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A Last Cigarette
As a healthcare provider I can’t imagine smoking a cigarette as being a good thing. However, though not healthy in the long run, relatively speaking, if a cigarette is offered before you are to be executed by a firing squad, then for the minute or so it takes to smoke it, that cigarette extends a [...]
Let's Dance
As a chiropractor, I always keep in the back of my mind that if I can get my older chiropractic patients out of pain, they will be able to go out and enjoy life again. Too often, seniors shut down on living as fully as possible because of aches and pains in their aging bodies. [...]
A Dinosaur Named "Rover"?
As a chiropractor who has a large pediatric chiropractic practice, I’ve heard it all when it comes to the animals that children choose for pets. Along with the standard variety of purebred dogs and mutts, in recent years there have been intentionally-mixed breeds such as the goldendoodle (golden retriever/poodle). Naturally, there have been cats, birds, [...]
A Bold, Whimsical Moment in The Maldives
I am a chiropractor who is also a scuba diving enthusiast. At least once a year, I close my chiropractic clinic and head search out the ocean floor of many of the warmer waters around the world. But, I’ve never been scuba diving in the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean. However, today, [...]
The Dangers of Catnapping
On a whim, two-year-old Cody climbed into a partially-loaded UPS box of chiropractic traction devices. It might have seemed like a cozy spot to take a nap or a good hiding place for a game of hide-and-seek. But, as it turned out, the box became a transport unit, instead, one that took Cody from Dallas, [...]
When It Comes to the Equinoxes, All Things Aren't Equal
As a chiropractor, who has assisted many patients over the years in improving their balance, I’ve always had a bit of a fetish for the concept of balance in all of Nature’s phenomena. As yesterday was the first day of Autumn, I found it very satisfying that the day and night of both equinoxes are [...]
Take a Break and Breathe
Did you know that the word, “whim,” which generally means “an odd or capricious notion or desire,” is actually short for “whim-whams,” which has its origin between 1635-1645. Why am I mentioning this? Well, because the informal definition of whim-whams is “nervousness; jitters,” as in “He had the whim-whams after the accident.” Aah, that didn’t [...]
Muscle Weight That's Lighter Than Air
Some people find a bit of whimsy watching the antics of animals, while others may search for an odd or fanciful notion in a book, but I’m one of those people who can get lost in whimville reading about the extravagant, and often fanciful, ideas and experiments of science. I’ve been interested in science all [...]
90 Percent Fact and 10 Percent Whimsy?
Being a San Jose chiropractor, and living in a city as technologically- (and logically-) minded as San Jose, I often quell my tendency towards whimsical thinking. If I find I need a little fanciful stimulation, in lieu of a chiropractors convention, I generally drive into San Francisco for the weekend. But, I just read an [...]
The Road to Longevity is Paved With Balanced Lifestyle Choices
The Road to Longevity is Paved With Balanced Lifestyle Choices
by Guest Contributor Jamie G. Phillips, DC
Like me, you may be wondering whether or not our human search for longevity has suddenly been displaced by a mission to find immortality. No doubt, you’ve been reading a lot lately about the miraculous heart benefits of red wine [...]