After an adjustment it is best to lie, breathe, rest and allow the neurological healing processes to occur. 
We also advise to go for a walk for 5 minutes before you get into the car and leave.

Have a great week and stand tall.

When God made mom's
He made them extra special.

He gave them smarter brains
So they can plan against all that can go wrong

He gave them keener eyes
So they can watch every corner of the play ground

He gave them stronger shoulders
To carry all our problems

He gave them magical hands
To heal any ache and pain

He gave them comfy chests
To put any tired one to sleep 

He gave them clever stomachs
For tasty ways to get us to eat veggies

He gave them patient legs 
To walk behind and guide us through all life's obstacles. 

He gave them hearts to pour upons us unconditional love

Happy Mother's Day to all our beautiful moms!

The body has two choices when it recieves a challenge...either to compensate or to adapt. 

We recieve a variety of stressors and challenges in a daily bases - physically, emotionally, chemically and the like!

Compensation allows for survival and continuation but it forces different parts of the body to get involved where they were not designed to. Compensation weakens the body and long term will create irreparable damage. 

Adaptation is an intelligent process that allows the body and all its part to co-ordinate, strengthen and become more effective. Thus maximising resilience to further challenge. 

Ask yourself, are you compensating or adapting? 
What can you do to help your body deal adapt heal and grow?

As busy human beings who believe we just don’t have time to get sick, when the dreaded germs do hit ...

This article has been published on LinkedIn 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/after-infection-care-dr-travis-mitchell/

As we move into winter please look after your immune systems.

I am constantly faced with people who believe Chiropractic is simply a bone doctor. "The Ruk en Pluk Dokter!" Putting bones back in place. 

Please send to me your thoughts how do you explain Chiropractic to your friends and family? 

Because the body is intelligent, majority of the issues we suffer with is as a result of the body protecting itself against you and the lifestyle you have chosen to live. 

Live differently; live in harmony!

"Patience and trust in the innate intelligence of the body is the hardest part of correction and rejuvenation. Healing always occurs on her time!"

Make sure you spend some time everyday offering your body what it needs.

Do you know the physiological effects that your stress is having on your body? 
For many people they are not aware that their body has accumulated stress and tension...they feel it is normal. 

The body was designed to have a 30 minute stress response - that is to say from the initiation of stress (the lion attacking you!) until the time you have recovered should be 30 minutes. The stress hormones (adrenaline, cortisol and noradrenaline) are not harmful in the body if they move out of circulation within 30 minutes or so. 

For most people low grade stress keeps those levels higher and for longer than what is healthy. Then on top of that accumulation other more major stressors occur. 
The glass continues to fill up with out any respite, this is where the damage of stress is done. 

Talk to me to help you find an effect stress management protocol.

The inertia law of motion states that an object in motion will stay along its path of motion as long as the surface is without friction. This means there is no stress or resistance on the object. 

In reality we all know that life is full of friction and resistance and this is what creates stress on our minds and bodies and creates Drag! 

So option 1 is find the path of least resistance. 

The second part to the rule is - as long as the object is not acted upon by a greater force it will continue for ever. 
This means that we have to strengthen our bodies so that they can withstand those challenges that are of greater force. 

Rest easy and recover.

Often people tell me about their wrist, hand and finger issues. These exercises will help you establish where you going wrong with your movements. 
Please let me know what you struggle the most with?

This is what happens when you have kids in the Office!

Be Happy this weekend

Do you know the physiological effects that your stress is having on your body? 
For many people they are not aware that their body has accumulated stress and tension...they feel it is normal. 

The body was designed to have a 30 minute stress response - that is to say from the initiation of stress (the lion attacking you!) until the time you have recovered should be 30 minutes. The stress hormones (adrenaline, cortisol and noradrenaline) are not harmful in the body if they move out of circulation within 30 minutes or so. 

For most people low grade stress keeps those levels higher and for longer than what is healthy. Then on top of that accumulation other more major stressors occur. 
The glass continues to fill up with out any respite, this is where the damage of stress is done. 

Talk to me to help you find an effect stress management protocol

This article has been published on LinkedIn 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dreaded-fever-dr-travis-mitchell

Look forward to your thoughts and comments on my new article

Had a wonderful day out, went paddling on the Vaal River by Parys. 

How did you enjoy the warm weather this weekend?
We are a huge proponent of exercise and activity; especially diverse activities...things you have never done or tried before. This offers your body the chance of learning new skills and adapt. 

Presumably we are close to the end of the warm autumn days. Please let me know your thoughts on winter activities especially outdoors? 
I usually find hikes in and around JHB. Please send me your favourite list?

Have a fabulous week

"If your body created the issue... Your body can heal the issue!"
Have a great weekend

I was asked about Gout today in conjunction to my Athritis post. Gout has a serious relationship to acidity and toxicity but also indicates something missing in your metabolism. 

I love your feedback as to what you like and dislike about these posts. What you want to know about? 

Send me a message directly and make sure - no matter what you going through that you acknowledge that you doing the best you can with what you know!

It is so common that I hear patients complaining of arthritis. Yet, when I investigate through X-rays or MRI the degree of arthritic change is often not is significant as the symptoms that they have. 

What we know, is arthritic degenerative change is made significantly worse by acidity and toxicity in the body and extent of inflammation. So my work with people with arthritis is two fold - 
1. down regulate the acidity and toxicity in the body through diet and detox. 
2. Improve the amount and quality of movement through Chiropractic Adjustments and corrective daily exercises.
3. Improve circulation through effective massage to clear the lymphatic system. Rebounding works similarly. 

In doing so we help reduce the pain associated with Arthritis and the person complains less. I have found the same applies to other forms of Chronic Pain including fibromyalgia. 

If you are or know of someone who suffers with arthritic pain please spread the word.

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