Spirit of Bayanihan Pioneering chiropractic in the Philippines is a community effort. Unlike other established health professions like medicine and dentistry that have much larger support systems and decades of building many schools to provide practitioners in every city, Chiropractic is still in its pioneer stages. Those individuals who have benefitted from their chiropractic experience can make a difference in their communities by sharing their experiences. Undoubtedly, people share their stories with close family, but most families have not been…
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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…
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.…
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…
How to Jump Start Your Mornings during Quarantine
Posted on 04/13/2020How to Jump Start Your Mornings during Quarantine Quarantine is upon us and we are sleeping in longer, waking up later and later. Waking up late like this leaves us all exhausted! When we feel like that it makes us lazy and without purpose or even depressed. This is the sad reality of most people today suffering in this quarantine. You are stuck at home, not able to get around much and even worse, the authorities tell us to avoid…
Ways to avoid getting sick. How is it that when the body is exposed to a germ (virus or bacteria or other pathogen) not everybody gets sick? Scientists concluded that the average human body contains approximately 37.2 trillion cells. The human body also contains trillions of microorganisms — outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1. Of course, your body will have more or fewer cells than that total, depending upon how your size compares to the average human being, but…
Stress… the greater evil out of the coronavirus scare
Posted on 03/10/2020Stress… the greater evil out of the corona-virus scare Our children are told not to attend school and we have a resistance to go into public places. Yet millions of Filipinos commute every day to work and are not contracting the virus. But we worry! That is completely understandable. Perceived threat is real stress for each of us at this time. But actual threat is extremely minimal. (3-10-20) After weeks of enhanced community quarantine, USA policy makers have deemed that…
Chiropractic: A Valuable Healthcare Investment Quality healthcare is never a cost but rather a valuable investment. When people in the Philippines seek top notch medical care they often feel they have to fly to Hong Kong or Singapore. Fortunately, Mabuhay Chiropractic Clinics has imported the quality USA doctors right here in Manila. If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it! Follow…
The Elderly And Chiropractic Care It is common knowledge that throughout life we go through minor or even major injuries. But nature – being as powerful as it is – we heal. However, we rarely heal 100%. So decade by decade small problems accumulate and linger. As we age we experience more disability or reduced ability. Aging specialists have determined that INFLAMMATION is the principal cause of aging. Reducing inflammation is how to delay this process. Chiropractic care helps to reduce…
Posture Alliance in the Philippines
Posted on 05/06/2017Posture Alliance in the Philippines VLOG – play the video of this blog Back Joy, a national posture product company, is tying up with Mabuhay Chiropractic Clinics to improve access to products and services for the relief of common every day back pain, neck pain and headaches. The philosophy of natural, non-drug approaches to pain management is what brings these two premiere companies together. Back Joy has 15 locations in the Philippines and Mabuhay has 10 clinics nationally once Cebu opens in…