Wellness Choice Center | Newport Beach Chiropractor

Chiropractic medicine has come a long, long way in the last sixty to seventy years. We now know so much about how spinal and postural  misalignments can affect overall organ strength and function- and we know how to structurally correct them- something we uniquely specialize in here at Wellness Choice Center.

But we’ve known for many years that stress can actually cause these misalignments–or subluxations–that can wreak havoc on your nervous system and it’s function. Check out this great article I found from June 9, 1941 in the Edmonton Journal that stresses that same point!

Here at Wellness Choice Center, everyday we teach the importance of holistic healing and healthy lifestyles that include proper nutrition, exercise and happy,  healthy nervous systems treated with regular chiropractic care. What many people might not know is that in addition to keeping babies and adults healthy, chiropractic can also do wonders for animals!

Check out this blogger’s great article which boasts regular chiropractic care for his award winning horses

More and more people are seeing that chiropractic care is an invaluable tool for preventing disease, increasing quality of life and improving health behaviors. Now, researchers are discovering the connections between the care administered by doctors of chiropractic and what is happening at the cellular level. Researchers at the University of Lund published a study in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research that found that chiropractic care could influence basic physiological processes affecting oxidative stress and DNA repair.

To read the findings of the study, click here.

Kim Kardashian is gearing up for her fabulous wedding to New Jersey Nets player Kris Humphries, and what’s on her agenda for pre-wedding preparations? Trips to the spa and the chiropractor, of course! Anyone who receives regular chiropractic care knows that it has powerful relaxing effects in addition to life-giving healing powers. The star tweeted, “Just had the best chiropractor appointment, then massage and Korean spa scrub! I feel sooo relaxed. I really needed this!”

Just another public figure (see also Barack Obama, Celine Dion, Tiger Woods, Aaron Rogers, Montel Williams, Lance Armstrong, Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, the list goes on…) to endorse and benefit from chiropractic care!

Here in Newport Beach, CA at Wellness Choice Center we treat many actors, actresses, professional athletes, musicians and high-profile execs, who come in to permanently fix their pains, but also to enjoy the relaxing and therapeutic atmosphere at Wellness Choice Center.

And just as Kim Kardashian preps for her nuptials, we’re in the midst of wedding season here in beautiful Orange County. That’s why we’re offering free consultations to any brides, grooms, or bridal parties to help you achieve calm and serenity while you plan for your most important day! The healing and soothing power of Chiropractic Care can calm your nerves and free your mind. Call us today at (949) 387-1333 to see what all the buzz is about!

This weekend we were happy to perform postural analyses at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, CA. Many people do not know that their posture could be improved by simple stretching and chiropractic maintenance- but what’s worse is that many people do not know the simple correlation between good posture and good health. When your posture is poor, the spine gets kinked or distorted, and disrupts the proper flow of nerve energy between your brain and the rest of your body (your organs, your limbs, etc.). The result is decreased activity in your organs or even pain in your arms, legs or back. Knowledge is the first step- once you know that you have a postural anomaly, then you are bound to notice it throughout the day- and work to correct it!

If you are interested in having a postural analysis done, and would like to learn more about our postural correction program, call our office (949) 387-1333.

For many Americans, overeating is a method of compensating for emotional deficits, or a way in which to compliment them. Experts have long-since said never to mix your food with your emotions, and here’s why: physiologically, when you are hungry, the area of your brain that lets you know when you need to eat/stop eating–the hypothalamus– sends “hungry” signals, and you eat. And when you are full, your hypothalamus sends signals for you to stop eating.

But when you begin to eat to coincide with your emotional levels, different areas of your brain begin to influence your stop-and-start eating times. Even if you are not in need of food, and thus your hypothalamus has not sent out any signals, you may feel the need to eat based on emotional centers in the brain, rather than physiological ones.  In fact, if you use this mechanism of eating often enough, it can even change your brain chemistry.

To read more, check out this article. And if you are interested in losing weight, call the office today to schedule a nutritional consult @ (949) 387-1333.

As if breast cancer statistics were unsettling enough, in the past few years, there has been increased debate over whether or not the no. 1 breast cancer screening-test are really effective as a preventative and diagnostic tool. Some experts say that these mammogram tests can often be ineffective, can result in false positives can cause over-anxiety and over-treatment.

On the other hand breast cancer experts say that it is still the best way to detect the cancer and that the benefits outweigh the negative controversy.

According to an article on CNN.com, “the benefits of mammography increase as women age. The task force said that 1,904 women in their 40s need to be screened to save one life. For women in their 50s, one life would be saved for every 1,340 women screened and for women in their 60s, it is one life per 370 women.”

The bottom line is that while there is controversy surrounding the number of mammograms women should received after the enter their 40s and beyond, the strides that we have made in diagnostically predicting breast cancer and saving lives. A safe guideline to follow according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) is that mammograms for woman in their 40s should be annual or biennial (every 2 years), and annual for every year after women enter their 50s.

Enacted today under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama Administration is requiring that insurers must now make birth control for women free. The new rules stipulate that insurance companies can no longer require coverage for preventative services like birth control to be subject to co-payments or deductibles.

To read more, click here .

Researchers collaborating from the University of New Hampshire and University of Michigan  have uncovered new data on cervical spine injuries while studying concussions. These researchers fitted the helmets of high school football players with sensors to  measure both the location and magnitude of impacts to the helmet. Prior to this, research for cervical spine injuries was done on cadavars, animals, or via mathematical modeling, but their new method allowed researchers to capture data during an actual cervical spine injury. Their work, published in the New England Journal of Medicine has far-reaching implications, especially for parents, because about 1.5 millions high school kids play football and are at risk for concussions and spinal injuries. To read more, click here.

Congratulations, California! New figures are reporting that smoking in CA has hit an all-time low at 11.9%. California is now one of only two states to meet guidelines set by the federal Healthy People act in 2010 to reduce smoking rates per state to 12%. This is a real accomplishment, but we have to remember that this number also needs to be sustained, and that we need to keep educating the younger population on the dangers of smoking and reduce the rate at which young people become smokers. To read about the statistics , click here.