September Hours and Events

September is always a great month! Our office will be open our regular hours throughout the month with only one exception.  We will not be available Labor Day, September 1st.   

We will be extending our Back-to-School Special through September.  Our special offers great savings to all of our new patients, Free Exam and X-rays as needed at only $10 per view!  There has never been a better time to get started at Fenton Family Chiropractic. Call Donna for details.

September 19th is one of my favorite holidays and we’re planning to make it special at FFC.  It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day!  Arrr ye Ready, matey?  Stop in that Friday a get your own Pirate Booty grab bag. (While supplies last).

Visit us at www.FentonFamilyChiropractic.com

August Hours

Our hours for August will be unchanged with the exception of the following dates. We will not be open on Saturday 8/09, Tuesday 8/19, and Saturday 8/30.  Please be sure to schedule accordingly with Donna.
We are also having a “Back-to-School” special for all new patients throughout the month of August.  Please contact our office for more details. www.FentonFamilyChiropractic.com

Comfortable and Welcoming Office!

The first thing I learned was my problem could not be fixed in a visit or two. And the second thing is ICE ICE ICE, not heat. The office is comfortable and welcoming. It’s great to walk in the door to a friendly & happy Donna.  Dr Stork takes time to listen to what I’m saying and is a great people person. He put me at ease right away.

 Jane T.

Love the New Website!

Dr. Stork,
I love the quizzes and the new website.  I’m learning new information.  I appreciate this method of delivery because it doesn’t make me feel like I’m being lectured.  I’d imagine that new patients would find it even more beneficial.  Well done!
Erin W.

We Have a New Website!

 

After many months of planning and preparation, our new website is now available!  Be sure to check it out at www.FentonFamilyChiropractic.com   It contains information about our clinic, the option to request appointments online, and many articles about chiropractic for you to read and share with your friends, family, and neighbors.  More importantly you can now subscribe to our e-newsletters by clicking the link at the top right of the header on the home page.

We are very excited to be expanding our practice with new ways to serve you.  We look forward to using our website in helping you and your family on the journey towards true health. 

The Allergy Bucket

 One of the most common complaints these days is allergies.  There are many ways our bodies alert us to allergic reactions.  Some of the signs may include sneezing, running nose, itchy eyes, sinus congestion, skin rashes, itching, etc.  Although these symptoms may make you miserable, they are all part of your body’s innate response to stress.

Health is expressed in the way your body reacts to stress.

The problem isn’t pet dander, pollen, chemicals or spicy food. While these and other allergens are often singled out as the culprit, it’s actually the person, not the allergen.  If it were the allergen, everyone would react!  Clearly, the problem must be with the person’s ability to adapt to the allergen.  This always involves the nervous system, so it’s no surprise that many people with allergies also have spinal misalignments that hinder nerve flow (subluxation) and drain their body’s ability to adapt.

Think of your body’s ability to adapt to physical, chemical, and emotional stress as an empty bucket.  Now you fill your bucket with the stress of poor nutrition, lack of exercise, deficient (or excessive) rest, a hectic career with a dreadful commute, a defeated mental attitude and other stressors, and your bucket is filled to the brim.  Along comes tree pollen season or you encounter a house cat and you start wheezing.  Your bucket is overflowing!

The pollen or the cat may get the blame, but only because your ability to adapt has been exhausted by the other stresses.  Do you know someone with allergies? Introduce them to chiropractic.  Chiropractic isn’t a treatment for allergies, but perhaps we can help them increase their ability to adapt by removing subluxations!

Resolution Resolve

Just a month ago, many of us resolved to make changes in our lives and break bad habits.  Yet many gyms, health food stores and weight loss centers are practically empty these days compared to the hustle and bustle of just a couple of weeks ago. What happened?

Improving your health is a lifestyle choice.

Thinking of improved fitness or weight loss or even chiropractic care as a short term “diet,” rather than a long-term lifestyle decision is the problem.  If you, or someone you know, went overboard in the New Year’s resolution department there’s still hope.  Let’s consider some ideas that’ll help us choose, and more importantly, keep healthy new habits:

Believe in your ability to change.  Keeping old habits and forming new ones are choices that you control.

Don’t blame yourself or make excuses.  Instead of giving up after a relapse, dust yourself off and recommit to your goal.

Concentrate on measurable results.  Track your progress.   Don’t be dissuaded by ups and downs.

Know why the resolution is important.  See yourself as already having achieved the goal. 

Make change a long-term lifestyle decision.  Abandoning unhealthy habits requires thinking long term.  Let’s put all of these ideas in action and recommit to our healthy new habits for 2008.

Energized!

Dr. Stork,

Thank you for the excellent Chiropractic care you have given me.  When I was involved in a car accident, you took great care and gently put my spine and neck back into the correct alignment.  Having my mobility and not being in constant pain are truly wonderful. You take the time to explain what you are doing and when you are done I feel completely energized. I would highly recommend you to my friends, family and co-workers.

Sherri R.

The Power Within

Are you alive or dead?  If you’ve been suffering from a lot of discomfort or a chronic health problem, you may be wondering.  The fact that you’re reading this pretty much assures us that you’re alive, and that’s good news!  All living things possess certain characteristics, such as the ability to assimilate nutrients, adapt to the environment, and the capacity to regenerate and heal.

The power to heal lives within you.

The ability to heal comes from within, and nowhere else.  Suppose you accidentally cut your finger.  You clean it with an antiseptic, dress it with a bandage, wait a couple of weeks and when you take the bandage off, the wound is healed.  What did the healing?  The antiseptic did a good job of reducing or minimizing infection, but it doesn’t possess any healing properties.  The bandage did a good job of keeping out debris and holding the wound closed, but it too doesn’t possess any healing properties.  While the healing process certainly requires time, if you cut the finger of a dead man it won’t heal–ever.  Something even more important than time is needed to heal your cut, your headaches, or any other health problem and that something is the intelligence of the body.  The same intelligence that is responsible for making your heart beat and attending to a million other details that keep you alive is also involved in the healing process.                          

This intelligence works through your brain, spinal cord and all of your nerves to control all of the body’s functions.  The ability of your body to heal as it was designed depends good on brain-to-body or body-to-brain communications.  Poor communication over the nervous system results in diminished health and a slowed healing response.

If you’ve lost your health we can help you find it because we know where to look.  Unlocking your body’s healing potential requires the removal of interference to nerve flow.  As a chiropractor, my goal is to keep your spine well adjusted, removing nervous system interference so your body can work, regenerate, and heal the way it was designed.

True Health

It may surprise you or even be the exact opposite of what you’ve been taught, but let’s explore an idea that may be new to you. It’s the first step in bringing you closer to your goal of being healthy.

It’s better to be healthy than to feel good.

Unfortunately, many believe that feeling good is the key to health. We all want to feel good, but it has little to do with whether you are healthy or not. True health occurs when the body is working precisely as it was designed and is adapting to its environment. It has little to do with obvious symptoms. A person with undetected cancer may feel great, but clearly, they aren’t healthy.

True health is about the proper function of your body. Let’s say you eat some food that was poorly prepared. In a short time, you feel “sick” and race to the bathroom to vomit. Vomiting is one way the body is designed to deal with toxins. You could then take some medicine to suppress your body’s reaction to the toxins (symptoms). This might temporarily make you feel better, but it doesn’t make you healthy! While vomiting doesn’t feel too good, it is your body’s natural, healthy, adaptive response. You can’t judge health by how you feel.

Your brain, spinal cord, and all of your nerves control and regulate your body. Every cell, tissue, organ, and system take orders from your nervous system. Thus, true health is how well your nervous system is orchestrating the workings of your body. Compromised brain-to-body or body-to-brain communications are the underlying cause of a variety of health problems. As a chiropractor, my goal is to keep your spine well adjusted, removing nervous system interference so your body can work and adapt the way it was designed.