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Is Hunching Over Your Laptop Hurting Your Neck?

Neck Pain

The Growing Problem of Hunched-Over Laptop Syndrome

The average person uses a computer, typically a laptop, on a daily basis for several hours, whether is it viewing work e-mails, staying up-to-date with news, and even communicating with friends and family on social media platforms. In one study, it was found that people between the ages of 16 and 24 spend about 27 hours a week viewing the Internet from their laptops. Could you be a victim from H.O.L.S. (Hunched-Over Laptop Syndrome) and not even know it? When you constantly look down at your laptop screen, you are putting tension on your neck’s muscular and skeletal structures. After an hour or so, the muscles become burdened with excess load and thus get strained. Over time, you can develop neck issues such as cervical muscle strains, loss of normal cervical curve, misalignment/subluxation of the neck and mid-back vertebrae and even herniated cervical discs from H.O.L.S. Yikes!

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How to Stay Healthy at Home

Back Pain, Neck Pain, Self Help Videos

We’ve recently posted a couple of videos about how you can stay healthy at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our first is all about posture…with so many working at home, it makes sense that people may be experiencing some discomfort related to how they’re working. Check out how our expert says you can stretch to stay healthy!

How can you keep good posture when working from home?
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Spring Cleaning Shouldn’t be Back Breaking

Back Pain

Clean with Care to Spare Yourself from Back Pain

With the spring season here, everyone has one thing on his or her mind, SPRING CLEANING! What many people may not realize is that lower back injuries are extremely common during this time due to all the reaching and bending involved with cleaning. Activities such as, vacuuming rugs, cleaning floors, yard work, and lifting heavy objects, can all lead to a risk of lower back strain/injury. But cleaning shouldn’t be back breaking!

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Is Your Smartphone Keeping You Up at Night?

Healthy Living Tips

Smartphone-induced Insomnia

Smartphones have the profound ability of keeping us up-to-date on all of the information concerning the great wide world we live in. But can having all this knowledge at your fingertips be detrimental to healthy sleeping patterns? A recent survey found that four in ten smartphone users would check their phone at night, if it woke them up. This can be a huge problem as the blue light emitted from smartphones can suppress the production of the sleep-regulating hormone know as melatonin. A reduction in melatonin production can interfere with getting a good night’s sleep.

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What Our Patients Say

Paul G.
auto accident
“I was not a stranger to chiropractic; I had seen two or three doctors previous to the accident. But it was at this time that I had the great good fortune to meet and be treated by Dr. Patrick Smith. Dr. Smith is an extraordinary diagnostician and superb practitioner of his science and art. As pain and stiffness worsened Pat developed a course of treatment that was, and is, most effective in keeping me mobile, flexible and almost, but not entirely, pain free.”
Kay L.
shoulder replacement
“Treatment at Smith Chiropractic has been unerringly professional, kind and so highly intelligent that my 40 years of hospital work has led me to make Smith Chiropractic my first stop whenever I need to consider surgery or medical care or make medical decisions.”
Cindi P. (parent)
sports injuries
“Dr. Smith has treated many of my children's injuries from recovery after broken bones, shoulder tendonitis, pinched nerves, hip flexor problems, and a torn calf muscle. His deep knowledge of how to treat athletes has allowed them to play through their injuries, rather than taking a significant amount of time off from their sport, along with his ability to understand and quickly diagnose a problem, in my opinion, has prevented more severe issues. ”

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