NEW WINTER HOURS AT ASPIRE!

Aspire Chiropractic has new winter hours:

• Monday 8:30-11:30, 3:15-6:15
• Tuesday 3:15-6:15, Doctor's Report @ 6:15
• Wednesday 8:30-11:30, 3:15-6:15
• Thursday 3:15-6:15, Doctor's Report @ 6:15
• Friday 8:30-11:30
• Saturday 9:30-11:00

Thanksgiving Hours:

• Closed Thanksgiving Day
• Friday November 25th 9:30-11:00
• Saturday November 26th 9:30-11:00

Open House November 16th and JUST TRY IT, with Aspire Chiropractic!

OPEN HOUSE WITH DR. MATT!

Aspire will be hosting an open house on Wednesday, November 6th during treatment hours (8:30-11:30 and 3:15-6:15). Bring your friends/family and let them see the office and meet Dr. Matt and Dr. Brenda. We will be having free refreshments and healthy foods for all during that time as well, so come out and see Aspire!

During the open house we will also be kicking off our year-end promotion: JUST TRY IT! For all of those people in your life who have ever been curious about chiropractic and what it could do for them, here's their chance to get their questions answered and learn more! For just a $45 donation to the Coach Freddie Weinke Youth Football Camp, all new patients will receive their first day services (Exam, x-rays, consultation and Doctor's Report) plus a FREE first adjustment! This offer is valid through 12/31/2011 and cards for this deal can be picked up starting November 1st, 2011 at our office.

Coach Weinke is currently the running backs coach at Division III nationally ranked St. Olaf College and has previously payed in the NFL for the Chicago Bears. His Youth Football Camp serves the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and provides instruction on football technique and drills to underprivileged youth. Aspire has been a sponsor of this camp in the past and is proud to be involved again this upcoming year!

For more information on the Open House and to get scheduled, call us at the office (651) 294-2332 or email us at aspirechiropractic@gmail.com

Testimonial of the Week 10/24

Here is the Aspire Chiropractic Testimonial of the Week for October 24th-October 30th:

• 29 year old female that presented to the office with a chief complaint of neck and shoulder pain and tension related to chronic anxiety and stress. The patient was on a couple of different anti-anxiety medications and was having difficulty working due to the stress. After three months of care and removing the interference from her spine and nervous system, she was totally pain free! Under her doctor's advisement, she also began to wean herself off of the prescription medication for her anxiety and has since stopped taking it altogether. He was unable to offer any explanation as to why she was no longer suffering from the anxiety. Who do you know that needs this kind of help? Contact Aspire Chiropractic today!

Information on a single patient case of anxiety helped through chiropractic care.

Testimonials of the Week (10/10-10/17)

Here are our testimonials of the week for the weeks beginning 10/10 and 10/17:

• 25 year-old female patient presented to our office with a chief complaint of right sided neck, shoulder and arm pain. During exam and consultation she revealed that she was suffering from painful menstruation and an irregular monthly cycle, and that in fact she had been worried as her current cycle was not on time and she was having pelvic pain. After receiving her first adjustment, she began her period, since that time, it has been very regular and has been pain free! She has also been able to resume her regular social activities as her neck and shoulder pain has subsided, and she has noted that she sleeps much better on days when she receives chiropractic care.
• 31 year-old mother of two (children 5 and 2 years old), and they all come in for weekly adjustments. Her children have never been vaccinated and they have had very little in terms of childhood illnesses outside of the normal sniffles and colds. Mom's back pain and chronic yeast infections are gone since beginning care. Any time the kids are demonstrating symptoms, mom brings them into the office for adjustments instead of to the pediatrician who would only prescribe drugs and recommend shots for the kids. 

Who deserves to know these stories? Who can you share the power of chiropractic with today? Contact Aspire to learn more today!

Chiropractic Helps with Bedwetting

Did you know that some children with Nocturnal Enuresis (Bedwetting) have been helped through the power of chiropractic care and getting their nervous systems turned on? Here are a few case reports on children that have been helped:

• Case #0991: Five year old female who had been wetting her bed for six months. She was prescribed antibiotics for what MDs diagnosed as a bladder infection. After the second chiropractic adjustment, she stopped wetting her bed for three weeks. She had a bad fall and began to wet her bed again. After her next adjustment, she has remained dry.

• Case #0419: Nine year old male who wet his bed almost every day of his life. After the first six months of chiropractic, he would be dry for the next day or two. A change in adjustments to the sacrum resulted in greater improvement. He is now dry for one-half to two-thirds of the nights between the adjustments.

• Chiropractic adjustments: (Adjusted) C1 and C2 approximately three times/week. After two weeks of care the bed-wetting began to resolve and was completely resolved after six months. She was also leaving special education classes to enter regular fifth grade classes. Seizures were much milder and diminished to 8-10 per week after one year of care. Patient was also released from psychiatric care as "self managing." Her resistance to disease in-creased and she can now ride a bike, roller skate and ice skate like a normal child. After medical examinations, she is expected to be off all medication within a month.

How can the power of Chiropractic change your child's life?

Sources: Marko, RB Chiropractic Pediatrics Vol. 1 No. 1 April 1994
Langley C. Chiropractic Pediatrics Vol 1 No. 1, April, 1994.

Chiropractic and the Active Athlete: Why Should You Get Adjusted?

Athletes in this country come in all shapes and sizes, from the 4 year old kicking her first soccer ball to the 85 year old grandfather throwing a strike at the bowling alley, all athletes put a tremendous amount of stress on their bodies. This stress can manifest itself in injuries of all sorts, from little aches, pains and post-competition soreness, all the way to ruptured ligaments and broken bones. So why should athletes of all ages consider chiropractic care? Here's a few reasons:

• Faster Recovery Time: When used in conjunction with post-workout therapy, chiropractic may reduce recovery time and allow the athlete to return to the gym, field, etc, more quickly.
• Better Posture: Chiropractic focuses on improving spinal position and posture which enables the athlete to be better aware of their body positioning during play, possibly giving them a competitive advantage over their opponents.
• Injury Prevention: Athletes under chiropractic care have better joint flexibility and decreased pain in joints after athletic competition.
• Improved Performance: A study published in Chiropractic: The Journal of Chiropractic Research and Clinical Investigation in 1991 showed an increase in performance of several aspects of athletic competition (kinesthetic perception, power, reaction time, agility and balance) showed an increase of 18% in these areas in athletes undergoing care after only 6 weeks of treatment. The non-treatment group showed an increase of only 1% over the same time frame.

Here is perennial NFL All-Pro and Hall of Fame member Jerry Rice giving his testimonial on how chiropractic has helped him and how it can help you!

From the seasoned athlete to the beginner, everyone can improve their performance through the POWER of chiropractic!

7 Benefits of Chiropractic for Seniors

Many seniors are unaware of the outstanding benefits that are possible through regular chiropractic services. Here is a list of seven of the most frequent benefits that chiropractic services will provide for seniors.
1. Pain Relief
Chiropractic services is the most effective and safest forms of health care to treat pain due to spinal related conditions. Chiropractic is so effective because most causes of spinal disorders are related to abnormalities of the spine and the surrounding soft tissue structures. Anti inflammatory medication and pain relievers merely mask the symptoms and have many undesirable side effects.
2. Increased Range of Motion of the Spine and Extremities
Chiropractic services has been shown repeatedly to increase not only the range of motion of the spine but also in the extremities. Increasing a person’s range of motion can positively and drastically affect lives in many ways. In many cases, an increase in range of motion immediately follows chiropractic adjustments. This is one of the reasons why many top professional sporting teams have team chiropractors.
3. Increased Balance and Coordination
Many problems in balance and coordination in the aging population have been shown to come from injury or degenerative changes to the cervical spine (neck region). Studies have shown that chiropractic services can help restore balance and coordination by stimulating the joint receptors (mechanoreceptors) in the cervical spine. This stimulation is thought to restore or normalize joint receptor functioning which leads to improvements in balance and coordination.
4. Decreased Joint Degeneration
A subluxated (misaligned) spine is much like a misaligned wheel on an automobile. This misalignment will cause the spine (and the wheel) to wear out prematurely. Since all moving parts will eventually wear down over time, it is very important to get your spine aligned periodically. Chiropractic services decreases spinal degeneration and other arthritic changes by normalizing the spinal alignment and reducing spinal stress.
5. Increased Health and Well-Being
Chiropractic is far more than mere pain relief. Feeling good, staying healthy and doing the things that make us happy are what keeps us looking forward to each new day. Regular chiropractic care increases the quality of life and increases health and well being.
6. Decreased Incidence of Falling
Injuries due to falling are extremely common in the elderly population. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), falls are responsible for 90% of the 850,000 bone fractures which occur annually among Americans past the age of 65. Chiropractors reduce the risk of falls by normalizing the mechanoreceptors of the cervical spine by administering chiropractic adjustments. They also prescribe stretching and exercise programs to increase strength, flexibility, mobility, balance and coordination.
7. Keeps Seniors Out of Nursing Homes
While studying at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, I had the opportunity of meeting the president Dr. Ian Coulter. Dr. Coulter was involved with many research projects studying the benefits of chiropractic care and exercise. In 1996, he published an interesting study in the Journal, “Topics of Clinical Chiropractic” called “Chiropractic care for the Elderly.” The key points he noted in this study were:

• 44% of those who used chiropractic care reported having arthritis compared with 66% in the non-chiropractic care group
• those who used chiropractic care were more likely to do strenuous levels of exercise
• at three years follow-up, less than 5% of those who used chiropractic care lived in a nursing home while a staggering 48% of those who did not use chiropractic care did live in a nursing homeat three years follow-up, only 26% of those who used chiropractic care were hospitalized compared with 48% of those in the non-chiropractic group

There is no need for seniors to suffer needlessly. Chiropractic services provides amazing benefits and has an outstanding record of safety and effectiveness. Ask your family and friends for a chiropractor that they recommend. Take action now and make an appointment to see if chiropractic can help you!

Original article by Dr. Paul Zemella

Chiropractic Boosts Immunity

Original Article by Dr. Paul Zemella


The nervous system and immune system are hardwired and work together to create optimal responses for the body to adapt and heal appropriately. Neural dysfunctions due to spinal misalignments are stressful to the body and cause abnormal changes that lead to a poorly coordinated immune response. Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to boost the coordinated responses of the nervous system and immune system.
The autonomic nervous system is hardwired into the lymphoid organs such as the spleen, thymus, lymph nodes, and bone marrow that produce the body’s immune response. Growing evidence is showing that immune function is regulated in part by the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system.
Subluxation is the term for misalignments of the spine that cause compression and irritation of nerve pathways affecting organ systems of the body. Subluxations are an example of physical nerve stress that affects neuronal control. According to researchers, such stressful conditions lead to altered measures of immune function & increased susceptibility to a variety of diseases.
Inflammatory based disease is influenced by both the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems. Nerve stimulation directly affects the growth and function of inflammatory cells. Researchers found that dysfunction in this pathway results in the development of various inflammatory syndromes such as rheumatoid arthritis and behavioral syndromes such as depression. Additionally, this dysfunctional neuro-endo-immune response plays a significant role in immune-compromised conditions such as chronic infections and cancer.
Wellness best chiropractor analyze the spine for subluxations and give corrective adjustments to reduce the stress on the nervous system. A 1992 research group found that when a thoracic adjustment was applied to a subluxated area the white blood cell (neutrophil) count collected rose significantly.
In 1975, Ronald Pero, Ph.D., chief of cancer prevention research at New York’s Preventive Medicine Institute and professor in Environmental Health at New York University, began researching the most scientifically valid ways to estimate individual susceptibility to various chronic diseases. He has conducted a tremendous amount of research in this area that includes over 160 published reports in peer reviewed journals. Pero and his colleagues discovered that various DNA-repairing enzymes could be significantly altered following exposure to carcinogenic chemicals. He found strong evidence that an individual’s susceptibility to cancer could be determined by these enzymes. Lack of those enzymes, Pero said, ‘definitely limits not only your lifespan, but also your ability to resist serious disease consequences.’ To support this argument he found a substantial amount of literature linking various kinds of spinal cord injuries and cancer. Pero found that these injuries led to a very high rate of lymphomas and lymphatic leukemias. This understanding led Pero to consider best Chiropractor care as a means of reducing the risk of immune breakdown and disease.
Pero’s team measured 107 individuals who had received long-term Chiropractic care. The chiropractic patients were shown to have a 200% greater immune competence than people who had not received chiropractic care, and a 400% greater immune competence than people with cancer or serious diseases. Interestingly, Pero found no decline with the various age groups in the study demonstrating that the DNA repairing enzymes were just as present in long-term chiropractic senior groups as they were in the younger groups.

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9 Supermarket Strategies Designed to Make You Spend More (Link)

Here's an interesting article on how the supermarkets get you in the door, and get you to spend more than you intended.

Learn more about the right way to shop at this weekend's Total Food Makeover! Call (651)294-2332 for more details.

CANCER FEEDS OFF OF SUGAR

It's as simple as that, cancer feeds and grows off of sugar and uses it as it's main food source in the body. This theory was developed back in 1924 by Dr. Otto Warburg, a Nobel Prize winning cell biologist, and published in his 1924 paper "On Metabolism of Tumors". In fact, some new/alternative therapies for treating cancer involve starving the body of all sugar and carbohydrates, then feeding the patient a "smartbomb" sort of cancer drug. This treatment is covered with a special coating that stays intact in the body until it reaches an area of no oxygen. Since cancer is an anaerobic (no oxygen) mass of cells, the oncologists were able to specifically target it through the use of this drug. Unfortunately, there has been little further research made available on this type of care, so we are left with our traditional types of chemotherapy, which are incredibly toxic and hard on the body. 

So what should you do?

Be smart about your sugar and carbohydrate intake on a daily basis. While they do provide us with energy, sugar and carbs provide virtually no nutritive benefit, and processed sugars (HFCS, white sugar, etc.) are the worst offenders in this category. Natural sugars from fruits, vegetables, honey and molasses are a good part of a healthy diet and play an important role in providing us with the energy we need to get through the day, but we have to be thinking: ALL THINGS IN MODERATION! Sugar does not cause cancer, but if it enables it to grow, why would you give it the fuel it needs to proliferate? So if you are unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with  cancer, you need to make the best decisions you can about what you feed your body, so do your research and give yourself the best chance you can to fight it off!

Learn More About This Topic at Aspire Chiropractic's TOTAL FOOD MAKEOVER on October 8th at the Danna Agency, call (651) 294-2332 to reserve your spot today!