San Clemente Chiropractic

Here’s the simple breakdown to get started: 1. Exercise- don’t be wimpy here, 3 to 5 days a week, 40 to 60 minutes. Get your heart rate up with cardio exercises like the lifecycle, or the elliptical, go for a bike ride, walk some hills. Add light weights to your routine. If you’re struggling with [...]

Scoliosis is a disorder that affects 5 to 7 million Americans each year. About half a million appointment with the doctor’s office are for the reasons of scoliosis evaluation and treatment. But what exactly is scoliosis? Scoliosis is a disorder that causes the spine or backbone to curve abnormally. In a normal situation, our spine’s [...]

Ear infection is a very painful condition that mostly affects young children. With almost 10 million cases a year, ear infection (otitis media) is definitely one of the most common reason for pediatric visits. Ear infection cases are so common that half of all children is most likely to suffer from ear infection before they [...]

Whiplash injuries are the type of injuries that are usually associated with vehicular accidents although it can also happen to those who experienced accidental falls, work related injuries and sports injuries. Whiplash refers to the injury to the neck that is caused by the violent rocking of the head back and forth, usually triggered by [...]

Headache is a common body pain that is very common for many people. Depending on the level of pain, having a headache is not a pleasant state to be in. It can largely affect one’s level of activity and productivity. One main cause of headaches is the tension that occurs in the muscle. The tensions [...]

One of the most well-known and certainly one of the most agonizing body pain that a human can experience is back pain. At some point of our lives we have and we will experience this sort of agonizing pain in our and it can be caused by a lot of factors like age and too [...]

The birth process, even under natural and controlled conditions, is potentially traumatic. During the pushing stage of labor, the spine, particularly the neck, may be injured as the baby is compressed and pushed down the birth canal. As the baby is compressed, the small bones in the spine may be pushed out of their natural [...]

Few of the millions who get occasional headaches have it as bad as the migraine sufferer. Far from being a minor annoyance these headaches can ruin lives. The migraine is a special type of headache-a vascular headache (as opposed to the more common tension headache). A migraine includes a collection of symptoms (a syndrome) that [...]

The Temporomandibular Joint If you place your fingers in front of either ear and open your jaw, you’ll feel changing shapes beneath your fingers. You are feeling the joint where the temporal bone of your skull attaches to your mandible (jaw)-the joint that is called the temporomandibular joint or TMJ. This fascinating joint connects your [...]

Your Cells Are Dancing Your body is made up of billions of little packets of life called cells. For your body to work as a living body, not just as a formless collection of cells, they must be organized. And they are! They are organized as all kinds of different tissues. Tissues are organized as [...]