A number of patients who visit our Santa Cruz chiropractic clinic struggle with sciatica. Learn the facts about sciatica and it may help you understand your pain. The sciatic nerve is the largest and longest nerve in the human body, emerging from the spine in the lower back. It also runs through the buttock region, and all the way to the lower leg, where it functions to control the muscles in that

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Athletes are always looking for an edge to take their performances to another level. No matter what sport you play, the competition is always getting bigger, faster and stronger which means you have to continually improve in order to keep up. Some athletes turn to dishonest methods like performance enhancing drugs to get ahead, but most look to nutrition, enhanced training concepts and similar methods to get better. One way

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How many times daily do you stop and think about your spine? If you are like a lot of us in Santa Cruz, that number sits at a solid “zero.” As long as we can carry on day to day we simply assume everything is just fine, unless you suffer from back pain. Those suffering from chronic back pain or back injury have a difficult time getting it off their

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One question that many people seem to have about chiropractors is the amount of schooling required in order to practice. It wasn’t too long ago that some people referred to chiropractic as “quackery,” or at best, an incomplete healing discipline. Times have changed, and today people from all walks of life utilize chiropractic treatment, but the educational requirements are still a source of mystery to many. The truth is chiropractors

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Headaches are an unfortunate part of daily life for tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people. Some headaches only happen occasionally, some happen frequently, some are dull and throbbing and others are sharp and intense. Headaches have many different causes, but just about all of them cause some sort of disruption to your life. From a slight inability to concentrate, to lying in a darkened room completely

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There are more than 6 million children born in the USA every year, and over 14 percent of those births include some kind of complication. So not only can labor be debilitating, but there are always dangers which might happen. There are lots of approaches to minimize these dangers, such as exercise, good nutrition, supplementation, in addition to chiropractic treatment in our Santa Cruz chiropractic office. When a woman is

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