Healing Hands
A Monthly Newsletter For The Friends and Patients of:
Chirolife Family Chiropractic Centre
November 2013
Dear Friends and Patients
Firstly, I apologise for the lateness of this month’s newsletter but I have a good excuse – moving house! I now
know why moving is considered one of the top 5 reasons we get stressed in our lives. After finally getting
everything into the new place, the mammoth task of unpacking and organizing starts. This is one of the most
frustrating times in that with all the good intentions of setting up my home office and getting my desk ready
for work – a priority in my life – do you think I could find the box with those bits and pieces needed to hook
up computers, printers, extension leads and power boards – not on my life. What should take a couple of hours
turns out to consume the day. However, persistence, endurance and frustration eventually give way to
everything being ready to start working again. So here is this months newsletter.:)
Spinal Curves
The four spinal curves cushion the effects of stress and permit
greater turning and bending.
When you think of your spine, do you think of a straight row of
bones that go from the bottom of your brain to the bottom of your
back? In reality, the spine is made up of four different curves that
provide balance and flexibility to your body and help prevent
injury. These curves also allow the spine to support 10 times
more weight than it could if the curves were missing! You can
more easily see these curves when you view a model of the spine
from a side view.
The four types of spinal curves are:
• Cervical Lordosis – A backward “C”-shaped curve located in the upper part of the spine. This curve helps
to keep your head from moving too far forward. Neck pain usually results when there is any loss to this curve.
Also seen with Forward Head Posture as a result of using computers, mobile phones and iPad type devices.
• Thoracic Kyphosis – The “C”-shaped curve of the upper and mid back, comprised of 12 vertebrae
• Lumbar Lordosis – The five vertebrae of the lower back that are also in the shape of a backward “C.” This
area of the spine faces backward when seen from the side.
• Sacral Kyphosis – The sacrum is a triangular-shaped bone at the base of the spine, between both hip bones.
It is also a “C”-shaped curve.
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Healing Hands
A Monthly Newsletter For The Friends and Patients of:
Chirolife Family Chiropractic Centre
As a pre-born baby develops, it has only one type of spinal curve, the kyphotic “C”- shaped curve. As an
infant’s motor skills begin to develop, the baby learns to hold its head up, sit, crawl, stand up and walk – all
causing significant muscle development and allowing more weight to be shifted to the spine. This also begins
the development of the additional spinal curves.
It is important that these curves be properly maintained to balance your body and to avoid pain and injury.
Proper lifting requires that you bend at the knees, instead of at the waist, to keep your spine from
straightening.
Of course, regular chiropractic check ups and adjustments help to maintain your proper spinal curves. In
addition, there are specific products, such as cervical pillows, that also help to keep spinal curves in place and
keep you out of pain!
Burn Those Holiday Calories
BEFORE You Gain Them!
While the holidays are a joyous time for most of us, there seems to be that lingering fear in some
peoples’ minds that it’s “The Season for Plumping Up.” I recently found twenty pretty cool ways to counteract this caloric onslaught, so here we go!
1) Clean the house for 2 hours; turn on your favorite music and you can probably boost that number by 15%
(if you dance while you vacuum, of course).
2) Garden for an hour and a half.
3) Hit the slopes; 65 minutes of just downhill skiing burns 500 calories; you only need 50 minutes of cross
country skiing to burn the same.
4) One hour of Zumba burns roughly 500 calories, if you give it your full effort throughout the entire class.
5) Play 55 Minutes of racquetball. Grab a partner and you won’t even realize that you’re working out.
6) One hour and 15 minutes of lawn mowing does the trick. Sorry, riding mowers don’t provide the same
workout!
7) 45 Minutes of back to back bodyweight exercises burns 500 calories.
8) Like horseback riding? An hour and 45 minutes of horseback riding burns 500 calories. Who needs the
gym?
9) Two hours and ten minutes of guitar playing (standing) burns 500 calories and turns you into a rock-star.
10) Do 120 minutes of belly dancing. As a bonus, it tones your core.
11) Jump rope for only 42 minutes to burn your caloric goal; it certainly works but do beware of terribly
sore calf muscles the next day. Remember to stretch.
12) Punish a punching bag for 70 minutes. Think of someone who annoys you and swing away.
13) 45 Minutes of rugby burns 500 calories.
14) Play a full court basketball game for 50 minutes; the interval type cardio will boost your cardiovascular
endurance, and rev your metabolism.
15) 50 Minutes of shoveling snow will meet your quota.
16) 40 Minutes of martial arts blasts 500 calories, along with reducing stress and increasing focus. Judo,
chop!
17) Do 40 Minutes of rock climbing. Wear a helmet!
18) Walk at a moderately brisk pace of 6.4 km/hr for 90 minutes.
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Healing Hands
A Monthly Newsletter For The Friends and Patients of:
Chirolife Family Chiropractic Centre
19) Play volleyball and benefit from all over body toning. To burn 500 calories playing volleyball, you’ll
need an hour and 45 minutes of play if you’re playing in a gym, or 50 minutes if you’re playing in the
sand.
20) Running at 9.6 km/hr (a ten minute mile) for 42 minutes will burn 500 calories.
Now happy eating!
Now that you've smiled at least once today, it's your turn to give this newsletter to someone you want to bring a smile to
(maybe even a chuckle.) Give this newsletter to everyone you know.
We all need to SMILE.
DIAMOND VALLEY FOODSHARE
We have our table up near the front desk for our annual collection of food. The Diamond
Valley Foodshare use these donations to put together Christmas hampers for those less
fortunate than ourselves. Please bring something along, a list of preferred items is on the
table.
Health Tips and Other Events:
Trim Master – a weight loss program that is having amazing results. Call Isabella to organize a time to
see if this program suits you.
Cellgevity – the most advance source of GLUTATHIONE is now available at the front desk. Check out
the research and amazing results you get with Cellgevity at http://www.cellgevity4life.com/
HTU
UTH
SEND a copy of this newsletter to your friends, leave their name and email address with Isabella,
and we will organise the rest.
Please REFER your friends, co-workers and loved ones in for a checkup. Ask Isabella
for a Complimentary Voucher and this will be done at Chirolife’s expenses.
Presented by Chirolife, 100 Lower Plenty Road, Rosanna. Ph: 9458 3255
www.chirolife.com.au