"Should I be concerned about my child’s posture?"

What Parents Need To Know About Their Child’s Posture By: Dr. Walter Salubro “Sit up straight.” “Don’t slouch.” These may have been the words of your mom or dad as you were growing up. Somehow parents innately know that poor posture is not normal and that poor posture is a problem.  But why are parents…

Stress Impacts Your Health

An article by guest author, Dr. Dmitri Sokolov of Healthy Kids & Family Chiropractic in Markham, Ontario.   “Stress”, this is one of the most heard words in common social vocabulary, and still not many know how it impacts our health and how to overcome it. Chronic physical, chemical and emotional stress is the biggest contributor…

Posture And The Impact Of A Forward Head Position

Do you get neck strain or muscle tension from sitting at a desk or when using a computer?   It seems like we can’t go through an hour of a day without placing our neck in a compromising forward head position.  The consequences of a forward head position is added tension, strain and effort by your neck…

Backpack Safety For School Children: What Parents Need To Know

Backpack Safety Tips From Back To Health Chiropractic Centre In Maple, Vaughan. Maple, ON – Yes, it’s back-to-school time, which makes for a perfect time to talk about backpack safety for kids. Years back when I was in grade school, I don’t recall carrying many books home and certainly never had on overloaded backpack. Today, it seems that…

Chiropractic Wellness Tips For Stree-Free Sleep

Stress while you’re sleeping?  Is that even possible?  North Americans get on average, 6-8 hours of sleep each night.  And of the most common health complaints I hear from my patients is that they wake up in the morning with a stiff neck or a low back ache after going to sleep the night before…

Chiropractic Advice For Backpack Safety

Our chiropractic clinic was at a local retail business  in Vaughan Sunday offering backpack safety tips for students and parents.   The one common thing I notice with most of the children and teens that we see at our clinic is they carry a backpack that is way too heavy for their growing spines.  I remember…

“My Nervous System, Why Keep It Free Of Interference?”

The nervous system is the master system which controls and coordinatates the function of every organ, tissue, structure and cell in your body.  Signals from your brain travel up and down your spinal cord.  The spinal cord, which is protected by the bones of your spinal column, branches out into 31 pairs of nerves.  These spinal nerves branch…