Why does Neck Pain Happen? “I must have slept wrong!” is a statement that I often hear from patients who are experiencing acute neck pain. It’s human nature to look for the simplest reason for our problems. We also tend to stop looking when we’ve found one probable cause, even if other causes exist. These biases […]
“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” -Shunryu Suzuki Focus. It’s more important than ever now that you are surrounded by distractions. Culture presents you with so much information that you can easily become overwhelmed. You can be pulled in too many directions and feel that you’re spread too thin. Your mind tends to […]
There is a story about a man cutting down a tree with a saw. He is approached by a stranger who says that the saw is dull. The stranger recommends that the saw be sharpened to get the job done faster. The man sawing says that he doesn’t have enough time to sharpen the blade and continues […]
The average American gets 7 hours and 36 minutes of sleep every night, according to the National Sleep Foundation. That sounds good, right? It would be, except “Twenty percent of Americans reported they did not wake up feeling refreshed on any of the past seven days”. Because of this, it’s clear that the quality of your sleep is even more […]
The Need for Sleep Being as busy as we often are, sleep may be seen as a luxury in our hectic modern world. However, studies are showing the benefits of sleep extend beyond what we’ve known before. Ericsson’s high-impact study from 1993 reported that the best sleepers got about 8 and a half hours. The average American sleeps just under seven […]