Anyone who has ever primped in front of a mirror before the big date or job interview knows that being good looking does not necessarily feel good. Women especially time and again compromise comfort for shoes that seem to elevate them higher and higher, dresses that appear to get shorter and shorter, while guys will [...]

Have you recently attempted to lift your child’s school backpack? If you have been surprised at the added weight, you are not alone. Those of you who have been done with school for a while probably do not remember the weight that a number of books, writing devices, art supplies, and other odds and ends [...]

When Daniel Palmer first provided structure to his theories of chiropractic care, there was little if any literature that dealt with the idea of putting together a regimen which reinforced the relationship that exists between a body’s structural system and its neurological workings. As a matter of fact, at the time that Mr. Palmer performed [...]

Precious little is known about the man who would make history as the first chiropractic success story, Mr. Harvey Lillard. All the information that is recorded for posterity comes down from his benefactor and healer, Daniel Palmer, the father of chiropractic medicine. It is said that Mr. Lillard worked as a janitor in the general [...]

Ask any three or four guys lined up at the bar of the favorite watering hole on a Saturday night what they know about chiropractics, and you will undoubtedly get a lot of jokes about rib cracking, bone mashing, and easy fees. It is sad, really, that a large segment of the American public is [...]

The education of today’s chiropractic doctors is highly regulated and requires four years of intensive study. Part and parcel of the chiropractic curriculum are basic sciences. Some students wonder whether or not the amount of time spent in these endeavors could not be spent better by learning the core applications that will later on help [...]

While becoming a chiropractor in Canada is not a simple matter, the course of study and hands on training embarked upon by those willing to eagerly learn the ropes shows that this is a labor of love that many see as a life calling rather than simply a profession chosen to supply needed financial support [...]

The idea of chiropractic medicine is neither new nor revolutionary. As a matter of fact, it is the tried and true methods that were partially discovered and partially invented by one Daniel Palmer, a Canadian native, who was a bit of an oddball in his time. Born in the year 1845, it took Mr. Palmer [...]

When chiropractics first began with Daniel Palmer, there were no schools, no course of study, and not much research that would enable others to come to similar conclusions. Fortunately, when Mr. Palmer realizes that he was on the cutting edge of alternative medical healing, he and his son Bartlett after him, chose to go ahead [...]

If you are an aspiring chiropractor, you know how hard you are working for that degree. After all, there is so much more to your education than the critics will give you credit for and if it were easy to become a chiropractor, probably everyone would be doing it. Once you are finally ready to [...]