Indulge in family time, indulge in self reflection, indulge in a hike in the woods with the sun on your face. These are the indulgences that will enhance your holidays. Indulge in the foods you love, but make the people you share them with your main indulgence. I can tell you from experience that your …
If you have kids you undoubtedly know how fast they grow up. One minute you’re spoon-feeding them smushed peas between diaper changes and the next you’re teaching them how to drive a car wondering why you ever let them play Rocket League. Every day of our lives we ask our body to change and respond …
By Lance Gard DC Cold season? Where do colds go in the off-season? We live with bacteria, we survive alongside viruses. Here’s an excerpt from the Scientific American; “Biologists estimate we have 380 Trillion viruses living on and inside your body right now– 10 times the number of bacteria” Think about that for a second. How …
By Lance Gard DC In the United States there are more than 32 million people who have diabetes. Meaning their body struggles to break down the foods they eat into sugar and get that sugar into the proper place. Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a group of diseases that result in too much sugar in the …
By Lance Gard DC As a community care provider we’ve worked alongside the VA for many years. Taking care of those who pledged to defend us and our loved ones is an honor, and one that we take seriously. We are happy to help any way we can. There’s little doubt that military service takes …
By Lance Gard DC How to find a good chiropractor is an easy question to answer…just do what we do at Gard Wellness Center. If we did not think that the way we do things is the best way to do things then we would change. We are constantly looking to improve and to offer …
Today is Pediatric Bone and Spine Day! That’s right, there’s a dedicated day honoring children’s bones and spines. In our world, that day is everyday and as a pediatric and prenatal chiropractic office we make sure that spines are aligned from day one! For the patients who are under care during their pregnancy, we often …
In its most simplistic form, arthritis is the inflammation of a joint. There are many possible causes of arthritis; from an old injury, to degeneration, or a genetic predisposition, to some combination of multiple factors. However, for our purposes here we want to think mainly about the inflammatory component. From a chiropractic philosophy if a …
If you’re like most people, whatever brought you to us in the first place is no longer bothering you and that’s great, and you’re curious what happens next! If you remember back to when we first teamed up we talked about how corrective care works best in phases and how we can work together toward …
Everyone has heard someone say that they ‘carry all their stress in their shoulders.’ Or maybe you’re one of those people. It’s fairly common to have stress result in physical tension. In fact, it is one of the leading causes for neck, shoulder and low back pain. When we’re stressed, our muscles naturally tend to …
