Chiropractors

To provide the spine with adequate support, we need to make sure our postural muscles are strong. How do we do this? By the proper forms of exercise. Weightlifting exercises like those you do in a gym are excellent for building muscles in general. However, our postural muscles need not only to bear weight but also to move freely and fully. Strength plus flexibility is the goal. And weight-bearing exercises don't necessarily provide the correct kind of stretching and moving required to promote flexibility of the back. Luckily, there are a couple of forms of exercise that are great for both flexibility and strength of those postural muscles. Specifically, we like to recommend hatha yoga and tai chi.

The benefits of hatha yoga and tai chi go beyond just flexibility and strength, however. You have probably heard about the information our nerves transmit to the spinal cord and brain. A large part of this information is sensory datawhat we see, hear, feel, taste, touch, and smell. But we have a couple of other senses that are less commonly known, and one that is very important to our overall health is our sense of balance or proprioception, which tells us where our