Welcome to the new home of Back Bay Wellness. You’ll notice we’ve changed the look a bit. The term “wellness” really covers all that we do here better than just chiropractic. Feel free to browse the site. We hope you will look to us for all the latest news on what’s happening in the wellness [...]
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Patients in their 80s appeared to get no benefit from commonly used cardiac drugs when they have heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, data from a small retrospective study suggest. Action Points Explain to patients that this study found no benefits from medical treatment of patients older than 80 with heart failure and preserved ejection [...]
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If you find your supermarket labels confusing, help is on the way. New rating systems are coming this year. Toni Hope, health editor of Good Housekeeping magazine, says the new systems can help you make healthier choices if you know how to use them. “The big one coming out this year is Smart Choices. Foods [...]
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The USDA is defending their school nutrition, food stamps, and other public nutrition programs to the government, saying that there is no concrete proof that these programs contribute to the country’s obesity epidemic. The USDA nutrition programs will cost an estimated $73 billion in fiscal year 2009. Currently, around 31.8 million people accept government food [...]
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A great article on keeping employees healthy, from MLive and Wendy Wigger. I know this comes as no surprise. But when it comes to wellness programming, how do you know if the money you invest in helping to create healthier employees will pay off? With much of its focus on prevention of disease, decreasing risks [...]
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As more people are seeking a natural approach to their own health, it is no surprise that many are doing the same for their dogs. Holistic care looks at the whole dog on a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level. It is thought that most illness and disease is a result of unresolved emotional [...]
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Physical rehabilitation is the process of physically recovering from your ailment and adjusting to any physical changes you may experience. Different diseases or injuries and their treatments affect some survivors’ bodies more than others. You may have been able to physically recover from disease or injury on your own. Or, you may have a hard [...]
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Massage is one of the oldest healing arts: Chinese records dating back 3,000 years document its use; the ancient Hindus, Persians and Egyptians applied forms of massage for many ailments; and Hippocrates wrote papers recommending the use of rubbing and friction for joint and circulatory problems. Today, the benefits of massage are varied and far-reaching. [...]
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Take The Pain Out Of Returning To School Article courtesy of the New Zealand Chiropractors’ Association Parents are being advised to shop wisely for school bags as the new school year approaches. “Backpacks are best, but make sure they’re not too big or too heavy,” says Dr Simon Kelly, a spokesperson for the New Zealand [...]
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Homeopathy is a safe, natural form of medicine, based on the practice of treating like with like. Homeopathy is derived from the Greek words homios, meaning like or similar, and italios, meaning suffering. Homeopathy is concerned with treating the whole mortal rather than the illness alone. The homeopath will consider the patient as a whole, [...]
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