Sarpy Chiropractic Blog

If there's ever been a time that highlighted the importance of self-care, it's now! There's so much fear and stress flowing through our communities right now, not to mention a highly spreadable virus! For people who have been proactive about their health and taken care of their mind, body, and spirit - well the virus poses virtually no threat, and they'll have the mental strength to get through everything else associated with it. But for those where health became an afterthought, the virus does pose a very rel threat, as does all of the stress and fear surrounding us. Even if your health hasn't been a priority, just remember the famous quote "the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the next best time is today." So if you're alive, it's never too late to start taking better care of your mind, body, and spirit. So what can you do to start prioritizing your health? Let's just start with some basics and fundamentals (by no means a...

There's a special art to productively working from home that requires a lot of differences in routines and procedures to working in an office environment, and right now a lot of us are just finding this out! So here's some tips and tricks, in no particular order, to working productively from home: Set up a proper office space if you don't already have one. This doesn't mean you need to go and buy an expensive desk and chair, but working from the couch is going to wreck your back, and working from any room other than a designated office space is going to lead to distraction after distraction. Set a solid structure with daily routines that don't change from day to day, similar to how you would if you were going into work at the same time each day. Get up at the same time every day, workout at the same time and so on. Use this time to take advantage of continuing or even increasing your exercise levels. Now that it's warming up get outside multiple times ...

Bed-wetting in older kids and teens has been linked to all sorts of damaging psychological issues. And current conventional therapy really doesn’t have much evidence supporting that it works, so parents are turning to more natural options like chiropractic.   But could chiropractic help bed-wetting at all? Listen in to find out what the current research shows! Check out this episode!

Listen in for our latest position on COVID-19 and what you can do to protect yourself. Focus on controlling the controllables. And remember, fear creates stress which greatly depletes the immune system, and this, of course, leads to illness! Check out this episode!

The definition of bedwetting, or what’s technically known as nocturnal enuresis is: the involuntary loss of urine at night, in the absence of organic disease, at an age where a child could be expected to be dry, which by consensus, is at a developmental age of 5 years. It’s often associated with parental disapproval, sibling teasing, repeated treatment failure, lowered self esteem, impact on mental well being, and impact on social life. There’s even evidence that there’s an increased risk of physical and emotional abuse. If a child has never been consistently dry, this is known as primary nocturnal enuresis.  This may, and often can occur in teens who sleep deeply, and sometimes may be due to problems due to neural integration, meaning, they don’t wake up in response to the signals that are telling the brain they need to urinate. This suggests that there may actually be a developmental delay in the way the brain and body communicates. There’s usually no disease p...

If there was a magic pill that could result in 60% fewer hospital admissions; 59% less hospital days; 62% less outpatient surgeries; and an 85% decrease in all pharmaceutical costs would anyone turn it down? Well this magic pill does exist, sort of…. A massive research study involving tens of thousands of people a decade ago compared the health results of a person who used a chiropractor versus not using a chiropractor. The above statistics are what the researchers found. Pretty amazing stuff! Check out this episode!

The 3rd biggest killer in the western world in medical error and deaths due to pharmaceutical drugs. Maybe the most damaging drug class of all is the opioid group. Opioid addiction is the number 1 drug addiction in the world. And the number of deaths due to these drugs is staggering! Listen in to today’s episode to hear about how we got into this mess in the first place, and what can be done to repair the damage from this opioid epidemic! Check out this episode!