Hope you are enjoying this beautiful autumn!

We are in the middle of our C.O.W. (Chiropractic Opportunity Week) right now. If your friends and family call the office by the 18th they will get a spinal exam and adjustment for a donation to the IHS Sports Booster Club. It’s a great opportunity to introduce them to Advanced Biostructural Correction!

Be a hero and help us spread the word! This woman pictured below is VERY happy that a friend handed her a C.O.W. flier last week!

I hope you are all having a wonderful fall! As some of you may know, I was recently surprised with a local job opportunity that was too good to pass up… I know, what could possibly be better than running the SWC?? Working 3 days per week for a friend I will still be in the healthcare field in addition to having more time to focus on my massage practice.  Aiding people with wellness has always been a priority for me and will continue to be my focus.

I wish you all the absolute best and thank you all so much for the wonderful experiences you have contributed to my last couple of years at SWC!

Much love and best wishes to you all; I am a local Ithacan and look forward to seeing you all around town.

~ Casey

By Matt Furey

Every newborn child is incredibly flexible. Even at the advanced ages of one, two and four years of age most kids are still very limber. Then all of a sudden everything begins to stiffen and get tight.

Once most people hit their teens their muscles and joints have quite a bit of rigor mortis. And once you hit your 20’s and 30’s several areas of the body feel like they’re ready for the scrap heap.

So if you are already beyond the age of 40, can you reverse this inflexibilty?

Can you unwind your muscles, joints, tendons and be born again? Yes you can. And as your body becomes more flexible, so does your mind. There’s a reason why young children under the age of four test as highly creative and a few years later seem to have lost it. As the body goes so does the mind. And vice versa. So how do we become inflexible? Here are five ways:

1. We sit too long.

2. We eat too many toxic foods.

3. We swallow emotional difficulties and these get stored in the tissues.

4. We get injured and never learn how to remove the trauma from the tissues.

5. We do long distance cardiovascular exercise.

There are many other things we do that can cause inflexibility, but this list of five covers a lot. Take number 1: If instead of sitting for hours at a time every single day, you got up from your chair and stretched for one minute, think of what that can do for your lower back. Your lower back is so vitally important to your health and when it becomes stiff, painful and inflexible, your energy is short-circuited.

Having a loose, limber and flexible spine keeps you swimming in the fountain of youth. In my Combat Stretching program http://mattfurey.com/combat_stretching.html  I cover back flexibilty like no one else. Many people think flexibility is all about doing the splits. Although doing the splits is an admirable achievement, the circuit breaker is not turned on from this stretch.

Knowing how to stretch your spine from your coccyx to your occiput is a hallmark of youth. Make sure you are stretching your spine on a daily basis if you want to live with gusto and enthusiasm. Order Combat Stretching today and find out how.

Medical journalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee Robert Whitaker discusses how the widespread use of psychiatric drugs has contributed to the increase in mental illness.

Check out this information from Dr. Mercola: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/10/06/the-real-cause-of-americas-mental-illness-problem.aspx

In patients suffering from chronic pain subsquent to degenerative spinal disease, 59% can eliminate the need for pain drugs by consuming adequate levels of omega-3 essential fatty acids. (Surgical Neurology, 2006)

Removing aspartame and glutamate from the diet for 4 months can eliminate chronic pain symptoms. (Annals of Pharmacology, 2002)

Taken from the Journal of Clinical Chiropractic January 2010.