Chiropractic

workers it was meant to help. In the beginning of the year, several states increased their minimum wage and support President Obama’s decision in raising the federal rate to $10.10 an hour. One Florida business owner Dr. Faye Golden of Golden Chiropractic and Wellness Center, caters to a low income community where the majority of her patients make minimum wage. She regularly sees patients for free and takes alternate forms of payment like fresh fruit or homemade soup because her patients want…

As I was growing up, just like any other ordinary kid, my family would ask me, “What do you think you want to be when you grow up?” Of course, like any other little girl, I had the ideas of being a princess, a doctor, a veterinarian, even a firefighter at one time, but now that I’m a junior in high school, I realize that I won’t be a kid forever. As adulthood approaches me, I find myself unprepared, but with a plan. My plan is to become a child adolescent psychologist. Someone might ask, what…

The Life of Roberto Clemente Roberto Clemente was born as Roberto Clemente Walker on August 18, 1934, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was the last of six children to Melchor Clemente and his wife Dona Luisa. Roberto Clemente was married to Vera Clemente and they had three sons. Roberto Clemente mother was very religious, she often fed the poor children that would come over and play with Roberto and his siblings. Roberto parents instilled in him the value of hard work, respect, dignity, and…

The medicine stung as it went in and because of the saline it was mixed with, I felt an unsettling cold as it shot through my arm. Somehow, it caused me to taste a strange metallic and salty taste in the back of my mouth and made me uncomfortable for no reason. There is no way to explain it other than a feeling of uneasiness that was resolved by nothing. The treatment for migraines is painful and scary. No one could have predicted the severity of the struggle I began with migraines when I was…

that produce a matrix of connective tissue cells forming the fascia (Schleip et al. 2012, p.165). • Kumka, M & Bonar, J 2012, Fascia: a morphological description and classification system based on a literature review, Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association, viewed 10 February 2017, . • Schleip, R, Findley, TW, Chaitow, L & Huijing, P 2012, Fascia: The Tensional Network of the Human Body, Elsevier. Haematopoiesis A complex action where haematopoiesis stem cells (HSC) can replicate to…

Frozen shoulder is a clinical syndrome of pain and severely decreased joint motion caused by thick-ening and contraction of the joint capsule. The peak incidence is between middle aged people. In Ayurved, the symptoms, etiopathogenesis resembles with Avabahuka. It is a disease characterized by morbid vata dosha localizing around the shoulder joint and thereby causing loss or dryness of shleshaka kapha as well as constricts the siras at this site leads to loss of movements of the arm. Ayurvedic…

HOMELESSNESS AND HEALTH INEQUALITY IN CANADA According to the 2016 homeless count, a person is classified as homeless if they do not have a place of their own that they could stay for a minimum of 30 days, or if they do not pay rent(Thomson, M., 2016, Pg.7). These is mostly composed of people living without physical shelter on the streets and in other public places, it also includes people living with extended family members or friends and do not pay rent. Homeless people often have a higher…

Laos, or the Lao People 's Democratic Republic, is a land locked-country in Southeastern Asia. It has a vast array of terrains that are traversed by the Mekong river. Sharing borders with Thailand, Vietnam, China, Cambodia, and Myanmar, Laos has a population size of approximately 6.77 million. This is roughly the size of Utah for population and size. Why leaders of the LPDR are in its capital Vientiane, along the Thailand border, the rest of the country’s population is extended across its…

The Integration of Traditional and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Shauna Uharriet FD ENG 101 B5 (online) Sister Scott March 16, 2016 The Integration of Traditional and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Introduction Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary (2012) defines the term medicine as “the art and science of the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health” and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as “a large and diverse set of systems of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention…

Health can be defined in many terms depending upon the approach that is being used.Antonovsky (1979) claimed that the concept of health cannot be understood from a pathological perspective only. His approach focused on factors that support human health and well-being, whichhe called a ‘salutogenic’ model of health. He approached health in a holistic manner that included physical, psychological, and social perspectives. Holistic health considers the complete person physically, emotionally,…