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What's the difference between sick care and health care?
Sick care is largely about relieving or suppressing symptoms. Health care is about improving performance. While sick care is about how you feel, health care is about how you function. Sick care is what you do to treat an obvious problem, and health care is what you do to avoid the problem and advance your well-being.
What's the difference between chiropractic and medicine?
Medical treatment focuses on the disease or the symptom. Chiropractic focuses on the person with the disease or the symptom. Medical treatment usually involves changing blood chemistry. Chiropractic involves restoring nervous system integrity. Medical doctors prescribe medicine. Chiropractors adjust the spine—a common source of nervous system interference.
Exercise and Fitness Articles
Each month, Dr. Karl Standifer publishes a new article related to exercise and fitness. Here are some links to the current article and to previous months' articles.
- Month
- Article
- February 2012
- Muscle Cramp Causes
- January 2012
- "My Feet Are on Fire!"
- December 2011
- Exercise Solutions
- November 2011
- Keep Moving!
- October 2011
- What Time Is Workout Time?
- September 2011
- Pulled Muscle First Aid
- August 2011
- Walk It Off!
- July 2011
- Stretching Your Health
- June 2011
- 10,000 Steps
- May 2011
- Walk Longer, Live Longer
- April 2011
- Exercise Economics
- March 2011
- Aerobic? Anaerobic?
- February 2011
- I Need a Massage!
- January 2011
- Make Your Workout Work
- December 2010
- Target Heart Rate
- November 2010
- Does Your Workout Feel Like Work?
- October 2010
- What the Heck Is Pilates?
- September 2010
- The Best Free Workout!
- August 2010
- Hot or Cold?
- July 2010
- Aerobic vs. Anaerobic
- June 2010
- Take a Walk!
- May 2010
- Marathon Mania
- April 2010
- How Much Is Enough?