regular or irregular basis. However, we also hear of times when people experience pain and disability following a massage. What happened? As a chiropractor I see this often enough to be disturbed even though I can mostly fix the damages. Rarely do we hear of an adverse reaction to a massage when the therapist sticks to muscle manipulation only. Swedish massage uses effleurage (light touch), medium pressure motions over the muscles and…

Chiropractic Wellness, general

Milk as Eye Wash

Posted on 05/13/2013

Anna is a child who typically loves to put things in her mouth, then rub her eyes, so it’s no surprise that she woke up one morning with her little eyes all crusted up from an eye infection. This could also be conjunctivitis, a highly contagious infection, so it needs to be addressed right away. Instead of rushing her off to the pediatrician who could prescribe an antibioti5c, Mary her mother remembered what her CHIROPRACTOR told her of a natural solution about washing or lavaging the…

Personal Coaching Wellness, general

Forget about Diets! It’s all about Energy Management.

Posted on 05/11/2013

Mary was determined to lose the weight she kept for years after having her two children. In fact she was desperate and underwent a well-known Doctor’s Diet that was based on blood type and told people not to exercise while on the diet. She did lose weight but along the way she was losing her hair and when she finally stopped the diet she started to regain some of her weight. She also started to have other miscellaneous body pains, so…

Personal Coaching

Wellness Reflections: Boundaries

Posted on 05/10/2013

Boundaries are an imaginary line of protection that you draw around you. This is done to protect you, your soul and what’s important to you. Your boundaries are more important to you than they might be to others, or what others might want what you have. You cannot grow without boundaries. However, you can learn how to design, implement and manage boundaries so that the process is effortless for you and for others. Healthy people have set boundaries, both to…

Wellness, general

Immunization

Posted on 05/09/2013

Immunization is regarded in certain circles as the sacred practice of “medicine at its best” while in other circles immunization is viewed as toxic to children and people in general; highly over rated as a preventative tool that only supports Big Pharma’s agenda for profit. Well that’s a pretty wide range to consider: Prophet or profit? Preventative or pernicious? You will need to decide this for your own family so please do plenty of research with the following in mind, everything…

Personal Coaching

Wellness Reflections: ATTITUDE

Posted on 05/08/2013

Attitude* is formed by three things: 1. Where you’re coming from in general. 2. How you’re looking at or interacting with something, someone, life or yourself. 3. How well you are lined up with Truth, your path, reality, goals, etc. 1. Where you’re coming from in general, so you likely fit into one of these levels: – Life is pretty good, when I do well. – Life’s not bad at all, given what I’m facing. – Listen, I just do…

Chiropractic Spinal Health Wellness, general

Slipped Disc

Posted on 05/07/2013

Paul suffers from lower back pain and the doctors said he had a slipped disc. The lower back, the lumbar region of the spine, is the most common area where intervertebral discs will “slip” or more accurately bulge, herniate or rupture. Symptoms of lower back pain are present, with or without leg pain or numbness. Sounds serious? When the topic of spinal surgery is mentioned it becomes serious indeed. Complicated? Well it could be but fortunately there are spinal experts available to evaluate and…

Personal Coaching Wellness, general

Wellness is Personal

Posted on 05/06/2013

P – personal and individual planning & execution E – effort is required to “normalize” weight and keep it off R – reasonable, achievable goals are required S – self-discipline is at the center of lifestyle transformation O – optimal health is achievable in most cases N – natural choices are always better A – addictions need to be overcome L – lifetime pursuit (not a quick fix) Warning… Taking any drug for symptomatic or maintenance reasons is NOT healthcare but just disease…

Chiropractic Spinal Health

Chiropractic Focus – Cervical Spondylosis

Posted on 05/04/2013

Martha has been suffering from arm and hand pain and numbness with gradually increasing severity. It all began with frequent earlier neck pains and some reoccurring headaches. These are symptoms of a neck in trouble that is now pinching or irritating nerves that go into the arms and hands and / or other nerves that go from the neck up into the head. Signs to look for are limited neck movements; that is, the neck exhibits a restricted range of motion. IT’S EASY TO CHECK… Turn…

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