What if you could get lasting relief from vertigo without drugs or surgery? How would it feel to wake up feeling great, with energy to last all day? Thinking clearly with high stress challenges just bouncing off you like popcorn. No magic pill can ever make that real. But you can discover how so many Upper Cervical Chiropractic patients live ...

I wish I knew that when my father was dying from peripheral neuropathy. His doctors told us they were doing everything. But it was just palliative care as his body rotted away. I had no idea for years, he lived on the other side of the country. And even though we talked every weekend, I wish I would have known ...

Running is the most popular form of fitness exercise in the United States. However, running carries more risks than it does benefits for many people. It’s widely believed that running is beneficial because it burns calories and stimulates heart health. “Running can help to avoid obesity,” Dr. Polucki says, “but only when combined with a healthy diet and resistance training.” ...

What is Functional Medicine? Functional Medicine takes a personalized, holistic approach to restoring normal function and health by engaging the patient in healthy behaviors rather than merely treating symptoms. It also looks for underlying causes of disease and tries to bring about positive change in measurable function(s). Functional Medicine can still be a touchy subject. Functionality, after all, implies that ...

About Foot Pain Until foot pain strikes, we all take our feet for granted. Whether it’s the broken bone pain in those first few steps of the morning, or that deep ache after hours on your feet… Even worse, the burning, stabbing pain of neuropathy with the added terror of not feeling what you step on. Or just the occasional ...

A neck injury can include the head and neck, neck joints, muscles, nerves, blood vessels and shoulders. Causes of neck injuries are anything that either compresses or forces movement beyond what is normal for the neck. Whiplash is the common term used to describe neck sprain-strain it is a soft tissue injury involving damage to ligaments and other structures in ...

There are some problems that are difficult to do on your own. Having a friend or family member to give you regular massages, encourage you through your daily exercises, and just be there for you can be very helpful in getting through rehabilitation with minimal pain and discomfort. Back injury rehabilitation is no exception. If you’re struggling with back pain ...

Vertigo can cause feelings of unsteadiness that can lead to vomiting. The sensations of movement without motion tend to increase when you move your head. Or changing positions sometime just standing up makes you feel sick. Looking down or turning the head quickly can also trigger a vertigo attack. If vertigo attacks come back more than once or twice, it ...

Ever feel that dieting was like that Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day? One of my favorite movies of all time. Where a Pittsburgh TV weatherman has to cover Groundhog Day. And somehow gets stuck repeating the same day over and over again. Until he gets it right. And even though I know better than most people, my weight can still ...

By Dr. Thomas Polucki People with arm pain should take a break from work and increase the amount of zinc they eat. Good sources of zinc include: spinach, lentils, pistachios…They can put ice on their arms to reduce swelling. Heat will be more effective if the person has muscle spasms that are due to injury or soreness. If arm pain ...