Your health news update from ChiroVoice

ChiroVoice is Growing - Make YOUR Voice Heard

April is a time of growth – flowers sprout, trees bloom and people begin to venture outside to enjoy the weather. ChiroVoice is also growing. At the start of the month we registered our 10,000th member. This is a great accomplishment, but it is just the beginning.

ChiroVoice gives you direct access to your legislators in Washington. With just a few clicks at the Legislative Action Center, you can urge your representatives to protect your access to chiropractic. Make your voice heard! As health care reform moves forward, ChiroVoice will allow you to join together with others to respond to proposals and legislation and join the debate.

Until then, you can use the ChiroVoice site to share your story about how chiropractic has made a difference in your life.

We hope you enjoy this issue of ChiroHealth and have a happy, healthy spring.

Green Your Home for
Earth Day

With spring in the air and Earth Day, April 22, right around the corner, now is the time to think about your impact on the environment and ways to green your home. Consider reusing building materials during home renovations or adding windows for natural lighting. Find more information about making your home a greener place, or visit The Green Home Guide.

Walking for Health

Whether enjoying the wonder of nature or simply the company of a friend, walking can be a healthful, invigorating experience. It requires virtually no equipment, improves cardiovascular endurance, tones muscles and burns calories. The ACA offers the following tips to help your walk be an effective, pain-free workout:

• Move your arms freely, in coordination with the opposite leg.
• Don’t stoop your head or look down as you walk.
• Don’t carry weights or dumbbells, which are better used as a separate part of your exercise regimen.
• Walk briskly, with purpose.
  

If following your walk, you experience more than a little soreness in your thighs and calves, consult with your doctor of chiropractic.

Stress Relief

Stress is a physical and mental response to the difference between our expectations and our personal experience, real or imaginary. Persistent or excessive stress can undermine our performance and make us vulnerable to health problems, from cancer and heart disease to substance abuse and obesity. Learn how to harness your stress and lessen its negative effects on your health.

Patient Survey Finds Chiropractic Offers Most Satisfaction
in Back Pain Treatment

According to a newly released patient survey by a leading consumer group, chiropractic is the top rated treatment for back pain. Of the 14,000 survey respondents who suffered from back pain in the past year, 58 percent rated chiropractic/spinal manipulation as helping a lot. When asked how satisfied they were with practitioners, 59 percent of respondents said they were “highly satisfied” with the back pain treatment received from their doctors of chiropractic whereas only 34 percent said the same about their primary care physicians. Most survey respondents had, on average, tried five or six different treatments for their back pain. Watch a report from CBS News.