Health and Wellness in Bel Air, MD Chiropractic Blog
How do I know If I have Whiplash?
Do I have Whiplash? Back when my girls were younger and rode the bus; not a week or even a day, went by without someone blowing past the bus. I wrote down or snapped pics of license plates. Called State Police and Sheriff, even the 1-800-howsmydriving numbers on the back of the perp’s cars. I even sat wondering how can they miss the flashing reds. Now as the preferred provider and examiner for Harford County Public Schools Transportation Department, I still have a vested interest in the safety of school…
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Let’s Go on Vacation
It’s vacation season. This means it’s also ‘I hurt my back and fly to California for 2 weeks tomorrow, please help me season.” For the most part, adjustments are not one-hit-wonders. Every once in a while, you can get the miracle pop, but like rehab and other times you’re trying to make physical changes, it takes time. But hope isn’t lost. We have many adjunctive therapies at our disposal that will get you on that big ol’ jetliner. Number one is the laser. As we all learned from Austin…
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Go Shoe Shopping
As we approach the official, unofficial start of summer; I feel that I should remind you of the importance of sunblock, hydration, water safety etc. But I’m not your mom. There is one summertime pet peeve I do have; shoes. Now there are people out there that’ll say we weren’t born with shoes so we don’t need them. We weren’t born with pants either, but they’ve become fairly integral to our lives. If our feet were wheels, our shoes would be tires. Just because the sun’s out we don’t go…
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Sciatica, Low back or Pelvis pain
This month’s newsletter is brought to us by Dr. Martin. Who admittingly, as a single Millennial female; doesn’t have the arsenal of Gen X, father of 3 lame jokes, and outdated cultural references of Dr. Lee. Ask your kids to explain all the Tik Tok, Kardashian, and mumble rap references. Many people suffer from sciatica, low back or pelvis pain. Here is one reason why. The pubic symphysis is one of three joints that make up the pelvis, it is located about a hand’s length below your belly button. The other…
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Masks?
“Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!” And according to the CDC, the same can be said for masks, for now. New guidance dropped last week, mask usage is now based not on positivity or transmission rate; but on hospitalization. Currently, this leaves about 70% of the country (us included) in the now no longer necessary zone. It appears, that we might finally be on the back 9 of this thing (even though it’s the 9th time saying so). Mask rules are on and off again more than Ross and…
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Welcome Dr. Martin
Graduated from Northeast College of Health Sciences (Previously New York Chiropractic College) in July 2021. I was born and raised on a small Native American reservation south of Buffalo New York, inspiring me to seek out natural forms of healing the body. I took advantage of my time in school to absorb as much knowledge as I could on how to heal holistically through chiropractic and nutrition. I have been taught many different treatment modalities such as Diversified adjusting, Flexion/Distraction technique, ConnecTX, Activator method, and Webster technique. I am well versed in…
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Happy New Year
By now, we’ve done given up on at least 50% of our resolutions and trying to figure out what the heck we’re going to do with leftover black eye peas (not the dude Fergie and will.i.am ghosted, but the legume you eat once a year because grandma said so). New Year New Me? Nope, still the same ruggedly handsome son-of-a-gun I’ve always been. There was something new. In 20 years of practice, I’ve never taken more than 1 or at most 2 sick days in a row (there was a…
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Happy Holidays
Just wanted to drop a quick note wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy Holiday Season & New Year. As usual, it got here before we knew it or were ready (even though it happens at the exact same time every year for at least the last 2000 +/- years). Susquehanna Spine & Rehab news: If you haven’t been in, we are missing a wall! Our lost equipment, I was promised, for the umpteenth time, will be arriving this week. For real this time. Hope you all get a chance to…
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We have made some changes
Just about exactly 16 years ago today, I first signed the lease for 2105 Laurel Bush Road Suite 103. Eight years ago, I occupied Suite 104. By the time you read this, we will have further expanded into #105. Who knows what will happen in 2029? With the new space will be coming new equipment. All new tables. state of the art and luxurious. All are designed with the comfort of female patients in mind and one for the mobility impaired. I’d love for you to come check them out….
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Daily Dose of Fish Oil
October 2021. The US Preventative Services Task Force (the official name of ‘them’ and ‘they’) are saying put that daily aspirin away. A daily regimen of low-dose aspirin to most people at high risk of a first heart attack or stroke had been considered a first-line defense. Now though there’s mounting evidence that the risk of serious side effects far outweighs the benefit. They are also reversing recommendations to take baby aspirin for the prevention of colorectal cancer. This guidance came from the fact that aspirin is an anti-inflammatory and…
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