CHIROPRACTIC FOUNDER’S DAY September 18th is recognized world wide as the annual Chiropractic Founder’s Day, celebrating the day Daniel David Palmer performed the first Chiropractic Adjustment on Harvey Lillard in 1895 while living in Davenport, Iowa, USA. He was a Canadian immigrant born near Toronto, March 7, 1845. It wasn’t long before Palmer started teaching his new discovery to a handful of students, mostly medical doctors interested in the effectiveness of spinal adjustments on so many health problems. In those…
Michel Tetrault
Casualness Leads to Casualties… OUCH! This quote from success guru Jim Rohn really hits the heart as it has important lessons that we can apply to our health. The definition of casual is to occur by chance versus by intent, lacking a high degree of interest or devotion; one of showing little concern, and not treating things seriously. Imagine an assembly line worker treating their job too casually. Arriving late to work delaying the entire assembly line, not wearing proper…
Covid-19 herd immunity It has been 100 years since the last severe global pandemic and no one is alive who can share their experiences from those days. Without the current WHO policies, they just let the virus play out its existence and allowed the herd immunity response of the world population have its natural effect. It is very likely that our restraints and quarantines of entire populations today is only delaying the inevitable and dragging this pandemic into years. Massive…
The Quarantine Crush – Is Your Chair a Death Trap?
Posted on 07/18/2020The Quarantine Crush – Is Your Chair a Death Trap? It may shock you, but your chair is out to kill you! Due to COVID-19 millions of Filipinos have been quarantined for months. In most cases, staying at home leads to sitting for long periods of time. In our office we recently treated two seniors that before the quarantine carried heavy loads up and down stairs every day. After 6 weeks of quarantine they were not able to even stand…
Healthy people don’t die… If they get infected, they just get healthy again.
Posted on 07/11/2020Healthy people don’t die… If they get infected, they just get healthy again. Our central theme for Natural Health and Natural Immunity at docMIKEblog.com is simple. Get healthy and stay healthy! Even a healthy person is not always immune to infection. There is no guarantee that they will never have symptoms or even avoid injury for that matter. But a healthy person always gets better. Even in a serious injury when surgery is needed, they are the ones that survived…
Social responsibility VS Social distancing Implementation of Quarantine policies are now more of a public health risk then the COVID-19 virus itself at this time in our history, June 1, 2020. Illness from malnutrition and even death from starvation and chronic diseases that are being mismanaged are at risk of becoming the new crisis of the pandemic. Who is fact checking those tragedies and posting them for public consumption? If less then 20,000 out of 110,000,000 people (2% out of…
GET HEALTHY AND STAY HEALTHY… Your life depends on it.
Posted on 05/30/2020GET HEALTHY AND STAY HEALTHY… Your life depends on it. An important message from docMIKE: “Get healthy and stay healthy! Your life depends on it.” The world changed when we suffered the Covid-19 world pandemic. Until that time, our role as chiropractors was to help get people out of pain and disability and improve everyone’s abilities, all the way up to improving an Olympic athlete’s peak performance. We helped OFWs that suffered back injuries to stay on the job to…
How to set up your home office (with good posture and health in mind) We can actually start discussing post-COVID-19 realities. The uncertainties that follow has resulted in many private schools in the Philippines switching to home schooling with electronic classes and cloud assignments. The business world that has successfully switched to telecommuting during this quarantine period may also decide to to have that personnel continue to operate from home and only come to the company offices once a week.…
Nicotine deaths per year is close to 8 million 8,000,000 deaths per year reported world wide!!! What it this global pandemic caused by??? NICOTINE: (This is NOT a COVID-19 related chart) N egotiated I nternational C onspiracy O f T raffickers I nvested in N icotine E nterprises There is an annual epidemic that does not cause closures of schools, governments, businesses…
Be healthy for the long haul Leading a stress-less and successful life, one that promotes health for the long haul, you have to actually be in control of the outcome. Those things that are within your circle of influence are those things you have control over. Those things that fall outside of that are in the area of concern, and there is no greater example of that than the current health crisis. This is a matter of great concern, but…