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Dr. Alan Rosenthal - EzineArticles.com Expert Author  

Dr. Alan Rosenthal is one of the premier family chiropractic corrective and wellness care providers in the Conejo Valley. He is a Chiropractor today, because his life changed from the power of a single adjustment. Beginning in his teenager years, he had suffered from many sports and motocross injuries. His symptoms included headaches, neck pain, muscle spasms in the neck and shoulders, torticollis, and a variety of other health problems. Standard medical care and ... [More]

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  • You Are What You Eat!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] In today's society of fast, prepared and processed foods, we face a growing problem of under-nourishment. Food that is deficient in nutrients (i.e.: vitamins, minerals, and food enzymes) is continually produced and sold.


  • The Drug Problem
    [Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Recently, there has been an obvious shift in how we view health care. A few decades ago, there was just a blanket acceptance that drugs and surgery would solve all our health problems. Through numerous surveys and studies in the last ten years, a growing percentage of the population is leaning toward more natural forms of health care, rather than having to deal with a life of drugs and surgery.


  • How Nutrition Can Change Your Life!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] It is becoming common knowledge that good nutrition will make positive health changes in people's lives. Two research articles that I had read recently showed that the positive health effects of supplementing folic acid and vitamin D. It explained how folic acid supplementation during pregnancy will reduce the risk of having a Down's Syndrome child and how vitamin D supplementation improves the outcome in prostate cancer patients.


  • A Holistic Approach to Nutrition
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Many people suffer from exhaustion, find they are sick too often or are always taking different medications for a variety of ailments. People don't often question if having an ache or pain is really a normal part of life. Most of us assume that pain is a result of growing old. What about allergies; why are they becoming more and more prevalent? Is it inevitable to lose our healthy, glow and vitality?


  • 5 Crucial Reasons to Use Vitamins and Minerals
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] A healthy diet enriched with a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement produces healthier people. Research shows that, people who include vitamins and mineral supplements in their diet have a much lower risk of disease, fight off the existence of cancer better, have stronger bodies and live higher quality lives.


  • New Research Shows Positive Effects of Chiropractic For Serious Diseases
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] A recent study published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research is the first to show that correction of upper neck injuries is capable of reversing the progression of both Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's disease. "According to medical research, head and neck injuries have long been considered a contributing factor for the onset of both Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's disease," said Dr. Erin Elster, the lead researcher.


  • Medical Errors Kill 98,000 Americans Every Year
    [Health-and-Fitness:Healthcare-Systems] The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently published a horrifying report detailing the amount of people who are killed, maimed, crippled or poisoned in American hospitals each year. We are gaining a much larger awareness that our medical health care system is actually causing an alarming number of deaths and medical harm.


  • How Chiropractic Wellness Care Can Help Women With Infertility Problems
    [Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] There have been a growing number women with infertility who are getting help with Chiropractic wellness care. A series of twelve research papers published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research suggests that Chiropractic adjustments, performed to address nerve interference caused by spinal distortions, could offer hope to many women who suffer from infertility problems.


  • Subluxation Health Test
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Take our "Got Subluxation" health test, and discover if you may be a candidate for a spinal and neurological check-up! If you answer "Yes" to any of these questions, you may be a candidate.


  • Backpack Safety For Kids
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] In the US, more than 40 million students carry backpacks. About 20 million carry in those packs more than the recommended weight. This backpack "overload" sent over 3,000 children, ages 5-14, to hospital emergency rooms in 2007 for injuries related to backpacks.


  • Immune Function and Chiropractic
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] People are tuned into the fact that a strong immune system is crucial to living a long and healthy life. Our health environment constantly forces us to think of how important our immune system is to live.


  • For Skeptics Only
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] While Chiropractic is unique and different, it certainly is not something that you have to "believe in." Chiropractic works whether you believe in it or not. It produces results because it acknowledges scientifically confirmed facts. The nervous system controls everything in your body. In this article, I will explain some of the common misconceptions about Chiropractic wellness care and will curb some long standing arguments against a proven and widely accepted practice.


  • The Healthiest Children on the Planet
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] With growing knowledge, research, and acceptance of the public about the benefits of natural health care, we are learning that the healthiest children on the planet are not the ones that rely on medication or the ones who are raised with a bad lifestyle and development habits. A healthy child starts with parenting. Parents should consciously ensure that their child's body is functioning normally throughout the growing years and do not wait until last minute to be concerned about their child's health.


  • Why Children Need a Spinal Check-Up
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] "How can Chiropractors help my child? His back doesn't bother him." Chiropractors constantly see parents ensure that their child has regular check-ups for hearing, teeth, and eyes but never bother to have their child's spine checked. The reality is that a spinal check-up is probably the most important check-up your child could have.


  • Sports and Athletics
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Chiropractors have been aiding athletes in their sports performance for quite some time. Many successful athletes have banked on Chiropractic wellness care to enhance performance and health i.e.: Lance Armstrong, Ian Thorpe, Joe Naimith, Muhammed Ali, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donovan Bailey, John McEnroe, Dan O'Brien, Ivan Lendle and countless others. This is why Chiropractors are commonly found to be "team doctors" for many professional, college, high school, and elementary school teams.


  • Four Home Tests For Nerve Interference
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] To enjoy optimum physical and emotional health and wellness, our bodies have to be working properly. They need to have good nutrition, enough exercise and a nerve supply that can relay impulses from the brain to every organ and cell (and back again) without interference.


  • Headaches and Chiropractic
    [Health-and-Fitness:Headaches-Migraines] Roughly a third of all people suffer from headaches. The causes of which are many; they include such things as spinal misalignment, certain foods, toxic fumes, preservatives and alcohol. Spinal misalignments (subluxations) are involved in up to 80% of all headaches.


  • How Chiropractic Care Can Help Fibromyalgia
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] People suffering with fibromyalgia often find themselves asking a multitude of questions as to why they experience such high levels of pain so often. One question may be: Is there any evidence suggesting that fibromyalgia can be caused by exposure to environmental toxins including molds, asbestos, fiberglass and other airborne toxins?


  • Groundbreaking Research Helps Ear Infections
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] As a concerned parent, you want the best for your child. Everyone around us is becoming more knowledgeable about the fact that for our children to be healthy we must have their nervous system and spine checked regularly for subluxations.


  • Childhood Ear Infections
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] "My doctor prescribes antibiotics for ear infections, but my child still has recurrences." This frequently heard comment is stated by many parents each day. Commonly, parents accept acute otitis media (ear infections) as a normal part of a young child's life. The truth is that although common, there is nothing normal about it.


  • What is My Level of Spinal Arthritis?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] One of the most common practices within the Chiropractic profession is to evaluate the length of time nerve interference has been existing within a person and also the severity of nerve blockage. Once this is done, the Chiropractor will know how much degeneration (Arthritis) is within the spinal column.


  • Drugs Vs Wellness Care For ADHD
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Many parents today seem to give their children mind-altering drugs like Ritalin to solve behavioral and other problems. Are our youth really in that much health distress that we need to drug them up so often and for so many years? There is growing controversy in society about the use of such drugs, and in my opinion, it is justified.


  • Do You Pretend Or Do You Live?
    [Self-Improvement] Unfortunately, it sometimes seems we are the masters of our own self decline. We know that a low fat diet, exercise, stress reduction, regular Chiropractic adjustments and adequate rest help us be at our best. Yet, we frequently sabotage ourselves by not following through with the effort that is required. Why do we choose not to do those things that will help us be at an optimum level in all areas of our life?


  • Vertebral Subluxations
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] It has been established in health care that the most important system we have is our nervous system, which also dictates our health. Because of this, we must look at anything that may block the nerve supply to our bodies.


  • Chiropractic Vs Medicine
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] There is a lack of understanding where each profession does its best work for better health. First people must realize that Chiropractic wellness care is not in competition with what medicine does.


  • How to Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally
    [Health-and-Fitness:Hypertension] High blood pressure affects approximately 25% of adults in North America. Of these, 75% have only mildly elevated blood pressure, which lends itself to control through proven natural means.


  • What Chiropractic Can Do For Asthma
    [Health-and-Fitness:Asthma] Chances are you know somebody that suffers with asthma. It may be someone close to you or even a member of your family. There are many thousands of adults and children who are afflicted with this breathing disorder.


  • Asthma and Chiropractic
    [Health-and-Fitness:Asthma] During an asthmatic attack the bronchioles become swollen, go into spasm and fill with mucus. Asthmatics often feel as if their lungs are being strangled. They struggle to get air into their lungs and once in, the air is trapped behind the mucus, making it nearly impossible to exhale!


  • Prevention is Better Than a Cure
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Chiropractors ascribe to the ideas that being your best is the key to achieving balance, wellness, and the highest quality of life. In essence, prevention is infinitely better than a cure.


  • Preventing Arthritis
    [Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] The most common form of arthritis is osteoarthritis, which is also known as degenerative joint disease. Eighty percent of people over 50 years of age experience this type of arthritis, which can also begin in teenage years.


  • Live a High Quality Life Or React to Pain
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] One of the most challenging aspects of Chiropractic wellness care is to help people understand that this profession is much more than just pain relief. Spinal adjustments allow the master controlling system of the body to function at it's best to increase well being and length of life.


  • How You Can Live Longer
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Nobel prize winner, Dr. Roger Sperry showed that we spend 90% of our brain's energy on posture alone. The other 10% is used for thinking, metabolizing, and healing.


  • How Healthy is Your Body?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Dr. Roger Sperry, a Noble prize winning neuropsychologist and neurobiologist, discovered that 90% of a human brain's daily activity is involved with positioning its body against gravity. In other words, it is used for posture alone. The other 10% is used for thinking, metabolizing, and healing.


  • The Crucial Need For Spinal Examinations!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Our bodies act as their own ecosystem, meaning that within each of us, we are interdependent on all the natural processes existing inside of us These processes add up to making us functioning human beings. We rely on a natural chain of events to allow us to breath, walk and talk. Each process and system are interrelated and act together to build us into healthy humans. In other words, we are greater than the sum of all our parts.


  • Who Should See a Chiropractor?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Chiropractic is the only profession that is concerned with the detection and correction of spinal subluxations. As previously discussed in other articles, subluxations may result from mental, physical or chemical stresses.


  • The Safest Health Care Profession
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] A few medical professionals claim that chiropractic care can cause cerebral vascular accidents (strokes) from adjusting a person's neck. However, there is no evidence indicating that chiropractic is unsafe. All legal cases to date have failed to show that the injuries were connected to chiropractic care. Still, over the past couple of decades there has been more of a "witch hunt" against chiropractic by certain people in the medical profession.


  • Subluxation - "The Silent Killer"
    [Health-and-Fitness:Back-Pain] Vertebral subluxation is the condition where spinal vertebra shift and put pressure on the nerves, causing improper life-giving messages to be sent to the body. This creates poor health and many health and wellness problems that people experience daily. The reason subluxation is known as the "silent killer" is because you cannot feel it. You can only feel the pain, dysfunction, sickness and the disease it has left behind.


  • How Can Subluxations Affect My Health?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] We now know more about the devastating effects of vertebral subluxations than ever before. As a result, people are solving long term health problems that they previously assumed they had to live with. Here is some information on how subluxations affect your health:


  • Children and Back Pain
    [Health-and-Fitness:Back-Pain] It is not common for parents to come to my office and question whether or not it is normal for their infants and toddlers to have back pain. The truth is that the pain is a signal from their nervous system that something is wrong, and needs to be checked. And although it is not normal for toddlers to have back pain it does occur as subluxations can be present as soon as birth.


  • You Be the Judge!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] In a review of the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research, Dr. Sean Hannon reviewed numerous studies published in research literature showing that Chiropractic wellness care has a direct and positive effect on the function of our bodies. Think about this for a minute. Could Chiropractic improve your overall quality of life? Would you tire less easily, sleep more soundly, move easier, walk faster, overcome illnesses quicker, become stronger? The answer is YES!


  • What Does a Subluxation Do to Me?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Subluxations can have major detrimental effects to our bodies, especially if they are left alone. Fortunately, we can alleviate back pain and pave the road to a healthier lifestyle by taking care of our nervous system and allowing it to send life-giving messages to our body. In this article, I will explain the five components of damage that our bodies experience from subluxations and how you can help neutralize the damage.


  • The Failing Health of Our Children
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Despite technological advances and proper hygiene, today's children are suffering from an escalating host of infections, degenerative and immune/autoimmune disorders. For example, preschool children in the last decade have had recurrent ear infections at more than 50% higher. Today's children experience the highest incidence of asthma in the history of mankind. It is not normal for child after child to be taking prescription drugs just to be able to breathe.


  • Kids, Parents, Posture
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Standing up straight is important for everyone; however it is more crucial to develop the habits of good posture in childhood. Many adults with chronic back pain can trace the problem to years of bad posture habits or injuries in childhood. Therefore, it is important to start proper spinal maintenance at an early age.


  • What Allows the Body to Heal?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Do we have the ability to heal on our own or do we need outside intervention such as drugs to tell our bodies how to heal? These questions are more present in people's minds now than they were even a decade ago. The results of surveys done all over the world indicate that people are searching for the answer to what allows a body to be healthy.


  • Health Care's Missing Link
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Seeing positive changes that Chiropractic gives to children and adults is truly rewarding. In my years of practice, I've seen problems like asthma, ear infections, constipation, menstrual pain, ADHD, and many others fade over time with each adjustment.


  • Detecting Scoliosis
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] Scoliosis is an abnormal curvature of the spine that affects about 1 in 10 adolescents. It usually shows up in adolescents between the ages of 10 and 15 and is more common than people may realize.


  • The Wisdom of the Body!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Are you healthy if you feel good? If you said "Yes," ask yourself if you ever felt good one day and then came down with a cold, the flu or some other condition the next. If so, were you healthy? What about people who "feel good" one moment and have a heart attack or stroke the next?


  • The Germ Theory - What's the Truth
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Germs are everywhere. The "germ theory" that most people use to explain disease, is a carry-over from the early 1800s. These microscopic organisms are one of the most misunderstood aspects of health. "Like plant seeds, germs need the proper environment to become recognizable diseases."




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