chiropractic for kids

When your resolve is tested, how do you respond? Even your dream job would cause you stress at some point, and we all usually face the quandary of too much work and too little time. Stress treats everyone differently but the best thing anyone can do is to arm themselves with techniques for managing the…

Proper posture is under fire: more jobs require humans in front of computers, more humans seek entertainment from their personal computers, more time is spent commuting and there seems to be less awareness than ever regarding posture and its pitfalls. A region that flies under the radar when it comes to posture is the hamstring.…

Of the approximately 640 skeletal muscles in the body, it is very likely for most people that more than a few of them may be experiencing tension at any given time. Factors that put muscles under stress include:  Exercise Inadequate sleep Poor diet Poor posture and too much sitting Mental exertion I would like to…

For athletes in the Houston area looking to improve on their personal best or gain a hand up against the competition, it could be worth adding the power of chiropractic as an augment to your repertoire. At Holmes Chiropractic, we use chiropractic theory and practice to help athletes of all ability levels reach toward their…

Fact: every cell needs a constantly refreshing supply of oxygen to perform cellular respiration and provide your body and biological systems they need to keep moving forward. Getting this oxygen to the cells is a complicated process that our body takes care of for us: in fact, humans take in breath around an average of…

I am lighter than a feather, yet the strongest man couldn’t hold me for much more than a minute. The answer: breath. Breathing is our most innate activity, and most of us will draw a breath (on average) 20,000 times a day until our last. For such an automatic bodily function, it is a constant…

Spinal instability is a term that describes the presence of abnormal movement between two vertebrae. As we age or injure ourselves through different kinds of traumas, our discs degenerate and lose tension, which allows more movement to take place between the vertebrae. Furthermore, the facet joints located on the back of the spinal column, become…

A tight piriformis muscle is a problem: when the muscle that runs adjacent to the sciatic nerve becomes irritated, so to does the sciatic nerve, the nerve responsible for communicating with muscles in the back side of the lower body. It is important to distinguish piriformis syndrome from other problems that could be creating similar…

Sciatica is the name of the condition in which the sciatic nerve, the longest in the human body, is irritated. Running from the lower back, through the butt and down the leg, it’s no wonder this nerve can come under fire from a variety of injuries- whether it be from a herniated disc, subluxation in…

While the concept of diminishing returns is borrowed from economics, it can also be applied to strength training, particularly muscle building. When we take a workout too far or workout too persistently, not giving the body the time or nutrition it needs to recover, your muscles will reach a point where they are incurring physical…