How Sitting Affects Kids

“Here’s How Sitting Can Negatively Impact Your Kids Health”

Dr Brad Ivanchuk is a Burlington, Ontario chiropractor and is owner and founder of Life Chiropractic Centre which is a family chiropractic facility.

He is also a canfitpro Certified Personal Training Specialist and is a Certified Posture Expert with the American Posture Institute.

Today we learn about how sitting is affecting your children.

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The effects of poor posture are not just affecting adults, but children as well.

Currently, 65% of school-aged children present with some type of back pain due to postural distortion patterns.

One study showed that children as young as 10 years old are demonstrating visible signs of spinal degeneration (spinal arthritis) on xray.

Another study of 439 thirteen year olds; one-third of the children who participated in the study presented with lower back disc herniation (protrusion) on MRI.

The only reason a spine will degenerate or become arthritic, and the only reason spinal discs begin to herniate is due to pre-existing posture distortion patterns.

Sitting with postural collapse or weak posture is causing postural decline in children.

Consider the Trousler study of 1994; 41.6% of school-aged kids have lower back pain while sitting in class. Thirty percent within 1 hour of sitting and 70% after sitting for an hour or more.

So it is no surprise that kids with poor posture develop into adults with even worse posture and sickly health conditions.

And these things are exactly why you need to take care of our offer and make an appointment for a free initial consultation and free posture check for your children.

Remember we also offer family appointments where we can check every member of your family at the same time.

Our phone number here in Burlington is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me directly by clicking on the link right on our home page.

Good posture is by design, not by circumstance.

Life Chiropractic Centre … helping families just like yours build vibrant, healthy, drug-free lives for over 25 years in Burlington.

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3 Things To Know About Sitting

“3 Things You Need To Know About Sitting”

Dr Brad Ivanchuk is a Burlington, Ontario chiropractor and is owner and founder of Life Chiropractic Centre which is a family chiropractic facility.

He is also a canfitpro certified Personal Training Specialist and a Certified Posture Expert with the American Posture Institute.

Today we continue to learn about the ill-effects of sitting.

And here are 3 more things you need to know about sitting.

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When you are in a seated position, the pressure on your lower back (lumbar spine) increases to 1.7 times your body weight.

For example, a 200 pound person when sitting would actually have 340 pounds of pressure on their lower back.

And this would be sitting with proper posture which most people do not do. Otherwise, this pressure would be even more with improper sitting posture.

Also, your spine can only tolerate a slouched posture for about 20 minutes before the spinal discs begin to absorb the excess pressure.

And it is this excess pressure that causes your spinal discs to collapse or decay.

And finally, recent studies on sitting now show that prolonged sitting may not be reversible even with exercise.

For example, 1 hour of exercise will not off-set the effects of a standard 8 hour sitting day.

More on this topic again next time, but in the meantime if you have any questions on this topic or any other health concerns you may have or your children may have, please call me.

Remember that consultations and posture checks are always free of charge and family appointments are also available.

Our phone number here in Burlington is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me by clicking directly on the link on our home page.

Life Chiropractic Centre …. Helping families just like yours build vibrant, healthy, drug-free lives for over 25 years in Burlington.

Click Here To Book A Free Initial Consultation With Dr. Brad At The Burlington Clinic

Sitting Is The New Smoking

“How Is Sitting Making You Sick?”

Dr Brad Ivanchuk is a Burlington, Ontario chiropractor and is owner and founder of Life Chiropractic Centre which is a family chiropractic facility.

He is also a canfitpro certified Personal Training Specialist and a Certified Posture Expert with the American Posture Institute.

Today’s health topic is how sitting is making you sick.

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With the advancement of modern technology – computers, video games, cell phones – human beings are much more sedentary and as a consequence are sitting way more than they should.

Recent studies are revealing some very disturbing facts about how sitting is affecting our health.

Prolonged sitting stops your joints from moving, stops your muscles from firing and slows down your heart rate.

Your body’s calorie-burning rate drops to 1 calorie per minute which is one third of what it would be of you were walking.

Your insulin sensitivity decreases which increases the chances of developing type II diabetes.

Your fat and cholesterol levels rise also. So, it is also no surprise that obesity is becoming an epidemic problem in our country; not just in adults but children as well.

There is more information that you need to know about sitting which we will cover next time, but in the meantime if you have any questions on this topic or any other health concerns that you may have or your children may have, please give me a call.

Remember that consultations and posture checks in our office are always free of charge and family appointments are always available.

The reason we offer family appointments is because spinal problems and posture distortion patterns tend to run in families.

Our phone number here in Burlington is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me by clicking directly on the link found on our home page.

Life Chiropractic Centre … helping families just like yours build vibrant, healthy, drug-free lives for over 25 years in Burlington.

Click Here To Book A Free Initial Consultation With Dr. Brad At The Burlington Clinic

How To Check Your Shoulders

“Here’s How To Check Yourself And
Your Children For Potential
Shoulder Problems”

Dr Brad Ivanchuk is a Burlington chiropractor at Life Chiropractic Centre which is a family chiropractic facility.

He is also a canfitpro certified Personal Training Specialist and a Certified Posture Expert with the American Posture Institute.

Today’s health topic is how to check yourself and your children for potential shoulder problems.

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Your shoulder joints are one of the most frequently used joints in your body.

And they are also the most unstable joint in your body.

Recall what we learned last time that a lot of the time, you can have shoulder problems without feeling any pain.

Here are the signs you would look for to determine if you or any of your children are headed for future shoulder problems; shoulders that are rounded forwards, humping of the upper back, forward head posture, one shoulder is higher than the other, shoulder blades that stick out instead of lying flat against the rib cage, upper chest breathing instead of diaphragmatic or abdominal breathing, and un-even shoulder flexibility.

Symptoms that would indicate future shoulder problems would be numbness, tingling and diffuse pain in the wrists and hands when carrying something, lifting something and any over-head activities.

If you or any of your children have any of these signs or symptoms, you need to get in to see me right away.

The sooner we can correct the problem the better.

Remember that consultations and posture checks in our office are always free of charge.

Family appointments are also available where we can check your whole family at the same time.

And the reason for this is because spinal problems do tend to run in families.

Our phone number here is Burlington is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me by clicking directly on the link on our home page.

Life Chiropractic Centre … helping families just like yours build vibrant, healthy, drug-free lives for over 25 years in Burlington, Ontario.

Click Here To Book A Free Initial Consultation With Dr. Brad At The Burlington Clinic

Shoulder Health

“Burlington Chiropractic Care For Strong And Healthy Shoulders”

Dr Brad Ivanchuk is a Burlington chiropractor at Life Chiropractic Centre which is a family chiropractic facility.

He is also a canfitpro certified Personal Training Specialist and a Certified Posture Expert with the American Posture Institute.

Today’s health topic is how to maintain strong and healthy shoulders which as everyone knows, can sometimes seem to carry the weight of the world.

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Your shoulder joint is a ball and socket type of joint which makes it the most flexible joint in the body. But as a consequence of this incredible flexibility, it is also the most unstable joint in the body.

This makes it very susceptible to injury.

The key to maintaining strong shoulders with good flexibility is two-fold; first of all, the muscles that control your shoulder movements and hold it together must have good tensegrity.

This means they are neither too tight nor too loose. Secondly, you must have good postural alignment in your thoracic spine which is the part of your spine between your neck (cervical spine) and your lower back (lumbar spine).

The other thing you need to know about your shoulders is that most of the nerves that control your shoulder muscles are motor nerves only.

This means that they can only cause a muscle to contract or relax but they cannot feel any pain.

And because they cannot feel any pain, you could potentially be developing some pretty serious shoulder problems without even knowing it.

But this won’t be the case of course if you are having your thoracic spine and shoulders checked regularly by a chiropractor.

More on shoulders next time, but in the meantime if you have any questions on this topic or any other health concerns you may have or your children may have, please give me a call.

Remember that consultations and posture checks are always free of charge.

Family appointments are also available where we can check you and your children all at the same time.

Our phone number is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me by clicking directly on the link found on our home page.

Life Chiropractic Centre … helping families just like yours build vibrant, healthy, drug-free lives for over 25 years in Burlington.

Click Here To Book A Free Initial Consultation With Dr. Brad

Emphysema Helped By Chiropractic Care

Slumped Posture And Health Risks

Dr Brad Ivanchuk is a Burlington chiropractor at Life Chiropractic Centre, a family chiropractic facility.

He is also a canfitpro certified Personal Training Specialist and a Certified Posture Expert with the American Posture Institute.

Last time he discussed how chiropractic care can help people who suffer from the lung disease emphysema and today we are going to expound on this.

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Remember that one of the primary functions of posture quadrant #2 (your thoracic spine, rib cage, shoulder girdle and arms) is respiration or breathing.

The diaphragm which separates your chest cavity from your abdominal cavity is your true breathing muscle and you should average 10 to 14 breaths or respirations per minute.

Your breathing can be altered by the following … positional changes, emotional state, activity level, diseases (such as emphysema), wearing garments that are too tight and of course postural distortions.

Your most efficient breathing is diaphragmatic breathing where oxygen is drawn into the deepest and widest part of your lungs.

And this can only happen with balanced and erect posture in posture quadrant #2.

Slumped posture with a rounded upper back (humped back) which is the most common posture distortion pattern in quadrant #2, does not allow for full range of motion of your diaphragm.

Therefore your breathing and oxygen uptake will suffer and the rest of your body will become deprived of the vital oxygen that it needs to function and survive.

Slumped posture is now evident in children due to the ongoing stresses of modern technology.

But the lesson we need to learn here is from our elders.

Even the slightest humped back is associated with an increased risk of falls in the elderly population.

Elderly people with a humped back are also three and a half times more likely to end up in a nursing home compared to those with good posture and the most severe consequence of slumped posture or a humped back is higher mortality rates due to the increased prevalence of atherosclerosis or heart disease.

This is why it is absolutely critical that postural distortions are corrected immediately in posture quadrant #2 as soon as they are identified.

And as a chiropractor and posture expert, this is where I can help you.

All you need to do is call our office to make an appointment for your free initial consultation and posture check.

Remember too that we also offer family appointments where we can check your whole family at the same time and the reason for this is that spinal problems do tend to run in families.

Our phone number here is Burlington is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me by clicking directly on the link found on our home page.

Life Chiropractic Centre … helping families just like yours build vibrant, healthy, drug-free lives for over 25 years in Burlington, Ontario.

Click Here To Book A Free Initial Consultation With Dr. Brad

Posture Quadrant Three

Health Risks Associated With Posture Quadrant Three

Dr Brad Ivanchuk is a Burlington chiropractor at Life Chiropractic Centre which is a family chiropractic facility.

Over the past few weeks we have learned about the health risks associated with spinal misalignments in the various posture quadrants and as promised, today we are going to learn about the health risks associated with spinal misalignments in posture quadrant #3, which is your 5 lower lumbar vertebrae and pelvis.

The main purpose of quadrant #3 is to stabilize your body.

And it is very important to understand that the majority of postural distortion patterns are initiated here.

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Misalignments in quadrant #3 can cause inefficient movement patterns in quadrant #4 (legs) and postural collapse in quadrant #2 (thoracic spine, ribcage, shoulders, arms), which in turn can cause postural collapse in quadrant #1 (head and neck).

Other important functions associated with quadrant #3 are balance, respiration, digestion, reproduction and detoxification.

As you can see, spinal misalignments here can significantly debilitate your quality of life.

Other things you need to know about quadrant #3; misalignments here in the elderly population can result in less postural control and more postural sway which increases their chances of stumbling and falling.

Also, the number one musculo-skeletal problem associated with quadrant #3 is lower back pain.

And remember what we learned a while back – chronic low back pain sufferers have 10 to 20 times more loss of gray matter in their brain than those who don’t suffer from low back pain.

So, taking all of these into consideration, it is absolutely critical to have excellent spinal alignment in your lower back and pelvis.

Irrespective of gender, age or occupation.

Next time we will discuss the 4th and final posture quadrant #4, but in the meantime if you have any questions on this topic or any other health concerns you may have or your children may have, please call me.

Remember that consultations and posture checks in our office are always free of charge, family appointments are also available, and we have office hours on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and most Saturday mornings.

Our phone number here in Burlington is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me by clicking directly on the link found right on our home page.

Life Chiropractic … helping families just like yours build healthy, vibrant, drug-free lives for over 25 years in Burlington.

Click Here To Book A Free Initial Consultation With Dr. Brad

Quadrant Two Pain

Health Risks Faced With Misalignments
In Posture Quadrant Two

Dr Brad Ivanchuk is a Burlington chiropractor at Life Chiropractic Centre which is a family chiropractic facility.

Last time we learned about the potential health risks of having spinal misalignments and posture distortions in posture quadrant #1 which is your head and neck.

And as promised, today you are going to learn about the potential health risks of having spinal misalignments in posture quadrant #2.

Posture quadrant #2 is made up of your thoracic spine, your rib cage, your shoulder girdle, your arms and your diaphragm.

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For this muscle to function optimally, perfect posture in quadrant #2 is an absolute necessity.

Our hands which are part of quadrant #2 provide us with a lot of sensory information and also help to orient us in space.

Just think of the first thing you do when you are walking around in sudden darkness.

The other important functions of quadrant #2 are to stabilize your shoulders to allow free movement of your arms and also for respiration (breathing) and circulation.

Here are the potential health risks of spinal misalignments and posture distortions in quadrant #2;

Chronic tension in the upper back, stiff and sore shoulders, decreased range of motion in the shoulders, un-even shoulders, rounded back or slumped posture, chest pain, pain between the shoulder blades, joint problems in the shoulders/elbows/wrists/hands, tingling/numbness/pain in the arms, altered breathing patterns, decreased respiration, breathing difficulties, decreased lymphatic circulation, scoliosis (spinal curve), internal organ dysfunction (all the nerves from posture quadrant #2 control your internal organs), and early mortality in the elderly population.

And the reason for this is because elderly people with a rounded back or slumped posture have a significantly increased risk of developing atherosclerosis or heart disease.

Next time we will learn about posture quadrant #3 but in the meantime if you have any questions on this topic or any other health concerns you may have or your kids may have, please call me.

Remember that consultations and posture checks are always free of charge and family appointments are always available.

Our phone number here in Burlington is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me directly by clicking on the link right on our home page.

Life Chiropractic … helping families just like yours build vibrant, healthy, drug-free lives for over 25 years in Burlington.

Click Here To Book A Free Initial Consultation With Dr. Brad

Health Risks Of 4 Quadrants Misalignments

Pain-Free Posture System for
 the Four Posture Quadrants

Dr Brad Ivanchuk, a Burlington chiropractor has recently discussed the importance of healthy posture in infants, children and pregnant mom’s.

Good posture however, is a necessity for everyone.

It is very important for you to understand that the posture system is just as important as every other physiologic system in your body, if not more so.

Your cardio-respiratory system, your digestive system, your musculo-skeletal system and even your reproductive system for example will not work properly if you do not have a healthy posture system.

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The primary purpose of your posture system is to keep you upright against the ever-present force of gravity and to stabilize your core so that your arms and legs are free to perform coordinated movements.

The posture system integrates various forms of sensory feedback from your brain to your body so that your body can adapt and balance and stay upright in response to an ever changing environment on a moment by moment basis.

And you don’t even have to think about it!

The key to having a healthy and functional posture system is 100% dependent on spinal and skeletal alignment.

So, over the next few weeks I am going to teach you what the health risks are if you have alignment issues or postural distortions in each of the 4 posture quadrants that make up the human body.

Now, if you have any immediate questions on this topic or any other health concerns you may have or your children may have, please call me.

Remember that consultations are always free of charge and family appointments are also available. Office hours are on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and most Saturday mornings.

Our phone number is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me directly by clicking on the link found on our home page.

Life Chiropractic …. helping families just like yours build vibrant, healthy, drug-free lives for over 25 years in Burlington.

Click Here To Book A Free Initial Consultation With Dr. Brad

Importance of Everyone’s Posture

Importance Of Pain-Free Posture System

Dr Brad Ivanchuk, a Burlington chiropractor has recently discussed the importance of healthy posture in infants, children and pregnant mom’s.

Good posture however, is a necessity for everyone.

It is very important for you to understand that the posture system is just as important as every other physiologic system in your body, if not more so.

Your cardio-respiratory system, your digestive system, your musculo-skeletal system and even your reproductive system for example will not work properly if you do not have a healthy posture system.

 

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The primary purpose of your posture system is to keep you upright against the ever-present force of gravity and to stabilize your core so that your arms and legs are free to perform coordinated movements.

The posture system integrates various forms of sensory feedback from your brain to your body so that your body can adapt and balance and stay upright in response to an ever changing environment on a moment by moment basis. And you don’t even have to think about it!

The key to having a healthy and functional posture system is 100% dependent on spinal and skeletal alignment.

So, over the next few weeks I am going to teach you what the health risks are if you have alignment issues or postural distortions in each of the 4 posture quadrants that make up the human body.

Now, if you have any immediate questions on this topic or any other health concerns you may have or your children may have, please call me.

Remember that consultations are always free of charge and family appointments are also available.

Office hours are on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and most Saturday mornings. Our phone number is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me directly by clicking on the link found on our home page.

Life Chiropractic …. helping families just like yours build vibrant, healthy, drug-free lives for over 25 years in Burlington.

Click Here To Book A Free Initial Consultation With Dr. Brad