Sarpy Chiropractic Blog

In this week’s episode, we discuss a multitude of things teenage athletes can utilize for injury prevention, injury recovery, and just overall improved superior athletic performance. It’s so easy to fall into the faulty thinking pattern that we are invincible and don’t need to worry about taking care of ourselves. But if a teenage athlete really wants to perform at their best, then they have to treat their mind and body like an elite athlete would. Parents, please share this episode with your kids! Check out this episode!

Feeling physically and emotionally stressed because you’re now working from home? Or even worse you’ve suddenly become a homeschool teacher?   Well we’ve got your back! In this week’s podcast episode we discuss how you can stay more productive while also keeping your physical and mental health running as smoothly as possible. Check out this episode!

These staggering statistics that follow are straight from the CDC website: One person dies every 37 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease. About 647,000 Americans die from heart disease each year - that's 1 in every 4 deaths. Heart disease costs the United States about $219 billion each year. Wow that's scary stuff! So how do you stop yourself becoming one of those statistics? Or can you even stop if heart disease tuns in your family? The good news is YES! Even if you have strong genetic predispositions to heart disease, you can change your environment and lifestyle in a way that it doesn't matter how strong those genes are, your health prevents them from ever turning on! 1.  EXERCISE If you want to avoid cardiovascular disease, and add quality years to your life, then you must get moving! You cannot avoid this fact if you want to be healthy. We are designed as humans to walk a lot, lift heavy things, and just generally be on our feet for long pe...

Millions of Americans are dealing with degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. And if you've watched any family members suffer with these terrible afflictions then you know how bad it is! But thankfully, like the majority of our health conditions, it takes our environment and our lifestyle to turn on the genes that cause this diseases, which means that if you start making positive changes to your brain (and overall) health then you can go a long way in hopefully preventing ever having to suffer from these diseases. There's many things we can all do to improve our brain health, whether you're young or old. But here's 8 things you can do right now in no particular order! EXERCISE  - This improves blood flow, and it's degeneration of the blood vessels in our brain, rather than the nerve cells as previously thought that seems to be the biggest cause behind brain deterioration. We used to think that once brain cells are damaged t...

Right now, 5 million Americans currently suffer from Alzheimer's disease and 1 million from Parkinson's. This doesn’t count all of the other forms of dementia. And these numbers are rising rapidly. So what can you do about it? Quite a lot, actually! Here’s 8 simple things you can start doing right now. Check out this episode!

Every parent learns very quickly that we have to be very careful in our choice of words around our kids. Even from a young age we can see how their brain is like a sponge, soaking up everything they see and hear. Those parents who have ever dropped a "naughty" word in front of their toddlers and heard it repeated back in just the right context know exactly what I mean (or maybe that's just me that's done that!) From the age of 0 to 7 years, the human brain is constantly learning and imprinting, building habits, and helping our little ones build their views of the world and themselves. But just because your child is older than 7, it doesn't mean that they are influenced any less by the words you say to them. But there is one thing even more important than your choice of words when it comes to influencing your children - and that's the actions that you take! Our children learn far more from watching and observing our behaviors than they do...

When it comes to helping our kids grow into the adults we want them to become, what we do is far more important than what we say! Yes, the words we use matter. A lot! But our actions matter even more! In this short episode we talk through some examples of where this shows up. If you haven't reviewed our show on Itunes yet please do, we would really appreciate it! Check out this episode!

If there’s ever been a time in our lives that highlights the importance of being healthy, now is it! Not only do we need to be physically healthy to avoid any life and death scenarios with the corona virus, but we also need to be mentally healthy as the USA and the entire world suffers what could be the greatest economic depression in our history! In this episode we give you a few starting points to help you reclaim your health!   Check out this episode!